by Laura Zangarini
She was the blonde half of Starsky and Hutch, the crime-fighting detective duo on the popular '70s television series. Alcohol, arrest for violence against his ex-wife, illness
I was Hutch, I was Hutch. This was the social media calling card of David Soul, better known as the blonde half of the famous duo Starsky & Hutch, the 1970s television series in which he played Detective Sergeant Kenneth Hutch Hutchinson alongside his colleague and friend Paul Michael Glaser. The actor and singer, who battled a number of health problems throughout his life, including cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease due to smoking, died on Thursday at the age of 80, after a brave fight for his life in the loving company of family . The announcement was made by Soul's fifth wife Helen Snell, whom the actor married in 2010.
David Soul – beloved husband, father, grandfather and brother – died yesterday in the loving company of his family after a brave fight for life. As an actor, singer, storyteller, creative artist and dear friend, he shared many extraordinary gifts in the world. His smile, laughter and?
— David Soul (@DavidRSoul) January 5, 2024
Born David Solberg in Chicago, Illinois on August 28, 1943, Soul began his recording career in Mexico, inspired by a group of students who taught him to play the guitar. Back in the US he had his first gig at a club in Minneapolis, the 10 O'Clock Scholar. His career began on television. From the second half of the 1960s, he was appreciated as an actor in various television films, including Star Trek, Bewitched, The Streets of San Francisco, To All the Police Cars.
The turning point came with Ken Hutch Hutchinson, the blonde, blue-eyed detective in Starsky & Hutch, a role he played from 1975 to 1979. During these same years, Soul not only kept his passion for music alive, but also released four albums of soft rock ballads and reached the top twice with the singles Don't Give Up On Us (1976) and Silver Lady (1977). the English and American charts.
Beginning in the 1980s, his appearances became increasingly rare due to his drinking problems (which forced him to spend a long time in the hospital for detoxification) and the arrest for assault of his third wife, Carnel Sherman, who was seven months pregnant and married in 1980 after the ship was wrecked first with colleague Miriam Russeth and then with Karen Carlson. In 2012, he confided to The Guardian newspaper: “Regaining the trust of my six children has not been easy.” I now have six grandchildren and the best thing I can do is be there for them as much as possible. In the mid-1990s, the actor moved to England and started a new career on the stages of London's West End.
In 2004 she had her last film appearance alongside Paul Glaser in the film Starsky & Hutch with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson. A deep friendship with Glaser at his age. “We knew each other before Starsky and Hutch,” he said in an interview, and we’ve remained friends all these years since.
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January 5, 2024 (changed January 5, 2024 | 9:53 p.m.)
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