Actor Gregory Sierra, best known for his characters Julio on "Sanford and Son" and cop Chano Amenguale on "Barney Miller," is dead at the age of 83.
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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
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Barney Miller alum Gregory Sierra dead at 83
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Sanford and Son actor Gregory Sierra has died of cancer in Laguna Woods, Calif. He was 83.
His wife Helene Tabor disclosed Sierra s Jan. 4 death to CNN on Friday.
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Deadline also confirmed the news with a family spokesman. He was quite wonderful, and my heart is broken into 400 million pieces, Tabor told CNN. He was doing the best he could and just couldn t do it anymore.
Sierra s other credits included guest spots on the TV shows
All in the Family, Kung Fu, The Mod Squad, The Flying Nun, Soap, Hill Street Blues, Miami Vice, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Papillon,