The history of cinema and television is full of actors and actresses remembered for a single performance, one of those jobs that devours everything and traps the performer in question in a character for which they will always be remembered even if they have tried to separate themselves from it with the passing of the years. This is the case of David Soul, who died today at the age of 80. He had debuted at the end of the 60s with appearances in second-rate television series, and he came to play in ‘Harry the strong’ (1973), second installment of Harry Callahan’s adventures, to one of the members of the police squad dedicated to liquidating criminals who have not been considered guilty in court. But in 1975 He was chosen alongside Paul Michael Glaser to play Starsky and Hutch, the police couple that achieved enormous success in the cathodic serials of the 70s. That’s where it all began for Soul. And there we could say that everything also ended.
As if he were a vampire, police officer Kenneth Hutchinson, nicknamed Hutch, took over Soul and It conditioned his entire subsequent career. It was not a unique case, since his companion in the series ‘Starsky and Hutch’ (1975-1979) also never managed to get rid of the character of David Starsky: Glaser, ruder than Soul, the blonde with somewhat more refined features, Nor did he do anything out of this world afterwards. Additionally, Glaser faced personal tragedy when his wife and her son died after she contracted HIV from a mistaken blood transfusion.
Still under the influence of Hutch, Soul played some meritorious roles such as in Tobe Hooper’s miniseries ‘Salem’s Lot’ (1979), an adaptation of a Stephen King novel that would be cut into a film version with the misleading title of ‘Phantasma’. II’. His career developed on television except for sporadic film appearances: ‘Appointment with Death’ (1988), one of the cases of Hercule Poirot, or ‘Pentathlon’ (1998), hand in hand with Dolph Lundgren and set in the Olympic Games. from Seoul.
But his most memorable presence in cinema will again be linked to his great television success. In the very fun ‘Starsky & Hutch: The Movie’ (2004), Soul & Glaser made a good cameo playing themselves ironically. In this cinematic adventure, Starsky and Hutch were played by Bel Stiller and Owen Wilson, who parodied them with great respect.
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soul era son of a Lutheran pastor. Born in Chicago, he eventually became a British citizen. After the success came the blackout, also conditioned by its drinking addiction. She also made a career as a singer. Between 1976 and 1997 he recorded five soft rock albums, and his sweet 1976 single, ‘Don’t give up on us’, climbed to number one on the British charts.