he is best known as a hard-edged
wisecracking action hero welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re taking a
look at the career of actor Bruce Willis
Walter Bruce Willis was born March 19
1955 in West Germany as the son of an
American soldier and a German bank
employee the family relocated to New
Jersey early in his life and there
Willis attended Penns Grove High School
he was mocked by other children for a
stutter but he managed to conquer his
vocal twitch by enrolling in drama
classes and participating in stage
performances following high school he
took odd jobs which included
transporting work crews at a factory and
working as a security guard at a nuclear
power plant as luck would have it Willis
was finally discovered by a casting
director while he bartend it at a cafe
in New York this led to several
off-broadway performances however
Willis’s big break came in 1985 when he
won the role of a private eye opposite
civil Shepherd in the hit romantic
comedy series moonlighting with the help
of this series
Willis quickly established himself as a
hot new talent and used his charismatic
and wildly sarcastic personality to
charm audiences mr. Edison yes mr.
radish come on pal we’re in the toilet
call me Dave you have something that
belongs to me
not in here I die soon after
Willis became a superstar when he took
on the role of hard-boiled detective
John McClane in 1988 die hard in the
film Willis single-handedly took on a
Los Angeles skyscraper full of
terrorists you won’t hurt me
why not because you’re a policeman there
are rules for policemen so my captain
keeps telling me
Willis played that character twice more
over the next decade first in 1990s die
hard to die harder and then in 1995’s
die hard with a vengeance between saving
the day and spouting great one-liners
Willis voiced a baby in the popular
comedy
look who’s talking and its sequel this
has got to be the weirdest thing that
has ever happened to me well so far he
also starred in several notable
box-office flops including 1990s the
bonfire of the vanities and 1991 s
Hudson Hawk which was a project he had
co-written in spite of these box-office
misfires Willis thrilled audiences in
the last boy scout and astonished fans
as an alcoholic mortician married to an
undead Meryl Streep in the cult hit
death becomes her I’m being challenged
don’t you see Matlin as Willis was
normally typecast as an action hero he
followed these projects with a string of
mediocre action flicks
these included striking distance The
Jackal the siege and Mercury Rising
Simon is only in danger if they know
where he is
okay they don’t know where he is so he’s
not in danger so you’re not in danger
despite his rut the star did manage
several massive hits throughout the 90s
including his unforgettable performance
as boxer butch Coolidge and Quentin
Tarantino’s pulp fiction in fact this
performance is credited with reviving
his fading career he then appeared in
the thriller 12 monkeys saved the planet
in both the Fifth Element
and the summer box-office juggernaut
Armageddon and shocked audiences in M
night Shyamalan spine-tingling
masterpiece The Sixth Sense
he reunited with Shyamalan the following
year when he became a superhero in
unbreakable and then showed off his
lighter side in the gangster comedy the
whole nine yards so what are you gonna
do you’re gonna try to save her no I
want her dead too
really yeah you got a problem with why
would I join I know her I can’t believe
you people the turn of the millennium
saw some changes in his personal life
his 12-year marriage to Demi Moore came
to an end he then ended up on tabloid
covers alongside his family and his
ex-wife’s new love Ashton Kutcher Willis
then took the time to rediscover himself
and he rekindled his lifelong passion
for music
he then appeared in a string of military
dramas which included 2002’s hearts war
and 2003 tears of the Sun in 2005 Willis
appeared in the film adaptation of the
graphic novel Sin City and lent his
voice to a scheming raccoon in the
computer animated hit over the hedge
these projects didn’t build up nearly as
much anticipation as Willis’s eagerly
awaited reprisal of his most famous
on-screen persona in live free or die
hard
unfortunately this subpar sequel was
followed by critically panned flops like
surrogates and cop-out oh did you just
punch a little child
however he bucked that trend when he
appeared as part of an all-star cast in
the action comedy red Bruce Willis is an
unparalleled action star who is over two
decades worth of Fame behind him during
his iconic career the star has brought
Hollywood over two billion dollars in
box-office revenue
he continues to blow away audiences with
high-profile action projects including
2012’s looper and GI Joe – retaliation
that’s done what are you talking about
Willis
you ever heard that before
No
wisecracking action hero welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re taking a
look at the career of actor Bruce Willis
Walter Bruce Willis was born March 19
1955 in West Germany as the son of an
American soldier and a German bank
employee the family relocated to New
Jersey early in his life and there
Willis attended Penns Grove High School
he was mocked by other children for a
stutter but he managed to conquer his
vocal twitch by enrolling in drama
classes and participating in stage
performances following high school he
took odd jobs which included
transporting work crews at a factory and
working as a security guard at a nuclear
power plant as luck would have it Willis
was finally discovered by a casting
director while he bartend it at a cafe
in New York this led to several
off-broadway performances however
Willis’s big break came in 1985 when he
won the role of a private eye opposite
civil Shepherd in the hit romantic
comedy series moonlighting with the help
of this series
Willis quickly established himself as a
hot new talent and used his charismatic
and wildly sarcastic personality to
charm audiences mr. Edison yes mr.
