Bruce Willis

Bruce Willis, actor and musician, is well-known for his smart and hard-edged characters in action films. Together, they've been featured in films grossing more than $2.5 billion dollars. Walter Bruce Willis was born on the 19th of March 1955 in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany, to a German mother, Marlene Kassel, and an American father, David Andrew Willis (from Carneys Point, New Jersey) they were living on a United States military base. His family moved to U.S. soon after he was born. Willis was born in Penns Grove by his mother working at an institution, and his father who was a welder who was a factory worker and welder. Willis was an avid drama fan during his high school. While working at a New York City café, his name was "discovered". Then, he went on to appear in a few off-Broadway productions. He was bartending when a casting director spotted his charisma and asked for him to serve as an bartender in a short film. After numerous auditions, Willis had a brief appearance in films typically uncredited, before landing the role of private investigator "David Addison" along with the sultry Cybill Shepherd on the cult romantic comedy television series Moonlighting (1985). His humorous and wisecracking P.I. His sarcastic and wisecracking P.I. is frequently viewed as a test run for his role as John McClane, the hardboiled NYC detective in Die Hard (1988), that saw Willis fight a group of ruthless international thieves at a Los Angeles skyscraper. He reprised his role as McClane in the follow-up film, Die Hard 2 (1990) that was set at snow-covered Washington's Dulles International Airport as a group of rebellious Special Forces soldiers seek to get back an infamous South American general. The sequel, Die Hard with Avengeance (1995) was a huge success. The film starred Samuel L. Jackson as a cynical Harlem shopowner who is forced to aid McClane in a bombing campaign that took place in the midst of a scorching New York day.