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Bruce Willis

February 15, 2024

Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is an American retired actor. He achieved fame with a leading role on the comedy-drama series Moonlighting (1985–1989) and has appeared in over a hundred films, gaining recognition as an action hero for his portrayal of John McClane in the Die Hard franchise (1988–2013).[1][2]

Bruce Willis
Willis in 2018
Born
Walter Bruce Willis

(1955-03-19) March 19, 1955 (age 68)
Idar-Oberstein, West Germany
NationalityAmerican
Occupations
  • Actor
  • singer
Years active1980–2022
WorksFilmography
Spouses
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    (m. 1987; div. 2000)​
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    (m. 2009)​
Children5, including Rumer
AwardsFull list

Willis's other notable credits include The Last Boy Scout (1991), Pulp Fiction (1994), 12 Monkeys (1995), The Fifth Element (1997), Armageddon (1998), The Sixth Sense (1999), Unbreakable, The Whole Nine Yards (both 2000), Tears of the Sun (2003), Sin City (2005), The Expendables, Red (both 2010), Looper (2012) and Glass (2019). In the later years of his career, Willis starred in many low-budget direct-to-video films, which were mostly poorly received. In March 2022, Willis's family announced that he was retiring from acting due to aphasia. In February 2023, he was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.

As a singer, Willis released his debut album, The Return of Bruno, in 1987, followed by two more albums in 1989 and 2001. He made his Broadway debut in the stage adaptation of Misery in 2015. Willis has received various accolades throughout his career, including a Golden Globe Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and two People's Choice Awards. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006. Films featuring Willis have grossed between US$2.64 billion and US$3.05 billion at North American box offices, making him in 2010 the eighth-highest-grossing leading actor.

Early life

Walter Bruce Willis[3] was born in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany, on March 19, 1955.[4][5] His mother, Marlene,[6] was German, from Kassel.[4] His father, David Willis, was an American soldier. Willis has a younger sister, Florence, and two younger brothers, Robert (deceased) and David.[7] After being discharged from the military in 1957, his father relocated the family to his hometown of Carneys Point, New Jersey.[8] Willis has described his background as a "long line of blue-collar people".[8] His mother worked in a bank and his father was a welder, master mechanic, and factory worker.[3]

Willis, who spoke with a stutter,[8] attended Penns Grove High School, where his schoolmates nicknamed him "Buck-Buck".[3][9][10] He joined the drama club, found that acting on stage reduced his stutter, and was eventually elected student council president.[3]

After graduating from high school in 1973, Willis worked as a security guard at the Salem Nuclear Power Plant[11][12] and transported crew members at the DuPont Chambers Works factory in Deepwater, New Jersey.[12] After working as a private investigator (a role he would later play in the comedy-drama series Moonlighting and the action-comedy film The Last Boy Scout), he turned to acting. He enrolled in the Drama Program at Montclair State University,[13] where he was cast in a production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He left school in 1977 and moved to New York City, where he supported himself in the early 1980s as a bartender at the Manhattan art bar Kamikaze[14][15] while living in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood.[16]

Career

1980s: Moonlighting, Die Hard and rise to fame

 
Willis at the 61st Academy Awards in 1989

Willis was cast as David Addison Jr. in the television series Moonlighting (1985–1989), competing against 3,000 other actors for the position.[17] His starring role in Moonlighting, opposite Cybill Shepherd, helped to establish him as a comedic actor. During the show's five seasons, he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy.[8] During the height of the show's success, beverage maker Seagram hired Willis as the pitchman for their Golden Wine Cooler products.[18] The advertising campaign paid Willis US$5–7 million over two years. Willis chose not to renew his contract when he decided to stop drinking alcohol in 1988.[19]

Willis had his first lead role in a feature film in the 1987 Blake Edwards film Blind Date, with Kim Basinger and John Larroquette.[8] Edwards cast him again to play the real-life cowboy actor Tom Mix in Sunset (1988). However, it was his unexpected turn in the film Die Hard (1988) as John McClane that catapulted him to movie star and action hero status.[8] He performed most of his own stunts in the film,[20] and the film grossed $138,708,852 worldwide.[21] Following his success with Die Hard, Willis had a leading role in the drama In Country as Vietnam veteran Emmett Smith and also provided the voice for a talking baby in Look Who's Talking (1989) and the sequel Look Who's Talking Too (1990).[22][23]

In the late 1980s, Willis enjoyed moderate success as a recording artist, recording an album of pop-blues, The Return of Bruno, which included the hit single "Respect Yourself" featuring the Pointer Sisters.[24] The LP was promoted by a Spinal Tap–like rockumentary parody featuring scenes of Willis performing at famous events including Woodstock. He released a version of the Drifters song "Under the Boardwalk" as a second single; it reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart, but was less successful in the US. Willis returned to the recording studio several times.[25]

1990s: Die Hard sequels, Pulp Fiction and dramatic roles

Having acquired major personal success and pop culture influence playing John McClane in Die Hard, Willis reprised his role in the sequels Die Hard 2 (1990) and Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995).[8] These first three installments in the Die Hard series grossed over US$700 million internationally and propelled Willis to the first rank of Hollywood action stars.[citation needed]

In the early 1990s, Willis's career suffered a moderate slump, as he starred in flops such as The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) and Hudson Hawk (1991), although he did find box office success with The Last Boy Scout. He gained more success with Striking Distance (1993) but flopped again with Color of Night (1994): it was savaged by critics but did well in the home video market and became one of the Top 20 most-rented films in the United States in 1995.[26] Maxim also ranked his sex scene in the film as the best in film history.[27]

