Charlie’s Angels star Crispin Glover announced on Friday that his father, actor Bruce Glover, has died at the age of 92.
Crispin broke the news on his Instagram page, lovingly sharing a string of throwback photos of his father, whom he lost on March 12.
Bruce was known for playing assassin Mr. Wint, one of the villains of the 1971 James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever starring Sean Connery as 007.
Three years later, Bruce featured as an assistant to the Jack Nicholson character in the seminal Roman Polanski movie Chinatown.
He also acted on a variety of classic television shows ranging from Gunsmoke and Perry Mason to Murder, She Wrote and The A-Team.
A representative for Crispin confirmed the news of Bruce’s passing this Friday but did not disclose a specific cause of death, according to TMZ.
Charlie’s Angels star Crispin Glover announced on Friday that his father, actor Bruce Glover, has died at the age of 92; Bruce and Crispin pictured in 2019
Bruce was born in Chicago in 1932 and grew up there as ‘a tough working class kid,’ he told the website The Original Van Gogh’s Ear Anthology.
He worked from the age of six as a grocery delivery boy, growing into a high school football star but also honing his artistic instincts, selling paintings ‘as a little kid.’
After he served in the Korean War, he landed his first job onstage, dressing as a gorilla and tossing a stripper around in a nightclub act in Florida – prompting a local magician to tell him: ‘Bruce you are an actor,’ because of how ‘believable’ he was.