Ron Palillo

TV Actor

Ron Palillo was born in New Haven, Connecticut, United States on April 2nd, 1949 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 63, Ron Palillo biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
April 2, 1949
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Death Date
Aug 14, 2012 (age 63)
Zodiac Sign
Aries
Networth
$1 Million
Profession
Actor, Film Actor, Screenwriter, Stage Actor, Teacher, Television Actor, Voice Actor
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University of Connecticut
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Ron Palillo Life

Ronald Gabriel Palillo (April 2, 1949 – August 14, 2012) was an American actor and teacher.

He was best known for his role as the endearingly dim-witted character Arnold Horshack on the ABC sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter (1975–1979).

Early life and education

Ronald Gabriel Paolillo was born in New Haven, Connecticut to Italian-Americans Gabriel and Carmel Paolillo, and raised in nearby Cheshire. He graduated from Cheshire High School and the University of Connecticut at Storrs, where he would teach in the 1990s. He attended Fairfield University while pursuing a postgraduate degree. He adopted the last name Palillo for his acting career.

Personal life and death

Palillo and his partner of 41 years, Joseph Gramm, lived in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. On August 14, 2012, Palillo suffered a heart attack at his home and was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. He died seven months after co-star Robert Hegyes, who also died from a heart attack.

Palillo's funeral service was held in Palm Beach Gardens on August 22, 2012. He is buried at St. Lawrence Cemetery in West Haven, Connecticut. A memorial tribute, directed by Lawrence Leritz and hosted by Tyne Daly, was held to honor and celebrate Palillo's life and career at New York City's Triad Theatre on October 3, 2012.

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Ron Palillo Career

Career

Palillo was born Arnold Horshack, one of the misfit "sweathogs" in the high school sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter, in 1975, whose antics made him one of the series's most memorable characters. A backdoor pilot episode for a spin-off series starring Horshack was produced in the last season of the series, but the series was not developed.

Palillo debuted and appeared in numerous television series and films after Kotter. He appeared on animated series Laverne & Shirley in the Army, Darkwing Duck, and Rubik, the Amazing Cube, in which he played the lead character. Palillo appeared in many episodes of Ellen's television sitcom Ellen in 1996, portraying Audrey's love interest. Palillo also spent a year on One Life to Live, as well as acting in The Curse of Micah Rood (1986).

In Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Arthur in Camelot and Nathan Detroit, he returned to New York in 1991 and appeared as Mozart in Amadeus and regionally as George. In 2008, he appeared on Broadway in Broadway Backwards 4, a charity event that raises money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center. In 2000, he portrayed Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann in The Diary of Adolf Eichmann off-Broadway, one of his other New York City appearances. Palillo lamented his position as Horshack as a permanent typecast, which he felt had harmed his career, according to a newspaper interview in 1997.

Palillo directed successful performances of Three Guys Naked From The Waist Down in Los Angeles, A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline, and a new version of Phantom Of The Opera at the Cuillo Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach, Florida. In 2007, he began a clothing line specializing in limited-edition T-shirts made by Rotter and Friends. Palillo was also an artist, illustrating two children's books, The Red Wings of Christmas, and A Gift for the Contessa.

The Lost Boy, Peter Pan author J. M. Barrie's true story, premiered at the Helen Hayes Theatre in Nyack, New York, and later performed at the Queens Theatre in the Park in New York and Eldorado Springs, Missouri, in 2005.

In Palm Springs, Florida, he taught freshman drama at G-Star School Of The Arts for Motion Pictures and Broadcasting.

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