Bruce Willis (full name Walter Bruce Willis) was born on March 19, 1955, in a U.S. military base, in Idar-Oberstein, Germany. He is a famous American actor and singer.
Biography and Career :
Walter Bruce Willis was born in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany on March 19, 1955 to parents Marlene, Kassel-born German, who worked in a bank, and David Willis, an American soldier. Bruce Willis is the youngest of four children and he has a sister, Florence, and a brother, David.
He also had a brother named Robert that died of pancreatic cancer in 2001, aged 42. After ending his military duty in 1957, Bruce Willis's father took his family back to Penns Grove, New Jersey, where he was employed as a welder and factory worker.
His parents divorced in 1972, while Bruce Willis was in his teens. Bruce Willis attended Penns Grove High School in his hometown, where he encountered issues with a stutter and was nicknamed Buck-Buck by his schoolmates. Finding it easy to express himself on stage and losing his stutter in the process, Bruce Willis started performing on stage and his high school activities were marked by such things as the drama club and student council president.
Why is Bruce Willis famous?
Bruce Willis is an American actor, producer, and musician and his career began in television in the 1980s and has continued both in television and film since, including comedic, dramatic and action roles. He is mostly known for the role of John McClane in the "Die Hard" series, which were mostly critical and uniformly financial successes. He has also appeared in over sixty films, including box office successes like "Pulp Fiction"," Sin City", "12 Monkeys", "The Fifth Element", "Armageddon", and "The Sixth Sense".
Why do we like Bruce Willis?
Motion pictures featuring Bruce Willis have gain US$2.64 billion to 3.05 billion at North American box offices, making him the ninth highest-grossing actor in a leading role and twelfth highest including supporting roles.
He won two times an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award and four-time he won a Saturn Award-nominated actor. Bruce Willis has been married to actress Demi Moore and they had three daughters before their divorce in 2000 after thirteen years of marriage.
Filmography :
- The Last Full Measure (2007)
- Morgan's Summit (2007)
- Black Water Transit (2007)
- Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
- Perfect Stranger (2007)
- The Astronaut Farmer (2007)
- Hammy's Boomerang Adventure (2006) (V) (voice)
- Fast Food Nation (2006)
- Over the Hedge (2006) (voice)
- 16 Blocks (2006)
- Lucky Number Slevin (2006)
- Alpha Dog (2006)
- "That '70s Show" (1 episode, 2005)
- Sin City (2005)
- Hostage (2005/I)
- The Whole Ten Yards (2004)
- Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) (uncredited)
- Rugrats Go Wild (2003) (voice)
- Tears of the Sun (2003)
- True West (2002) (TV)
- Grand Champion (2002)
- Hart's War (2002)
- Bandits (2001)
- Unbreakable (2000)
- The Kid (2000)
- "Friends" (3 episodes, 2000)
- The Whole Nine Yards (2000)
- The Story of Us (1999)
- The Sixth Sense (1999)
- Breakfast of Champions (1999)
- "Ally McBeal" (1 episode, 1999)
- Apocalypse (1998) (VG)
- The Siege (1998/I)
- The Fifth Element (1998) (VG) (voice)
- Armageddon (1998)
- Mercury Rising (1998)
- The Jackal (1997)
- The Fifth Element (1997)
- Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996) (voice)
- Last Man Standing (1996/I)
- "Bruno the Kid" (1996) TV Series (voice)
- Bruno the Kid: The Animated Movie (1996) (V) (voice)
- Twelve Monkeys (1995)
- Four Rooms (1995) (uncredited)
- Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
- Nobody's Fool (1994)
- Color of Night (1994)
- North (1994)
- Pulp Fiction (1994)
- Striking Distance (1993)
- Loaded Weapon 1 (1993) (uncredited)
- Death Becomes Her (1992)
- The Last Boy Scout (1991)
- Billy Bathgate (1991)
- Hudson Hawk (1991)
- Mortal Thoughts (1991)
- The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
- Look Who's Talking Too (1990) (voice)
- Die Hard 2 (1990)
- Look Who's Talking (1989) (voice)
- In Country (1989)
- "Moonlighting" (21 episodes, 1985-1989)
- Die Hard (1988)
- Sunset (1988)
- The Return of Bruno (1988)
- Blind Date (1987)
- "The Twilight Zone" (1 episode, 1985)
- "Miami Vice" (1 episode, 1984)
- The Verdict (1982) (uncredited)
- Guru kommt, Ein (1980) (TV) (uncredited)
- The First Deadly Sin (1980) (uncredited).
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