Antonio Fargas Biography

Antonio Juan Fargas 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. His father worked as a refuse collector. After starring in a string of blaxploitation movies in the early '70s, he gained recognition 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 . 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 . Fargas's son Justin plays professional football for the Oakland Raiders of the NFL. ^ http://www.MemorableTV.com/OnTheBox/Interviews/AntonioFargas.htm