radish come on pal we’re in the toilet
call me Dave you have something that
belongs to me
not in here I die soon after
Willis became a superstar when he took
on the role of hard-boiled detective
John McClane in 1988 die hard in the
film Willis single-handedly took on a
Los Angeles skyscraper full of
terrorists you won’t hurt me
why not because you’re a policeman there
are rules for policemen so my captain
keeps telling me
Willis played that character twice more
over the next decade first in 1990s die
hard to die harder and then in 1995’s
die hard with a vengeance between saving
the day and spouting great one-liners
Willis voiced a baby in the popular
comedy
look who’s talking and its sequel this
has got to be the weirdest thing that
has ever happened to me well so far he
also starred in several notable
box-office flops including 1990s the
bonfire of the vanities and 1991 s
Hudson Hawk which was a project he had
co-written in spite of these box-office
misfires Willis thrilled audiences in
the last boy scout and astonished fans
as an alcoholic mortician married to an
undead Meryl Streep in the cult hit
death becomes her I’m being challenged
don’t you see Matlin as Willis was
normally typecast as an action hero he
followed these projects with a string of
mediocre action flicks
these included striking distance The
Jackal the siege and Mercury Rising
Simon is only in danger if they know
where he is
okay they don’t know where he is so he’s
not in danger so you’re not in danger
despite his rut the star did manage
several massive hits throughout the 90s
including his unforgettable performance
as boxer butch Coolidge and Quentin
Tarantino’s pulp fiction in fact this
performance is credited with reviving
his fading career he then appeared in
the thriller 12 monkeys saved the planet
in both the Fifth Element
and the summer box-office juggernaut
Armageddon and shocked audiences in M
night Shyamalan spine-tingling
masterpiece The Sixth Sense
he reunited with Shyamalan the following
year when he became a superhero in
unbreakable and then showed off his
lighter side in the gangster comedy the
whole nine yards so what are you gonna
do you’re gonna try to save her no I
want her dead too
really yeah you got a problem with why
would I join I know her I can’t believe
you people the turn of the millennium
saw some changes in his personal life
his 12-year marriage to Demi Moore came
to an end he then ended up on tabloid
covers alongside his family and his
ex-wife’s new love Ashton Kutcher Willis
then took the time to rediscover himself
and he rekindled his lifelong passion
for music
he then appeared in a string of military
dramas which included 2002’s hearts war
and 2003 tears of the Sun in 2005 Willis
appeared in the film adaptation of the
graphic novel Sin City and lent his
voice to a scheming raccoon in the
computer animated hit over the hedge
these projects didn’t build up nearly as
much anticipation as Willis’s eagerly
awaited reprisal of his most famous
on-screen persona in live free or die
hard
unfortunately this subpar sequel was
followed by critically panned flops like
surrogates and cop-out oh did you just
punch a little child
however he bucked that trend when he
appeared as part of an all-star cast in
the action comedy red Bruce Willis is an
unparalleled action star who is over two
decades worth of Fame behind him during
his iconic career the star has brought
Hollywood over two billion dollars in
box-office revenue
he continues to blow away audiences with
high-profile action projects including
2012’s looper and GI Joe – retaliation
that’s done what are you talking about
Willis
you ever heard that before
No
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