Remembering the stars we lost in 2024

was born in Chicago in 1943 and began his career on stage, often performing songs in his persona as “The Covered Man”; he appeared in his mask multiple times on The Merv Griffin Show (per ). After landing a contract with Columbia Pictures he began working in television, eventually landing the role of Joshua Bolt on the comedy Here Come The Brides. After working steadily through the late ’60s and early ’70s, he was cast by Clint Eastwood in the film Magnum Force (per ).In 1975, he was cast as Kenneth Hutchinson in Starsky & Hutch, which would become the defining role of his career. Playing opposite Paul Michael Glaser as Sergeant David Michael Starsky, Soul also had the opportunity to direct several episodes over the course of the series’ four seasons. (They would later appear together in a cameo in the 2004 Starsky & Hutch film starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson.) [Mary Kate Carr]