Antonio Juan Fargas (born August 14, 1946) is an American actor known for his roles in 1970s blaxploitation movies, as well as his portrayal of Huggy Bear in the 1970s TV series Starsky and Hutch.
| Full Name | Antonio Fargas |
| Net Worth | $20 million |
| Date Of Birth | August 14, 1946 |
| Place Of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Height | 6' 1" (1.85 m) |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Profession | Actor |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Taylor Hastie (m. 1979–1988), Sandra Reed |
| Children | Justin Fargas |
| Parents | Mildred Fargas, Manuel Fargas |
| Nicknames | Antonio Fargas, Fargas, Antonio |
| IMDB | |
| Nominations | NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series |
| Movies | Foxy Brown, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Pretty Baby, Across 110th Street, Cleopatra Jones, Putney Swope, Snakehead Swamp, Busting, Next Stop, Greenwich Village, The Gambler, Conrack, Firestarter, Cornbread, Earl and Me, Up the Academy, Night of the Sharks, Car Wash, The Suburbans, The Borrower, Shakedo... |
| TV Shows | Everybody Hates Chris, Starsky & Hutch |
| Star Sign | Leo |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | He (Huggy Bear) wasn't a pimp. This whole glorification of pimps and all that makes people think that. But they never told you what he did. One minute he had a bar, the next minute he was a guy on the street hustling, but he was always in the know. But he was never a pimp. The guy who was on 'Baretta' was a pimp. His character was called The Rooster. Plus there were other roles were I had played pimps so a lot of people may have thought that. |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | Appeared in the UK version of reality show "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here" on ITV1. [November 2004] |
| 2 | Antonio plays DOC on Everybody Hates Chris! running the corner store in which Chris works for him. [September 2006] |
| 3 | Appearing in Ford Explorer commerical as the car wash manager [January 2003] |
| 4 | Appearing as Fleshcreep in Jack and the Beanstalk at Derby, UK, Assembly Rooms. [December 2007] |
| 5 | Step-father of Matthew E. Chausse. |
| 6 | Son, Justin Fargas, plays running back for the Oakland Raiders. |
| 7 | Of Puerto Rican and Trinidadian heritage. |
| 8 | His performance as a pimp in The Gambler (1974) helped him land the role of informant Huggy Bear in Starsky and Hutch (1975). |
| 9 | Fargas' son, Justin, was recently drafted as a running back by the Oakland Raiders. |
| 10 | 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. |
| 11 | Appeared in stage production of "Blues Brothers" in UK, doing Cab Calloway's "Minnie The Moocher". |
| 12 | Son is Justin Fargas, a former running back at the University of Michigan. |
| 13 | After moving back to L.A. after his divorce, he appeared in music videos and started a music production company, Bump It. |
| 14 | Antonio restores old homes, including a 1790's colonial in Connecticut and an 1820s farm house in upstate New York. |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Cool World | 1963 | ||
| Beyond Skyline | 2016 | completed | Sarge |
| Until We Meet Again | 2016 | completed | Louie |
| Tom Hennessy | TV Movie post-production | Willie 'Pops' Hennessy | |
| Popovich and the Voice of the Fabled American West | 2014 | Lightfoot Legrand | |
| SnakeHead Swamp | 2014 | TV Movie | William Boudreaux |
| House of Lies | 2014 | TV Series | Mr. Zhang |
| Silver Bells | 2013 | Video | Major Melvin Lowell |
| Changing Hands Feature | 2012 | ||
| Stealing Las Vegas | 2012 | Mo | |
| The Benita Show | 2011 | TV Series | |
| Changing Hands | 2010 | Carjack Victim | |
| Once Fallen | 2010 | Jay | |
| Brothers | 2009 | TV Series | Maurice |
| Murphy's Law | 2009 | Expert en diamants | |
| X Returns | 2009 | Short | Agent Adams |
