Bruce Glover was born on May 2 1932 in Chicago. When he was growing up he had no aspirations to become an actor. As he painted and played football, he considered either becoming an artist or a professional athlete. He attended Carl Schurz High School and then Wright Junior College.
Bruce Glover's entry into show business was unusual. He was a model for an art class when one of the fellow art class models asked him if he would mind wearing a gorilla suit for a stage act she performed. It seems she was a stripper and needed someone who could not only wear the gorilla suit, but throw her around for several minutes. To prepare he went to the Lincoln Park Zoo where he studied their renowned gorilla Bushman. The act took him to Tampa, Florida for six weeks.It as then that he was drafted into the United States Army. He was stationed in Korea and served form 1952 to 1955.
Once he was out of the service, Bruce Glover's acting career began. He appeared in a local production of Camino Real and then did summer stock in Wisconsin in 1957. He earned degree in speech from Northwestern University. Bruce Glover then moved to New York City. He made his television debut in an episode of The Verdict is Yours in 1958 and his film debut in an uncredited part in Never Steal Anything Small in 1959.
In the Sixties he guest starred on the shows Car 54, Where Are You?; The DuPont Show of the Week; Route 66; The Nurses; 12 O' Clock High; Perry Mason; My Favorite Martian; Hawk; Dundee and the Culhane; The Danny Thomas Hour; The Rat Patrol; Run for Your Life; The Good Guys; The Big Valley; The Guns of Will Sonnett; The Outsider; Adam-12; Paris 7000; Bonanza; Mission: Impossible; and The Mod Squad. He appeared in the TV movie The Over-the-Hill Gang, He appeared in the movies Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster (1965), Who Killed Teddy Bear? (1965), Blindfold (1966), Sweet Love, Bitter (1967), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), Dayton's Devils (1968), and C.C. & Company (1970). He appeared on Broadway in The Night of the Iguana, Mother Courage and Her Children, and The Lion in Winter.
In the Seventies he appeared in the movies Scandalous John (1971), Bless the Beasts and Children (1971), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Black Gunn (1972), Walking Tall (1973), One Little Indian (1973), Chinatown (1974), Hard Times (1975), Part 2: Walking Tall (1975), Final Chapter: Walking Tall (1977), and Stunts (1977). He guest starred on the TV shows The Psychiatrist; Bearcats!; The Partners; Gunsmoke; The Blue Knight; S.W.A.T.; Harry O; Kojak; Switch; The Streets of San Francisco; The Feather and Father Gang; The Six Million Dollar Man; Barney Miller; Battlestar Galactica; Police Story; Big Shamus, Little Shamus; CHiPs; Vega$; The Wonderful World of Disney; and B.J and the Bear.
In the Eighties Bruce Glover guest starred on the TV shows Hart to Hart; No Soap, Radio; Benson; Small & Frye; At Ease; The Dukes of Hazzard; T. J. Hooker; The Facts of Life; The A-Team; Our House; Santa Barbara; and Murder, She Wrote. He appeared in the movies The Big Score (1983), Hunter's Blood (1986), Big Bad Mama II (1987), Ghost Town (1988), Hider int he House (1989), Penny Ante: The Motion Picture (1990; and Street War! (1990).
In the Nineties he appeared in the movies Popcorn (1991), Street Wars (1991), Chaindance (1991), Shakespeare's Pan 12 from Outer Space (1991), Warlock: The Armageddon (1993), Night of the Scarecrow (1995), American Hero (1997), Spoiler (1998); 6 1/2 (1998), Suicide, the Comedy (1998), and Die Hard Dracula (1998). In the Naughts he appeared in the movies.Ghost World (2001), Will Unplugged (2005), Simon Says (2006), It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine. (2007), Broke Sky (2007), Buffalo Bushido (2009), and Six Days in Paradise (2010). In the Teens he appeared in the movies Scammerhead (2014) and Hiszpanka (2015).
Chances are good that Bruce Glover will always be remembered as Mr. Wint, who with his partner Mr. Kidd (Putter Smith) gleefully commit murder in Diamonds Are Forever, yet he played a wide variety of roles throughout his career. In the Walking Tall movies he played a character as far from Mr. Wint as one can get, loyal, trustworthy deputy Grady Coker. In Hard Times he played a character about as far from Grady in Walking Tall as Grady is from Mr.Wint in Diamonds Are Forever, the brutal loan shark Doty. Over the years he played a wide array of parts, including the eccentric Feldman in Ghost World, legman Duffy in Chinatown, the aspiring bank robber Scooter in the Bonanza episode ""What Are Pardners For?", and more. Bruce Glover could play nearly any part he set his mind to play, and he always played them well.
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