Didn't even realize he was 80. Starsky & Hutch was a favorite fun cop show from the 70s.

https://www.foxnews.com/entert...r-david-soul-dead-80

Sad. I wasn't a Hutch fan, but I loved him in Stephen King's "Salem's Lot".

Farewell Makora - the Feeders of Vaal will miss you...

Singer too.

I wonder who got his Python?

The last time I remember seeing him was in the TV move about the Miami FBI shootout. He played one of the bad guys and (IIRC) was out of the fight real early in the shootout.

^^^ Yes, he played Platt in that TV movie, In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders.

And, he played one of the rogue cops in Eastwood's Magnum Force.

I watched Starsky & Hutch a little bit, but my main exposure to Soul was his earlier TV series Here Come the Brides, my mother watched it every week, so the kids naturally watched it as well.

Of course my favorite work from Soul was Magnum Force. Great casting.

I remember watching him also in a movie where he was a Green Beret Colonel fighting the Russians invading Alaska. Maybe Robert Mitchum was also in it.

It was sorta cheesy but I remember all of the soldiers were in over whites fighting to save a pipeline.

Well hell's bells. Yup...Starsky & Hutch and Officer Davis in Magnum Force.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
Singer too.

Holy cow.

Knew his acting career.
Know the song.
Never realized it was him singing the song.

Well that sucks. I liked him as an actor.

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Originally posted by jljones:
I remember watching him also in a movie where he was a Green Beret Colonel fighting the Russians invading Alaska. Maybe Robert Mitchum was also in it.

It was sorta cheesy but I remember all of the soldiers were in over whites fighting to save a pipeline.

Sorta cheesy? If it's the one with the soldiers in Alaska firing out of culverts arranged at angles with each other, that was total, a lifetime supply, giant cheese wheel.

Wow, you could not have paid me to remember that show.

Was Rock Hudson the president or something else - or am I conflating this with Ice Station Zebra?

ETA: He was president, I just looked it up. It's called World War III (1982)

I remember this movie too.

It was an NBC mini-series event don't Cha know?

By the way, David Soul was not the reason this was bad. Sorry to hear of his passing.

Here is the trailer. From what I can tell, you can watch it free on PLEX.

Yeah, Starsky & Hutch was a fave from my childhood.

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Originally posted by Sigmund:
The last time I remember seeing him was in the TV move about the Miami FBI shootout. He played one of the bad guys and (IIRC) was out of the fight real early in the shootout.

Naw, David Soul was the MVP of the bad guys, shooting seven out of eight FBI agents despite taking multiple hits. It was the dad from Family Ties/Burt from Tremors that was out of the fight early.

Very sad to see him go.

I had no idea he was 80.

R.I.P. Hutch.

I must add that the modern remake of Starsky and Hutch with Own Wilson and Ben Stiller was absolute crap. A complete embarrassment. (Cue Letterkenny coach kicking a trash can.)

I also remember the WWIII mini series. I was bad but so was most of everything else at the time.

Knew he was a singer but can’t tell any of his songs.

RIP David.

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That sucks, I enjoyed Starky & Hutch when I was a kid.