Robert Hegyes dies at 60

Robert Hegyes, who carried out Juan Epstein, one of the so-referred to as Sweathogs round the seventies ABC comedy "Welcome Back Kotter," died from an apparent cardiac event Thursday morning in Metuchen, N.J. He was 60. In "Kotter" Hegyes co-starred alongside a young Travolta Qantas Video since the half-Jewish, half-Puerto Rican secondary school student whose full title was Juan Luis Pedro Phillipo p Huevos Epstein. Later the actor will be a regular on CBS crime drama "Cagney and Lacey," that they carried out an undercover cop. Born in Nj with a Hungarian father and Italian mother, Hegyes examined theater at Rowan U. and began his career onstage. He referred to Chico Marx in "A Evening Time With Groucho" after which mentioned he based his performance of Epstein round the frenetic (if quiet) Marx brother. He gained his first smallscreen appearance on "The Streets of Bay AreaInch in 1975 and guested on numerous Tv shows, including "CHiPs," "NewsRadio" and "Diagnosis Murder." More youthful crowd came out on numerous gameshows, around the 1995 episode of "Saturday Evening Live" to ensure that as themselves around the 1998 episode of "The Came Carey Show." The actor also did some teaching at Rowan U. and elsewhere. Hegyes and a lot of the relaxation in the "Kotter" cast reunited a year ago within the TV Land Honours round the occasion in the show's 35th anniversary. More youthful crowd came out a year ago on "Hello America." Hegyes was the cousin of Jon Bon Jovi. He was married and divorced three occasions which is managed to get by two children, two stepchildren and three siblings and siblings. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com