'Welcome Back Kotter's' Epstein, Actor Robert Hegyes, Dies at 60

The Flynn & Boy Funeral Home in Fords, NJ was informed in the actor's dying on Thursday by his family.Hegyes happen to be moved for the JFK Clinic in Edison, NJ that morning entirely stroke and died, the Star-Ledger reviews.Hegyes got his large break on Kotter, a seventies TV series of a teacher who returned to have an inner-city NY school he visited becoming an adult to coach students frequently recognized to as "Sweathogs." The cast incorporated Travolta Qantas Video, who carried out Vinnie Barbarino.Hegyes later came out in other Tv shows, including "Cagney & Lacey." More youthful crowd had stints on "CHiPs," "Diagnosis Murder," "The Came Carey Show" and "Lewis & Clark."Born in 1951 within glasgow - Perth Amboy, Hegyes was elevated the first child from the Hungarian father and Italian mother in Metuchen, NJ. He headed to NY City following graduation at Rowan College, where he'd frequently return to train master classes. The Hollywood Reporter