“David Soul – beloved husband, father, grandfather, and brother – died yesterday on Thursday, January 4, 2024, after a valiant battle for life in the loving company of family,” his wife Helen Snell wrote. “He shared many extraordinary gifts in the world as an actor, singer, storyteller, creative artist, and dear friend. His smile, laughter, and passion for life will be remembered by the many whose lives he has touched.”
No cause of death was shared.
Aside from playing Hutch alongside Paul Michael Glaser’s Detective David Starsky from 1975 to 1979, Soul also performed as Joshua Bolt in “Here Come the Brides” from 1968 to 1970, and Officer John Davis in “Magnum Force” in 1973.
He moved to the UK in the 1990s to pursue a career in the West End and later appeared in the BBC shows Holby City and Little Britain.
Starsky & Hutch fought crime on the streets of the fictional Bay City, California, in a bright red Gran Torino, with Antonio Fargas playing their informant, Huggy Bear. Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul remained friends, and in 2017 Glaser was seen pushing his old co-star on a wheelchair into the Comic Con in Liverpool.
As a singer, he recorded one U.S. hit and five U.K. hits with songs including “Don’t Give Up on Us” in 1976 and “Silver Lady” in 1977.
