Actor who played Epstein on ‘Welcome Back Kotter’ dies
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS January 26, 2012 10:40PM
FILE - In this 1978 file photo, Robert Hegyes portrays Juan Epstein from the comedy series "Welcome Back Kotter." The actor best known for playing the Jewish Puerto Rican student on the 1970s TV show has died. He was 60. (AP Photo, file)
Updated: February 28, 2012 8:24AM
METUCHEN, N.J. — The actor best known for playing Jewish Puerto Rican student Juan Epstein on the 1970s TV show “Welcome Back Kotter” has died.
A spokesman at JFK Medical Center in Edison, N.J., told the Star-Ledger newspaper that Robert Hegyes, of Metuchen, arrived at the hospital in the morning in full cardiac arrest and died. He was 60.
Mr. Hegyes was appearing on Broadway in 1975 when he auditioned for “Kotter,” a TV series about a teacher who returns to the inner-city to teach a group of remedial students. AP
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