Ron Glass: R.I.P.

Ron Glass, who portrayed Ron Harris, the dapper and intellectual detective on the ensemble television comedy series Barney Miller and who appeared in numerous television shows and films, died on Friday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 71.

In 1972, he made his first television appearance in an episode of Sanford and Son. In 1982, after Barney Miller, he played Felix Unger, opposite Demond Wilson as Oscar Madison, in an updated version of The Odd Couple called The New Odd Couple, which lasted one season. He appeared in shows such as Friends, Star Trek: Voyager and Designing Women and recently in episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Read the NYT Obit here.