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 Don’t Give Up on Us, has died on the age of 80.
His spouse, Helen Snell, mentioned on Friday: “David Soul – beloved husband, father, grandfather and brother – died on Jan 4 after a valiant battle for all times within the loving firm of household.”
“He shared many extraordinary presents on the earth as actor, singer, storyteller, artistic artist and pricey buddy,” Snell mentioned in an announcement. “His smile, laughter and keenness for all times shall be remembered by the various 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, United States. He continued to seem on stage and display nicely 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 widespread it spawned a line of kids’s toys.