Bruce Willis

Bruce Willis, actor and musician, is well-known for his wisecracking and hard-edged roles in action movies. In total, he's appeared in films that have grossed in excess of $2.5 billion USD. Walter Bruce Willis was born on the 19th of March, 1955 in the city of Idar-Oberstein (West Germany) to Marlene Kassel and David Andrew Willis (from Carneys Point New Jersey), both of them living on a United States military base. The family moved to the U.S. soon after he was born. Willis was born in Penns Grove by his mother, who worked at an institution, and his father, a welding employed in a factory and welder. Willis started to take an interest in the dramatic arts at high school. He was "discovered" while working in an New York City cafe. Later, he appeared in numerous off-Broadway productions. A night, he was working as a bartender and was noticed by a casting director who liked his personality. He needed a bartender to play one small part in a movie. Willis was involved in numerous auditions prior to getting the role in the cult romantic comedy, Moonlighting (1985), as David Addison. His sarcastic and wisecracking P.I. is the highlight of his professional career. His hilarious and wisecracking P.I. is often seen as a test run for his character John McClane, the hardboiled NYC detective in Die Hard (1988), which saw Willis battle a gang ruthless international thieves at an Los Angeles skyscraper. In Die Hard 2 (1990) in which he reprised the role. A group of rebellious Special Forces soldiers is trying to restore a corrupt South American general. They are set in Washington's Dulles International Airport. A record-breaking box office performance prompted an additional sequel, Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) with a new co-starring Samuel L. Jackson as an unrepentant Harlem shop owner who accidentally gets to assist McClane during a terrorist attack campaign in the midst of a hot summer day in New York.