- Born
- Birth namePaul Manfred Glaser
- Nickname
- Curly
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Paul Michael Glaser (born Paul Manfred Glaser March 25, 1943) is an American actor and director best known for his role as Detective Dave Starsky on the 1970s television series, Starsky & Hutch. In between his work writing and directing, Glaser also played Captain Jack Steeper on the NBC series Third Watch from 2004 to 2005, appeared as Al in several episodes of Ray Donovan in the 2010s, and had his first U.S. exhibition of his artwork in 2018.- IMDb mini biography by: Bonitao
- SpousesTracy Barone(November 24, 1996 - 2007) (divorced, 1 child)Elizabeth Glaser(August 24, 1980 - December 3, 1994) (her death, 2 children)
- ChildrenAriel GlaserZoe Glaser
- ParentsSamuel GlaserDorothy Orlov
- First child, daughter Ariel Glaser, passed away from complications from AIDS in August of 1988. She contracted HIV via breast milk, when her mother, Elizabeth Glaser, was not aware that she had contracted HIV via a blood transfusion. Her second child, Jake Glaser, contracted HIV in Elizabeth's womb. He is still alive and in reasonably good health as of December 2010.
- Directed a PSA spot on AIDS awareness in 1989, starring a soon-to-leave-office President Ronald Reagan.
- Is a very close friend of director Michael Mann. They met during the filming of a Starsky and Hutch (1975) episode, adapted from Mann's screenplay, and became friends. Later Glaser directed several episodes of Mann's TV shows: Miami Vice (1984), including the Emmy-award winning The Prodigal Son (1985) (from season two); and the sixth, tenth, and thirteenth (final) episodes of Robbery Homicide Division (2002). In 1986, Mann served as a producer on the Glaser directed crime film, Band of the Hand (1986).
- Was roommates with Andy Summers of rock group The Police.
- First wife Elizabeth Glaser contracted HIV, after an emergency blood transfusion, right after giving birth to daughter Ariel Glaser. Elizabeth passed away from complications from AIDS in 1994.
- On Starsky and Hutch (1975): "We had a groundbreaking show with unique characters. But all people remember is that car" (quoted in USA Today, 3 March 2004).
- The car is a character in the piece -- I've never liked the car, I submitted to its objectionable popularity.
- So it eventually became a question of WHEN they were going to make a movie.
- So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get.
- Secondly, I thought it was ridiculous to have two undercover policemen driving around in a striped tomato.
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