Tony Ganios
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Tony Ganios | |
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 Tony Ganios in Porky's 1981 | |
| Born | October 21, 1959 |
| Died | February 18, 2024 (aged 64) New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1979–2024 (semi-retired in 1993) |
Tony Ganios (October 21, 1959 – February 18, 2024) was an American actor.[1][2] He played the tough guy Perry in the 1979 film The Wanderers, and Anthony 'Meat' Tuperello in the 1981 comedy Porky's and its sequels.
Tony Ganios was of Greek and Italian ancestry. He made his debut appearance as tough guy Perry in The Wanderers. In 1981, he played a former football player turned mountain man in the John Belushi film Continental Divide.
Soon after, Ganios starred in the 1981 teen-sex comedy Porky's and its two sequels.
Ganios appeared in five episodes of the Emmy Award-winning 1980s TV series Wiseguy as muscular mob lawyer Mike "Mooch" Cacciatore, and he made a guest appearance in an episode of Scarecrow and Mrs. King. In 1990, Ganios appeared as a mercenary in Die Hard 2, casually murdering a church caretaker, and memorably meeting his death when Bruce Willis stabs him in the eye with an icicle.
After brief appearances in three films between 1991 and 1993, Ganios semi-retired from acting. One of those films was Rising Sun, in which he revisits his matchstick-chewing The Wanderers hero as an adversary for Sean Connery.
