How Did David Soul End Up In A Wheelchair?

David Soul, who played Hutch in the hit series, is suffering severe lung complications and is now wheelchair-bound.

The American-British actor and singer David Soul is known for his role as Detective Kenneth “Hutch” Hutchinson in the television series Starsky & Hutch from 1975 to 1979; Joshua Bolt on Here Come the Brides from 1968 to 1970; and Officer John Davis in Magnum Force in 1973.

He also had a successful career as a singer, scoring major hits in 1977 with “Don’t Give Up on Us” (US & UK No. 1) and “Silver Lady” (UK No. 1).

Soul was born on August 28, 1943, in Chicago, Illinois, United States,[1] and is of Norwegian descent. His mother, June Johnanne (Nelson), was a teacher, and his father, Dr. Richard W. Solberg, was a Lutheran minister, professor of History and Political Science, and director of Higher Education for the Lutheran Church in America (now part of the ELCA).

He began performing on stage as an actor in the mid-1960s when he became a founding member of the Firehouse Theater in Minneapolis. He traveled with the company to New York City in 1965, appearing in Bertolt Brecht’s Baal and John Arden’s Sergeant Musgrave’s Dance.

On July 12, 2004, he took over playing the role of Jerry Springer in Jerry Springer – The Opera at the Cambridge Theatre in London, televised by the BBC in 2005. He returned to the West End in 2006, playing Mack in a new production of Jerry Herman’s musical Mack and Mabel at the Criterion Theatre.

In 2013, Soul appeared in a cameo role in the Scottish film Filth lip-syncing his recording of “Silver Lady”. In 2014, Soul appeared in a British television commercial for, National Express singing “Silver Lady” while driving a coach.

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