Ronald Gabriel "Ron" Paolillo
Ronald Gabriel "Ron" Paolillo (April 2, 1949 – August 14, 2012)He was best known as Arnold Horshack on the ABC sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter (1975–79). After Welcome Back, Kotter, Palillo appeared in leading and supporting roles in various television series and films. He was a panelist on an episode of Match Game PM in 1977. He voiced characters on such animated series as Laverne & Shirley in the Army, Darkwing Duck, and Rubik, the Amazing Cube, in which he played the lead character. In 1996, Palillo played himself in several episodes of the television sitcom Ellen, playing Audrey (Ellen's friend's) love interest. Palillo also spent a year on the popular daytime show One Life to Live and also acted in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986), and the lead in The Curse of Micah Rood. Palillo, in a newspaper interview in 1997, said he lamented his role as Horshack as he was permanently typecast, which he believed had damaged his career. 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 is buried at St. Lawrence Cemetery, West Haven, Connecticut.
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