In 1994, Willis also had a leading role in one part of Quentin Tarantino's acclaimed Pulp Fiction;[8] the film's success gave a boost to his career, and he starred alongside his Look Who's Talking co-star John Travolta.[28] In 1996, he was the executive producer and star of the cartoon Bruno the Kid which featured a CGI representation of himself. That same year, he starred in Mike Judge's animated film Beavis and Butt-head Do America with his then-wife Demi Moore. In the movie, he plays a drunken criminal named "Muddy Grimes", who mistakenly sends Judge's titular characters to kill his wife, Dallas (voiced by Moore). He then played the lead roles in 12 Monkeys (1995) and The Fifth Element (1997). However, by the end of the 1990s his career had fallen into another slump with critically panned films like The Jackal (which despite negative reviews was a box office hit), Mercury Rising, and Breakfast of Champions, as well as the implosion of the production of Broadway Brawler, a debacle salvaged only by the success of the Michael Bay-directed Armageddon, which Willis had agreed to star in as compensation for the failed production, and which turned out to be the highest-grossing film of 1998 worldwide.[29][30] The same year his voice and likeness were featured in the PlayStation video game Apocalypse.[31] In 1999, Willis played the starring role in M. Night Shyamalan's film The Sixth Sense, which was both a commercial and critical success.[8]

2000s

 
Willis after a ceremony where he was named Hasty Pudding Theatrical's Man of the Year in 2002

In 2000, Willis won an Emmy[32] for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his work on Friends (in which he played the father of Ross Geller's much-younger girlfriend).[33] He was also nominated for a 2001 American Comedy Award (in the Funniest Male Guest Appearance in a TV Series category) for his work on Friends. Also in 2000, Willis played Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski in The Whole Nine Yards alongside Matthew Perry. Willis was originally cast as Terry Benedict in Ocean's Eleven (2001) but dropped out to work on recording an album.[34] In the sequel, Ocean's Twelve (2004), he makes a cameo appearance as himself. In 2005, he appeared in the film adaptation of Sin City. In 2006, he lent his voice as RJ the Raccoon in Over the Hedge. In 2007, he appeared in the Planet Terror half of the double feature Grindhouse as the villain, a mutant soldier. This marked Willis's second collaboration with the director Robert Rodriguez, following Sin City.

Willis appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman several times throughout his career. He filled in for an ill David Letterman on his show on February 26, 2003, when he was supposed to be a guest.[35] On many of his appearances on the show, Willis staged elaborate jokes, such as wearing a day-glo orange suit in honor of the Central Park gates, having one side of his face made up with simulated birdshot wounds after the Harry Whittington shooting, or trying to break a record (a parody of David Blaine) of staying underwater for only twenty seconds.

 
Willis at a Live Free or Die Hard premiere in June 2007

On April 12, 2007, he appeared again, this time wearing a Sanjaya Malakar wig.[36] On his June 25, 2007, appearance, he wore a mini-wind turbine on his head to accompany a joke about his own fictional documentary titled An Unappealing Hunch (a wordplay on An Inconvenient Truth).[37] Willis also appeared in Japanese Subaru Legacy television commercials.[38] Tying in with this, Subaru did a limited run of Legacys, badged "Subaru Legacy Touring Bruce", in honor of Willis.

Willis has appeared in five films with Samuel L. Jackson (National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1, Pulp Fiction, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Unbreakable, and Glass) and both actors were slated to work together in Black Water Transit, before dropping out. Willis also worked with his eldest daughter, Rumer, in the 2005 film Hostage. In 2007, he appeared in the thriller Perfect Stranger, opposite Halle Berry, the crime/drama film Alpha Dog, opposite Sharon Stone, and reprised his role as John McClane in Live Free or Die Hard. Subsequently, he appeared in the films What Just Happened and Surrogates, based on the comic book of the same name.[39]

Willis was slated to play U.S. Army general William R. Peers in director Oliver Stone's Pinkville, a drama about the investigation of the 1968 My Lai massacre.[40] However, due to the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike, the film was canceled. Willis appeared on the 2008 Blues Traveler album North Hollywood Shootout, giving a spoken word performance over an instrumental blues rock jam on the track "Free Willis (Ruminations from Behind Uncle Bob's Machine Shop)". In early 2009, he appeared in an advertising campaign to publicize the insurance company Norwich Union's change of name to Aviva.[41]

2010s

As of 2010, Willis was the eighth highest-grossing actor in a leading role and 12th-highest including supporting roles.[42][43] Willis starred with Tracy Morgan in the 2010 comedy Cop Out, directed by Kevin Smith, about two police detectives investigating the theft of a baseball card.[44] Willis appeared in the music video for the song "Stylo" by Gorillaz.[45] Also in 2010, he appeared in a cameo with the former Planet Hollywood co-owners and 80s action stars Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger in the film The Expendables. Willis played the role of CIA agent "Mr. Church". It was the first time the three action stars had appeared on screen together. Although the scene featuring the three was short, it was one of the most highly anticipated scenes in the film. The trio filmed their scene in an empty church on October 24, 2009.[46] Willis next starred in RED, an adaptation of the comic book mini-series of the same name, in which he portrayed Frank Moses. The film was released on October 15, 2010.[47]

 
Willis with The Expendables co-star Sylvester Stallone, 2010

Willis starred alongside Bill Murray, Edward Norton, and Frances McDormand in Moonrise Kingdom (2012). Filming took place in Rhode Island under the direction of Wes Anderson, in 2011.[48] Willis returned, in an expanded role, in The Expendables 2 (2012).[49] He appeared alongside Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the sci-fi action film Looper (2012), as the older version of Gordon-Levitt's character, Joe.

Willis teamed up with 50 Cent in a film directed by David Barrett called Fire with Fire, starring opposite Josh Duhamel and Rosario Dawson, about a fireman who must save the love of his life.[50] Willis also joined Vince Vaughn and Catherine Zeta-Jones in Lay the Favorite, directed by Stephen Frears, about a Las Vegas cocktail waitress who becomes an elite professional gambler.[51] The two films were distributed by Lionsgate Entertainment.

