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

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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.