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name: "Paul Michael Glaser"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/paul-michael-glaser"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "25 March 1943"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T21:21:02.832559+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Paul Michael Glaser

Director. Born 25 March 1943 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 25 March 1943, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- **Active:** 1974–1984
- **Also known as:** Paul M. Glaser
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 directing
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 83 (1), 1980s 81 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q527306, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001274/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12988

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Miami Vice*](https://film.one/tv/miami-vice.md) (81)

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## Biography

Paul Michael Glaser (born Paul Manfred Glaser) is an American actor and director. He was born on 25 March 1943 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and studied at Tulane University and Boston University, where he earned an MFA in acting and directing.

Glaser rose to prominence playing Detective Dave Starsky in the television series *Starsky & Hutch* (1975–1979), also directing several episodes of the show. He made his feature film acting debut as Perchik in *Fiddler on the Roof* (1971) and later appeared in films including *Something's Gotta Give* (2003) and the 2004 *Starsky & Hutch* remake. As a director, he helmed episodes of *Miami Vice* (1984–1985), for which he received a Primetime Emmy nomination, as well as the films *The Running Man* (1987) and *The Cutting Edge* (1992).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, miamivice.fandom.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1)

- *The Rockford Files* (1974), Fi1m 83, as Ralph Correll — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-rockford-files.md)

### Directed (1) — the average rests on these

- *Miami Vice* (1984), Fi1m 81, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/miami-vice.md)

## Also known for

- *The Mentalist* (2008), Walter Crew
- *Criminal Minds* (2005), Detective Garrity, Director
- *The Running Man* (1987), Director
- *Starsky & Hutch* (2004), Original Starsky
- *Something's Gotta Give* (2003), Dave
- *Ray Donovan* (2013), Alan
- *Fiddler on the Roof* (1971), Perchik
- *Numb3rs* (2005), Brett Hanson

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