Watching "Barney Miller" back when it was new is one of the few happy memories I have of the seventies. Seems sometimes as if it was yesterday, so it's kind of depressing that most of the cast is gone now.
One of his best moments came in the episode (called "Hash," I believe) in which the squad unknowingly consumes pot-laced brownies and proceeds to get hilariously high. When asked if he can function despite his loopy-goofy condition, Glass's detective immediately snaps out of it with the words, "Sharp as a tack!" I think that phrase could serve to describe the actor's work throughout the entirety of that wonderful series.
Watching "Barney Miller" back when it was new is one of the few happy memories I have of the seventies. Seems sometimes as if it was yesterday, so it's kind of depressing that most of the cast is gone now.
Always enjoyed the show and cast. I'm more a fan of dry humor to begin with. RIP.
And don't forget he was in that episode of "Sanford & Son" where he played that friend of Lamont's who was released from prison and tried to get a job. It was one of the highest rated episodes of the series and one with the story arc in which Redd Foxx didn't appear because of a contract dispute and so the action was shifted to Demond Wilson (Lamont) and Whitman Mayo (Grady). R.I.P, Ron Glass.
My favorite Ron Glass role was in SERENITY, as Shepherd Derrial Book. Nice job there, sorry to hear he has passed. Despite being around in the Barney Miller days, he always looked young, and somehow I just never thought of him as being that old. RIP.
