Bruce Willis

Bruce Willis, an actor and musician, is well-known for his hard-edged characters and funny characters in action films. Collectively, he has appeared in films with a budget in excess of $2.5 billion dollars. Walter Bruce Willis was born on March 19 1955 in Idar-Oberstein in West Germany, to a German mother, Marlene Kassel, and an American father, David Andrew Willis (from Carneys Point, New Jersey) they were living on the United States military base. His family immigrated to the U.S. soon after he was born. Willis was raised in Penns Grove by his mother who worked in an institution, and his father, who was a welder employed in a factory and welder. Willis was drawn to drama during high school. When he worked at a New York City café, he was allegedly "discovered". Then, he began to appear in a variety of off-Broadway shows. He was working as a bartender one night when a casting manager noticed his charisma and asked for his services as bartender in a tiny movie. Willis was a part of numerous auditions, before getting the role in the cult romantic comedy, Moonlighting (1985), as David Addison. The sly and wise-cracking P.I. His hilarious and wisecracking P.I. is frequently seen as a pre-test to test his character John McClane, the hardboiled NYC detective in Die Hard (1988), in which Willis confront a band of vicious international thieves at a Los Angeles skyscraper. In Die Hard 2 (1990) in which he reprised the character. The group of rebellious Special Forces soldiers is trying to return a corrupt South American general. They are located in Washington's Dulles International Airport. Strong box office results prompted an additional sequel Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) with a new co-starring Samuel L. Jackson as the sly Harlem shop owner who is accidentally dragged to assist McClane in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing campaign on a scorching day in New York.