Erik Estrada

Birth Name:

Henry Enrique Estrada

Birth Place:

New York City, New York, United States

Profession

Actor, Producer, Soundtrack

Picture Perfect Mysteries: Dead Over Diamonds

CHiPs Star Larry Wilcox Charged with Securities Fraud

Larry Wilcox, best known for his role as Officer Jon Baker on CHiPs, was charged Thursday with securities fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Prosecutors said the former TV star was part of an...

Fri, Oct 8, 2010

CHiPs Star Larry Wilcox Charged with Securities Fraud

Erik Estrada Takes a "CHiP" Down Memory Lane

No offense to the current crop of motorcycle cops cruising the City of Angels, but the California Highway Patrol has never looked better than when Erik Estrada was riding high as Officer Francis Llewellyn "Ponch" Poncherello alongside Larry Wilcox's Jon Baker on CHiPs (1977-83). For six years, the blow-dried and beloved sex symbol broke racial barriers and battled NBC, while forever cementing his status as an icon on wheels. So in honor of the show's Tuesday debut on DVD, we rang up Estrada to get the dish on CHiPs — including Ponch's nationality switch, and the money dispute that almost got him "Olympically" canned. TVGuide.com: Let's talk about the first season of CHiPs, which  just came out on DVD. It's about damn time!Erik Estrada: I know. Through the years people would come up to me and say, "W

Tue, Jun 5, 2007

Erik Estrada Takes a "CHiP" Down Memory Lane

Short Cuts: Meryl Goes from Devil to Nunsense

Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman have been cast as the leads in Doubt, the Miramax adaptation of the John Patrick Shanley play about a priest accused of pedophilia by a nun.... Ocean's Umpteen BFFs George Clooney and Brad Pitt will reteam in the Coen brother's hush-hush comedy Burn After Reading, about a CIA agent who misplaces the disc of the book he's been writing.... Did Louis Gossett Jr. accept nearly $40,000 in Lakers tickets without ponying up the dough? Not on your life, he tells TMZ.com, maintaining that someone forged his signature.... Erik Estrada has been given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Which means the only people left who don't have one are Jan Smithers and that dog from Frasier.

Fri, Apr 20, 2007

Coming Soon: Janice Dickinson Is Back!

CBS has set a Jan. 10 debut for Armed & Famous, a reality series in which Erik Estrada, Jack Osbourne, La Toya Jackson and others brave a police academy and then go on patrol — strapped and all — in Muncie, Indiana.... Oxygen has announced a Jan. 10 premiere for Season 2 of The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency.... Disney Channel's Cory in the House, a spin-off of That's So Raven, premieres Jan. 12.... E! is developing High Maintenance 90210, a look at the domestic staffers of the rich, famous and super-demanding.

Fri, Dec 15, 2006

WHO WANTS CHIPS?

Warner Bros. Pictures, having already delivered Starsky & Hutch and The Dukes of Hazzard to the big screen, will next bring moviegoers a feature version of that '70s show CHiPs — appropriately tapping That '70s Show's Wilmer Valderrama to fill Erik Estrada's distinctively snug motorcycle cop pants. Somewhere, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Mario Lopez are sobbing.

Thu, Dec 8, 2005

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