David Soul is photographed at an occasion in Los Angeles on Dec. 6, 1983. Soul, who hit fame as blond half of crime-fighting duo “Starsky and Hutch” in a well-liked Seventies tv collection, has died at age 80. Wally Fong/AP disguise caption
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David Soul is photographed at an occasion in Los Angeles on Dec. 6, 1983. Soul, who hit fame as blond half of crime-fighting duo “Starsky and Hutch” in a well-liked Seventies tv collection, has died at age 80.
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LONDON — Actor-singer David Soul, a Seventies heartthrob who co-starred because the blond half of the crime-fighting duo “Starsky & Hutch” and topped the music charts with the ballad “Do not Give Up on Us,” has died on the age of 80.
His spouse, Helen Snell, stated Friday that “David Soul – beloved husband, father, grandfather and brother – died yesterday after a valiant battle for all times within the loving firm of household.”
“He shared many extraordinary items on the planet as actor, singer, storyteller, artistic artist and pricey pal,” Snell stated in a press release. “His smile, laughter and fervour for all times can be remembered by the numerous whose lives he has touched.”
Born David Solberg, Soul was a Chicago native whose performing profession dated again to the Sixties, when he joined the avant-garde Firehouse Theater in Minnesota. He continued to look on stage and display screen effectively into the twentieth century, however he was finest identified for his work within the Seventies.
Soul portrayed detective Ken “Hutch” Hutchinson alongside dark-haired Paul Michael Glaser as detective David Starsky in “Starsky & Hutch, which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1979 and grew so in style it spawned a line of youngsters’s toys.
David Soul (from left), Paul Michael Glaser and Antonio Fargas, stars of the Seventies “Starsky and Hutch” tv collection, arrive on the British premiere of the brand new film of the identical title in London on March 11, 2004. John D McHugh/AP disguise caption
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David Soul (from left), Paul Michael Glaser and Antonio Fargas, stars of the Seventies “Starsky and Hutch” tv collection, arrive on the British premiere of the brand new film of the identical title in London on March 11, 2004.
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He additionally had success as a singer, beginning in 1976 with “Do not Give Up on Us” and following with such hits as “Moving into With My Eyes Open” and “Silver Girl.”
Soul first gained nationwide fame within the Sixties showing on “The Merv Griffin Present” as “The Coated Man,” a singer disguised in a stocking cap who shouted out lyrics similar to “That’s the reason I disguise my face, as a result of a person needs to be free.”
His different TV credit included early appearances on “Star Trek,” “All within the Household” and “I Dream of Jeannie,” the miniseries “Salem’s Lot” and a short-lived model of the movie traditional “Casablanca,” during which Soul took on Humphrey Bogart’s position as nightclub proprietor Rock Blaine.
Soul’s films included “Magnum Drive,” “The Hanoi Hilton” and a cameo with Glaser within the 2004 big-screen remake of “Starsky & Hutch,” starring Ben Stiller as Starsky and Owen Wilson as Hutch.
By the Nineties, Soul had moved to Britain, the place he carried out a number of stage roles. In 2001, he received a libel case in opposition to a journalist who known as “The Lifeless Monkey,” a play that Soul was in, the worst manufacturing he had ever seen – with out having seen it. He additionally performed the titular talk-show host in “Jerry Springer – The Opera” in London’s West Finish.
