delfouneso

"I have to admit that I haven’t paid a lot of attention to this website [DavidSoul.com] for quite a while and I’m sorry about that. I’m lazy. On the other hand, I don’t like talking trash and when there’s nothing to talk about or when it’s just about filling space, I prefer to demure to memory, which is not the easiest thing for me to remember. But recently, my dear friend, colleague and artist in his own right, David Delfouneso reminded me of a collage of film moments from Starsky And Hutch that he’d edited together five years ago and ...read more

"San Francisco - a U.S. city favourite of mine, if not one of the greatest cities in the world - also offered me a seminal moment in my early career. After guest starring in the television series, The Streets Of San Francisco (1972) (Karl Malden and Michael Douglas), Clint Eastwood, who saw the episode, offered me the role of ’Davis’ in the second of the Dirty Harry films, Magnum Force (1973). Not only would that film mark a first ’big’ break, Magnum Force would eventually lead to an offer from Aaron Spelling to do the role of Hutch in Starsky ...read more

Anyone who knows me will be aware that I’m passionate about filmmaking. I have other skills but this is the one that centres me. When I travel I always have a camera with me. In the winter of 2008 I visited Weifang - a Prefecture-level city in the Shandong province of China - for what was to be the coldest winter I ever spent anywhere. My friends have heard me talk about this so often now... about the solar powered water tank on the roof that delivered piping hot water but stopped short of coming out of the tap because ...read more