AUx eyes of the French public, he will forever embody one of the most emblematic supporting roles in the history of television: the facetious and hilarious Huggy Bear Jackson, alias “Huggy-les-Bons-Tuyaux” in Starsky et Hutch. CHOUCHOUS ‘CHOUCHOU of the famous tandem of cops in the detective series which enchanted our Sunday after -ans, between 1978 and 1984 on TF1, Huggy brought the additional comic touch of a soap for a soap which, over its four seasons (produced in the United States between 1975 and 1979), always drew a little more towards comedy.
It must be said that the glorious VF of Starsky et Hutchwith the voices of Jacques Balutin for Paul Michael Glaser (alias the detective David Starsky), Francis Lax for David Soul (detective Ken Hutchinson, known as Hutch ‘) and Albert Augier for Antonio Fargas (Huggy), was further drawing a tone flirting with the second degree. Huggy’s tap and caricatured image, a second knife whose humorous function would certainly have amused Shakespeare a lot, made Antonio Fargas a star of the small screen and, even today, she sticks to his skin like the sparadrap of Captain Haddock.
Normal: this sensitive and conscientious actor, trained in the New York theater with the love of the game pegged to the body, sublimated his favorite alter ego with such professionalism that the crowds attached to him in a beat of eyelashes. But for those who looks a little more about the CV of the Actu […] Read more