Antonio Fargas

Antonio Fargas

actor, composer, producer

Antonio Fargas was born on Aug 14, 1946 in USA. Antonio Fargas's big-screen debut came with The Cool World directed by Shirley Clarke in 1963, strarring . Antonio Fargas is known for Popovich and the Voice of the Fabled American West directed by Jerry Thompson, Gregory Popovich stars as Popovich and Jason Neistadt as The Voice of the Fabled American West. The upcoming new movie Antonio Fargas plays is Until We Meet Again which will be released on Feb 15, 2022.

A tall, lanky and twinkle-eyed African-American actor with wonderful onscreen charisma, Antonio Fargas has been appearing on stage and screen for nearly 60 years as of 2021. His film debut was in Shirley Clarke's Harlem Story (1963), a gritty, uncompromising tale about African-American youth growing up in Harlem, New York. He then made his acting presence felt in many "blaxploitation" films of the early 1970s, including the classic Shaft, les nuits rouges de Harlem (1971), the Mafia flick Meurtres dans la 110e Rue (1972), the ultra-violent Pam Grier vehicle Foxy Brown (1974) and the classic tale of Huckleberry Finn (1975).Around this time ABC-TV executives were looking for a capable actor to play the role of golden-hearted street informant "Huggy Bear" on Starsky et Hutch (1975), and Fargas scored the role with which he is most closely identified. His career continued to flourish after "Starsky and Hutch" wrapped up after four years, and he has appeared in over 50 movies to date, many TV shows and numerous stage productions. He has played a 90-year-old witch doctor in "The Great White Hope", was in Melvin Van Peebles' "Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death", and appeared in productions of "The Rainmaker", "The Emperor Jones" and "Dream on Monkey Mountain". A strong advocate of the strength and diversity of African-American culture, Fargas holds positions on the boards of Rhode Island's Langton Hughes Center for the Arts and The Martin Luther King Center of Newport.

  • Birthday

    Aug 14, 1946
  • Place of Birth

    New York City, New York, USA
  • Also known

    Huggy Bear

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