Bruce Glover, one of the original James Bond villains from the 1971 film Diamonds Are Forever, has died. He was 92.
The news was shared by his son, Charlie’s Angels actor Crispin Glover, in a post made on Instagram Sunday morning.
“Bruce Herbert Glover. May 2, 1932 – March 12, 2025,” he captioned an image of himself as a toddler with his mum and dad. Glover’s cause of death was not shared.
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Glover was born in Chicago, coming up in the theatre before getting his start in television with appearances in shows including The Mod Squad, Gunsmoke, My favourite Martian and The Rat Patrol.
He appeared in hundreds of plays – including two on Broadway – and countless movies such as Chinatown, Hard Times and Bless the Beasts and Children.
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But it’s perhaps his 1971 role that Glover will be best remembered for.
In 1971 he scored the role of Mr. Wint, a villain in Diamond’s Are Forever, the sixth and final James Bond film in which Sean Connery starred as the title character.
Glover appeared opposite Putter Smith as Mr. Kidd, the duo played two gay assassins who found more trouble than success.
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In a 2021 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Glover revealed the odd approach he took to his character, sharing that he asked director Guy Hamlin not to tell him which character of the assassin duo he was going to play.
“I am really a very talented actor and I think differently from most actors,” he said.
“So there I was on the set outside of Vegas in the desert, and we were going to be shooting in about two hours, and we were doing our make-up and wardrobe, and I still didn’t know which role I was going to play.
“I suddenly realized that I didn’t know what I was going to do with the part, and I was going to be probably on the set with Sean Connery pretty soon, and I thought, oh my god, I’m going to be terrible.”
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He shared the he began to fear that he may get fired from the movie, before looking in the mirror and reminding himself why he was chosen for the role.
“The first step for any actor is you have to get out of worrying about how you’re going to do it and just connect with something live,” he shared.
“So I started looking and the sky and around and seeing things and finally, at about seven in the morning, I took in a breath of air from the desert and it was cool and wonderful and I felt great.”
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