Ron Glass

Ronald Earle Glass is an American television actor born in Evansville, Indiana on July 10th, 1945. His career began in the early 1970s where appeared in several different single episode before landing a recurring role on the comedy series Barney Miller as Detective Ron Harris. He appeared in 164 out of 171 episodes of the series. In 2002, Ron Glass was cast in the short-lived, but hugely popular sci-fi series Firefly where he played a clergyman named Shepherd Derrial Book.