The ensemble cast included Hal Linden as precinct Capt. In Barney Miller his literate Detective Ron Harris was one of the few generally normal characters who populated a New York City police precinct filled with oddballs on both sides of the law. Early credits included All in the Family, Maude, Sanford and Son and Hawaii Five-0. More recently he appeared in episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. He also made appearances in such shows as Friends, Star Trek: Voyager and Designing Women. Glass was also the voice of Randy Carmichael, the genial neighbor and father of four children in the popular Nickelodeon cartoon series Rugrats and its spinoff, All Grown Up. He was Felix Unger opposite Desmond Wilson’s Oscar Madison in The New Odd Couple, a 1980s reboot of the original Broadway show, film and television series that this time cast black actors in the lead roles of Unger’s prissy neat freak forced to share an apartment with slovenly friend Madison. He portrayed Derrial Book, the spiritual shepherd with a cloudy past in the 2002 science-fiction series Firefly and its 2005 film sequel Serenity. Words cannot adequately express my sorrow.”Īlthough best known for Barney Miller, Glass appeared in dozens of other shows in a television and film career dating to the early 1970s. “He was an absolute delight to watch on screen. “Ron was a private, gentle and caring man,” said Leavett, a longtime friend of the actor. Glass died Friday of respiratory failure, his agent, Jeffrey Leavett, told The Associated Press Saturday. Ron Glass, the handsome, prolific character actor best known for his role as the gregarious, sometimes sardonic detective Ron Harris in the long-running cop comedy Barney Miller, has died at age 71.
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