Willis reprised his most famous role, John McClane, for a fifth time, starring in A Good Day to Die Hard, which was released on February 14, 2013.[52] In an interview, Willis said, "I have a warm spot in my heart for Die Hard..... it's just the sheer novelty of being able to play the same character over 25 years and still be asked back is fun. It's much more challenging to have to do a film again and try to compete with myself, which is what I do in Die Hard. I try to improve my work every time."[53]

On October 12, 2013, Willis hosted Saturday Night Live with Katy Perry as a musical guest.[54] In 2015, Willis made his Broadway debut in William Goldman's adaptation of Stephen King's novel Misery opposite Laurie Metcalf at the Broadhurst Theatre. His performance was generally panned by critics, who called it "vacant" and "inert".[55] Willis was the subject of a roast by Comedy Central in a program broadcast on July 29, 2018.[56] Willis played himself in a cameo in the 2019 film The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part.[57]

2020s: Critical decline, health problems and retirement

In the final years of his career, Willis starred in many low-budget independent thrillers and science fiction films.[58] He worked primarily with the production companies Emmett/Furla Oasis, headed by Randall Emmett, and 308 Entertainment Inc, headed by Corey Large. Emmett/Furla Oasis produced 20 films starring Willis.[59] Described by Chris Nashawaty of Esquire as "a profitable safe harbor" for older actors, similar to The Expendables, most of the films were released direct-to-video and were widely panned.[58] Willis would often earn US$2 million for two days' work, with an average of 15 minutes' screentime per film.[60] He was nonetheless featured heavily in the films' promotional materials, earning them the derogatory nickname "geezer teasers".[61][62] The Golden Raspberry Awards, an annual award for the year's worst films and performances, created a dedicated category, the Worst Bruce Willis Performance in a 2021 Movie, for his roles in eight films released that year.[63]

Those working on the films later said Willis appeared confused, did not understand why he was there and had to be fed lines through an earpiece.[59] Days before Willis was scheduled to arrive on set for Out of Death (2021), the screenwriter was instructed to reduce his role and abbreviate his dialogue, and the director, Mike Burns, was told to complete all of Willis's scenes in a single day of filming.[59]

On March 30, 2022, Willis's family announced that he was retiring because he had been diagnosed with aphasia, a disorder typically caused by damage to the area of the brain that controls language expression and comprehension.[64] The Golden Raspberry Awards retracted its Willis category, saying it was inappropriate to award a Golden Raspberry to someone whose performance was affected by a medical condition.[65] At the time of his retirement, Willis had completed 11 films awaiting release.[64][66][67]

On February 16, 2023, Willis's family announced that he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.[68] According to Dr. Gregg Day, a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic's Florida campus, the symptoms include difficulties with language and comprehension, as well as misinterpretation of instructions.[69] In a statement, the family said that Willis's condition had progressed and that "challenges with communication are just one symptom of the disease".[70] They expressed hope that media attention on Willis would raise awareness about the disease.[71]

Business activities

Willis owns houses in Los Angeles and Penns Grove, New Jersey. He also rents apartments at Trump Tower[72] and in Riverside South, Manhattan.[73]

In 2000, Willis and his business partner Arnold Rifkin started a motion picture production company called Cheyenne Enterprises. He left the company to be run solely by Rifkin in 2007 after Live Free or Die Hard.[74] He also owns several small businesses in Hailey, Idaho, including The Mint Bar and The Liberty Theater and was one of the first promoters of Planet Hollywood, with actors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.[75] Willis and the other actors were paid for their appearances and endorsements through an employee stock ownership plan.[76]

In 2009, Willis signed a contract to become the international face of Belvedere SA's Sobieski Vodka in exchange for 3.3% ownership in the company.[77]

Personal life

 
Willis in June 2006

Willis's acting role models are Gary Cooper, Robert De Niro, Steve McQueen, and John Wayne.[78] He is left-handed.[79] He resides in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles with his family.[80]

At the premiere for the film Stakeout, Willis met actress Demi Moore. They married on November 21, 1987, and had three daughters, including Rumer, who was born in August 1988.[81][82][83][84] Willis and Moore announced their separation on June 24, 1998.[85] They filed for divorce on October 18, 2000,[86] and the divorce was finalized later that day.[87][88] Regarding the divorce, Willis stated, "I felt I had failed as a father and a husband by not being able to make it work." He credited actor Will Smith for helping him cope with the situation.[18] He has maintained a close friendship with both Moore and her subsequent husband, actor Ashton Kutcher, and attended their wedding.[89]

Willis was engaged to actress Brooke Burns until they broke up in 2004 after ten months together.[17] He married model Emma Heming in Turks and Caicos on March 21, 2009;[90] guests included his three daughters, as well as Moore and Kutcher. The ceremony was not legally binding, so the couple wed again in a civil ceremony in Beverly Hills six days later. The couple has two daughters, one born in 2012[91] and another born in 2014.[92]

Military interests

Throughout his film career, Willis has depicted several military characters in films such as In Country, The Siege, Hart's War, Tears of the Sun, Grindhouse, and G.I. Joe: Retaliation. Willis grew up in a military family. Willis has donated Girl Scout cookies to the United States armed forces. In 2002, Willis's then 8-year-old daughter, Tallulah, suggested that he purchase Girl Scout cookies to send to troops. Willis purchased 12,000 boxes of cookies, and they were distributed to sailors aboard USS John F. Kennedy and other troops stationed throughout the Middle East at the time.[93]

 
Willis meets with Brigadier General Albert Bryant Jr. and deployed soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division, in Tikrit, Iraq, during his 2003 USO tour.

