‘Porky’s’ Star Tony Ganios Dead at 64, Suffered Heart Attack After Surgery

Tony Ganios — well-known from “Porky’s” and a ton of different cult traditional movies — has died.

The actor’s fiancée, Amanda, tells us Tony handed away Sunday at a NY hospital — this after he was taken in on Saturday and was discovered to have been struggling a extreme spinal wire an infection. We’re informed he went into surgical procedure, however suffered a deadly coronary heart assault the next day as he was recovering.

Amanda says Tony was on his strategy to a dialysis remedy Sunday morning when he went into cardiac arrest … and we’re informed he was experiencing organ failure too. Amanda says his demise got here so out of the blue, and she or he’s completely shattered proper now … explaining they have been simply planning their marriage ceremony final week. They’d been collectively for a pair for at the least 9 years.

She posted a candy tribute to Tony on-line, writing … “The last words we said to each other were “I really like you.” Love is an understatement. You are everything to me.  My heart, my soul and my best friend. #I love you #tonyganios.”

Tony will finest be remembered for his lead position within the 1981 movie, which went down as a fan fave intercourse comedy flick and developed a cult following. ‘Porky’s’ additionally went on to churn out a number of sequels … together with ‘Porky’s II’ and ‘Porky’s Revenge’ — each of which he starred in.

After all, followers know him as Meat Tuperello … one of many guys making an attempt to lose their V-cards at a brothel, and who ended up enjoying peeping Toms. The bathe scene from the film might be some of the iconic within the raunchy comedy class of flicks.

Whereas ‘Porky’s’ was arguably his greatest flick/franchise … Tony was in a handful of different memorable movies as nicely — together with 1979’s ‘The Wanderers,’ through which he performed Perry.

Different films of his embody ‘Again Roads,’ ‘Continental Divide,’ ‘Physique Rock,’ ‘Die Exhausting 2,’ ‘Rising Solar,’ ‘The Taking of Beverly Hills’ and extra. TG had been in reveals as nicely — resembling ‘The Ring of the Musketeers,’ ‘Wiseguy,’ ‘The Equalizer’ and ‘Scarecrow and Mrs. King.’

He seems to have left showbiz behind within the ’90s … however he actually left his mark on popular culture. In truth, movie producer Sean Clark had some variety phrases for Tony upon listening to about his passing.

SC wrote, “Sad to hear of the passing of Tony Gainos aka Meat from Porky’s This photo is from 20 years ago with Tony and Porky’s co-star Scott Colomby Although I had many business conversations with him over the years I would not say he was a friend.”

He provides, “I did not know him well at all. However he was a nice guy and it’s a shame he passed just 2 weeks away from the big Porky’s reunion at Cult Classics Weekend in Bastrop TX in which he was supposed to attend. So with that said I’m sorry for OUR loss.”

Amanda tells TMZ Tony had been working and energetic within the ultimate years of his life. He was 64.