‘Porky’s’ star Tony Ganios useless at 64

Celebrities

By Erin Keller

Tony Ganios, star of the intercourse comedy “Porky’s” in addition to quite a few different cult traditional movies, has reportedly died. He was 64.

TMZ broke the information Tuesday after an X account from somebody claiming to be Ganios’s longtime fiancé Amanda Serrano-Ganios, shared information of his passing.

“The final phrases we mentioned to one another have been ‘I really like you,’” Serrano-Ganios wrote Tuesday. “Love is an understatement. You’re every little thing to me. My coronary heart, my soul and my greatest buddy. #I love you #tonyganios.”

“I really like you a lot, my love. I’m damaged,” she added in another tweet accompanied by a photograph of presumably the couple holding palms.

The Publish has contacted a rep for Ganios for remark.

Ganios additionally replied to a number of different X customers who expressed their condolences, together with a person named Marc, who claimed he was going to fulfill Ganios in particular person for the primary time in two weeks.

“Thanks, Marc,” Amanda replied. “It’s simply unreal to me proper now. It was so quick. He hadn’t felt properly and hid it from me for days. When he lastly informed me, and was taken to the hospital, his spinal wire was severely contaminated. They did surgical procedure, subsequent morning, his coronary heart stopped. I’m crushed.”

Ganios starred as Perry in “The Wanderers” in 1979.

He additionally portrayed the fan-favorite Anthony ‘Meat’ Tuperello within the Nineteen Eighties “Porky’s” intercourse comedy franchise. Spawning two sequels, the flick was a few group of highschool boys trying to lose their virginity in Nineteen Fifties-era Florida.

Ganios performed a killer in 1990’s “Die Exhausting 2” the place his character was stabbed within the eye with an icicle by Bruce Willis’ character John McClane.

Ganios’ other movie credits include “The Wanderers,” “Back Roads,” “Continental Divide,” “Body Rock,” “Rising Sun,” and “The Taking of Beverly Hills.”