# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tony-ganios
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:17:38.745Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tony-ganios"
name: "Tony Ganios"
slug: "tony-ganios"
description: "Tony Ganios was an American actor. He played tough guy Perry LaGuardia in the 1979 film The Wanderers, and Anthony 'Meat' Tuperello in the 1981 comedy Porky's and its sequels."
tagline: "American actor (1959–2024)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/Tony_Ganios_in_Porky%27s_1981.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1959-10-21"
deathDate: "2024-02-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.28
  momentum:             1.047928513403736
  historical:           12.88691466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0304393/"
    handle:    "nm0304393"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تونى جانيوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تۆنی گانیۆس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Ganios"
    title: "Tony Ganios"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Ganios"
    title: "Tony Ganios"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Ganios"
    title: "Tony Ganios"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Ganios"
    title: "Tony Ganios"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C_%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "تونی گانیوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Ganios"
    title: "Tony Ganios"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Ganios"
    title: "Tony Ganios"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%86%A0%EB%8B%88_%EA%B0%80%EB%8B%88%EC%98%A4%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "토니 가니오스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Ganios"
    title: "Tony Ganios"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BE%D1%81%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8"
    title: "Ганиос, Тони"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Ganios"
    title: "Tony Ganios"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q516723"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3010"
    title: "Tony Ganios"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump