Robert Hegyes, best known for playing Juan Epstein starring alongside John Travolta on the 70′s classic hit sitcom Welcome Back Kotter, died Thursday from an apparent heart attack at age 60.
His performance as one of the tough remedial students known at the Sweathogs at the fictional James Buchanan High in Brooklyn helped the show win an Emmy nomination for outstanding comedy series in 1976. Later in the show’s run, the talented Jersey-born actor even became one of its directors.
Hegyes also starred in the detective series Cagney & Lacey as undercover detective Manny Esposito. Hegyes is survived by three siblings, two children, Cassie and Mac, and two stepchildren, Sophia and Alex.
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