Bruce Glover, James Bond Diamonds Are Forever villain, dead at 92

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” an...