David SoulFilmography

Born:
August 28, 1943 in Chicago, IL
Occupation:
Actor
Biography:
The son of a Chicago minister, actor David Soul actually launched his career as a folk singer. Born David Richard Solbert on August 28, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois, David moved to Mexico during his youth, when his father took a lengthy assignment as diplomatic advisor for the U.S. State Department....Read More
  • 2007
  • Puritan

    Actors: Nick Moran, Ralph Brown, David Soul, Georgina Rylance

    Synopsis: The title of writer-director Hadi Hajaig's Byzantine occultly thriller Puritan refers to Simon Puritan (Nick Moran), a phony London clairvoyant and the inhabitant of an oddball 17th-century estate once occupied by Satanist Aleister Crowley -- allegedly a site of visitation for numerous apparitions Read More

    2005
  • Poirot: Death on the Nile

    Actors: David Suchet

    Synopsis: David Suchet once again plays the part of Hercule Poirot in this adaptation of Death on the Nile. The detective must investigate the murder of Linnet Doyle, one of the wealthiest women in England. She is killed while on honeymoon with her new husband, who was once the fiancĂ©e of Doyle's best Read More

    2004
  • Terror in the Mall

    Actors: Rob Estes, Shannon Sturges, David Soul, Kai Wiesinger, Angeline Ball

    Synopsis: A flash flood rips through a shopping mall and many people are trapped inside. Matters get more complicated when those struggling to survive discover a desperate killer in their midst. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1998
  • 1994
  • Crosswinds

    Actors: David Soul, Giorgio Capitani, Jean-Pierre Bergeron

    Synopsis: A man trying to forget his past is thrown into a present of grave danger in this thriller. Quill (David Soul) once had a career as a police officer and a wife who loved him. But when Quill mistakenly killed his wife in the midst of a shootout with criminals, he sank into alcoholism and now earns Read More

    1994
  • Pentathlon

    Synopsis: In this action-adventure drama, Eric Brogar (Dolph Lundgren) is a world-class athlete from East Germany who joins his nation's Olympic Team for the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul, Korea. However, despite his gifts, Eric is constantly brow-beaten by his brutal coach, Mueller (David Soul), and in time Read More

    1994
  • Murder, She Wrote: Threshold of Fear

    Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) cannot help but take interest in the plight of her reclusive neighbor Alice Morgan (Cynthia Nixon), who has suffered from extreme agoraphobia ever since she witnessed her mother's murder. More recently, Alice has been experiencing disturbing visions of her own demise at Read More

    1993
  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Framing

    Synopsis: When the invincible Perry Mason takes on the case of a photographer who is accused of murdering a famous artist, he discovers the case is complicated by forgery. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

    1992
  • Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive

    Actors: Patty Duke, David Selby, David Soul, Terry Davis, Kimberly Cullum

    Synopsis: In this bizarre thriller, based on a true story, a family moves into their dream house and are appalled to discover that they are not alone when strange things begin to happen. It soon becomes apparent that the special tenants are angry spirits out to destroy the family and their neighbors who Read More

    1992
  • Cry in the Wild: The Taking of Peggy Ann

    Actors: Megan Follows, David Morse

    Synopsis: Cry in the Wild: The Taking of Peggy Ann eschews the usual "today's headlines" approach to fact-based TV movies. This 1991 film recounts an event which took place in Shade Gap, Pennsylvania, way back in 1966. A lunatic backwoodsman (David Morse) abducts a 17-year-old local girl (Megan Follows) and Read More

    1991
  • Murder, She Wrote: A Killing in Vegas

    Synopsis: While attending a convention in Las Vegas, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) links up with Susan Hartley (Amy O'Neill), the daughter of her editor Ted Hartley (Bruce Gray). When Susan's boyfriend is accused of murdering a nasty casino manager, Jessica steps in to prove the poor fellow's innocence. In so Read More

    1991
  • The Bride in Black

    Actors: Susan Lucci, David Soul, Finola Hughes, Reginald VelJohnson, Tom Signorelli

