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Birth name: Antonio Juan Fargas Biography for Antonio FargasTall, lanky & twinkle eyed African American actor with wonderful onscreen charisma has been appearing on stage and screen for nearly forty years. Fargas first appeared onscreen in Shirley Clarke's The Cool World (1964) in a gritty, uncompromising tale about African American youth growing up in Harlem, New York City, and then made his acting presence felt in many "blaxploitation" films of the early 1970s including private eye thriller, Shaft (1971), the mafia flick, Across 110th Street (1972), the ultra violent Foxy Brown (1974) & the classic tale of _Huckleberry Finn (1975)_ .
Around this time TV executives were looking for a capable actor to play the role of golden hearted, street informant "Huggy Bear" on "Starsky and Hutch" (1975), and Fargas scored the role for which he is most closely identified. His career continued to flourish after Starsky & Hutch wrapped up after four years, and he has appeared in over 50 movies to date, many TV shows and numerous stage productions including playing a 90 year old witch doctor in "The Great White Hope", Melvin van Peeble's "Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death", and productions of "The Rainmaker", "The Emperor Jones" & "Dream on Monkey Mountain". A strong advocate of the cultural strength & diversity of African American culture, Fargas holds positions on the boards of the Rhode Island's Langton Hughes Center for the Arts, and The Martin Luther King Center of Newport.
One of the pillars of "blaxploitation", Antonio Fargas continued a career on a rather sustained pace in the 1980s and 1990s. He began his journey in 1969 in an episode of "Cosby Show", first version, then appears in many Episodes of series such as "Kojak", in 1973, or "Kolchak", the following year. Many films and TV movies to his credit between 1979 and 2001 including a voice work on the film of the Farrelly brothers, "Osmosis Jones".
Antonio Fargas is an American actor born August 14, 1946 in New York, in New York. He is best known for his role as Huggy Bear in the television series Starsky and Hutch, broadcast between 1975 and 1979.
Fargas began his acting career at the age of 13, playing in plays in New York. He also worked in films, television series and television shows. Among his other known roles, we can cite those he played in Cotton Comes To Harlem (1970), Shaft (1971) and Across 110th Street (1972).
Fargas is a very talented and versatile actor, capable of playing roles as different as those of Huggy Bear in Starsky and Hutch and Roemello Skuggs in the television series The Corner. He was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for his role in The Corner.
In addition to his acting career, Fargas is also an accomplished musician and a talented singer. He recorded several albums during his career, and also played in music theater shows.
Over the years, Fargas has continued to work in the world of entertainment, playing in films, television series and television shows. His career is an example of success and talent, and he is widely considered an important player in the African-American community. Filmography
TriviaAntonio restores old homes, including a 1790's colonial in Connecticut and an 1820s farm house in upstate New York. After moving back to L.A. after his divorce, he appeared in music videos and started a music production company, Bump It. Appeared in stage production of "Blues Brothers" in UK, doing Cab Calloway's "Minnie The Moocher". Fargas' son, Justin, was recently drafted as a running back by the Oakland Raiders. His performance as a pimp in the 1974 James Caan film The Gambler helped him land the role of informant Huggy Bear in Starsky and Hutch. FamilySpouse : Taylor Hastie (1979 - ?) 1 stepson, Sandra Reed (? - ?) 4 children. His son, Justin Fargas, will be a senior running back at the University of Southern California in the fall of 2002. He previously played for the University of Michigan. Author of the card
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