The American actor David Soul has died at the age of 80, as his wife, Helen Snell, said in a statement. The interpreter was especially known for playing Ken Hutchinson, Hutch (the blonde one), in the famous 1970s series Starsky and Hutch, in which he worked closely with Paul Michael Glaser.
The death occurred in a London hospital last Thursday, January 4, due to a cancer that he had been suffering from for some time. His smile and passion for life will be remembered by all the people he touched, his widow has written after remembering all the extraordinary gifts. that he shared with the world in his role as an actor, singer and artist, in short.
In addition to his work on Starsky and Hutch, Soul also starred in films such as Magnum Force and television fictions such as Star Trek or McMillan and Wife. Even so, his artistic career cannot be summarized only in his role as an actor, since He also scored a number one on the Billboard music chart with Don’t Give Up on Us.
Turbulent personal life
His problems with alcoholism caused him to lose a lot of prominence on television and, in addition, caused him many problems in his private life. Soul married five times, the first in 1964 and the last in 2010; and she had six children. The first of them was born from his affair with the actress Mirriam Solberg, whom he divorced in 1965.
It only took him three years to marry again with Karen Carlson, who had been his partner in the series Here Come The Brides. With her he also had a son in the nine years that the couple lasted.. His third wedding was in 1980 to Carnel Sherman, with whom he had three children and a stormy marriage in which Soul was arrested for assaulting his wife. The last two weddings were in 1987, with Julia Nickson, and in 2010, with Helen Snell, his wife until the end of her days.