    Synopsis: In this drama a bride, widowed on her wedding day when her husband was shot, investigates her late groom's past. She soon discovers why he was killed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1990
  • So Proudly We Hail

    Synopsis: In this drama, a group of impressionable students become the unwitting subjects for an evil white supremacist's schemes to twist the teachings of a prominent professor to promote a highly subversive form of neo-Nazism. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1990
  • Tides of War

    Synopsis: After witnessing the cruelty of the dreaded SS, a German Naval officer begins to question his allegiance to the floundering Nazi party in this WW II drama set near the end of the war. He is stationed upon an island and is helping to prepare a missile attack on Washington, D.C. when the SS Read More

    1990
  • In the Cold of the Night

    Synopsis: In the Cold of the Night is an above-average erotic thriller, directed with superb visual style by Nico Mastorakis, but plagued by an uneven, derivative plot. Photographer Scott Bruin (Jeff Lester) is very successful but begins to have frightening visions of himself murdering a beautiful woman. Read More

    1989
  • Prime Target

    Synopsis: In this crime drama, a NYPD detective looks into the deaths of several policewomen and discovers that she is to be the killer's next victim. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1989
  • Appointment with Death

    Actors: Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher, John Gielgud, Piper Laurie

    Synopsis: In this mystery, Peter Ustinov reprises the role of Hercule Poirot, the fussy and flower-tending detective from Belgium created by Agatha Christie. In 1937, Mrs. Emily Boynton (Piper Laurie) is on an archeological dig in Palestine; she inherited the wealth of her recently deceased husband and Read More

    4/15/88
  • The FBI Murders

    Synopsis: In this disturbing episode of the made-for-television crime drama anthology In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders, the Miami division of the FBI embarks upon a desperate search for a murderous pair of thieves who kill for the joy of it. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1988
  • In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I. Murders

    Actors: Ronny Cox, Bruce Greenwood, Doug Sheehan, David Soul, Michael Gross

    Synopsis: The first of several 1980s TV movies based on official FBI files, In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I. Murders premiered on November 27, 1988. Veteran TV "good guys" David Soul and Michael Gross do a typecasting about-face, playing two vicious, homicidal Miami-based bank robbers. The deadly duo's crime Read More

    1988
  • The Hanoi Hilton

    Actors: Michael Moriarty, Jeffrey Jones, Paul Le Mat, Stephen Davies, Lawrence Pressman

    Synopsis: Lionel Chetwynd's film documents the horrific struggles that faced American POWs held in the North Vietnamese prison Hoa Lo -- more infamously known as the Hanoi Hilton -- between 1964 and 1975. Williamson (Michael Moriarty) leads a group of American servicemen who are prisoners at the detention Read More

    3/27/87
  • Through Naked Eyes

    Synopsis: When people begin to be murdered around them, two disparate voyeurs in apartment high-rises begin to suspect they are the objects of interest for yet another peeping tom. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

    1987
  • The Fifth Missile

    Actors: David Soul, Sam Waterston, Robert Conrad

    Synopsis: Filmed in Malta, this three-hour TV movie nailbiter was based on the novel The Gold Crew by Thomas M. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson. David Soul plays the commander of a Trident submarine, engaged in an test designed to measure the crew's psychological reaction to an actual nuclear missile launch. Read More

    1986
  • 1986
  • China Hand

    Actors: David Soul

    Synopsis: First telecast May 8, 1987, Harry's Hong Kong was the pilot film for an unsold TV series. The title character, played by David Soul, was a soldier of fortune at-large in the titular port city. The owner of an elaborate offshore casino, Harry Petros solves mysteries and straightens out other Read More

    1986
  • The Key to Rebecca

    Actors: Season Hubley

    Synopsis: Produced for the syndicated "Operation Prime Time" anthology, The Key to Rebecca is a two-part adaptation of the Ken Follett novel. Cliff Robertson stars as a British major who is determined to capture an elusive German spy during World War II.The spy in question, played by David Soul, has Read More

