Anecdotes

Has his own Official Website that he and his wife answer all their fans emails and talk with them on the forum.

When he landed Johnny in Dos mujeres, un camino (1993) he had to take 30 straight eight-hour days of Berlitz Spanish lessons before he could begin. Originally slated for 100 episodes, the show went to 400-plus episodes, became the biggest telenovela in Latin-American history and revived Estrada's almost non-existent career.

Has joined forces with the Safe Surfin' Foundation & Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces around the country to protect children from sexual predators on the Internet.

Played in a Mexican "telenovela" (soap opera) in the early 1990s. Unlike many characters he has played, Estrada doesn't speak Spanish, so his lines were fed to him over an earphone during production.

Was a reserve police officer with Muncie, Indiana police department from 2007-2010, completed full training in 2007. This was seen on the television series Armed & Famous (2007).

Native Puerto Rican by ethnicity.

Once went to Thailand to attempt to circumvent the Screen Actors Guild and secure a sub-union job, the only work he could find.

Is the face of D.A.R.E., an organization for a drug-free America.

Charleston, WV, USA: In capacity with the Safe Surfin' Foundation/Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces spent most of December 2011 working with West Virginia State Police cyber crimes task force. (décembre 2011)

He was the original choice to play 'Carlos' in Robert Rodriguez's La nuit la plus longue (1996), which went to Cheech Marin.

Friends with Lorenzo Lamas and Larry Manetti.

Best known by the public for his starring role as Officer Francis "Ponch" Poncherello on CHiPs (1977).

Comedian George Lopez has had an ongoing feud for years with him, because Estrada wouldn't sign an autograph nor shake Lopez's hand when Lopez was a kid while Estrada was filming an episode of "CHiPs" near Lopez's neighborhood. Since then, Lopez vowed to make Estrada pay.

In 2011, Estrada told a Miami radio show, The Enrique Santos Show, that he didn't remember ignoring Lopez, but that he was tired of Lopez trashing his name and that he had seen Lopez at a church event and challenged him to a fight and that Lopez backed down, stating, "I'm a comedian, not a fighter.". In 2015, with regards to Estrada, Lopez told the Huffington Post during an interview, "I'll fuck that motherfucker up.".

Ranked #15 on the TV Guide's Network, "TV 25 Sexiest Men of All Time" (2008).

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on April 19, 2007.

Was engaged to Beverly Adams.

Ranked #1 on the TV Guide's Network, "TV's 25 Sexiest Men in Uniform" (2009).

Left CHiPs (1977) in the fall of 1981 over a contract salary dispute with NBC and was briefly replaced by 1976 Olympic decathlon gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner.

While he was a contestant on Pictionary (1989), he, excited on winning the rounds, ended up accidentally breaking comedian Bill Maher's nose as a result of a sucker punch during a drawing of a yellow ribbon being tied around an old oak tree, a reference to Tony Orlando & Dawn's song from 1973.

He was born to Native Hispanic/Latin-American parents.

He is a Native Hispanic/Latino-American man.