Actor-singer David Soul, a Seventies heart-throb who co-starred because the blond half of the crime-fighting duo Starsky & Hutch and topped the music charts with the ballad Don’t Give Up on Us, has died on the age of 80.
His spouse, Helen Snell, mentioned on 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”.
Actor David Soul, Starsky & Hutch star, has died on the age of 80.Credit score: PA
“He shared many extraordinary presents on the earth as actor, singer, storyteller, artistic artist and pricey good friend,” Snell mentioned in a press release. “His smile, laughter and keenness for all times might 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 Nineteen Sixties, when he joined the avant-garde Firehouse Theatre in Minnesota. He continued to seem on stage and display nicely into the twentieth century, however he was greatest 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 fashionable it spawned a line of kids’s toys.
He additionally had success as a singer, beginning in 1976 with Don’t Give Up on Us and following with such hits as Stepping into With My Eyes Open and Silver Girl.
Soul first gained nationwide fame within the Nineteen Sixties showing on The Merv Griffin Present as The Coated Man,“a singer disguised in a stocking cap who shouted out lyrics akin to “That’s the reason I disguise my face, as a result of a person must 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 basic Casablanca, wherein Soul took on Humphrey Bogart’s function as nightclub proprietor Rick Blaine.