Gregory Sierra, who endeared himself to 1970s sitcom fans as the genial Julio Fuentes onSanford and Sonand the impassioned Sgt.
Miguel "Chano" Amenguale onBarney 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 Familythat 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'sSoap.
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