    1985
  • Hunter: Case X

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Rock-em sock-em LAPD detective sergeant Rick Hunter (Fred Dryer) continues busting heads and breaking arms in pursuit of justice as Hunter begins its second season. Someone is systematically murdering female porn stars, and Hunter and his partner DeeDee McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) are ordered to Read More

    1985
  • World War III

    Actors: Rock Hudson

    Synopsis: World War III is an ambitious if unnecessarily protracted speculative TV movie. Set in a "future December," the film prophesies an American grain embargo levied on Russia. US President Rock Hudson is entreated by the Soviet higher-ups to drop the ban; meanwhile, a group of renegade Russian Read More

    1982
  • The Manions of America

    Synopsis: The Manions of America was a three-part miniseries originally telecast September 30, and October 1 and 2, 1981. Set in Ireland and Philadelphia in the late 1840's, Rory O'Manion (Pierce Brosnan in his American TV-movie debut) escapes from the Great Irish Potato Famine to head to America, where he Read More

    1981
  • Homeward Bound

    Synopsis: Homeward Bound is the story of a dying teenager who spends the summer with his divorced father, who has been estranged from his own father for many a year. All three spend the summer at the grandfather's vineyard, learning about love and life. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

    1980
  • Swan Song

    Crew: Producer

    Synopsis: David Soul stars in the made-for-TV Swan Song as a former Olympic skiing champ. There is a consensus of opinion that Soul lost the Olympics when he withdrew due to a mysterious, possibly psychosomatic illness. Feeling that he was exploited and misused as an amateur, Soul stages a comeback at age Read More

    1980
  • Rage

    Synopsis: Husband, father, rapist. All three succinctly describe the character portrayed by David Soul in the made-for-TV Rage. Though he would seem to be a hopeless case, Soul is subjected to prison therapy sessions, on the theory that he might be curable. As the sessions continue under the guidance of Read More

    1980
  • Salem's Lot

    Actors: David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin, Reggie Nalder

    Synopsis: Novelist David Soul returns to his hometown of Salem, finding that things have changed a bit. More than a bit, in fact: the previously warm and friendly community is downright sinister. Soul suspects that the bizarre behavior of his onetime friends and neighbors is the handiwork of oddball antique Read More

    1979
  • Captain & Tennille in Hawaii

    Actors: Daryl Dragon, Toni Tennille

    Synopsis: Most famous for their blockbuster hit singles "Love Will Keep Us Together" and "Do That to Me One More Time," the soft rock team of Captain and Tennille (husband and wife Daryl Dragon and Toni Tennille) peaked in popularity from 1975 through 1976; they performed for the likes of Gerald Ford, swept Read More

    1978
  • The Stick-Up

    Actors: David Soul, Pamela McMyler, Johnny Wade, Tony Melody, Norman Jones

    Synopsis: Duke Turnbeau (David Soul) has come to England, in the 1930s, as a way to improve his fortunes. For some reason, he believes that his larcenous ways will bring him prosperity in the country which at one time or another has had rulership over a large portion of the globe. While there, he meets Read More

    1977
  • Little Ladies of the Night

    Actors: Linda Purl

    Synopsis: Also known as Little Ladies of the Night, the story focuses on a teenager who runs away from home and finds herself in the sordid world of street-life prostitution. She gains help from a police officer, who is still connected to the underground since he formerly worked as a pimp. ~ John Bush, All Read More

    1977
  • Murder at Sea

    Synopsis: The weekly, 60-minute adventure series Starsky and Hutch was expanded to two hours for this episode titled Murder at Sea. Detectives Dave Starsky (Paul Michael Glaser) and Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson (David Soul) are assigned to solve a double murder. This entails their boarding a luxury liner bound Read More

    1976
  • 1975
  • Dog Pound Shuffle

    Synopsis: Two drifting bums, an ex-vaudeville dancer (Ron Moody) and a boxer (David Soul), find a dog and become close friends with it. After it's accidentally impounded, the duo form a song-and-dance act to raise money for the dog's release. The film is also known as Spot. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

