Saturday, January 28, 2012

Hot! Robert Hegyes Obituary

Robert Hegyes, an actor whose Jewish-Puerto Rican personality Juan Epstein was one of many Sweathogs on the 1970s TV sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter," kicked the bucket Thursday of any heart assault with New Jersey. He had been 60.

A citizen involving Metuchen, N.J., Hegyes found JFK Medical Center throughout in the area Edison completely cardiac arrest and died there, medical center spokesman Steven Weiss confirmed.

Hegyes, who experienced a mop of darker curly hair, had been among the wise-cracking scholars together with John Travolta , Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs and ABC from 1975 that will 1979.

Of Hungarian and Italian descent, Hegyes was given birth to May 7, 1951, within Perth Amboy, N.J. He graduated from what's right now Rowan University throughout Glassboro, N.J., and also been effective as a replacement teacher involving actor work opportunities just before clinching the aspect within "Welcome Back, Kotter."

After the show ended, they played Chico Marx onstage inside a nationwide touring output involving "Groucho" using Kaplan within the subject role. Hegyes later had a constant element since Det. Manny Esposito for the 1980s TV police crisis "Cagney in addition to Lacey," did stand-up humor as well as tried out writing screenplays.

But they might always be best valued for "Welcome Back, Kotter."

"It's some sort of job when I traveled to operate along with laughed each and every day," they told The Times in 1995. "So secure conquer that?"

Los Angeles Times staff members reports

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