"I think that having a through line, a kind of touchstone with the past, is always a good thing." "I kind of built the character from inside out, along with the producers and the creators of course, and I know that character so intimately, it's really part of me," the voiceover artist continues. Using his Barney voice, which sounds exactly the same now as it did on Barney & Friends, West added, "My face may have wrinkles, but my voice doesn't!" "You know, they're pretty far into the process, they may have already cast, but I'd love to talk to them about it, see what they have in mind." Whedon has suggested fans wishing to pay tribute to Glass contribute to the Wooten Center in the actor’s name."I have not been contacted by the production, and I have to say I would love to talk to them about it," West explains. He chaired its board of directors from 1993 to 2005. According to a tribute posted by the center, Glass first became involved with the Wooten Center after the 1992 Rodney King riots spurred him to community action. Heritage Center, a Los Angeles nonprofit specializing in mentoring and college preparation. Glass was also a fixture at the Al Wooten Jr. His laugh was beyond infectious and his generosity was ever-present.” He continued, adding, “Ron Glass was also a sassy smart-ass and I prize that very much. Upon hearing of Glass’ death, his Firefly co-star Alan Tudyk tweeted that Glass was “one of the greatest actors to work with. Words cannot adequately express my sorrow.” “He was an absolute delight to watch on screen. “Ron was a private, gentle and caring man,” Glass’ agent, Jeffrey Leavitt, told NBC News. Ron Glass guest starring in an episode of Family Matters.
So his contribution to me was to defy stereotypes and I think that’s one of the great contributions that he gave us in popular culture.” He reminded me of my uncles or men that I knew in my church or one of my high school teachers, actually. “He was a black man who looked like black men who were in my life. “Ron Glass, for me, was a great role model because growing up it was great to see him on television and film and see someone who looked like me,” said Emil Wilbekin, a former editor-at-large at Essence magazine and former editor-in-chief of Vibe. Perhaps you caught him as Felix Unger on The New Odd Couple.
Or maybe, more recently, you knew his face from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, or Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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He did Friends and The Practice and Designing Women, too, plus voice work on Rugrats and The Proud Family. He made appearances on Good Times and 227. Glass was a versatile television journeyman for much of his career, notching guest stints on Maude and the original Hawaii Five-0 before becoming a regular fixture on Sanford and Son.
“I read the script and just fell in love with the character,” Glass told the Courier & Press. When the opportunity for Firefly came around, Glass jumped at it. “That didn’t sound very attractive to me because I’d heard of people spending four to five hours in the makeup room, and I didn’t want to do that.”īut Glass accepted a role as Loken on Star Trek Voyager in 2000 and found it rewarding and worth the price of admission, which indeed was hours in the makeup chair. “I wasn’t familiar with the genre, and I also had this idea that if I did science fiction, I was going to be attached to a lot of prosthetics,” Glass told his hometown newspaper, the Evansville Courier & Press, in 2013. Glass, a native of Evansville, Indiana, never thought of himself as much of a science fiction actor, either, though his role as a white-haired sage on Firefly earned him legions of new fans unfamiliar with his role on Barney Miller. He was a devout Buddhist, and Book was more of a conventionally Christian character. The part of Derrial Book wasn’t necessarily an intuitive one for Glass. He was, among so many other things, my Shepherd.
He got there with grace, humor & enormous heart. Whedon tweeted a goodbye to Glass, captioning a moment from Firefly:
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Glass reprised his role as Book for the followup movie to the series, Serenity, as well. Glass was a prolific actor, best known for playing the handsome and debonair detective Ron Harris on Barney Miller from 1975 to 1982, and more recently for his role as Shepherd Derrial Book in Joss Whedon’s short-lived cult hit Firefly. 25 of respiratory failure, according to news reports. Fans are still remembering and mourning the loss of actor Ron Glass, who effortlessly radiated an easygoing charm whenever he appeared on screen.
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