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American actor and director Paul Michael Glase has an estimated net worth of $4 million. He first appeared on a New York stage in Joseph Papp's 1968 production of Rockabye Hamlet. Billed in the early stages of his career as Michael Glaser, he was featured on Broadway in The Man in the Glass Booth, in such films as Fiddler on the Roof as Perchik and Butterflies are Free, and on the TV soap operas Love is a Many Splendored Thing and Love of Life.

Glaser reverted to his three-barreled name when he got cast as Detective David Starsky, one of two hotshot young police officers who jetted around an unnamed crime-ridden municipality in their bright red 1974 Ford Torino and attempted to wipe the streets clean of the criminal element, on the long-running  TV cop series Starsky and Hutch. In the late 1980s, Glaser's life was torn apart by the most appalling of tragedies. As the result of a contaminated blood transfusion, his wife Elizabeth and their two children were infected with the HIV virus, and in 1988, their daughter Ariel died at age seven.

Subsequently, Paul and Elizabeth became the most adamant, tireless, and omnipresent AIDS awareness activists in any profession. In 1988, the two helped found the Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Sadly, Elizabeth died in December of 1994. Since then, the Elizabeth Glaser Scientists Award was established to fund research into the AIDS virus. Glaser subsequently remarried producer/writer Tracy Barone in 1996. However, after a little over a decade together, the two filed for divorce.

Earnings & Financial Data

Date

Category

Description

Amount

2010

Box Office Sales

Worldwide box office sales of the movie Lego: The Adventures of Clutch Powers as the voice of Kjeld Playwell

$69,990

2007

Asset

Lisitng price of his 4,362-square-foot house in Agoura, California

$2,424,000

2004

Box Office Sales

Worldwide box office sales of the movie Starsky & Hutch as the Original David Starsky

$170,270,000

2003

Box Office Sales

Box office sales of the movie Something's Gotta Give as Dave

$266,730,000

1996

Box Office Sales

Box office sales of the movie Kazaam as the film's director

$18,940,000

1994

Box Office Sales

Box office sales of the movie The Air Up There as the film's director

$21,010,000

1992

Box Office Sales

Box office sales of the movie The Cutting Edge as the film's director

$25,110,000

1987

Box Office Sales

Box office sales of the movie The Running Man as the film's director

$38,120,000

1986

Box Office Sales

Box office sales of the movie Band of the Hand as the film's director

$4,870,000

1980

Box Office Sales

Box office sales of the movie Phobia as Dr. Peter Ross

$59,170

1972

Box Office Sales

Box office sales of the movie Butterflies Are Free as Ralph

$6,700,000

1971

Box Office Sales

Box office sales of the movie Fiddler on the Roof as Perchik

$83,300,000