Starsky and Hutch star Paul Michael Glaser backs Scottish HIV charity A Hollywood star who made his name in the popular 1970s television police series Starsky and Hutch has arrived in Edinburgh to appear in a new production. Paul Michael Glaser shot to fame playing Detective David Starsky across four seasons of the hit ABC show. However, he is now taking the lead role in a stage version of the classic musical Fiddler on the Roof, more than 40 years after he played a small part in Norman Jewison's 1971 film adaptation. The show is running all week at the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh. Glaser is also taking time out of his acting duties to support Waverley Care, a charity which supports people living with HIV and Hepatitis C and their loved ones. The star's wife Elizabeth and daughter Ariel contracted HIV from a blood transfusion given during pregnancy and both later died from the illness. He has since become a campaigner on HIV and AIDS, establishing the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation in 1988. Speaking to STV News on Tuesday, he said: "I've had wonderful teachers who have helped me through all the rage and the mourning and all the things that accompany events like this. I learned so much I decided I wanted to share it with people. It's taken me to a place where I never thought I'd be. It's allowed me to grow and learn and to find a perspective that it brought me far more peace than I would have ever found. Fiddler on the Roof, written by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, tells the story of Tevye, a father of five daughters who struggles to maintain his family's Jewish identity when faced with the twin encroachments of the modern world and a Tsarist pogrom against the residents of the fictional shtetl of Anatevka.