Antonio fargas wife

1946(?)—

Actor

Fargas, Antonio, photograph.

The career of actor Antonio Fargas has lasted over 40 years and has encompassed film, television, and live theater.

He is most widely recognized, however, for a single role: that of Huggy Bear on the 1970s television series Starsky and Hutch. That single role brought Fargas into millions of living rooms around the United States and the world.

Decades after the show's run ended in 1979, the image he created was strong enough to make him into a cult hero among artists in the hip-hop genre—which didn't even exist at the time the show aired. Unlike other actors strongly identified with a single role, however, Fargas succeeded in branching out into new endeavors, gaining both steady work and, on occasion, critical acclaim.

Antonio Fargas was born in New York City, to a Puerto Rican father and a Trinidadian mother, probably on August 14, 1946 (dates from 1943 to 1947 appear in various sources).

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