Actor David Soul, who gained fame as the blond half of criminal offense-combating duo “Starsky & Hutch” in the well-liked 1970s tv series, has died at the age of 80.
His wife, Helen Snell, claimed Friday that “David Soul – beloved husband, father, grandfather and brother – died yesterday following a valiant battle for lifetime in the loving organization of household.”
“He shared lots of extraordinary gifts in the entire world as actor, singer, storyteller, innovative artist and expensive friend,” she stated in a assertion. “His smile, laughter and enthusiasm for daily life will be remembered by the numerous whose lives he has touched.”
Soul portrayed detective Ken “Hutch” Hutchinson alongside Paul Michael Glaser as detective David Starsky in “Starsky & Hutch.” It ran on ABC among 1975 and 1979, and grew so preferred it spawned a host of children’s toys.
At the peak of his fame, Soul also strike the music charts with the one “Don’t Give Up on Us.”
Soul experienced lived in Britain for several many years, carrying out in numerous phase roles. In 2001, he received a libel scenario towards a journalist who termed “The Lifeless Monkey,” a participate in that Soul was in, the worst production he had at any time noticed – without having viewed it.
Soul also played the titular chat-display host in “Jerry Springer – The Opera” in London’s West Conclusion.
Soul and Glaser experienced cameos in the 2004 major-display screen remake of “Starsky & Hutch,” starring Ben Stiller as Starsky and Owen Wilson as Hutch.