In 2003, Willis visited Iraq as part of the USO tour, singing to the troops with his band, The Accelerators.[94] Willis considered joining the military to help fight the second Iraq War, but was deterred by his age.[95] It was believed he offered US$1 million to any noncombatant who turned in terrorist leaders Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, or Abu Musab al-Zarqawi; in the June 2007 issue of Vanity Fair, however, he clarified that the statement was made hypothetically and not meant to be taken literally. Willis has also criticized the media for its coverage of the war, complaining that the press was more likely to focus on the negative aspects of the war:

I went to Iraq because what I saw when I was over there was soldiers—young kids for the most part—helping people in Iraq; helping getting the power turned back on, helping get hospitals open, helping get the water turned back on and you don't hear any of that on the news. You hear, "X number of people were killed today," which I think does a huge disservice. It's like spitting on these young men and women who are over there fighting to help this country.[96]

Religious beliefs

Willis was a Lutheran,[97] but no longer practices. In a July 1998 interview with George magazine, he stated: "Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms. They were all very important when we didn't know why the sun moved, why weather changed, why hurricanes occurred, or volcanoes happened. Modern religion is the end trail of modern mythology. But there are people who interpret the Bible literally. Literally! I choose not to believe that's the way. And that's what makes America cool, you know?"[98]

When asked by a Hollywood.tv reporter as to how he could stay grounded in Hollywood, Willis responded: "I just thank God every day for [...] everything great that's come my way."[99]

Political views

In 1988, Willis and then-wife Demi Moore campaigned for Democratic Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis's Presidential bid. Four years later, he supported President George H. W. Bush for reelection and was an outspoken critic of Bill Clinton. However, in 1996, he declined to endorse Clinton's Republican opponent Bob Dole, because Dole had criticized Demi Moore for her role in the film Striptease.[100] Willis was an invited speaker at the 2000 Republican National Convention,[101] and supported George W. Bush that year.[18]

In 2006, Willis said that the United States should intervene more in Colombia in order to end drug trafficking.[102] In several interviews Willis has said that he supports large salaries for teachers and police officers, and said he is disappointed in the United States foster care system as well as treatment of Native Americans.[100][103] Willis also stated that he is a supporter of gun rights, stating, "Everyone has a right to bear arms. If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who have guns are the bad guys."[104]

In February 2006, Willis was in Manhattan to promote his film 16 Blocks with reporters. One reporter attempted to ask Willis about his opinion on the Bush administration, but was interrupted by Willis in mid-sentence when he said: "I'm sick of answering this fucking question. I'm a Republican only as far as I want a smaller government, I want less government intrusion. I want them to stop shitting on my money and your money and tax dollars that we give 50 percent of every year. I want them to be fiscally responsible and I want these goddamn lobbyists out of Washington. Do that and I'll say I'm a Republican. I hate the government, OK? I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican."[105] Willis did not make any contributions or public endorsements in the 2008 presidential campaign. In several June 2007 interviews, he declared that he maintains some Republican ideologies.[18]

Willis's name was in an advertisement in the Los Angeles Times on August 17, 2006, that condemned Hamas and Hezbollah and supported Israel in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war.[106]

In 2012, Willis stated that he had a negative opinion of Mitt Romney.[107]

Filmography

Main article: Bruce Willis filmography

Discography

Solo albums

  • 1987: The Return of Bruno (Motown, OCLC 15508727)
  • 1989: If It Don't Kill You, It Just Makes You Stronger (Motown/Pgd, OCLC 21322754)
  • 2001: Classic Bruce Willis: The Universal Masters Collection (Polygram Int'l, OCLC 71124889)

Compilations/guest appearances

Awards and honors

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Bruce Willis
 
Willis's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
 
Willis's hands and footprints at Grauman's Chinese Theatre

Willis has won a variety of awards and has received various honors throughout his career in television and film.

  • 1987: Golden Apple Awards honored with the Sour Apple.[108]
  • 1994: Maxim magazine ranked his sex scene in Color of Night the No. 1 sex scene in film history[27]
  • 2000: American Cinematheque Gala Tribute honored Willis with the American Cinematheque Award for an extraordinary artist in the entertainment industry who is fully engaged in his or her work and is committed to making a significant contribution to the art of the motion pictures.
  • 2002: The Hasty Pudding Man of the Year award from Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals – given to performers who give a lasting and impressive contribution to the world of entertainment[109]
  • 2002: Appointed as national spokesman for Children in Foster Care by President George W. Bush;[110] Willis wrote online: "I saw Foster Care as a way for me to serve my country in a system by which shining a little bit of light could benefit a great deal by helping kids who were literally wards of the government."[111]
  • 2005: Golden Camera Award for Best International Actor by the Manaki Brothers Film Festival.[112]
  • 2006: Honored by French government for his contributions to the film industry; appointed an Officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters in a ceremony in Paris; the French Prime Minister stated, "This is France's way of paying tribute to an actor who epitomizes the strength of American cinema, the power of the emotions that he invites us to share on the world's screens and the sturdy personalities of his legendary characters."[113]
  • 2006: Honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on October 16; located at 6915 Hollywood Boulevard and it was the 2,321st star awarded in its history; at the reception, he stated, "I used to come down here and look at these stars and I could never quite figure out what you were supposed to do to get one...time has passed and now here I am doing this, and I'm still excited. I'm still excited to be an actor."[114]
  • 2011: Inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame[115]
  • 2013: Promoted to the dignity of Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters on February 11 by French Minister of Culture Aurélie Filippetti[116]

