Bernard Glasser was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1924. He received a teaching degree from Indiana State Teachers College and moved to Los Angeles in the late 1940s, where he worked as a substitute teacher at Beverly Hills High School. However, Glasser had always been interested in film, and he decided to leave his teaching career for a job as a production assistant. In 1950, he leased a neglected film studio and launched Keywest Studios, renting it out for several independent productions, including the Hecht-Lancaster production APACHE (1954), and the Roger Corman-scripted THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS (1954), which marked the first production of what would become American International Pictures. He also produced his first feature, GOLD RAIDERS (1951), a comedic Western starring George O’Brien and The Three Stooges.

Though GOLD RAIDERS opened to negative reviews, the production sparked an extensive professional association between Glasser and the film’s director, Edward Bernds. Glasser produced many of Bernds’ films in the 1950s, including SPACE MASTER X-7 (1958) and RETURN OF THE FLY (1959). After Glasser’s lease on Keywest Studios ended in 1958, he entered the television industry as a producer for the series ASSIGNMENT: UNDERWATER (1960-1961), which ran for one season. He then wrote, produced, and directed THE SERGEANT WAS A LADY (1961), featuring ASSIGNMENT: UNDERWATER’s Bill Williams. Soon after, Glasser relocated to Europe, where he continued to work in film for much of the 1960s, including reuniting with fellow ASSIGNMENT: UNDERWATER producer Philip Yordan on a number of projects. He was a line producer on the Yordan-produced THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS (1963), produced THE THIN RED LINE (1964) and CRACK IN THE WORLD (1965) with Yordan, and was production manager for BATTLE OF THE BULGE (1965), which Yordan co-wrote and produced. Glasser then produced and directed RUN LIKE A THIEF (1967) and TRIANGLE (1971) before retiring from the film industry to establish a real estate company. He died in 2014.