Hasselhoff, David

David Michael Hasselhoff was born on July 17, 1952, in Baltimore, Maryland. He is best known for his roles as Michael Knight in "Knight Rider", and Mitch Buchannon in "Baywatch." Fulfilling his original dream to be a singer, David made Looking for Freedom a massive hit in Germany in 1989, just as the Berlin Wall came down. The accompanying album went gold and triple platinum, topping the charts for three months. "Baywatch" ran for eleven years and is said to be the most-watched show in syndication worldwide. In 1990, "Cosmopolitan" s editor, Helen Gurley Brown, chose him for her magazine s twe...