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Bruce Glover Dead: Mr. Wint in ‘Diamonds Are Forever’ Was 92

The father of Crispin Glover worked opposite Bette Davis and Anne Bancroft on Broadway and appeared in ‘Chinatown,’ ‘Hard Times’ and the ‘Walking Tall’ films.

Glover played Deputy Grady Coker alongside Joe Don Baker as Sheriff Buford Pusser in the unexpected box-office hit Walking Tall(1973), then returned for the 1975 and ’77 sequels that had Bo Svenson as the lead. The Chicago native also portrayed a redneck thug in Stanley Kramer’s Bless the Beasts and Children(1971); Duffy, an associate of Jack Nicholson’s J.J. Gittes, in Roman Polanski’s Chinatown(1974); and a brutish debt collector leaning on a hustler (James Coburn) in Walter Hill’s Hard Times(1975). Afterward, Glover got the part of Kilroy in a local production of Williams’ Camino Real — he said he had never seen a play before — did summer stock in Wisconsin and in 1957 earned a degree in speech from Northwestern, where he advised Warren Beatty to leave college to go to New York to get on with acting.

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