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Hegyes and nearly all of the original cast members reunited last year at the TV Land Awards to recognize the show's 35th anniversary. On his website , Hegyes wrote that he modeled the swaggering, skirt-chasing Epstein after Chico Marx , whom he played in a national touring production of "A Night With Groucho.

Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Gummo, and Zeppo were intellectuals They all played the piano and took music lessons, and they were all juvenile delinquents; I could definitely relate. Hegyes had suffered a heart attack a couple of years ago and was not in good health, his brother Mark Hegyes of Montana said. Metuchen police responded to a call for medical assistance from Hegyes' home at a. By the time he arrived at the emergency room at a.

He was one of the kids equally at home on the gridiron and in the footlights. His nickname: Chico. He wrote that his mother, a big Broadway musical and Frank Sinatra fan, stoked his theatrical ambitions, making him sing along with Ol' Blue Eyes and "incessantly" to "Maria" from "West Side Story.

Peter Loewy, who runs the Forum Theatre Arts Center in Metuchen, says he planned to work with Hegyes on a one-man show a year or so ago, but Hegyes' health problems -- he needed a hip replacement, among other things -- put it on hold indefinitely.

Hegyes was retired but still talked about directing and getting more involved in local arts efforts, Mark Hegyes said. In , the series was honored at the TV Land Awards. Hegyes said the network "gave us new life in syndication; I looked at it as an opportunity to poison a whole new generation," USA Today reported at the time. Hegyes had suffered a heart attack a couple of years ago and was not in good health, his brother Mark Hegyes of Montana told the Star-Ledger.

Metuchen police responded to a call for medical assistance from Hegyes' home at a. By the time he arrived at the emergency room at a. The actor is survived by three siblings, two children, Cassie and Mack, and two step-children, Sophia and Alex, according to Us magazine. Note to readers: if you purchase something through one of our affiliate links we may earn a commission.

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