"Welcome Back, Kotter's" Epstein Dies at 60 | NBC New York

"Welcome Back, Kotter's" Epstein Dies at 60 | NBC New York: "Robert Hegyes, who played Juan Luis Pedro Philippo DeHuevos Epstein on 1970s hit "Welcome Back, Kotter," has died at 60.

Hegyes, who played one of the lead "Sweathogs" in teacher Gabriel Kaplan's class, was known for his Puerto Rican-Jewish character who was always trying to skip class with notes signed, "Epstein's mother." The show, which also starred a young John Travolta, ran on ABC from 1975-79, and had high school kids around the nation taunting one another with lines like, "Up your nose with a rubber hose.""

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