David Soul, who starred alongside Paul Michael Glaser on the 1970s ABC buddy cop show Starsky & Hutch, has died. He was 80. His wife, Helen Snell, shared in a statement that Soul died Thursday after “a valiant battle for life in the loving company of family.” In addition to Snell, his fifth wife (they married in 2010), Soul’s survivors include his six children. https://twitter.com/THR/status/1743293394246643844 From the Hollywood Reporter:
As Kenneth “Hutch” Hutchinson, an undercover cop from Minnesota working in the fictional Southern California town of Bay City, the blond, blue-eyed Soul appeared on all 92 episodes of “Starsky and Hutch,” which lasted four seasons, from April 1975 to May 1979.
Soul also appeared for two seasons on the 1968-70 ABC show “Here Come the Brides,” played one of the corrupt young motorcycle cops brought down by Clint Eastwood‘s Harry Callahan in the thriller “Magnum Force” (1973) and stood out as a terrified vampire hunter in the 1979 Stephen King CBS miniseries “Salem’s Lot.”
https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1743289255927951411 During the second season of Starsky & Hutch, Soul released his pop single “Don’t Give Up on Us” which hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and also reached the top spot on charts in the UK, Canada, and Australia. He had another #1 hit with “Silver Lady” that same year. Sadly, in 1983, coming down from his career highs, he was charged with domestic abuse by his third wife, Patti, who shared some of the gruesome details of the violence in a PEOPLE Magazine cover story. https://youtu.be/YY8APrYU2Gs?si=12r2gQfW6E7vsxWp https://youtu.be/CdOiqsMLS4E?si=LXR9rLWVn6bSEYsK&t=8
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