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bruce, willis, walter, born, march, 1955, american, retired, actor, achieved, fame, with, leading, role, comedy, drama, series, moonlighting, 1985, 1989, appeared, over, hundred, films, gaining, recognition, action, hero, portrayal, john, mcclane, hard, franch. Walter Bruce Willis born March 19 1955 is an American retired actor He achieved fame with a leading role on the comedy drama series Moonlighting 1985 1989 and has appeared in over a hundred films gaining recognition as an action hero for his portrayal of John McClane in the Die Hard franchise 1988 2013 1 2 Bruce WillisWillis in 2018BornWalter Bruce Willis 1955 03 19 March 19 1955 age 68 Idar Oberstein West GermanyNationalityAmericanOccupationsActorsingerYears active1980 2022WorksFilmographySpousesDemi Moore m 1987 div 2000 wbr Emma Heming m 2009 wbr Children5 including RumerAwardsFull listWillis s other notable credits include The Last Boy Scout 1991 Pulp Fiction 1994 12 Monkeys 1995 The Fifth Element 1997 Armageddon 1998 The Sixth Sense 1999 Unbreakable The Whole Nine Yards both 2000 Tears of the Sun 2003 Sin City 2005 The Expendables Red both 2010 Looper 2012 and Glass 2019 In the later years of his career Willis starred in many low budget direct to video films which were mostly poorly received In March 2022 Willis s family announced that he was retiring from acting due to aphasia In February 2023 he was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia As a singer Willis released his debut album The Return of Bruno in 1987 followed by two more albums in 1989 and 2001 He made his Broadway debut in the stage adaptation of Misery in 2015 Willis has received various accolades throughout his career including a Golden Globe Award two Primetime Emmy Awards and two People s Choice Awards He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006 Films featuring Willis have grossed between US 2 64 billion and US 3 05 billion at North American box offices making him in 2010 the eighth highest grossing leading actor Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 1980s Moonlighting Die Hard and rise to fame 2 2 1990s Die Hard sequels Pulp Fiction and dramatic roles 2 3 2000s 2 4 2010s 2 5 2020s Critical decline health problems and retirement 3 Business activities 4 Personal life 4 1 Military interests 4 2 Religious beliefs 4 3 Political views 5 Filmography 6 Discography 6 1 Solo albums 6 2 Compilations guest appearances 7 Awards and honors 8 References 9 External linksEarly lifeWalter Bruce Willis 3 was born in Idar Oberstein West Germany on March 19 1955 4 5 His mother Marlene 6 was German from Kassel 4 His father David Willis was an American soldier Willis has a younger sister Florence and two younger brothers Robert deceased and David 7 After being discharged from the military in 1957 his father relocated the family to his hometown of Carneys Point New Jersey 8 Willis has described his background as a long line of blue collar people 8 His mother worked in a bank and his father was a welder master mechanic and factory worker 3 Willis who spoke with a stutter 8 attended Penns Grove High School where his schoolmates nicknamed him Buck Buck 3 9 10 He joined the drama club found that acting on stage reduced his stutter and was eventually elected student council president 3 After graduating from high school in 1973 Willis worked as a security guard at the Salem Nuclear Power Plant 11 12 and transported crew members at the DuPont Chambers Works factory in Deepwater New Jersey 12 After working as a private investigator a role he would later play in the comedy drama series Moonlighting and the action comedy film The Last Boy Scout he turned to acting He enrolled in the Drama Program at Montclair State University 13 where he was cast in a production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof He left school in 1977 and moved to New York City where he supported himself in the early 1980s as a bartender at the Manhattan art bar Kamikaze 14 15 while living in the Hell s Kitchen neighborhood 16 Career1980s Moonlighting Die Hard and rise to fame nbsp Willis at the 61st Academy Awards in 1989Willis was cast as David Addison Jr in the television series Moonlighting 1985 1989 competing against 3 000 other actors for the position 17 His starring role in Moonlighting opposite Cybill Shepherd helped to establish him as a comedic actor During the show s five seasons he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Television Series Musical or Comedy 8 During the height of the show s success beverage maker Seagram hired Willis as the pitchman for their Golden Wine Cooler products 18 The advertising campaign paid Willis US 5 7 million over two years Willis chose not to renew his contract when he decided to stop drinking alcohol in 1988 19 Willis had his first lead role in a feature film in the 1987 Blake Edwards film Blind Date with Kim Basinger and John Larroquette 8 Edwards cast him again to play the real life cowboy actor Tom Mix in Sunset 1988 However it was his unexpected turn in the film Die Hard 1988 as John McClane that catapulted him to movie star and action hero status 8 He performed most of his own stunts in the film 20 and the film grossed 138 708 852 worldwide 21 Following his success with Die Hard Willis had a leading role in the drama In Country as Vietnam veteran Emmett Smith and also provided the voice for a talking baby in Look Who s Talking 1989 and the sequel Look Who s Talking Too 1990 22 23 In the late 1980s Willis enjoyed moderate success as a recording artist recording an album of pop blues The Return of Bruno which included the hit single Respect Yourself featuring the Pointer Sisters 24 The LP was promoted by a Spinal Tap like rockumentary parody featuring scenes of Willis performing at famous events including Woodstock He released a version of the Drifters song Under the Boardwalk as a second single it reached No 2 on the UK Singles Chart but was less successful in the US Willis returned to the recording studio several times 25 1990s Die Hard sequels Pulp Fiction and dramatic roles Having acquired major personal success and pop culture influence playing John McClane in Die Hard Willis reprised his role in the sequels Die Hard 2 1990 and Die Hard with a Vengeance 1995 8 These first three installments in the Die Hard series grossed over US 700 million internationally and propelled Willis to the first rank of Hollywood action stars citation needed In the early 1990s Willis s career suffered a moderate slump as he starred in flops such as The Bonfire of the Vanities 1990 and Hudson Hawk 1991 although he did find box office success with The Last Boy Scout He gained more success with Striking Distance 1993 but flopped again with Color of Night 1994 it was savaged by critics but did well in the home video market and became one of