Robert Hegyes, actor known for playing the Jews called the Puerto Rican Juan Epstein in the 1970s TV show "hello you Back Kotter," has died. He was 60.
Said Flynn and Son Funeral Home at intersections, and New Jersey, officials said Thursday the death of Hegyes "by the actor's family.
He said airport spokesman John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Edison, New Jersey, told the Star-Ledger Hegyes of Metuchen, and came to the hospital Thursday morning in a full cardiac arrest and died.
Hegyes was appearing on Broadway in 1975, when he was a test of "Kotter," a television series about a teacher who returns to school in his youth in New York City to teach a group of students known as therapeutic irreverent "Sweathogs. "The letter included Fini Barbarino, played by John Travolta.
The song became the theme of the show, performed by John Sebastian pop hit.
Hegyes also appeared on numerous television shows including "Cagney & Lacey."
Born in Perth Amboy, and grew up in Metuchen, and the eldest daughter of an Italian father and Hungarian mother.
He attended the University of Rouen, formerly Glassboro State College, in southern New Jersey, before heading to New York after graduation. A university spokesman Rouen returned on several occasions to teach a master's degree in acting, on Thursday.
"It was a good friend of the university," said spokesman Joe Cardona.
Hegyes continued to work after "Kotter" and was a regular on "Cagney & Lacey" also guest-starred on shows like "Diagnosis Murder" and "Drew Carey Show".
On his website, wrote Hegyes which was inspired by Chico Marx, who had played in the production of a visit to the exhibition of Marx and his brothers and his mother also claims that encouraged him to participate in the theater as a teenager.
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