Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis, actor and musician, is
well-known for his wisecracking and hard-edged parts in action films. He has
been in over $2.5 billion worth of films. Walter Bruce Willis was born on March
19, 1955, in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany, to a German mother, Marlene Kassel,
and an American father, David Andrew Willis (from Carneys Point, New Jersey),
who were then living at a United States military base. His family moved to the
U.S. shortly after he was born. He was raised in Penns Grove, New Jersey in
which his mother worked at a bank and his father was a welding and factory
worker. Willis began to develop an interest in dramatic arts during his high
school. He was "discovered" when he worked in a New York City cafe.
Then, he was a part of various off-Broadway productions. One night, Willis was
working as a bartender and was noticed by a casting supervisor who was
impressed by his character. He was looking for bartenders to play the role of a
minor character in a film. Willis was a part of countless auditions before
getting the role in the romantic comedy of the same name, Moonlighting (1985),
as David Addison. The sly and wise-cracking P.I. is viewed by some as a dry run
for the role of the hard-boiled NYC detective "John McClane" in the
cult film Die Hard (1988), in which Willis' character single-handedly battled
an gang of vicious international thieves inside the Los Angeles skyscraper.
Willis reprised the role of McClane in the sequel, Die Hard 2 (1990) and was
set in wintery Washington's Dulles International Airport as a group of renegade
Special Forces soldiers seek to return a corrupt South American general.
Excellent box office returns demanded the sequel Die Hard with a Vengeance
(1995) and this time with co-star Samuel L. Jackson as a cynical Harlem shop
owner who accidentally gets into helping McClane during a terrorist bombing
campaign in the midst of a hot summer day in New York.
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