    1975
  • The Disappearance of Flight 412

    Actors: Glenn Ford, Bradford Dillman, Guy Stockwell, David Soul, Robert F. Lyons

    Synopsis: US Air Force colonel Glenn Ford has a dilemma on his hands. He knows for a fact that two jets under his command were last seen chasing a UFO. But the military higher-ups have no intention of filling Ford in on further developments. Despite these stonewalling tactics, Ford steps up his own Read More

    1974
  • Magnum Force

    Actors: Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Mitchell Ryan, Felton Perry, David Soul

    Synopsis: The second Dirty Harry movie, Magnum Force concerns itself with a vigilante group that has targeted notorious scofflaws for extermination. When a prominent gang boss or drug-runner is set free by the airheaded liberal courts, a covert group of "avengers" is soon on hand to blow the miscreant to Read More

    1973
  • 1973
  • The F.B.I.: The Runner

    Synopsis: Several future TV headliners appear in guest roles in this, the first episode of The F.B.I.'s eighth season. Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) spearheads a search for Clifford Wade (David Soul), an ex-football star turned criminal. Hoping to recapture a vestige of his past celebrity, Wade Read More

    1972
  • Double Play

    Synopsis: This alleged feature film actually consists of two hour-long TV pilots, both produced by Screen Gems in 1972. The first, "Movin' On," stars Patrick Wayne and Geoffrey Deuel as a stock-car driver and cyclist, respectively. David Soul and Kate Jackson guest-star in this action-filled entry, which Read More

    1972
  • The Streets of San Francisco: Hall of Mirrors

    Synopsis: While Stone (Karl Malden) is on disability leave, Keller (Michael Douglas) is partnered with Inspector Jim Martin (played by future Starsky and Hutch costar David Soul), a man notorious for his short temper and strongarm tactics. Conducting a manhunt in the Barrio, Keller is taken aback by the Read More

    1972
  • Johnny Got His Gun

    Actors: Timothy Bottoms

    Synopsis: The author of the famous late 1930's antiwar book Johnny Got His Gun wrote and directed this film adaptation. It concerns a nameless young soldier (Timothy Bottoms) in a veteran's hospital in the World War I period. The young man has had his face blown off, he is without the use of any of his Read More

    1971
  • Ironside: A Lesson in Terror

    Synopsis: Attorney Theodore Berringer (Simon Oakland) is none too fond of his current clients, a band of scofflaw anarchists. When the gang escapes from prison, they take Berringer's son Ted (Brad David) hostage to ensure the elder Berringer's cooperation. As it turns out, however, Ted is a willing Read More

    1971
  • All in the Family: Gloria Poses in the Nude

    Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, Mike Evans

    Synopsis: Mike's let-it-all-hang-out liberalism is again put to the test when Gloria agrees to pose in the nude for the Stivics' artist friend Szabo Daborba (a pre-Starsky and Hutch David Soul). Naturally, Archie is outraged that Gloria would be willing to appear in the altogether in front of a stranger Read More

    1971
  • Here Come the Brides [TV Series]

    Synopsis: Robert Brown, David Soul, and Bobby Sherman were the stars of Here Come The Brides, which ran on ABC from September of 1968 until April of 1970, portraying Jason, Joshua, and Jeremy Bolt, respectively. The three brothers, living in Seattle in the year 1865, own nearby Bridal Veil Mountain. Left to Read More

    1968
  • Star Trek: The Apple

    Synopsis: Capt. Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise discover a planet that seems like an absolute paradise, but proves to be something more sinister, in this episode of the original Star Trek television series. A primitive but happy civilization flourishes on the planet, free from worries about survival or Read More

    1967
  • I Dream of Jeannie: My Master, the Weakling

    Synopsis: Don Rickles guest-stars as "Killer" Kiski, a mean-spirited physical fitness instructor who is convinced that astronauts Tony (Larry Hagman) and Roger (Bill Daily) haven gotten too soft for their own good. To whip our heroes into shape, Kiski subjects them to an exhausting exercise regimen during a Read More

    1967

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