The actor married five times and leaves behind five sons and a daughter. He first wed the actress Mirriam Mim Solberg in 1964, but this lasted only a year.
David Soul, who has died aged 80, was best known for his role as the blond, blue-eyed detective Ken Hutchinson in Starsky and Hutch, the American police drama that became a Saturday-night staple of British television in the late 1970s.