A family spokesman makes the sad announcement weeks after the veteran actor, who portrayed Julio Fuentes in Sanford and Son in 1972, died at the age of 83.
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