the Top 20 most rented films in the United States in 1995 26 Maxim also ranked his sex scene in the film as the best in film history 27 In 1994 Willis also had a leading role in one part of Quentin Tarantino s acclaimed Pulp Fiction 8 the film s success gave a boost to his career and he starred alongside his Look Who s Talking co star John Travolta 28 In 1996 he was the executive producer and star of the cartoon Bruno the Kid which featured a CGI representation of himself That same year he starred in Mike Judge s animated film Beavis and Butt head Do America with his then wife Demi Moore In the movie he plays a drunken criminal named Muddy Grimes who mistakenly sends Judge s titular characters to kill his wife Dallas voiced by Moore He then played the lead roles in 12 Monkeys 1995 and The Fifth Element 1997 However by the end of the 1990s his career had fallen into another slump with critically panned films like The Jackal which despite negative reviews was a box office hit Mercury Rising and Breakfast of Champions as well as the implosion of the production of Broadway Brawler a debacle salvaged only by the success of the Michael Bay directed Armageddon which Willis had agreed to star in as compensation for the failed production and which turned out to be the highest grossing film of 1998 worldwide 29 30 The same year his voice and likeness were featured in the PlayStation video game Apocalypse 31 In 1999 Willis played the starring role in M Night Shyamalan s film The Sixth Sense which was both a commercial and critical success 8 2000s nbsp Willis after a ceremony where he was named Hasty Pudding Theatrical s Man of the Year in 2002In 2000 Willis won an Emmy 32 for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his work on Friends in which he played the father of Ross Geller s much younger girlfriend 33 He was also nominated for a 2001 American Comedy Award in the Funniest Male Guest Appearance in a TV Series category for his work on Friends Also in 2000 Willis played Jimmy The Tulip Tudeski in The Whole Nine Yards alongside Matthew Perry Willis was originally cast as Terry Benedict in Ocean s Eleven 2001 but dropped out to work on recording an album 34 In the sequel Ocean s Twelve 2004 he makes a cameo appearance as himself In 2005 he appeared in the film adaptation of Sin City In 2006 he lent his voice as RJ the Raccoon in Over the Hedge In 2007 he appeared in the Planet Terror half of the double feature Grindhouse as the villain a mutant soldier This marked Willis s second collaboration with the director Robert Rodriguez following Sin City Willis appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman several times throughout his career He filled in for an ill David Letterman on his show on February 26 2003 when he was supposed to be a guest 35 On many of his appearances on the show Willis staged elaborate jokes such as wearing a day glo orange suit in honor of the Central Park gates having one side of his face made up with simulated birdshot wounds after the Harry Whittington shooting or trying to break a record a parody of David Blaine of staying underwater for only twenty seconds nbsp Willis at a Live Free or Die Hard premiere in June 2007On April 12 2007 he appeared again this time wearing a Sanjaya Malakar wig 36 On his June 25 2007 appearance he wore a mini wind turbine on his head to accompany a joke about his own fictional documentary titled An Unappealing Hunch a wordplay on An Inconvenient Truth 37 Willis also appeared in Japanese Subaru Legacy television commercials 38 Tying in with this Subaru did a limited run of Legacys badged Subaru Legacy Touring Bruce in honor of Willis Willis has appeared in five films with Samuel L Jackson National Lampoon s Loaded Weapon 1 Pulp Fiction Die Hard with a Vengeance Unbreakable and Glass and both actors were slated to work together in Black Water Transit before dropping out Willis also worked with his eldest daughter Rumer in the 2005 film Hostage In 2007 he appeared in the thriller Perfect Stranger opposite Halle Berry the crime drama film Alpha Dog opposite Sharon Stone and reprised his role as John McClane in Live Free or Die Hard Subsequently he appeared in the films What Just Happened and Surrogates based on the comic book of the same name 39 Willis was slated to play U S Army general William R Peers in director Oliver Stone s Pinkville a drama about the investigation of the 1968 My Lai massacre 40 However due to the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike the film was canceled Willis appeared on the 2008 Blues Traveler album North Hollywood Shootout giving a spoken word performance over an instrumental blues rock jam on the track Free Willis Ruminations from Behind Uncle Bob s Machine Shop In early 2009 he appeared in an advertising campaign to publicize the insurance company Norwich Union s change of name to Aviva 41 2010s As of 2010 Willis was the eighth highest grossing actor in a leading role and 12th highest including supporting roles 42 43 Willis starred with Tracy Morgan in the 2010 comedy Cop Out directed by Kevin Smith about two police detectives investigating the theft of a baseball card 44 Willis appeared in the music video for the song Stylo by Gorillaz 45 Also in 2010 he appeared in a cameo with the former Planet Hollywood co owners and 80s action stars Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger in the film The Expendables Willis played the role of CIA agent Mr Church It was the first time the three action stars had appeared on screen together Although the scene featuring the three was short it was one of the most highly anticipated scenes in the film The trio filmed their scene in an empty church on October 24 2009 46 Willis next starred in RED an adaptation of the comic book mini series of the same name in which he portrayed Frank Moses The film was released on October 15 2010 47 nbsp Willis with The Expendables co star Sylvester Stallone 2010Willis starred alongside Bill Murray Edward Norton and Frances McDormand in Moonrise Kingdom 2012 Filming took place in Rhode Island under the direction of Wes Anderson in 2011 48 Willis returned in an expanded role in The Expendables 2 2012 49 He appeared alongside Joseph Gordon Levitt in the sci fi action film Looper 2012 as the older version of Gordon Levitt s character Joe Willis teamed up with 50 Cent in a film directed by David Barrett called Fire with Fire starring opposite Josh Duhamel and Rosario Dawson about a fireman who must save the love of his life 50 Willis also joined Vince Vaughn and Catherine Zeta Jones in Lay the Favorite directed by Stephen Frears about a Las Vegas cocktail waitress who becomes an elite professional gambler 51 The two films were distributed by Lionsgate Entertainment Willis reprised his most famous role John McClane for a fifth time starring in A Good Day to Die Hard which