David Soul

American-British actor and singer, best known for co-starring as Detective Kenneth "Hutch" Hutchinson in the TV series Starsky And Hutch (1975-1979). Soul scored one US hit with the song "Don't Give Up on Us" (1977) which reached No. 1 in the US and the UK. "Silver Lady" (1977) hit No. 1 in the UK. Soul was married five times and had five sons and one daughter.

He made a debut as a singer on The Merv Griffin Show in 1966 and 1967 before landing a role in the TV series Here Come The Brides (1968-1970). On 27 March 1978 he had a back operation due to a ruptured disk.

He was 21 when he married his high school sweetheart, Mirriam "Mim" Solberg (née Russeth), in 1964. The couple had one child, a son. The marriage lasted under two years, ending in divorce. Soul's second marriage was to actress Karen Carlson from 1968 to 1977. They had a son together, Kristjian Solberg, born 3 April 1971. On 9 September 1977, he had a paternity suit of $1.5 million for an illegitimate daughter that was disproved and settled out of court. From 1980 to 1986 he was married to Patti Carnel Sherman, ex-wife of teen idol Bobby Sherman; they had two sons. He was first in the news for spousal abuse when he was arrested for beating her.

In the '90s he moved to England to work as a professional singer with a cabaret act, playing minor gigs and not making much money. He made a fourth marriage to actress Julia Nickson from December 1987 until they divorced in 1993; they had a daughter, China Soul, who became a singer-songwriter.

As of 1995 he had chalked up four divorces and six kids, along with jail time for wife battering. A heavy drinker, he apparently had problems with self-control. In the early '90s he left TV acting and the U.S. behind, settling in London in 1995. He made a flourished career as an European recording artist and West End Stage actor. He returned to Hollywood to make a TV movie Terror in the Mall that came out on 29 July 1998.