David Soul, who starred in the 70s TV series “Starsky & Hutch” has died at the age of 80.
Soul, a militant minister and other labor activists were arrested at Shadyside Presbyterian Church in 1985 for trying to lay scrap metal on the altar during a protest over steel-industry layoffs.
All four were charged with disorderly conduct, failure to disperse and defiant trespass.
Soul was locked up in the Allegheny County Jail on $50,000 bond and bailed out but the other three were released on their own recognizance.
The group was known as the Denominational Ministry Strategy, took its demonstrations to churches attended by prominent corporate executives and to their homes.
A DMS minister was one of three protesters accused of throwing balloons filled with skunk-scented water on people during a dinner at Shadyside Presbyterian.
Soul's brother was a member.
He later filed a $50 million lawsuit against the City of Pittsburgh, then mayor Richard Caliguiri and two steel executives
At the peak of his fame, ten years earlier Soul had a Top-40 hit single "Don't Give Up on Us."
His wife says Soul died surrounded by his family. The cause of death was not announced.