| Everybody Hates Chris | 2005-2009 | TV Series | Doc Mr. Harris Sweet Tooth |
| Lie to Me | 2009 | TV Series | Mr. Mitchell |
| The Adventures of Umbweki | 2009 | Umbweki's Father | |
| Numb3rs | 2008 | TV Series | Jeffrey Knight |
| Abduction of Jesse Bookman | 2008 | Frank Bookman | |
| Sucker Punch | 2008 | Baz | |
| Bad Guys | 2008 | Flappy | |
| Sister Sonya's Prayer Group | 2007 | Video | Bishop Titus Kingston |
| Fist of the Warrior | 2007 | Father Riley | |
| The Caper | 2007 | Lydell | |
| Heroes | 2006 | TV Series | Ezekiel |
| Jack's Law | 2006 | Bert | |
| Honey and Sting | 2006 | Short | The Beekeeper |
| The Simpsons | 2006 | TV Series | Huggy Bear |
| Sucka Punch | 2006 | Video short | Uncle G |
| N.T.V. Volume 1 | 2005 | Video | Jim Brown |
| Eve | 2004 | TV Series | Uncle Jerry |
| The District | 2003 | TV Series | J.T. |
| Starsky & Hutch | 2003 | Video Game | Huggy Bear (voice) |
| Grease Monkeys | 2003 | TV Series | Tony |
| Holby City | 2003 | TV Series | Victor Garrison |
| Fastlane | 2002 | TV Series | Jimmy Lipps |
| Extreme Honor | 2001 | Willy | |
| The Riff | 2001 | Shoop Summers | |
| Osmosis Jones | 2001 | Additional Character Voice (voice) | |
| Driver 2 | 2000 | Video Game | Detective Tobias Jones (voice) |
| Ali: An American Hero | 2000 | TV Movie | Elijah Muhammad |
| Good vs Evil | 2000 | TV Series | Dutch Simms |
| 3 Strikes | 2000 | Uncle Jim Douglas | |
| L.A. Heat | 1999 | TV Series | Jeremy Lauren |
| Unconditional Love | 1999 | Bobby Chiclets | |
| The Steve Harvey Show | 1999 | TV Series | Smitty Rollins |
| The Suburbans | 1999 | Magee | |
| Damon | 1998 | TV Series | Sammy |
| Milo | 1998 | Kelso | |
| Backstreet Boys: Everybody (Backstreet's Back) | 1997 | Video short | Bus driver (uncredited) |
| Gator King | 1997 | Santos Lobilita | |
| Living Single | 1997 | TV Series | Otis Jones |
| Levitation | 1997 | Otis Hill | |
| Homeboys in Outer Space | 1996 | TV Series | Dolomoth |
| The Wayans Bros. | 1996 | TV Series | Uncle Nate |
| The Parent 'Hood | 1996 | TV Series | The Criminal |
| Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood | 1996 | Old School | |
| Soul Survivors | 1995 | TV Movie | Leroy James |
| The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | 1994 | TV Series | Lamont Kelly |
| Percy & Thunder | 1993 | TV Movie | Spider |
| Maid for Each Other | 1992 | TV Movie | Eddie Kemper |
| MacGyver | 1991 | TV Series | Colonel Devraux |
| Whore | 1991 | Rasta | |
| Howling VI: The Freaks | 1991 | Video | Bellamey |
| The Borrower | 1991 | Julius | |
| La belle Anglaise | 1990 | TV Series | Caldwell |
| I'm Gonna Git You Sucka | 1988 | Flyguy | |
| Miami Vice | 1988 | TV Series | Alejandro Gutierrez |
| Shakedown | 1988 | Nicky 'N.C.' Carr | |
| Night of the Sharks | 1988 | Paco | |
| Florida Straits | 1987 | TV Movie | El Gato Negro |
| Streetwalkin' | 1985 | Finesse | |
| Crimewave | 1985 | Blind Man | |
| P.O.P. | 1984 | TV Movie | Frank Wilkey |
| Firestarter | 1984 | Taxi Driver | |
| A Good Sport | 1984 | TV Movie | Clifford |
| All My Children | 1983-1984 | TV Series | Les Baxter |
| Hardcastle and McCormick | 1983 | TV Series | Jerry Blackmore |
| Paper Dolls | 1982 | TV Movie | Oliver |
| A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion | 1982 | TV Movie | |
| The Ambush Murders | 1982 | TV Movie | Vaness |
| Model Behavior | 1982 | Mr. Henri | |
| Nurse | 1981 | TV Series | Marshall Gripps |
| Charlie's Angels | 1980 | TV Series | Blackie |
| Up the Academy | 1980 | Coach | |
| Nurse | 1980 | TV Movie | Marshall Gripps |
| Escape | 1980 | TV Movie | Jamie Valdez |
| Milo-Milo | 1979 | Doc | |
| CHiPs | 1979 | TV Series | Antonio Fargas |
| Starsky and Hutch | 1975-1979 | TV Series | Huggy Bear |
| $weepstake$ | 1979 | TV Series | |
| Kaz | 1978 | TV Series | |
| Vega$ | 1978 | TV Series | 'Fast' Freddie Tibbs |
| The Love Boat | 1978 | TV Series | Lee Graham |
| Pretty Baby | 1978 | Professor | |