was released on February 14 2013 52 In an interview Willis said I have a warm spot in my heart for Die Hard it s just the sheer novelty of being able to play the same character over 25 years and still be asked back is fun It s much more challenging to have to do a film again and try to compete with myself which is what I do in Die Hard I try to improve my work every time 53 On October 12 2013 Willis hosted Saturday Night Live with Katy Perry as a musical guest 54 In 2015 Willis made his Broadway debut in William Goldman s adaptation of Stephen King s novel Misery opposite Laurie Metcalf at the Broadhurst Theatre His performance was generally panned by critics who called it vacant and inert 55 Willis was the subject of a roast by Comedy Central in a program broadcast on July 29 2018 56 Willis played himself in a cameo in the 2019 film The Lego Movie 2 The Second Part 57 2020s Critical decline health problems and retirement In the final years of his career Willis starred in many low budget independent thrillers and science fiction films 58 He worked primarily with the production companies Emmett Furla Oasis headed by Randall Emmett and 308 Entertainment Inc headed by Corey Large Emmett Furla Oasis produced 20 films starring Willis 59 Described by Chris Nashawaty of Esquire as a profitable safe harbor for older actors similar to The Expendables most of the films were released direct to video and were widely panned 58 Willis would often earn US 2 million for two days work with an average of 15 minutes screentime per film 60 He was nonetheless featured heavily in the films promotional materials earning them the derogatory nickname geezer teasers 61 62 The Golden Raspberry Awards an annual award for the year s worst films and performances created a dedicated category the Worst Bruce Willis Performance in a 2021 Movie for his roles in eight films released that year 63 Those working on the films later said Willis appeared confused did not understand why he was there and had to be fed lines through an earpiece 59 Days before Willis was scheduled to arrive on set for Out of Death 2021 the screenwriter was instructed to reduce his role and abbreviate his dialogue and the director Mike Burns was told to complete all of Willis s scenes in a single day of filming 59 On March 30 2022 Willis s family announced that he was retiring because he had been diagnosed with aphasia a disorder typically caused by damage to the area of the brain that controls language expression and comprehension 64 The Golden Raspberry Awards retracted its Willis category saying it was inappropriate to award a Golden Raspberry to someone whose performance was affected by a medical condition 65 At the time of his retirement Willis had completed 11 films awaiting release 64 66 67 On February 16 2023 Willis s family announced that he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia 68 According to Dr Gregg Day a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic s Florida campus the symptoms include difficulties with language and comprehension as well as misinterpretation of instructions 69 In a statement the family said that Willis s condition had progressed and that challenges with communication are just one symptom of the disease 70 They expressed hope that media attention on Willis would raise awareness about the disease 71 Business activitiesWillis owns houses in Los Angeles and Penns Grove New Jersey He also rents apartments at Trump Tower 72 and in Riverside South Manhattan 73 In 2000 Willis and his business partner Arnold Rifkin started a motion picture production company called Cheyenne Enterprises He left the company to be run solely by Rifkin in 2007 after Live Free or Die Hard 74 He also owns several small businesses in Hailey Idaho including The Mint Bar and The Liberty Theater and was one of the first promoters of Planet Hollywood with actors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone 75 Willis and the other actors were paid for their appearances and endorsements through an employee stock ownership plan 76 In 2009 Willis signed a contract to become the international face of Belvedere SA s Sobieski Vodka in exchange for 3 3 ownership in the company 77 Personal life nbsp Willis in June 2006Willis s acting role models are Gary Cooper Robert De Niro Steve McQueen and John Wayne 78 He is left handed 79 He resides in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles with his family 80 At the premiere for the film Stakeout Willis met actress Demi Moore They married on November 21 1987 and had three daughters including Rumer who was born in August 1988 81 82 83 84 Willis and Moore announced their separation on June 24 1998 85 They filed for divorce on October 18 2000 86 and the divorce was finalized later that day 87 88 Regarding the divorce Willis stated I felt I had failed as a father and a husband by not being able to make it work He credited actor Will Smith for helping him cope with the situation 18 He has maintained a close friendship with both Moore and her subsequent husband actor Ashton Kutcher and attended their wedding 89 Willis was engaged to actress Brooke Burns until they broke up in 2004 after ten months together 17 He married model Emma Heming in Turks and Caicos on March 21 2009 90 guests included his three daughters as well as Moore and Kutcher The ceremony was not legally binding so the couple wed again in a civil ceremony in Beverly Hills six days later The couple has two daughters one born in 2012 91 and another born in 2014 92 Military interests Throughout his film career Willis has depicted several military characters in films such as In Country The Siege Hart s War Tears of the Sun Grindhouse and G I Joe Retaliation Willis grew up in a military family Willis has donated Girl Scout cookies to the United States armed forces In 2002 Willis s then 8 year old daughter Tallulah suggested that he purchase Girl Scout cookies to send to troops Willis purchased 12 000 boxes of cookies and they were distributed to sailors aboard USS John F Kennedy and other troops stationed throughout the Middle East at the time 93 nbsp Willis meets with Brigadier General Albert Bryant Jr and deployed soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division in Tikrit Iraq during his 2003 USO tour In 2003 Willis visited Iraq as part of the USO tour singing to the troops with his band The Accelerators 94 Willis considered joining the military to help fight the second Iraq War but was deterred by his age 95 It was believed he offered US 1 million to any noncombatant who turned in terrorist leaders Osama bin Laden Ayman al Zawahiri or Abu Musab al Zarqawi in the June 2007 issue of Vanity Fair however he clarified that the statement was made hypothetically and not meant to be taken literally Willis has also criticized the media for its coverage of the war complaining