Bruce Willis

Actor and musician Bruce Willis is well known for playing wisecracking or hard-edged characters, usually in stunning action films. He has been in over $2.5 billion dollars worth of films. 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 the United States military base. His family moved to U.S. soon after he was born. Willis was born in Penns Grove by his mother, who worked at the bank, while his father, a welding and factory worker and welder. Willis was interested in drama at the age of high school. While working in an New York City café, he was allegedly "discovered". He then was able to be seen in a variety of off-Broadway shows. While bartending one night the bartender was noticed by a casting director who appreciated his personality and needed a bartender for a small movie role. After numerous auditions, Willis contributed minor film appearances that were often uncredited, prior to taking on the role of the private investigator "David Addison" along with sultry Cybill Shepherd in the hit romantic comedy series on television Moonlighting (1985). The sarcastic and wisecracking P.I. is one of the highlights of his career. is seen by some as an opportunity to practice for the role of the hard-boiled NYC detective "John McClane" in the monster-movie Die Hard (1988), in which Willis McClane's character battled a gang of ruthless international thieves in 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 get back an evil South American general. They are set in Washington's Dulles International Airport. The sequel, Die hard with avengeance (1995) was a smash success. The film starred Samuel L. Jackson as an unrepentant Harlem shopkeeper who is forced to join forces with McClane in a terrorist bombing campaign that took place during a hot New York day.