Paul Michael Glaser and went to Tulane University, where he was roommates with film director Bruce Paltrow, and earned a Master's degree in English and theater in 1966. He was a member of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity. He earned a second master's degree from Boston University in acting and directing in 1967. After appearing in several Broadway productions, Glaser appeared in his first feature film in 1971, playing Perchik in the film version of "Fiddler on the Roof". After having appeared as an extra on NBC's "The Doctors", he was cast in the contract role of Dr. Peter Chernak on the daytime
Paul Michael Glaser find out about the virus until four years later, at which time both Ariel and son Jake (born October 1984) were also found to be HIV positive. Ariel Glaser died in August 1988; Elizabeth Meyer Glaser died in 1994, after co-founding the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation with friends Susan DeLaurentis and Susie Zeegen. Jake never developed AIDS. According to Paul, “I have a rare gene that resists the HIV virus which is why I never got infected. Jake inherited that gene from me and it gave him resistance to AIDS." After his wife's death, Glaser served as chairman of