William Glover is an English actor, voice actor, and theatre director, who provided the voice of Winston the butler in the 1988 Disney animated feature film Oliver & Company. He also played Edmund Haddy in the the television film Meet the Munceys.
Glover began his professional career in England, where he began acting on stage in 1945, but emigrated to North America to work for two seasons with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, Canada. Glover moved to California in 1965 to appear in the Center Theatre Group's productions of "The Devils", "Poor Bitos", "Yeats and Company", performing as the poet and in the national tour of "The Deputy", portraying Pius XII.
Mostly appearing in television roles, Glover played various character roles in shows, like Encounter, Festival, Punky Brewster, General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, Dear John, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Santa Barbara, Bring 'Em Back Alive, Newhart, Run for Your Life, Combat!, Get Smart, Kung Fu, Fantasy Island, Over My Dead Body, The New Dick Van Dyke Show, The Monkees, and the mini-series Dream West.
His film credits include The King's Pirate, Torn Curtain, The Big Fix, To Be or Not to Be, Lost in the Stars, and co-starred with Rene Auberjonois, Jennifer Hetrick, Tony Jay, Richard Kiley, and Alan Oppenheimer in Absolute Strangers.
Also a theatre director, he directed Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play "The Rivals" (1977) and Paul Zindel's play "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds" (1978) for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
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(Meet the Munceys)
