He was one of the television figures of the 1970s. David Soul, who played Detective Hutch in the famous series “Starsky and Hutch”, died at the age of 80, his wife announced this Friday.
“David Soul – beloved husband, father, grandfather and brother – died yesterday after a valiant battle for life surrounded by the love of his family,” Helen Snell said in a statement. Born in the United States, David Soul obtained British nationality in 2004 and lived in London.
He played Detective Kenneth “Hutch” Hutchinson in the series broadcast from 1975 to 1979 in the United States. In France, the series was first broadcast by TF1 from 1978 until 1984, before other channels subsequently took it up. In 2004, a film starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson took up the theme of the American series.
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