American actor and director (born 1943)
Paul Michael Glaser
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Born
| Paul Manfred Glaser
(
1943-03-25
)
March 25, 1943
(age 81)
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Other names
| Paul M. Glaser
Paul Glaser
Michael Glaser
Mike Glaser
P.M. Glaser
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Education
| Tulane University
(
BA
)
Boston University
(
MFA
)
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Years active
| 1966?present
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Known for
| Detective Dave Michael Starsky ?
Starsky & Hutch
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Spouses
|
(
m.
1980; died 1994)
Tracy Barone
(
m.
1996;
div.
2007)
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Children
| 2 (with Elizabeth Glaser)
1 (with Barone)
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Paul Michael Glaser
(born
Paul Manfred Glaser
; March 25, 1943) is an American actor, director, and writer whose career has spanned five decades. He made his acting debut in the television series
Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
and went onto have many acting roles, appearing in
The Waltons
,
The Streets of San Francisco
, and
Kojak
. Glaser rose to prominence for his portrayal as "Detective Dave Starsky" in the 1970s television series,
Starsky & Hutch
and went on to write and direct five episodes for the show.
[1]
[2]
[3]
Following the show's success, he ventured into directing for other series including
Miami Vice
,
Judging Amy
, and
Las Vegas
.
Glaser also had some success in movies and made his acting film debut in the musical film
Fiddler on the Roof
and acted in the box office hit
Something's Gotta Give
. He also directed the cult classic film
The Cutting Edge
and the moderately successful box office film
The Running Man
. In the early 2000's, he played Captain Jack Steeper on the
NBC
series
Third Watch
from 2004 to 2005, appeared in several episodes of
Ray Donovan
during the 2010s, and had minor roles in
Criminal Minds
and
The Mentalist
. Glaser had his first U.S. exhibition of his art work in 2018.
Early life
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Paul Manfred Glaser was born March 25, 1943, in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
,
[1]
the youngest child and only son of Samuel Glaser, an MIT graduate and well-known Boston
architect
, and his wife Dorothy. He grew up in Brookline and Newton.
[1]
He was raised Jewish, and although Dorothy was an
agnostic
, and the family did not observe
Shabbat
, the family did celebrate the religion's major holidays, including Glaser's own
bar mitzvah
. Samuel designed a
shul
in Rhode Island.
[2]
Glaser attended the
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School
until 1961 before transferring to the
Cambridge School of Weston
, completing high school. He attended
Tulane University
, where he was roommates with
film director
Bruce Paltrow
, majoring in theater and English with a minor in architecture and graduated in 1966.
[4]
He was a member of the
Sigma Alpha Mu
fraternity. He earned a master's degree in fine arts from
Boston University
in acting and directing in 1967.
[5]
Career
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Glaser at the
F.I.S.T.
premiere in 1978.
Glaser made his movie debut as Perchick in the 1971 movie version of the musical
Fiddler on the Roof
.
He found fame playing Detective Dave Starsky opposite
David Soul
in the television series
Starsky & Hutch
, of which he directed several episodes. It ran for four seasons (1975?1979) on
ABC
.
[
citation needed
]
After the series, Glaser continued to act on
television
and in movies, and
directed
the 1987 film
The Running Man
starring
Arnold Schwarzenegger
as well as the 1992 movie
The Cutting Edge
. He also directed episodes of several TV series, including
Miami Vice
,
Robbery Homicide Division
and
Judging Amy
. Glaser returned to the big screen in 2003 in
Something's Gotta Give
, as
Diane Keaton
's ex-husband, and with a brief cameo in the
2004 film version
of
Starsky & Hutch
, in which Starsky was played by
Ben Stiller
. He directed the children's movie
Kazaam
featuring
Shaquille O'Neal
. He guest featured in "The Scarlet Letter", the October 1, 2009, episode of CBS's
The Mentalist
.
Between 2013 and 2019, Glaser appeared as Alan in several episodes of the television series
Ray Donovan
. In an interview published in April 2018, Glaser, having not acted since that role was asked if he had retired from acting, and replied, "People ask me, 'What's your favorite: acting, directing or writing?' My answer: What life occurs. It's what happens. You never know when something will cross your path. I try to stay open to everything. I'm doing a guest appearance on Grace and Frankie right now. As long as it's a good group of people, I'm open to anything. That's the thing I enjoy most about filmmaking or acting: experience." That same month, Glaser had his first American solo exhibition for his paintings and digital illustrations at Cosmo Lofts in Hollywood. The show was titled "Act III", because his foray as an artist marked the third stage of his career, following acting in front of the camera, and writing/directing behind it.
[6]
Personal life
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Glaser has been married twice. He married his first wife,
Elizabeth Glaser
, in 1980. In August 1981, she contracted
HIV
through a
blood transfusion
while giving birth to the couple's first child, Ariel. Elizabeth did not know that she was infected with the virus until four years later, when both she and Ariel became sick with a mysterious illness. When the entire family was tested, Elizabeth, Ariel and the couple's one-and-a-half-year-old son Jake were found to be HIV positive. Ariel died three years later, soon after her seventh birthday.
[7]
[8]
Elizabeth died December 3, 1994.
[9]
Glaser later married Tracy Barone, who adopted Jake, who was 10 years old at the time. The couple had a daughter, Zoe. That marriage ended
[8]
with Glaser filing for divorce in June 2007.
