# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-soul
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:27:11.007Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-soul"
name: "David Soul"
slug: "david-soul"
description: "David Soul was an American-British actor and singer. With a career spanning five decades, he rose to prominence for portraying Detective Kenneth \"Hutch\" Hutchinson in the American television series Starsky & Hutch from 1975 to 1979. His other notable roles included Joshua Bolt on Here Come the Brides from 1968 to 1970 and as the lead actor in the 1979 American TV movie Salem's Lot. Soul also portrayed Officer John Davis in the 1973 movie Magnum Force."
tagline: "American-British actor (1943–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DavidSoul_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1943-08-28"
deathDate: "2024-01-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           64.73
  momentum:             9.030784334760908
  historical:           25.67138133333334
  currentAttention:     23.50949108165603
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0815800/"
    handle:    "nm0815800"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.davidsoul.com"
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    title: "David Soul"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump