Bruce Willis

Bruce Willis, actor and musician, is well-known for his wisecracking and hard-edged role in action films. Together, they've appeared in movies that have grossed more than $2.5 billion dollars. Walter Bruce Willis, a West German-born actor, was born in Idar–Oberstein, West Germany on March 19 1955. He was the son of Marlene Kassel (from Carneys Point), and David Andrew Willis (from New Jersey), who lived on a military base within the United States. His family moved to U.S. shortly after he was born. He was raised in Penns Grove, New Jersey where his mother worked in a bank and where his father worked as a welder and factory worker. Willis discovered a love in drama during high school and was allegedly "discovered" when he was working at the cafe located in New York City and then appeared in a couple of off-Broadway productions. He was working as a bartender one night when a casting director noticed his charm and approached for him to serve as a bartender in a small movie. After countless auditions Willis was credited with a couple of film appearances which were usually uncredited. He then being cast as the private eye "David Addison" alongside the gorgeous Cybill Shepherd in the smash romantic comedy television series Moonlighting (1985). His humorous and wisecracking P.I. Many view it as an opportunity to practice to prepare for Willis as McClane in Die Hard (1988), where he defeated the gang of thieves who were stealing from a Los Angeles skyscraper. The sequel, Die Hard 2 (1990) Willis reprised his role as McClane. The story was set in Washington's Dulles International Airport where a group of rebellious Special Forces soldiers are trying to get back an incorrigible South American general. The success of the film at the box office prompted another sequel Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) which, this time with co-star Samuel L. Jackson as an unrepentant Harlem shop owner who accidentally gets into assisting McClane during a terrorist bombing campaign during a hot day in New York.