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David Soul, starring as the tough, soft-spoken, well-educated police detective Ken Hutchinson in "Starsky & Hutch" (which also stars Paul Michael Glaser as Starsky), has starred in several movies for television, including "The Disappearance of Flight 412," "Intersect," "Movin' On," "Little Ladies of the Night," and the ABC Movie of the Week, "Starsky & Hutch," which launched the series. He guest-starred in segments of "The Streets of San Francisco," "Cannon," "Medical Center," "The Rookies," "Ironside," "Star Trek," "McMillan and Wife," "Dan August," "Circle of Fear" and "Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law." In the latter he played Lee Majors' successor as Arthur Hill's assistant. His motion pictures include "Johnny Got His Gun," "Magnum Force" and "Dog Pound Shuffle."
He was born David Solberg on August 28, the son of Dr. Richard W. Solberg, Ph.D., Lutheran minister, professor of history and former religious affairs advisor for the U.S. State Department. David attended Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the University of the Americans in Mexico City and the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis as a political science major. He gave up his studies to pursue a career in music. He went to New York where he made 25 singing appearances on "The Merv Griffin Show." After a screen test, he was signed to a Screen Gems contract and given a starring role in the ABC Television series "Here Come the Brides."
In 1975 David put together a production of the rarely staged, play, "Baal," by German playwriter-expressionist Bertolt Brecht. In the Actors Alley Theatre (Los Angeles) production, David doubled as leading man and as composer of music for eight Brecht ballads.
David is single and lives in Sherman Oaks, California. A young man of many interests and skills, he is an expert skier, enjoys fast rides on his motorcycle, plays piano and guitar and is well informed on social and political issues.
* This was David Soul's biographical information at the time when he portrayed Det. Ken Hutchison in "Starsky & Hutch."
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