Antonio Fargas

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Antonio Fargas

Antonio Fargas, 2005
Born Antonio Juan Fargas
August 14, 1946 (1946-08-14) (age 61)
New York, New York, U.S.
Other name(s) "Huggy Bear", "Fly Guy", "Shoop Summers", "Doc Harris"
Spouse(s) Sandra Fargas
Official website

Antonio Juan Fargas (born August 14, 1946) is an American actor famous for roles in the 1970s.

Antonio Fargas, one of eleven children, was born in New York City to a Puerto Rican father and a Trinidadian mother.[1] His father worked as a refuse collector.

After starring in a string of blaxploitation movies in the early '70s, he gained recognition (and is most widely recognized) as Huggy Bear in the mid-'70s television series Starsky and Hutch. Argentine band Babasónicos released a song in their 1998 B-sides album Vórtice Marxista called Antonio Fargas. The song's chorus repeats the phrase "Antonio Fargas is Huggy Bear", in Spanish, and is meant to be homage to Antonio.

As a nod to his early roles, he also had a role in the blaxploitation spoof, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka. He was in series 4 of the UK reality series I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! which began in November 2004. He recently played the part of Toledo in a revival of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester (2006). He has a regular role as 'Doc' on Everybody Hates Chris.

Antonio Fargas also played the driver in the music video of Backstreet Boys hit "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)".

He's currently living in Las Vegas.

Fargas's son Justin plays professional football for the Oakland Raiders of the NFL.

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  1. ^ Memorable TV - The Home of Television Information

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