For millions, David Soul will forever be Hutch: the steady, soft-spoken counterweight to Starsky’s fire, the blond cop leaning on a striped Ford Gran Torino as 1970s America watched from the couch. Yet behind that easy charm was a restless craftsman who refused to be trapped in a single decade or a single character. He pushed past his own legend, trading prime-time safety for riskier paths in film, television, and theater, from sharing the screen with Clint Eastwood to stepping into the chaotic bravado of Jerry Springer: The Opera.