Tony Ganios, who starred in the 1981 fan-favorite flick “Porky’s,” is dead at 64 years old.
Fox News Digital has confirmed with Ganios’ fiance, Amanda Ganios, that the classic film star unexpectedly died on Sunday, Feb. 18.
Amanda said that Ganios died following an emergency four-hour surgery for a spinal cord infection on Saturday.
She said that the surgery for the infection went well, but the next morning, he went on dialysis and then went into cardiac arrest.
Tony Ganios attends the 2012 Chiller Theatre Expo at the Sheraton Parsippany Hotel, Oct. 26, 2012, in Parsippany, N.J. (Bobby Bank/WireImage/File)
BACK ROADS, theatrical movie originally released March 13, 1981. Pictured, from left to right, David Keith (as Mason), Sally Field (as Amy Post), Tony Ganios (as Yankee strangler Bartini), Dan Shor (as Spivey), Ralph Seymour (as Goose Gosler), and Matthew Campion (as Stromberg, in background). (CBS via Getty Images)
Amanda said that she “loves him so much.”
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“I just love him so much,” Amanda told Fox News Digital. “I don’t know how else I can express it.”
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