Paul Michael Glaser, who played Starsky alongside David Soul, in the series Starsky & Hutchpays tribute to him this Saturday.
The day after the death of David Soul, his sidekick in the cult series Starsky and HutchPaul Michael Glaser paid tribute to his “brother”.
“David was a brother, a friend, a caring man,” he wrote in a press release sent to several editorial offices including the Daily Mail.
“I have difficulty accepting David’s disappearance. It seems to me that only yesterday we were exchanging affectionate insults on the phone,” said the 80-year-old actor.
“Such a dear friend”
“It takes time,” I said to myself, “to say goodbye to such a dear friend and such an important part of my life, I think I will only feel his loss, our loss, gradually.”
Together Paul Michael Glaser (David Starsky) and David Soul (Ken Hutchinson “Hutch”), “two slightly dreamy and laughing cops” chased the criminals aboard their red Ford Gran Torino, striped in white for 4 seasons. The series, broadcast in the United States from 1975 and 1979, was a popular feature on TF1 in the 1980s.
Actor David Soul died in London on January 5 at the age of 80, his wife Helen Snell announced. Paul Michael Glaser also had a word for her in his press release.
Five sons and a daughter
“I would like to offer my condolences to dear Helen, whom he loved and cherished and who stood by his side during these difficult years. He never stopped repeating what she meant to him.”
Paul Michael Glaser also expresses his sympathy to “all the sons and daughters” of his accomplice. Married five times, David Soul was the father of five sons and one daughter, China.