- 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).
- 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.
- Met first wife Elizabeth Glaser in June 1975, while they driving down Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood. They smiled at each other, then Paul motioned for Elizabeth to pull over, where he invited her out for Chinese food. Elizabeth moved in with Paul three months later in September 1975.
- Was roommates with Andy Summers of rock group The Police.
- Attended Boston University School for the Arts.
- His feature film debut was in the classic film Fiddler on the Roof (1971), portraying Perchik.
- Wife Elizabeth Glaser was the founder of the Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
- The famous Starsky and Hutch (1975) "striped tomato" Ford Gran Torino appears briefly in an episode of The Agency (2001), directed by Glaser.
- He and wife, Tracy Barone, have a daughter, Zoe, born in October 1997.
- Friends with David Soul and the late Gordon Jump.
- The writers and producers of Starsky and Hutch (1975) thought he was similar in type to the late actor Paul Muni. In fact, they even wrote it into a show where Starsky's mother says he's "the Paul Muni type".
- Was roommates in college with Bruce Paltrow.
- Didn't like the series of Starsky and Hutch.and fought to get out of his contract but stayed after being given more control over the script, the level of violence, doing some directing. and a salary raise.
- Son of a Boston architect.
- Never watches himself on screen,.
- Member of Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity.
- In stage and film versions of Fiddler on the Roof.
- Enjoys swimming and jogging.
- Plays the guitar and sings.
- Studied acting in London in 1964.
- In a series of bizarre coincidences with his fictitious alter-ego of Starsky, his first wife, Elizabeth Glaser, very much resembled Tracy Brooks Swope, the actress playing Rosie, his love interest in I Love You, Rosey Malone (1977). In fact, their faces were so similar they could have easily passed for sisters. Not only Glaser's second wife's name was the same as that actress: Tracy (Barone).
- In a series of bizarre coincidences, Paul's personal life would strangely come to imitate Dave Starsky's, his character in his worldwide '70s hit series, Starsky and Hutch (1975). For example, in real life, Glaser would marry Tracy Barone, a woman whose name eerily rhymes with Starsky's love interest in I Love You, Rosey Malone (1977).
- Has blue eyes, writes poetry and enjoys tennis, and motor bikes.
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