Bruce Willis

The actor and musician Bruce Willis is well known for playing wisecracking or hard-edged characters, typically in spectacular action films. Together, he's been in films that have grossed more than $2.5 billion USD. Walter Bruce Willis was born on the 19th of March, 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) and was living on a United States military base. His family moved to America soon after his birth. He grew up in Penns Grove (New Jersey) where his mother was a bank clerk and his father was an electrician as well as a worker in an industrial facility. Willis developed an interest for the dramatic arts in high school. He was allegedly "discovered" when he was working at the cafe located in New York City and then participated in a couple of off-Broadway productions. One evening, Willis was working as a bartender and was noticed by a casting supervisor who liked his personality. He needed bartenders for one small part in a film. Willis was a candidate for a variety of roles in films, but was not acknowledged. He finally got the part of David Addison, a private eye, along with Cybill Shepherd, in the romantic comedy show Moonlighting (1985). His humorous and wisecracking P.I. is seen by some as an exercise in preparation for the role of the hard-boiled NYC detective "John McClane" in the horror film Die Hard (1988), in which Willis his character fought a gang of ruthless international thieves inside a Los Angeles skyscraper. Willis reprised the role of McClane in the follow-up film, Die Hard 2 (1990) and was set in snow-covered Washington's Dulles International Airport as a group of rebellious Special Forces soldiers seek to return a corrupt South American general. The film's impressive performance at the box office prompted an sequel to Die Hard with bloodshed (1995). This time Samuel L. Jackson starred as a cynical Harlem shop owner who is not aware of the fact that he was required to help McClane in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on a scorching New York City day.