Robert Hegyes, Juan Epstein of ‘Welcome Back Kotter’ dies at 60 — Maine Living — Bangor Daily News

HACKENSACK, N.J. — Robert Hegyes, the New Jersey-born actor who played Jewish Puerto-Rican wheeler-dealer Juan Luis Pedro Phillipo de Huevos Epstein on the 1970s classic “Welcome Back Kotter,” died after an apparent heart attack in his Metuchen, N.J., home Thursday morning. He was 60. Hegyes, who also co-starred on “Cagney and Lacey” and taught occasional [...]