Actor of Puerto Rican descent Gregory Sierra dies

The Angels. Latin actor Gregory Sierra, known for the series “Barney Miller” and “Sanford and Son,” died of cancer at the age of 83, The Hollywood Reporter magazine reported Friday.

The New York interpreter of Puerto Rican descent died in Laguna Woods, California, on Jan. 4, he said Rick Voll, spokesman for the Sierra family.

Born in 1937, Sierra mainly shone on the small screen in the 1970s.

In those years he played Chano Amenguale in the series “Barney Miller” (1975-1982), which was perhaps his most popular role.

He also appeared in another series, such as “Sanford and Son” (1972-1977), where he played the character of Julio Fuentes.

His television career has also included sporadic roles in other well-known series such as “Hill Street Blues” (1981-1987), “Miami Vice” (1984-1989) and “MacGyver” (1985-1992).

Sierra also had a long career in cinema with more or less secondary roles in ‘Beneath the Planet of the Apes’ (1970), ‘Papillon’ (1973), ‘The Towering Inferno’ (1974), ‘Honey, I Blew Up’ the Kid ”(1992) or“ Vampires ”(1998).

He also cooperated Orson Welles in the movie “The Other Side of the Wind”, which was released in 2018 after a very complicated pregnancy, some four decades after it was shot.

Before moving to Los Angeles as a young man in search of work in film and television, Sierra tried his hand in the theater, taking part in off-Broadway plays and working with the National Shakespeare Company and the Shakespeare Festival of NY .