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 [...]
From left, Ron Palillo, Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, Robert Hegyes and John Travolta in an undated scene from the television show “Welcome Back Kotter.” Handout, Nickelodeon From left, Ron Palillo, Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, Robert Hegyes and John Travolta in an undated scene from the television show “Welcome Back Kotter.” The Flynn & Son Funeral Home in Fords, N.J., [...]
