Ron Palillo: Apparent Heart Attack

Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center Dept: Palillo suffered an apparent heart attack at his home about 4 a.m., said Karen Poindexter, a close friend of the actor. He was pronounced dead at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center, according to CBC. The show was a ratings success and pop cultural phenomenon, injecting smart-alec phrases such as "Up your nose with a rubber hose" into the mainstream and propelling co-star John Travolta to stardom. But the series only lasted as long as a high school education and its end, for Palillo, brought difficulty and ron Palillo, the actor best known as the nerdy high school student Arnold Horshack on the 1970s sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter , died Tuesday in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. He was 63. Palillo was inextricably linked with the character he played from 1975 to 1979 on Kotter , the ABC sitcom in which the title character returns to his Brooklyn alma mater to teach a group of loveable wiseguys known as the Sweathogs. Horshack was the nasally teen who yelped, "Oooh, ooh," and shot his hand skyward whenever Kotter posed a question. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.