Gregory Sierra (born January 25, 1937) is an American actor known for
his roles as Detective Sergeant Chano Amenguale on Barney Miller and
as Julio Fuentes, the Puerto Rican neighbor of Fred G. Sanford on
Sanford and Son.Sierra's film credits include The Flying Nun (1969),
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), Papillon (1973), The Towering
Inferno (1974), The Prisoner of Zenda (1979) and The Trouble with
Spies (1987). He guest starred on many television series, including
Mod Squad, Kung Fu, Alias Smith and Jones, Mission: Impossible (3
episodes), Hawaii Five-O, Gunsmoke, The Greatest American Hero, Soap,
Sanford and Son, Barney Miller, Midnight Caller, Miami Vice, The Fresh
Prince of Bel-Air, The X-Files, Murder, She Wrote, Hart to Hart and
Hill Street Blues.Sierra also guest-starred as a Jewish radical in an
unusually dramatic episode of All in the Family, working with the
Hebrew Defense Association, an organization whose goal it was to stop
antisemitism in the neighborhood. In the plot, he volunteers in
helping to chase away neo-Nazi thugs presiding in the neighborhood who
spray-painted a swastika on the Bunkers' front door. He is later
killed by a car bomb planted by the neo-Nazis. The actor later went on
to star as Dr. Tony Menzies on the unsuccessful sitcom A.E.S. Hudson
Street.Sierra was cast as South American anti-Communist revolutionary
"El Puerco" â€" whose friends simply call him "El" â€" on the serial
spoof Soap, figuring prominently in the series' unresolved final
episode in 1981. In 1984, he became a main cast member of the then-new
TV drama Miami Vice where he played Lieutenant Lou Rodriguez; he asked
to be written out of the series after just four episodes. More
recently he had regular roles on the TV shows Zorro and Son, Something
is Out There, and Common Law.
his roles as Detective Sergeant Chano Amenguale on Barney Miller and
as Julio Fuentes, the Puerto Rican neighbor of Fred G. Sanford on
Sanford and Son.Sierra's film credits include The Flying Nun (1969),
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), Papillon (1973), The Towering
Inferno (1974), The Prisoner of Zenda (1979) and The Trouble with
Spies (1987). He guest starred on many television series, including
Mod Squad, Kung Fu, Alias Smith and Jones, Mission: Impossible (3
episodes), Hawaii Five-O, Gunsmoke, The Greatest American Hero, Soap,
Sanford and Son, Barney Miller, Midnight Caller, Miami Vice, The Fresh
Prince of Bel-Air, The X-Files, Murder, She Wrote, Hart to Hart and
Hill Street Blues.Sierra also guest-starred as a Jewish radical in an
unusually dramatic episode of All in the Family, working with the
Hebrew Defense Association, an organization whose goal it was to stop
antisemitism in the neighborhood. In the plot, he volunteers in
helping to chase away neo-Nazi thugs presiding in the neighborhood who
spray-painted a swastika on the Bunkers' front door. He is later
killed by a car bomb planted by the neo-Nazis. The actor later went on
to star as Dr. Tony Menzies on the unsuccessful sitcom A.E.S. Hudson
Street.Sierra was cast as South American anti-Communist revolutionary
"El Puerco" â€" whose friends simply call him "El" â€" on the serial
spoof Soap, figuring prominently in the series' unresolved final
episode in 1981. In 1984, he became a main cast member of the then-new
TV drama Miami Vice where he played Lieutenant Lou Rodriguez; he asked
to be written out of the series after just four episodes. More
recently he had regular roles on the TV shows Zorro and Son, Something
is Out There, and Common Law.
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