NEW YORK (AP) — Joe Fleishaker, a 500-pound actor known for his work in low-budget horror films, has died. He was 62.

Dr. Haskel Fleishaker says his brother died Monday at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City.

He says his brother had been in rehab facilities for several years after being diagnosed with congestive heart failure. He says Fleishaker was hospitalized last Friday and died unexpectedly Monday. The precise cause of his death was not immediately known.

Fleishaker had appeared in several low-budget horror films, including playing the "The Toxic Avenger" in three Troma Productions films. He also made repeat appearances on "Late Night with David Letterman."

His brother says Fleishaker had worked as a computer programmer until about a decade ago.

A funeral service was held Monday.

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Alice Star Beth Howland Dead at 74

Beth Howland, who played the accident-prone waitress Vera Gorman on the '70s and '80s sitcom Alice, has died at the age of 74.

Howland died on Dec. 31, 2015, in Santa Monica, California, after a battle with lung cancer, husband Charles Kimbrough told the New York Times, noting that his wife did not want a memorial or funeral service.

“It was the Boston side of her personality coming out," Kimbrough said. "She didn't want to make a fuss.”

He echoed the statement to the Associated Press, telling the news outlet that having no announcement or funeral was Howland's choice.

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Although Howland was best-known for her portrayal as the high-anxiety, sometimes ditzy waitress, she also had small roles on The Love Boat, Little House on the Prairie, Murder, She Wrote, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch along with a Broadway role alongside Dick Van Dyke in Bye Bye Birdie.

She earned four Golden Globe nominations during Alice's nine-year run from 1976–85.

Howland told the AP in 1979 that she and Vera shared some character traits: "I'm a little naïve sometimes but not as much as Vera. I guess I'm really a cynic."

Howland leaves behind her husband along with a daughter from her previous marriage to actor Michael J. Pollard.