Bruce Glover, ‘Diamonds Are Forever’ Villain, Dies at 92

variety.com:

Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor Bruce Glover, a character actor who played the assassin Mr. Wint in “Diamonds Are Forever” and appeared on dozens of TV shows, died March 12.

His son, the actor Crispin Glover, confirmed the actor’s death on Instagram but did not give further details. Among Glover’s other film appearances were as Duffy in “Chinatown,” “Walking Tall” and “Hard Times.” Born in Chicago, Bruce Glover acted in the theater and started out on television in shows including “My Favorite Martian,” “The Rat Patrol,” “The Mod Squad,” “Gunsmoke,” “Adam 12,” “Mission: Impossible,” “Police Story,” “Barney Miller” and “CHiPs.”He played Soviet military officer Captain Voda in “The Six Million Dollar Man.” In 1971’s “Diamonds Are Forever,” Glover portrayed the assassin Mr.

Wint alongside musician Putter Smith’s Mr. Kidd. He talked about working with “Diamonds Are Forever” director Guy Hamilton in a blog interview in 2019, recalling, “Whatever you come up with, if you have a good director you can discuss with him what you want to do.

Like Guy Hamilton was wide open to every idea I had and a lot of the success of the humor of that film was me. Those were all my ideas.