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William Glover (born 1926; age ~98) is the English actor and stage director who played the ghost of Jacob Marley in the Star Trek: The Next Generation fourth season episode "Devil's Due". Glover filmed his scenes as part of the second unit on Friday 7 December 1990 on Paramount Stage 8 and had a makeup call at 7:00 a.m.

Glover began acting in 1945 and eventually joined the Royal Shakespearean Company in Stratford, England. He eventually moved on to Stratford, Ontario, where he acted during the 1958 and 1959 seasons before moving on to Broadway, where he lived for a time in Stratford, Connecticut. [1] Due to Actors Equity, he was forced to perform under the name David Glover. [2]

Glover had previously appeared on such television series as Kung Fu (with Keye Luke and fellow Next Generation guest star Robert Ito), Fantasy Island (starring Ricardo Montalban and also guest-starring George D. Wallace and Jane Wyatt), WKRP in Cincinatti, Lottery! (with Charlie Brill, Lee Delano, and Bruce French), St. Elsewhere (with Chad Allen, Jeff Allin, Ed Begley, Jr., Robert Costanzo, Norman Lloyd, Deborah May, Jennifer Savidge, Brian Tochi, George D. Wallace, Alfre Woodard, and Jane Wyatt), and Newhart. He also had brief stints on the soap operas General Hospital and Santa Barbera and was one of the many Star Trek performers to appear in the 1986 mini-series Dream West. Among his co-stars in the latter project were F. Murray Abraham, Jeff Allin, Erich Anderson, Lee Bergere, James Cromwell, Michael Ensign, Jonathan Frakes, Alice Krige, Matt McCoy, Glenn Morshower, Fritz Weaver, Noble Willingham, and Anthony Zerbe.

Glover's only feature film credits have been 1978's The Big Fix, also featuring his Dream West co-stars and fellow Trek alumni F. Murray Abraham and Fritz Weaver, and 1983's To Be or Not to Be, with Christopher Lloyd and Paddi Edwards. He voiced Winston the butler in the animated Disney movie from 1988 titled Oliver & Company (with Frank Welker and Judi Durand).

In 1990, he had the recurring role of Alfred Wright in the soap opera Santa Barbara, a role which ran for 25 appearances. This was followed with an appearance on Over My Dead Body, with Gregory Itzin. Following his appearance on The Next Generation in 1991, he appeared on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, with James Avery and Gavin I. Glynn, before finally co-starring with René Auberjonois, Jennifer Hetrick, Tony Jay, Richard Kiley, and Alan Oppenheimer in the made-for-TV movie Absolute Strangers; this is his last known acting project to date.

In addition to acting, Glover was an associate professor at the University of Ohio-Athens and head of the actor training program for that university's School of Theater during the late 1970s.[3]

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