that the press was more likely to focus on the negative aspects of the war I went to Iraq because what I saw when I was over there was soldiers young kids for the most part helping people in Iraq helping getting the power turned back on helping get hospitals open helping get the water turned back on and you don t hear any of that on the news You hear X number of people were killed today which I think does a huge disservice It s like spitting on these young men and women who are over there fighting to help this country 96 Religious beliefs Willis was a Lutheran 97 but no longer practices In a July 1998 interview with George magazine he stated Organized religions in general in my opinion are dying forms They were all very important when we didn t know why the sun moved why weather changed why hurricanes occurred or volcanoes happened Modern religion is the end trail of modern mythology But there are people who interpret the Bible literally Literally I choose not to believe that s the way And that s what makes America cool you know 98 When asked by a Hollywood tv reporter as to how he could stay grounded in Hollywood Willis responded I just thank God every day for everything great that s come my way 99 Political views In 1988 Willis and then wife Demi Moore campaigned for Democratic Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis s Presidential bid Four years later he supported President George H W Bush for reelection and was an outspoken critic of Bill Clinton However in 1996 he declined to endorse Clinton s Republican opponent Bob Dole because Dole had criticized Demi Moore for her role in the film Striptease 100 Willis was an invited speaker at the 2000 Republican National Convention 101 and supported George W Bush that year 18 In 2006 Willis said that the United States should intervene more in Colombia in order to end drug trafficking 102 In several interviews Willis has said that he supports large salaries for teachers and police officers and said he is disappointed in the United States foster care system as well as treatment of Native Americans 100 103 Willis also stated that he is a supporter of gun rights stating Everyone has a right to bear arms If you take guns away from legal gun owners then the only people who have guns are the bad guys 104 In February 2006 Willis was in Manhattan to promote his film 16 Blocks with reporters One reporter attempted to ask Willis about his opinion on the Bush administration but was interrupted by Willis in mid sentence when he said I m sick of answering this fucking question I m a Republican only as far as I want a smaller government I want less government intrusion I want them to stop shitting on my money and your money and tax dollars that we give 50 percent of every year I want them to be fiscally responsible and I want these goddamn lobbyists out of Washington Do that and I ll say I m a Republican I hate the government OK I m apolitical Write that down I m not a Republican 105 Willis did not make any contributions or public endorsements in the 2008 presidential campaign In several June 2007 interviews he declared that he maintains some Republican ideologies 18 Willis s name was in an advertisement in the Los Angeles Times on August 17 2006 that condemned Hamas and Hezbollah and supported Israel in the 2006 Israel Lebanon war 106 In 2012 Willis stated that he had a negative opinion of Mitt Romney 107 FilmographyMain article Bruce Willis filmographyDiscographySolo albums 1987 The Return of Bruno Motown OCLC 15508727 1989 If It Don t Kill You It Just Makes You Stronger Motown Pgd OCLC 21322754 2001 Classic Bruce Willis The Universal Masters Collection Polygram Int l OCLC 71124889 Compilations guest appearances 1986 Moonlighting soundtrack track Good Lovin 1991 Hudson Hawk soundtrack tracks Swinging on a Star and Side by Side both duets with Danny Aiello 2000 The Whole Nine Yards soundtrack tracks Tenth Avenue Tango 2003 Rugrats Go Wild soundtrack Big Bad Cat with Chrissie Hynde and Lust for Life 2008 North Hollywood Shootout Blues Traveler track Free Willis Ruminations from Behind Uncle Bob s Machine Shop Awards and honorsMain article List of awards and nominations received by Bruce Willis nbsp Willis s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame nbsp Willis s hands and footprints at Grauman s Chinese TheatreWillis has won a variety of awards and has received various honors throughout his career in television and film 1987 Golden Apple Awards honored with the Sour Apple 108 1994 Maxim magazine ranked his sex scene in Color of Night the No 1 sex scene in film history 27 2000 American Cinematheque Gala Tribute honored Willis with the American Cinematheque Award for an extraordinary artist in the entertainment industry who is fully engaged in his or her work and is committed to making a significant contribution to the art of the motion pictures 2002 The Hasty Pudding Man of the Year award from Harvard s Hasty Pudding Theatricals given to performers who give a lasting and impressive contribution to the world of entertainment 109 2002 Appointed as national spokesman for Children in Foster Care by President George W Bush 110 Willis wrote online I saw Foster Care as a way for me to serve my country in a system by which shining a little bit of light could benefit a great deal by helping kids who were literally wards of the government 111 2005 Golden Camera Award for Best International Actor by the Manaki Brothers Film Festival 112 2006 Honored by French government for his contributions to the film industry appointed an Officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters in a ceremony in Paris the French Prime Minister stated This is France s way of paying tribute to an actor who epitomizes the strength of American cinema the power of the emotions that he invites us to share on the world s screens and the sturdy personalities of his legendary characters 113 2006 Honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on October 16 located at 6915 Hollywood Boulevard and it was the 2 321st star awarded in its history at the reception he stated I used to come down here and look at these stars and I could never quite figure out what you were supposed to do to get one time has passed and now here I am doing this and I m still excited I m still excited to be an actor 114 2011 Inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame 115 2013 Promoted to the dignity of Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters on February 11 by French Minister of Culture Aurelie Filippetti 116 References 12 Most Unlikely Action Movie Stars Rolling Stone July 30 2014 Retrieved September 12 2018 Thomas David May 4 2008 Ford and Willis voted best action heroes The Telegraph Archived from the original on January 10 2022 Retrieved September 12 2018 a b c d 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