Paul Michael Glaser

Paul Michael Glaser (born March 25, 1943) is an American actor and directorperhaps best known for his role as Detective David Starsky on the 1970s television series, Starsky & Hutch. Glaser also appeared as Captain Jack Steeper on the NBC series Third Watch from 2004 to 2005.[1]
== Early life ==
Glaser, raised in a Jewish family, is the youngest of three children. He was born Paul Manfred Glaser in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Dorothy and Samuel Glaser, who was an architect.[2] Glaser attended the Buckingham Browne & Nichols School. He then transferred to the Cambridge School of Weston, and went to Tulane University, where he was roommates with film director Bruce Paltrow, and earned a Master's degree in English and theater in 1966. He was a member of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity. He earned a second master's degree from Boston University in acting and directing in 1967.
== Career ==
After appearing in several Broadway productions, Glaser appeared in his first feature film in 1971, playing Perchik in the film version of Fiddler on the Roof. After having appeared as an extra on NBC's The Doctors, he was cast in the contract role of Dr. Peter Chernak on the daytime series Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, and made guest appearances on shows such as The Waltons, The Streets of San Francisco and The Rockford Files, but found fame playing Detective David Starsky opposite David Soul in the television show Starsky and Hutch, of which he directed several episodes. It ran for four seasons (1975–1979) on ABC.
After the series, Glaser continued to act on television and in films, and directedthe 1987 film The Running Man starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as well as the 1992 film The Cutting Edge. He also directed episodes of several well-known 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, where his old role was reprised by Ben Stiller. He also directed the children's film Kazaam starring Shaquille O'Neal. On November 30, 2007, Glaser starred as Captain Hook in a pantomime version of Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley, Kent, England. He took the lead role in the 2008 pantomime season at Sunderland's Empire Theatre. He guest starred in an episode of CBS's The Mentalist on October 1, 2009 titled "The Scarlet Letter". In 2013, Glaser revisited Fiddler on the Roof in a UK stage production on national tour, this time playing the lead character Tevye.
In addition to television, film, and theater, Glaser is an avid photographer, writes poetry[3] and is currently working on several children's novels.[4]
== Personal life ==
Glaser has been married twice. He married his first wife, Elizabeth Meyer, in 1980. In August 1981, Meyer contracted HIV through a blood transfusion while giving birth to the couple's first child, Ariel. Meyer did not find out about the virus until four years later, at which time both Ariel and son Jake (born October 1984) were also found to be HIV positive. Ariel Glaser died in August 1988; Elizabeth Meyer Glaser died in 1994, after co-founding the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation with friends Susan DeLaurentis and Susie Zeegen. Jake never developed AIDS. According to Paul, “I have a rare gene that resists the HIV virus which is why I never got infected. Jake inherited that gene from me and it gave him resistance to AIDS."[5]
After his wife's death, Glaser served as chairman of the foundation until 2002 and remains Honorary Chairman, roles in which he has testified before the United States Congress and met with national leaders, as well as headlining annual fundraisers for the organization.
Glaser married producer Tracy Barone in 1996; the couple had a daughter, Zoe, on 7 October 1997. Glaser filed for divorce in June 2007, citing "irreconcilable differences" as the reason for ending his 10-year marriage. He was seeking joint legal and physical custody of their daughter.
== Filmography ==
=== Film ===
Year	Film 	Role 	Notes
1971	Fiddler on the Roof 	Perchik 	Actor
1972	Butterflies Are Free 	Ralph 	Actor
1974	Aces Up 	Mover 	Actor
1974	Trapped Beneath the Sea 	Jack Beech 	Actor
1976	The Great Houdini 	Harry Houdini (Erik Weisz)	Actor
1980	Phobia 	Dr. Peter Ross 	Actor
1983	Wait till Your Mother Gets Home! 	Coach Bob Peters 	Actor
1983	Princess Daisy 	Fred North 	Actor
1984	Single Bars, Single Women 	Gabe 	Actor
1984	Jealousy 	Daniel 	Actor
1984	Attack on Fear 	Dave Mitchell 	Actor
1986	Band of the Hand 	n/a 	Director
1987	The Running Man 	n/a 	Director
1992	The Cutting Edge 	n/a 	Director
1994	The Air Up There 	n/a 	Director
1996	Kazaam 	n/a 	Director
2003	Something's Gotta Give 	Dave 	Actor
2004	Starsky & Hutch 	Original David Starsky 	Actor
2007	Live! 	Network President 	Actor
2010	Lego: The Adventures of Clutch Powers	Kjeld Playwell (voice) 	Actor
=== Television ===
Years 	Title 	Role 	Notes
1970–1973 	Love Is a Many Splendored Thing	Dr. Peter Chernak 	Actor
1972 	The Streets of San Francisco 	Jason Kampacalas 	Actor ("Bitter Wine")
1972 	Cannon 	Jason Logan 	Actor ("Nobody Beats the House")
1973 	The Waltons 	Todd Cooper 	Actor ("The Air Mail Man")
1974 	The Rockford Files 	Ralph Correll 	Actor ("Find Me If You Can")
1974 	Kojak 	Lou Giordino 	Actor ("Down a Long and Lonely River")
1975–1979 	Starsky and Hutch 	Detective David Starsky	Actor, writer, director (episodes "Bloodbath", "Class in Crime", "Deckwatch", "Ballad for a Blue Lady", "Sweet Revenge")
1984–1985 	Miami Vice 	n/a 	Director ("Calderone's Return: Calderone's Demise", "Smuggler's Blues", "The Prodigal Son")
1984 	Amazons 	n/a 	Director
1985 	Otherworld 	n/a 	Director ("Village of the Motorpigs")
1987 	Amazing Stories 	n/a 	Director ("Blue Man Down")
2001, 2003	Judging Amy 	n/a 	Director ("Look Closer", "Going Down")
2002 	The Agency 	n/a 	Director ("Son Set", "The Golden Hour", "Doublecrossover", "Elite Meat to Eat", "Debbie Does Djakarta")
2002–2003 	Robbery Homicide Division 	n/a 	Director ("In/Famous", "Had", "Absolute Perfection")
2003 	Mister Sterling 	n/a 	Director ("Final Passage")
2004–2005 	Third Watch 	Captain Jack Steeper 	Actor ("Sleeping Dogs Lie", "Blessed and Bewildered", "No More, Forever")
Director ("Alone Again, Naturally", "Welcome Home")
2005–2008 	Las Vegas 	n/a 	Director ("To Protect and Serve Manicotti", "Double Down, Triple Threat", "For Sail by Owner", "Wines and Misdemeanors", "Adventures in the Skin Trade")
2006 	E-Ring 	n/a 	Director ("Brothers in Arms")
2007 	Raines 	n/a 	Director ("5th Step")
2008 	The Closer 	Davis Mayhan 	Actor, episode 4.2 ("Speed Bump")
2008 	Criminal Minds 	Detective Garrity 	Director, actor ("Masterpiece")
2008 	Numbers 	Brett Hanson 	Actor ("Conspiracy Theory")
2009 	The Mentalist 	Walter Crew 	Actor, episode 2.2 ("The Scarlet Letter")
2013 	Ray Donovan 	Alan 	Actor, episode 4 ("Black Cadillac")