Bruce Willis

Bruce Willis, an actor and musician, is famous for his sharp-edged character or smart characters in action movies. He has been featured in films with a budget in excess of $2.5 billion dollars. Walter Bruce Willis was born on March 19, 1955 in Idar-Oberstein (West Germany) to Marlene Kassel and David Andrew Willis (from Carneys Point New Jersey), both of whom lived at the United States military base. His family moved to U.S. soon after he was born. Willis was raised in Penns Grove by his mother working at an institution, and his father, a welding who was a factory worker and welder. Willis picked up an interest in drama during high school and was "discovered" while working in a café located in New York City and then performed in a few off-Broadway productions. He was bartending when a casting manager noticed his charisma and asked to cast him as bartender in a tiny film. Willis was a part of countless auditions before finding the role in the well-known romantic comedy, Moonlighting (1985), as David Addison. The sly and wise-cracking P.I. His humor-filled and wisecracking P.I. is frequently seen as a test run for his role as John McClane, the hardboiled NYC detective in Die Hard (1988), in which Willis fight a group of ruthless international thieves at the top of a Los Angeles skyscraper. Willis reprised the role of McClane in the follow-up film, Die Hard 2 (1990) which was set in a snowbound Washington's Dulles International Airport as a group of rebellious Special Forces soldiers seek to repatriate a corrupt South American general. A record-breaking box office performance prompted an additional sequel, Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) with a new with co-star Samuel L. Jackson as the sly Harlem shop owner unwittingly thrust into helping McClane during a terrorist attack campaign in the midst of a hot summer day in New York.