Character
Sol Star
Sol Star in Deadwood (2004), played by John Hawkes.
Sol Star arrives in the Deadwood camp with his partner Seth Bullock, hauling lumber and stock to open a hardware store before either man has a plot of ground to put it on. He is practical, wry, and quietly ambitious, more comfortable smoothing over conflict than starting it, and content to let his prickly partner take the spotlight.
John Hawkes plays the show's rare voice of plain decency without making Sol soft or naive; his patience with Bullock's temper, and his own unspoken longing for respectability and for Trixie, give the camp's grubbiest deals a human counterweight. He's proof Deadwood can do warmth without ever sanding down its filth.
Solomon "Sol" Star is a main character in HBO's Deadwood and Deadwood: The Movie. Sol is Seth Bullock's best friend and partner in the hardware business and the only Jewish resident of the camp. He is originally from Vienna, Austria. Imperturbable, reliable, and sensible, Sol becomes a rising force in the camp; originally seeing the potential wealth in providing tools to the prospectors in Deadwood.
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