Bruce Willis

The actor and musician Bruce Willis is well known for his wise-cracking or hard-edged characters, usually in stunning action films. He has been in over $2.5 billion in films. Walter Bruce Willis was born on March 19, 1955 in the city of Idar-Oberstein (West Germany) to Marlene Kassel and David Andrew Willis (from Carneys Point New Jersey), both of whom were living at the United States military base. His family moved to America shortly after his birth. He grew up in Penns Grove (New Jersey) where his mother worked as a bank clerk and his father worked as an electrician and in a factory. Willis was interested in acting at the age of high school. While working in the New York City café, his name was "discovered". He then was able to be seen in a variety of off-Broadway shows. He was bartending when a casting manager noticed his style and asked for his services as a bartender in a small film. Willis was involved in numerous auditions prior to being cast in the romantic comedy of the same name, Moonlighting (1985), as David Addison. The sly and wise-cracking P.I. Some believe it's an exercise in preparation to practice for Willis the role he played in Die Hard (1988), where he defeated the thieves of a gang who were stealing from a Los Angeles skyscraper. In Die Hard 2 (1990) Willis reprised his character. The group of rebellious Special Forces soldiers is trying to restore a corrupt South American general. They are located in Washington's Dulles International Airport. Strong box office results prompted a further sequel, Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) and this time co-starring Samuel L. Jackson as an obnoxious Harlem shop owner who has been sucked into assisting McClane in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing campaign in the midst of a hot summer day in New York.