Starsky & Hutch: Ballad for a Blue Lady
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Sunday, January 11 on Great! Mystery (50)
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Ballad for a Blue Lady
Season 4, Episode 14
A torch singer falls for Hutch, much to the disapproval of her gangster boss, who takes a decidedly dim view of his staff associating with the police. Seventies drama, starring Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul
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David Soul
(Actor)
Born:
August 28, 1943
in
Chicago
Best Known For:
Starsky and Hutch (he was Hutch).
Early-life:
Born David Richard Solberg on August 28, 1943, in Chicago. His mother was a teacher and his father was a Lutheran minister whose work on the reconstruction of Germany following the Second World War meant that the family moved around a lot. Soul later enrolled at the University of Minnesota, turning down a contract to play baseball in favour of studying political science. He supplemented his income with a job in a nightclub, singing folk songs and rock music. In 1967, he joined a North Dakota musical revue, and was spotted by a talent executive.
Career:
Soul made his movie debut in The Secret Sharer. He appeared on several TV shows, including I Dream Of Jeannie, Star Trek, Ironside, and Cannon, and had a role in Magnum Force before hitting the big time in 1975 when he was cast as Ken Hutchinson in Starsky and Hutch. The detective drama became a worldwide success and helped launch his pop career, which included several hits. He's since had roles in Salem's Lot, Holby City, Dalziel and Pascoe and Little Britain. He financed, produced and directed award-winning documentary The Fighting Ministers, then starred on the stage in Jerry Springer: The Opera. His most recent role was a cameo in the movie Filth.
Quote:
"There's not enough time to consider how life could have been different, it's just a pointless exercise. When you have an opportunity, just do it."
Trivia:
Soul became a British citizen in 2004.
Paul Michael Glaser
(Actor)
Born:
March 25, 1943
in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Best Known For:
Starsky and Hutch (he was Starsky).
Early-life:
Paul Manfred Glaser was born on March 25, 1943, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The son of an architect, he has two sisters, was raised in a wealthy suburb of Boston and attended private school. His older sibling Priscilla's love of the theatre inspired Glaser to try acting. At 14, he made his stage debut in an amateur production and continued to act throughout high school. On leaving, he studied drama at Tulane University in New Orleans, then gained an MA at Boston University.
Career:
In 1968, Glaser made his New York stage debut in a rock version of Hamlet. His big break came a year later when he landed a role in soap opera Love Is a Many Splendored Thing. Regular TV and film work followed in Fiddler on the Roof, Love of Life and Butterflies Are Free. In 1975, he got the part that would cement his international reputation - David Starsky in cop series Starsky and Hutch, alongside David Soul. The show lasted four years. Since then, he's appeared in various films, including Something's Gotta Give, and he has directed several movies, including Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle The Running Man, and Kazaam.
Quote:
On his childhood: "I loved Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper and Clark Gable. I lived in a fantasy world. In my fantasies I was always something great - a great hunter, a great anything."
Trivia:
He had a cameo role in the 2004 Starsky and Hutch big-screen remake.
Bernie Hamilton
(Actor)
Antonio Fargas
(Actor)
Born:
August 14, 1946
in
New York
Best Known For:
Playing Huggy Bear in Starsky and Hutch.
Early-life:
Born Antonio Juan Fargas, probably on August 14, 1946 (although dates from 1943 to 1947 appear in several sources), in New York, but has Puerto Rican heritage. He has 10 siblings. At 14 he saw an advert asking for boys willing to act in forthcoming movie The Cool World. He landed a part and immediately became hooked on the idea of a showbusiness career. He then threw himself into amateur work with the American Community Theatre in Harlem, a scheme to keep young people off the streets.
Career:
After leaving school, Fargas toured Europe with play The Amen Corner. On his return to the US, he did odd jobs to make ends meet, occasionally appearing in such TV series as The Bill Cosby Show, Ironside and Police Story. He starred in blaxploitation classics Shaft, Cleopatra Jones and Foxy Brown before landing the role of Huggy Bear in Starsky and Hutch in 1975. The programme was axed after four years. Since then he's appeared in numerous stage productions, as well as Holby City, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Firestarter and the fourth series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!
Quote:
"I'm a very sensitive person and I can get wound up about things. I've learned to work on that and control it."
Trivia:
Fargas performed Cab Calloway's Minnie the Moocher in a UK stage production of Blues Brothers.
