Bruce Willis' Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Moonlighting David Addis… Parkinson (UK) Bruce Willis Bruno the Kid Bruno the Kid

Main Movie Roles 2012 - Die Hard 5 2010 - Cop Out 2010 - The Expendables 2009 - Surrogates 2008 - Assassination of a High School President 2008 - Shine a Light 2008 - What Just Happened 2007 - Grindhouse 2007 - Live Free or Die Hard 2007 - Nancy Drew 2007 - Perfect Stranger 2007 - Planet Terror 2006 - Lucky Number Slevin 2006 - Over the Hedge 2006 - Fast Food Nation 2006 - The Astronaut Farmer 2006 - 16 Blocks 2006 - Alpha Dog 2005 - Sin City 2004 - The Whole Ten Yards 2004 - Ocean's Twelve 2004 - My Date with Drew 2003 - Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle 2003 - Tears of the Sun 2003 - Rugrats Go Wild 2002 - Hart's War 2001 - Bandits 2000 - The Whole Nine Yards 2000 - Unbreakable 2000 - The Kid 1999 - Breakfast of Champions 1999 - The Sixth Sense 1999 - The Story of Us 1998 - The Siege 1998 - Armageddon 1998 - Mercury Rising 1997 - The Jackal 1997 - The Fifth Element 1996 - Beavis and Butt-Head Do America 1996 - Last Man Standing 1995 - Die Hard with a Vengeance 1995 - Twelve Monkeys 1995 - Four Rooms 1994 - Nobody's Fool 1994 - Color of Night 1994 - North 1994 - Pulp Fiction 1993 - Loaded Weapon 1 1993 - Striking Distance 1992 - Death Becomes Her 1992 - The Player 1991 - Billy Bathgate 1991 - Mortal Thoughts 1991 - Hudson Hawk 1991 - The Last Boy Scout 1990 - Die Hard 2: Die Harder 1990 - The Bonfire of the Vanities 1990 - Look Who's Talking Too 1989 - In Country 1989 - Look Who's Talking 1988 - Sunset 1988 - Die Hard 1987 - Blind Date 1982 - The Verdict

BIOGRAPHY:

German born, New Jersey raised US actor and musician well known for his film appearances as wise cracking or hard edged characters, often in spectacular action films. Collectively, he has appeared in films that have grossed in excess of $2.5 billion USD placing him in the top ten stars in terms of box office receipts. The young Willis picked up an interest for the dramatic arts in high school, and was allegedly "discovered" whilst working in a café in NYC and then appeared in a couple of off-Broadway productions.

After countless auditions, Willis contributed minor film appearances, usually uncredited, before landing the role of private eye "David Addison" alongside sultry Cybill Shepherd in the hit romantic comedy TV series "Moonlighting" (1985). The series firmly established Bruce Willis as a hot new talent, and his sarcastic & wise cracking PI was in effect a dry run for the role of hard boiled, NYC detective "John McClane" in the monster hit of 1988, Die Hard (1988). This superbly paced action film balanced laconic humor and wholesale destruction as Willis' character single handedly battles a gang of ruthless international thieves in a Los Angeles skyscraper. Willis reprized the role of tough guy cop "John McClane" in the eagerly anticipated sequel Die Hard 2 (1990) set at snow bound Washington's Dulles International Airport as a group of renegade Special Forces soldiers seek to repatriate a corrupt South American general. Excellent box office returns demanded a further sequel Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995) this time also starring Samuel L. Jackson as a cynical Harlem shop owner unwittingly thrust into assisting McClane during a terrorist bombing campaign on a sweltering day in NYC.

Willis found time out from all the action mayhem to provide the voice of "Mikey" the baby in the very popular family comedies Look Who's Talking (1989), and its sequel Look Who's Talking Too (1990) also starring John Travolta and Kirstie Alley. Over the next decade, Willis starred in some very successful films, some very offbeat films and some unfortunate box office flops. The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) and Hudson Hawk (1991) were both large scale financial disasters that were savaged by the critics, and both are arguably best left off the CVs of all the actors involved, however Willis was still popular with movie audiences and selling plenty of theatre tickets with the hyper violent The Last Boy Scout (1991), the darkly humored Death Becomes Her (1992) and the mediocre police thriller Striking Distance (1993). During the 1990s, Willis also appeared in several independent and low budget productions that won him new fans and praise from the critics for his intriguing performances working with some very diverse film directors. He appeared in the oddly appealing North (1994), as a cagey prize fighter in the Quentin Tarantino directed mega-hit Pulp Fiction (1994), the Terry Gilliam directed apocalyptic thriller Twelve Monkeys (1995), the Luc Besson directed sci-fi opus The Fifth Element (1997) and the M. Night Shyamalan directed spine tingling epic The Sixth Sense (1999).

Willis next starred in the gangster comedy _Whole Nine Yards, The (2000)_qv), worked again with "hot" director M. Night Shyamalan in the less gripping Unbreakable (2000), and in two military dramas, Hart's War (2002) and _Tears of the Sun (2003)_qv) that both failed to really fire with movie audiences or critics alike. However, Willis bounced back into the spotlight in the critically applauded Frank Miller graphic novel turned movie Sin City (2005), the voice of "RJ" the scheming raccoon in the animated hit Over the Hedge (2006) and "Die Hard" fans rejoiced to see "John McClane" return to the big screen in the high tech Live Free or Die Hard (2007) aka "Die Hard 4.0".

Willis was married to actress Demi Moore for approximately thirteen years and they share custody to their three children.


TRIVIA:

• He is the hero of singer 'Nick Lachey' (qv).
• Wears his watch upside down with the face on the inside of his hand. This is also visible in many movies he's done (_Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)_ (qv), _Mercury Rising (1998)_ (qv), etc.) where they haven't requested him to flip it over.
• He and 'Linda Fiorentino' (qv) were employed as bartenders in the early 1980s at the Kamikaze Club in New York City.
• Stepfather of his three daughters with 'Demi Moore' (qv) is 'Ashton Kutcher' (qv).
• Honored in Paris for his contribution to the film industry, by the French government. The actor was made an Officier Dans L'ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres (Officer In The Order Of Arts And Letters) at a ceremony in the capital, where he was presented with his honor by French Culture Minister 'Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres' (qv). de Vabres said, "This is France's way of paying tribute to an actor who epitomizes the strength of American cinema, the power of the emotions that he invites us to share on the world's screens and the sturdy personalities of his legendary characters." Willis replied in French that he was "very touched" to receive his medal, adding, "Thank you France and Culture Minister for this great, great honor." (13 April 2005).
• Attended the 'Stella Adler' (qv) Conservatory / Theatre program in New York City for three years.
• He has been special ambassador of his birth town Idar-Oberstein since his 50th birthday.
• In November 2000 he urged his fans to vote for Republican candidate 'George W. Bush' (qv) in the presidential election. He told an interviewer, "If you guys vote for 'Al Gore (I)' (qv), you're out of your minds ... Gore's a knucklehead ... just the lying and mendacity of the last eight years of the regime that Al Gore was a part and parcel of ... I mean, there is only so much lying the American people will take before they go, 'Uh, this doesn't seem like a good idea.' You have to look at what he does and what he stands for."