Starsky & Hutch star Paul Michael Glaser fondly recalled castmate David Soul after the latter’s death at age 80 this week.
The police drama starring the two aired from 1975 to 1979 and followed two California detectives, with Soul as Sergeant Kenneth Richard “Hutch” Hutchinson and Glaser as David Michael Starsky.
“David was a brother, a friend, a caring man,” Glaser said in a statement to People. “We shall never see his like again.”
He added, “I find it difficult to comprehend David’s passing. Seems only yesterday that we were sharing loving insults on the phone.”
“It just takes time, I tell myself. Saying goodbye to such a dear friend and important part of my life, I suspect that I will let myself feel his loss, our loss, only gradually.”
Glaser, now 80, praised Soul’s wife, Helen Snell, who “loved and cherished” him and who “stood beside him through these difficult years.”
“He could never tell me enough what she meant to him,” he added. “To all his sons and his daughter China, my deepest sympathies.”
He concluded, “And to all of you, our supportive and caring public who recognized a very special relationship and never stopped telling us. Thank you. We have all lost a dear friend who shall live on in our memories.”
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