The star died of cancer earlier this month
Actor Gregory Sierra has died at age 83.
The star, known for roles on hit 1970s sitcoms “Barney Miller” and “Sanford and Son,” died of cancer on Jan. 4 in Laguna Woods, Calif., a family spokesperson said, according to Deadline.
The native of Spanish Harlem in New York City worked at the National Shakespeare Company and in the New York Shakespeare Festival, and had parts in off-Broadway productions early in his career, according to the report.
Additionally, he was a standby for the 1967 Broadway production of “The Ninety Day Mistress.”
The actor then set his sights on Hollywood and made his first credited appearance on a 1969 episode of “It Takes a Thief,” followed by a spot on “Medical Center.”
The star, known for roles on hit 1970s sitcoms Barney Miller and Sanford and Son, died of cancer on Jan. 4 in Laguna Woods, Calif., a family spokesperson said, according to Deadline.
The native of Spanish Harlem in New York City worked at the National Shakespeare Company and in the New York Shakespeare Festival, and had parts in off-Broadway productions early in his career, according to the report.
Additionally, he was a standby for the 1967 Broadway production of The Ninety Day Mistress. Actor Gregory Sierra has died of cancer at age 83. (Getty Images)
The actor then set his sights on Hollywood and made his first credited appearance on a 1969 episode of It Takes a Thief, followed by a spot on Medical Center.
Gregory Sierra
The New York native also portrayed a Jewish vigilante on a sobering episode of All in the Family.
Gregory Sierra, who endeared himself to 1970s sitcom fans as the genial Julio Fuentes on
Sanford and Son and the impassioned Sgt. Miguel Chano Amenguale on
Barney Miller, has died. He was 83.
Sierra died Jan. 4 in Laguna Woods, California, after a battle with cancer, family spokesman Rick Voll told
The Hollywood Reporter.
A native of New York s Spanish Harlem, Sierra also made a memorable appearance as a radical Jewish vigilante in Archie Is Branded, a 1973 episode of CBS
All in the Family that was one of the sitcom s most jarring episodes. And he played Carlos El Puerco Valdez, a Malaguayan counter-revolutionist who kidnaps Jessica (Katherine Helmond) on ABC s