Separated at birth?

I see that there was a brief In Memorium on The Emmys tonight and they showed a clip of actor Ron Palillo from Welcome Back, Kotter.

Back in the early ’80s when John’s hair was straight out of a Fritz Lang video and reruns of Kotter were still going strong, for some reason I always made the connection that Palillo was the spitting image of John Deacon.

Palillo suffered a heart attack and was pronounced dead at the hospital after paramedics removed him from his Florida home on August 14, 2012. He was 63.

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