| Car Wash | 1976 | Lindy | |
| Adventurizing with the Chopper | 1976 | TV Movie | Leonard Jones |
| Next Stop, Greenwich Village | 1976 | Bernstein Chandler | |
| Arpad - Zwei Teufelskerle räumen auf | 1975 | ||
| Cornbread, Earl and Me | 1975 | One-Eye | |
| Huckleberry Finn | 1975 | TV Movie | Jim |
| Kojak | 1974 | TV Series | Benny |
| The Gambler | 1974 | Pimp | |
| Kolchak: The Night Stalker | 1974 | TV Series | Sweetstick Weldon |
| Police Woman | 1974 | TV Series | Rex |
| Toma | 1974 | TV Series | |
| Foxy Brown | 1974 | Link Brown | |
| Conrack | 1974 | Quickfellow | |
| Busting | 1974 | Stephen | |
| Sanford and Son | 1974 | TV Series | Sonny Cochran |
| Ironside | 1973 | TV Series | T.D. Harris |
| Police Story | 1973 | TV Series | Harpie |
| Cleopatra Jones | 1973 | Doodlebug Simkins | |
| Across 110th Street | 1972 | Henry J. Jackson | |
| Cisco Pike | 1972 | Buffalo | |
| Believe in Me | 1971 | Boy | |
| Shaft | 1971 | Bunky | |
| The Bill Cosby Show | 1971 | TV Series | J.J. |
| Pound | 1970 | Greyhound | |
| Three | 1969/II | ||
| Putney Swope | 1969 | The Arab | |
| Ironside | 1967 | TV Movie | T.D. Harris (uncredited) |
Composer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zombeach | 2000 | Short |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pretty Baby | 1978 | performer: "Tiger Rag", "Pretty Baby", "Winin' Boy Blues" - uncredited |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starsky & Hutch | 2004 | special thanks | |
| Starsky & Hutch | 2003 | Video Game special thanks |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsung Hollywood | 2014-2015 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Dishing Tea with Big Meach | 2012 | TV Mini-Series | Himself |
| The Rancho High School Riots | 2012 | TV Movie documentary | Antonio Fargas |
| Life After | 2011 | TV Series | Himself |
| Chasing Hollywood | 2011 | Documentary | Himself |
| Vegas Cinefest | 2011 | Himself | |
| Way Black When: Primetime | 2011 | TV Series | Himself |
| Top of the Cops | 2009 | TV Movie documentary | Himself / Huggy Bear |
| TV Burp | 2008 | TV Series | Himself |
| Queens of Disco | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Vegas Background | 2007 | Himself | |
| Spaced Out | 2006 | Video | Himself (uncredited) |
| Airline | 2005 | TV Series | Himself |
| TV's Greatest Cars | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| This Morning | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
| I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
| Loose Women | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
| Jimmy Kimmel Live! | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
| Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted | 2004 | Documentary | Himself |
| T4 | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
| GMTV | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
| Loose Lips | 2003 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Heroes of Black Comedy | 2002 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| The RDA | 2001 | TV Series | Himself |
| Starsky & Hutch Documentary: The Word on the Street | 1999 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| American Pimp | 1999 | Documentary | Link Brown |
| Les enfants de la télé | 1998 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Roseanne Show | 1998 | TV Series | Pimp |
| Top Ten | 1998 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Presenter |
| The Celluloid Closet | 1995 | Documentary | Himself |
| Martin | 1995 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Word | 1994 | TV Series | Himself |
| All Commercials... A Steve Martin Special | 1980 | TV Special | |
| The Hollywood Squares | 1979 | TV Series | Guest Appearance |
Archive Footage
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Image Award | Image Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series | Everybody Hates Chris (2005) |
