Bruce Willis

Musician and actor Bruce Willis is well known for his wise-cracking or hard-edged characters, most often in spectacular action films. Bruce Willis has been featured in over $2.5 billion dollars of films. Walter Bruce Willis, a West German 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. The family moved to the U.S. shortly after he was born. He was raised in Penns Grove, New Jersey, where his mother worked at a bank and his father worked as a welder as well as a factory worker. Willis picked up an interest in drama during high school and was "discovered" when he was working at the cafe in New York City and then performed in a few off-Broadway productions. In one bar the bartender was noticed by the casting director who was impressed by his personality and needed bartenders for a tiny movie part. Willis tried out for a variety of roles in films however, he was not given credit. He ultimately got the role as David Addison, a private investigator, playing Cybill Shepherd, in the romantic comedy series Moonlighting (1985). His humorous and wisecracking P.I. His humorous and wisecracking P.I. is frequently seen as a test for his character John McClane, the hardboiled NYC detective in Die Hard (1988), which saw Willis battle a gang ruthless international thieves in the top of a Los Angeles skyscraper. In Die Hard 2 (1990), he reprised the role. A 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 film's impressive performance at the box office prompted an sequel to Die Hard with the same vengeance (1995). This time Samuel L. Jackson starred as a shrewd Harlem shop owner, who was unaware of his role and was forced to help McClane during a terrorist attack on a hot New York City day.