As of 2007, Jake remained healthy,
[10]
and as of 2016, had maintained his relationship with Tracy.
[8]
Filmography
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Film
[
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]
Television
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Year
|
Show
|
Role
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Notes
|
1970?1973
|
Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
|
Dr. Peter Chernak
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Actor
|
1972
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The Streets of San Francisco
|
Jason Kampacalas
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Actor, episode
Bitter Wine
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1972
|
Cannon
|
Jason Logan
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Actor, episode
Nobody Beats the House
; credited as "Michael Glaser"
|
1973
|
The Waltons
|
Todd Cooper
|
Actor ("
The Air Mail Man
")
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1974
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The Rockford Files
|
Ralph Correll
|
Actor ("
Find Me If You Can
")
|
1974
|
Kojak
|
Lou Giordino
|
Actor ("Down a Long and Lonely River")
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1975?1979
|
Starsky & Hutch
|
Detective David Starsky
|
Actor, writer, director (episodes "Bloodbath", "Class in Crime", "Deckwatch", "Ballad for a Blue Lady", "Sweet Revenge")
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1984?1985
|
Miami Vice
|
n/a
|
Director ("Calderone's Return: Calderone's Demise", "Smuggler's Blues", "The Prodigal Son")
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1984
|
Amazons
|
n/a
|
Director
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1985
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Otherworld
|
n/a
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Director ("Village of the Motorpigs")
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1987
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Amazing Stories
|
n/a
|
Director ("Blue Man Down")
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2001, 2003
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Judging Amy
|
n/a
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Director ("Look Closer", "Going Down")
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2002
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The Agency
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n/a
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Director ("Son Set", "The Golden Hour", "Doublecrossover", "Elite Meat to Eat", "Debbie Does Djakarta")
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2002?2003
|
Robbery Homicide Division
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n/a
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Director ("In/Famous", "Had", "Absolute Perfection")
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2003
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Mister Sterling
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n/a
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Director ("Final Passage")
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2004?2005
|
Third Watch
|
Captain Jack Steeper
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Actor ("Sleeping Dogs Lie", "Blessed and Bewildered", "No More, Forever")
Director ("Alone Again, Naturally", "Welcome Home")
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2005?2008
|
Las Vegas
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n/a
|
Director ("To Protect and Serve Manicotti", "Double Down, Triple Threat", "For Sail by Owner", "Wines and Misdemeanors", "Adventures in the Skin Trade")
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2006
|
E-Ring
|
n/a
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Director ("Brothers in Arms")
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2007
|
Raines
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n/a
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Director ("5th Step")
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2008
|
The Closer
|
Davis Mayhan
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Actor, episode 4.2 ("Speed Bump")
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2008
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Criminal Minds
|
Detective Garrity
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Director, actor ("Masterpiece")
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2008
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Numbers
|
Brett Hanson
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Actor ("Conspiracy Theory")
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2009
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The Mentalist
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Walter Crew
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Actor, episode 2.2 ("The Scarlet Letter")
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2013
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Ray Donovan
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Alan
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Actor, episode 4 ("Black Cadillac")
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2019
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Grace and Frankie
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Leo
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Actor, Season 5
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References
[
edit
]
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b
c
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"Video: Lightning in a bottle"
.
The Steuben Courier Advocate
.
Archived
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. Retrieved
May 28,
2021
.
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a
b
Epstein, Angela (August 15, 2013).
"Glaser detecting similarities between Starsky and Tevye"
.
The Jewish Chronicle
. Archived from
the original
on May 28, 2021
. Retrieved
May 28,
2021
.
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Bobbin, Jay (February 17, 2005).
"WHEN GOOD COPS GO BAD"
.
South Florida Sun Sentinel
. Archived from
the original
on May 28, 2021
. Retrieved
May 28,
2021
.
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Miron, Charles (1977).
Rock gold: all the hit charts from 1955 to 1976
. Drake Publishers. p. 64.
ISBN
9780847314676
.
- ^
Christie, Janet (29 September 2013).
"Paul Michael Glaser beyond Starsky & Hutch"
.
The Scotsman
.
Archived
from the original on 5 April 2019
. Retrieved
4 April
2019
.
- ^
Gardner, Chris (April 24, 2018).
"
'Starsky and Hutch' Star Paul Michael Glaser Charts 'Third Act With Solo Art Exhibition"
.
The Hollywood Reporter
. Archived from
the original
on May 28, 2021
. Retrieved
May 28,
2021
.
- ^
Huck, Janet (August 25, 1989).
"Breaking a Silence: 'Starsky' Star, Wife Share Their Family's Painful Battle Against AIDS"
.
Los Angeles Times
. Archived from
the original
on February 28, 2021
. Retrieved
May 28,
2021
.
- ^
a
b
c
Barone, Tracy (June 26, 2016).
"After a public death, the struggle to create a new family"
. Archived from
the original
on June 26, 2016
. Retrieved
May 28,
2021
.
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Kennedy, Randy (1994-12-04).
"Elizabeth Glaser Dies at 47; Crusader for Pediatric AIDS"
.
The New York Times
.
Archived
from the original on 2013-02-24
. Retrieved
2013-06-04
.
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"Paul Glaser, second wife to divorce"
.
Associated Press
. June 28, 2007. Archived from
the original
on May 28, 2021
. Retrieved
May 28,
2021
– via
Today
.
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