WELCOME BACK… DEAD!… Ron Palillo (Horshack) Dead @ 63

Arnold Horshack, you remember him… Right? One of the “Sweathogs”… no?

Well in case you don’t, good old Arnold Horshack was played by Ron Palillo on the ’70’s TV Show “Welcome Back, Kotter” (1975-79)… a show I hated, however, “WBK” did the spawn the career of John Travolta… Now, I am assuming you have heard of him. I know few masseuses are saying they do… lol…

Anyway, turns out Ron Palillo [Horshack] has been called to the big principle’s office in the sky via heart attack. Yeah, he’s dead at the ripe old age of 63 this morning at his home in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.

Palillo’s acting career kind of stalled after the highly popular “Welcome Back, Kotter” finally graduated the “Sweathogs”, but it was bound to happen… it was a television show about high school and it wasn’t like this class was college material since the class was a knucklehead class to begin with… it seemed that, like many a goof-off character, that Hollywood couldn’t get past the Horshack character.

For the last three years Palillo taught acting class at the G-Star School of the Arts, a Palm Springs Charter School & is his partner of 41 years, Joseph Gramm, a retired actor himself.