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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Gregory Sierra, 'Barney Miller' (Chano) Actor, Dies at 83

Posted: 1/23/2021 5:22:43 AM EDT

Gregory Sierra, the actor known for his roles on "Barney Miller" and "Sanford and Son," has died at the age of 83, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

A family spokesperson told THR that Sierra died earlier this month after a long battle with cancer.

Sierra was best known for co-starring on the first two seasons of "Barney Miller" as the emotionally volatile Sgt. Miguel "Chano" Amanguale. He also appeared on three seasons of "Sanford and Son" as the Sanfords' Puerto Rican neighbor Julio Fuentes.

His other TV credits include "Hill Street Blues," "Soap," "Miami Vice," "Murder, She Wrote" and the short-lived "A.E.S. Hudson Street." His film credits include "The Flying Nun," "The Towering Inferno," "The Trouble with Spies" and "Mafia!"

Gregory Sierra's final acting credit was the long-delayed Orson Welles film "The Other Side of the Wind," which was released on Netflix in 2018 with footage shot by the late director in the 1970s.

R.I.P. Chano.

Posted: 1/23/2021 5:32:25 AM EDT

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RIP, prolific character actor

Posted: 1/23/2021 5:36:33 AM EDT

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RIP. Great actor. The original LT on Miami Vice. He was in lots of of stuff.

Posted: 1/23/2021 5:44:12 AM EDT

[#3]

En pace requiescat. Laughed at his characters many times growing up. Prayers for his soul and his family.

Posted: 1/23/2021 5:46:08 AM EDT

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Julio and his goat messing with Fred Sanford were some of my best laughs as a kid. What a great actor with a great career. RIP.

Posted: 1/23/2021 5:59:40 AM EDT

[#5]

RIP Julio

Posted: 1/23/2021 6:04:41 AM EDT

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RIP Mr. Sierra
The first actor from Barney Miller to die was Jack Soo. He had an interesting life.

Hal Linden on his "Barney Miller" co star Jack Soo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2Lq9tj5HYE

Posted: 1/23/2021 6:36:46 AM EDT

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From the pot brownie episopde: “Let’s go down to the beach and shoot some clams.”

Great show.

I was selling Christmas trees in NYC 1978 at 89th & Columbus Ave. As I was wrapping up a tree for a customer, I stood up and was face to face with Hal Linden. I stammered “hey, Barney Miller.” He smiled and nodded as he walked away. That’s my brush with fame.

Posted: 1/23/2021 6:50:30 AM EDT

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I also just read that Mira Furlan (Danielle from "Lost" and Delenn on “Babylon 5") died at 65. Another article I read said she died from complications due to West Nile Virus.

R.I.P. Mira.

Seems like quite a few well known performers are passing away lately.

Mira Furlan, best known for her roles as Delenn on “Babylon 5” and Danielle Rousseau on “Lost,” died on Wednesday. She was 65.

Her Twitter account announced the news on Thursday, and “Babylon 5” creator J. Michael Straczynski posted a tribute to the actor later that night.

While a cause of death has yet not been revealed, Straczynski said the cast and crew of “Babylon 5” had “known for some time now that Mira’s health was fading.” “We kept hoping that she would improve,” he wrote. “In a group email sent to the cast a while back, I heard that she might be improving.”

However, Straczynski said he later got the call from “Babylon 5” co-star Peter Jurasik that Furlan’s husband, director Goran Gajic, was “bringing her home.”

“Mira was a good and kind woman, a stunningly talented performer, and a friend to everyone in the cast and crew of ‘Babylon 5,’ and we are all devastated by the news,” he wrote. “The cast members with whom she was especially close since the show’s end will need room to process this moment, so please be gentle if they are unresponsive for a time. We have been down this road too often, and it only gets harder.”

Posted: 1/23/2021 6:58:01 AM EDT

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Damn. Barney Miller was hilarious.

Posted: 1/23/2021 9:43:35 AM EDT

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He was all over TV in the 70's. RIP

Posted: 1/23/2021 9:52:12 AM EDT

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o69Ns3sxQKA

Posted: 1/23/2021 10:03:14 AM EDT

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From a time when one's ethnicity was determined by a person's lineage not what they wanted it to be. Dolzeal. King.

Posted: 1/23/2021 10:07:59 AM EDT

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Sorry Gregory Sierra, but I have to admit I couldn't sit through 5 seconds of Barney Miller

Posted: 1/23/2021 1:08:53 PM EDT

[#14]

It was Cancer , F Cancer .
RIP he was in many roles .

Posted: 1/23/2021 1:17:22 PM EDT

[#15]

Miami Vice

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