Gregory Sierra, Actor on "Barney Miller" and "Sanford and Son," Dies at 83

Ah, I liked him. I haven't seen him in years, though.

BD PR!

He also appeared on “The Flying Nun” at about the very exact same time somebody told Sally Field nobody liked her.

He was also in an episode of Sally Struthers' ill-fated "Gloria" and several "Murder She Wrotes". Actually, he was in almost everything....

RIP

Oh, that's too bad. I always thought he was hot in "Barney Miller" and he would have been a lot hotter, if it wasn't for the early, unfortunate hair loss.

El Puerco es muerto.

RIP. This is a great scene with him from Sanford and Son.

I really liked him. He really knew how to wear a pair of snug jeans.

Redd Foxx: "Look at that, Julio and Damn Foolio"

He was married three times.

He was very hot.

The very definition of BDF, may he rest in peace.

I would’ve ate his ass.

Mr. Hal Linden (age 89) and Max Gail (age 78) are now the only members of original Barney Miller ensemble cast still living.

A key part of the final, laugh-free season of Soap.

[quote]I would’ve ate his ass.

Oh, dear.

In Cabot Cove helping JF solve the mystery of the Petrified Florist. This episode also starred DL fave Sandahl Bergman.

He was also the bartender in the Towering Inferno that tried to save the expensive wine. He was crushed when they exploded the water tanks.

He was one of those quintessential character actors in the 70s. He really was in everything.

I remember him. He really was in just about everything on tv. He was a fine actor, may he RIP.

He played the creepy pedo in Unspeakable Acts.

I think he played a criminal prisoner on Cagney & Lacey. Doug Savant played a high school kid who got arrested and didn't give his real age so he was raped in a holding cell overnight.

Sierra played a character who lied to Cagney and Lacey that three black men -- the Soul Brothers -- had raped him. It turned out that Sierra's character did. Cagney tripped a chair he was sitting in, I think, and said she'd make sure that it got out in prison that he had lied and they'd be calling Sierra...wait for it...'The Queen of Soul.'

Jesus, I hope your recollection is right r21! I’m going to find that episode.

I think it is R22; there's a term for it -- Hyperthymesia.

If I don't have a 'superior' memory, it comes close.

of course, IMDB and google help, too.

the episode was titled, appropriately, 'Violation' -- Savant's character's father blasted the police and said the ordeal turned his kid into a fag or turned him gay

the 80s were such an odd time for any kind of gay content on shows (tho this C&L episode was more about rape in jail); we had Steven Carrington who kept sleeping with women -- Claudia, Sammy Jo -- and when he did get a male lover, Luke, he was killed off in the Moldavian Massacre.

R23, I remember those years well, not with the same detail, but I agree representation was rare and seldom positive.

Violation