Bruce Glover, best known for playing the assassin Mr. Wint in the James Bond film, “Diamonds Are Forever,” died at 92 years old on Mar. 12.
The veteran character actor’s son, Crispin Hellion Glover, confirmed the death on his Instagram page Saturday, but did not provide further details. A cause of death was not revealed.
Crispin, who played George McFly in the “Back to the Future” franchise, captioned “Bruce Herbert Glover May 2, 1932 – March 12, 2025” in a series of Instagram posts.
He paid tribute to his late father, sharing images from when Bruce appeared in an episode of “Perry Mason” in 1965 and the 1974 Roman Polanski-directed mystery “Chinatown.”
The “Ghost World” star was born May 2, 1932 in Chicago, Ill., during the Great Depression.
Bruce entered the workforce at just six years old and made 60 cents weekly to deliver groceries.
“I guess this woman had a store. She thought it was cute and decided to offer me a job,” Glover told The Original Van Gogh’s Ear Anthology website in 2019.
“Ten cents a day delivering groceries after school and Saturday mornings so I made sixty cents a week. Sometimes I’d get a tip from whoever I was delivering to, but that was the beginning of the seeking of work.”
After high school, Bruce played football for Wright Junior College and joined a semi-pro team until he was drafted into the US Army for the Korean War in 1953.
When the war ended, his football career was on pause after he battled malaria so he tried out for a play in 1955 and began his decades-long career in the entertainment business.
“When I came back with Malaria I couldn’t pick up that football scholarship so I had to go back to that junior college where I’d played football and pick up some more college credits,” he told the outlet. “I saw a play being advertised that I went and tried out for.”
The stage and screen actor was in the original cast of Broadway’s “The Lion In Winter,” “Mother Courage and Her Children” and “The Night of the Iguana.”
When the performer was in his mid-30s, he moved across the country to Hollywood and starred as a guest star in shows like “Battlestar Galactica” and “Gunsmoke.”
Bruce maintained a very busy schedule by acting in multiple projects each year, but his most notable project was in “Walking Tall” and when the Oscar-nominated film “Diamonds Are Forever,” hit the big screen in 1971.
Some memorable quotes include when his “Diamonds Are Forever” character, Mr. Wint, said “If at first, you don’t succeed, Mr. Kidd?” and his co-star, Putter Smith, playing Mr. Kidd, replied, “Try, try again.”
Bruce’s Mr. Wint met his demise at the hands of James Bond, played by Sean Connery, when the special agent strapped a bomb between his legs and threw him off a ship.
He recalled how he earned praise from legendary Bond actor Sir Roger Moore for the film.
“The final moment in the film where Sean Connery does that rude thing pushing the hooha up my yaha and giving that character his final great sexual moment is the biggest laugh in the movie,” he told the outlet.
Bruce continued to act until his early 80s, where his final acting credit was for the 2015 film “Influence” which also starred Crispin.
He is survived by his sons Crispin Glover and Michael Leigh Glover.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
