Biographie

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 et Hutch (1975) episode, adapted from Mann's screenplay, and became friends. Later Glaser directed several episodes of Mann's TV shows: Deux flics à Miami (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, Le mal par le mal (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 et 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.