David Soul's career spans forty-five years during which he has performed as actor, director, producer, singer/songwriter, concert performer and social activist.

Born in Chicago, Illinois on August 28,1943, David Solberg (Soul) spent the first twelve years of his life between the prairies of South Dakota and the divided city of post WWII Berlin. Arriving in 1949 only weeks after the 'Berlin Airlift' was suspended and the Soviets had lifted the ban on road and train travel, David's father, Dr. Richard Solberg - professor of History and Political Science as well as an ordained minister - moved his family to Berlin where he served as Religious Affairs Advisor to the U.S. High Commission and from 1953 as Senior Representative for the Lutheran World Federation, a refugee relief organization.

As advisor to the U.S. Commission in Berlin, Dr. Solberg's mandate was two-fold: To help sustain the life and health of the Church in the Soviet controlled East Zone and secondly, as those religious communities were an important source of valuable information for the allies in the escalating Cold War, Pastor Solberg was to gather information that could be useful to the US authorities. Because the Church was so central to the life of the German people, the Soviets, for fear of a severe backlash, could not afford to close them down. Dr. Solberg used his special credentials as a churchman to the gain entry into East Germany and travelled freely.