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Bruce Willis
Willis at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con
Born	Walter Bruce Willis March 19, 1955 (age 67) Idar-Oberstein, West Germany
Nationality	American
Occupations	Actor singer
Years active	1980–2022
Works	Filmography discography
Spouses	Demi Moore ​ ​ (m. 1987; div. 2000)​ Emma Heming ​ (m. 2009)​
Children	5, including Rumer
Awards	Full list

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

Willis’s other credits include The Last Boy Scout (1991), Death Becomes Her (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), 12 Monkeys (1995), The Fifth Element (1997), Armageddon (1998), The Sixth Sense (1999), Unbreakable (2000), Sin City (2005), Red (2010), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), Looper (2012) and Red 2 (2013). In the later years of his career, Willis starred in many low-budget direct-to-video films, which were poorly received. In March 2022, Willis’s family announced that he was retiring after being diagnosed with aphasia, which damages language comprehension. 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: Die Hard and rise to fame

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).^{[citation needed]}

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.^[22] 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.^[23]

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.^[24] Maxim also ranked his sex scene in the film as the best in film history.^[25]

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.^[26] In 1996, he was the executive producer and star of the cartoon Bruno the Kid which featured a CGI representation of himself.^[27] 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.^[28][29] The same year his voice and likeness were featured in the PlayStation video game Apocalypse.^[30] 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

In 2000, Willis won an Emmy^[31] 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).^[32] 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.^[33] 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.^[34] 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.

On April 12, 2007, he appeared again, this time wearing a Sanjaya Malakar wig.^[35] 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).^[36] Willis also appeared in Japanese Subaru Legacy television commercials.^[37] 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.^[38]

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.^[39] 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.^[40]

2010s

Willis starred with Tracy Morgan in the comedy Cop Out, directed by Kevin Smith, about two police detectives investigating the theft of a baseball card.^[41] The film was released in February 2010. Willis appeared in the music video for the song «Stylo» by Gorillaz.^[42] Also in 2010, he appeared in a cameo with 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». This was the first time these three notable action movie actors 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.^[43] 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.^[44]

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.^[45] Willis returned, in an expanded role, in The Expendables 2 (2012).^[46] 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.^[47] 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.^[48] 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.^[49] 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.»^[50]

On October 12, 2013, Willis hosted Saturday Night Live with Katy Perry as a musical guest.^[51] 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».^[52] Willis was the subject of a roast by Comedy Central in a program broadcast on July 29, 2018.^[53]

Films featuring Willis have grossed between US$2.64 billion and US$3.05 billion at the North American box offices, making him in 2010 the eighth highest-grossing actor in a leading role and 12th-highest including supporting roles.^[54][55] He is a two-time Emmy Award winner, a Golden Globe Award winner, and has been nominated for a Saturn Award four times.

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.^[56] 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.^[57] 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.^[56] Willis would often earn US$2 million for two days’ work, with an average of 15 minutes’ screentime per film.^[58] He nonetheless featured heavily in the films’ promotional materials, earning them the derogatory nickname «geezer teasers».^[59][60]

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.^[57] 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.^[57] 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.^[61]

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.^[62] 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.^[63] At the time of his retirement, Willis had completed eleven films awaiting release.^[62][64][65] On February 16, 2023, Willis’s family announced that he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.^[66] In a statement, the family said that Willis’s condition had «progressed» and that «challenges with communication are just one symptom of the disease».^[67]

Business activities

Willis owns houses in Los Angeles and Penns Grove, New Jersey. He also rents apartments at Trump Tower^[68] and in Riverside South, Manhattan.^[69]

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.^[70] 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.^[71] Willis and the other actors were paid for their appearances and endorsements through an employee stock ownership plan.^[72]

In 2009, Willis signed a contract to become the international face of Belvedere SA’s Sobieski Vodka in exchange for 3.3 percent ownership in the company.^[73]

Personal life

Willis’s acting role models are Gary Cooper, Robert De Niro, Steve McQueen, and John Wayne.^[74] He is left-handed.^[75] He resides in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles with his family.^[76]

Relationships and children

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.^{[77][78][79][80]} Willis and Moore announced their separation on June 24, 1998.^[81] They filed for divorce on October 18, 2000,^[82] and the divorce was finalized later that day.^[83][84] 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.^[85]

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;^[86] 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^[87] and another born in 2014.^[88]

Religious views

Willis was a Lutheran,^[89] 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?»^[90]

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.^[91] Willis was an invited speaker at the 2000 Republican National Convention,^[92] 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.^[93] 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.^[91][94] 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.»^[95]

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.»^[96] 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.^[97]

In 2012, Willis stated that he had a negative opinion of Mitt Romney.^[98]

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. Growing 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.^[99]

In 2003, Willis visited Iraq as part of the USO tour, singing to the troops with his band, The Accelerators.^[100] Willis considered joining the military to help fight the second Iraq War, but was deterred by his age.^[101] 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.^[102]

In popular culture

In 1996, Roger Director, a writer and producer from Moonlighting, wrote a roman à clef on Willis titled A Place to Fall.^[103] Cybill Shepherd wrote in her 2000 autobiography, Cybill Disobedience, that Willis became angry at Director when he read the book and discovered the character had been written as a «neurotic, petulant actor».

A Lego version of himself appeared in the 2019 film The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, with Willis providing the voice.^[104]

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

• 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 honors

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.^[105]
• 1994: Maxim magazine ranked his sex scene in Color of Night the No. 1 sex scene in film history^[25]
• 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^[106]
• 2002: Appointed as national spokesman for Children in Foster Care by President George W. Bush;^[107] 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.»^[108]
• 2005: Golden Camera Award for Best International Actor by the Manaki Brothers Film Festival.^[109]
• 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.»^[110]
• 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.»^[111]
• 2011: Inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame^[112]
• 2013: Promoted to the dignity of Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters on February 11 by French Minister of Culture Aurélie Filippetti^[113]

References

External links

Bruce Willis
Willis at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con
Born	Walter Bruce Willis March 19, 1955 (age 67) Idar-Oberstein, West Germany
Nationality	American
Occupations	Actor singer
Years active	1980–2022
Works	Filmography discography
Spouses	Demi Moore ​ ​ (m. 1987; div. 2000)​ Emma Heming ​ (m. 2009)​
Children	5, including Rumer
Awards	Full list

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

Willis’s other credits include The Last Boy Scout (1991), Death Becomes Her (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), 12 Monkeys (1995), The Fifth Element (1997), Armageddon (1998), The Sixth Sense (1999), Unbreakable (2000), Sin City (2005), Red (2010), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), Looper (2012) and Red 2 (2013). In the later years of his career, Willis starred in many low-budget direct-to-video films, which were poorly received. In March 2022, Willis’s family announced that he was retiring after being diagnosed with aphasia, which damages language comprehension. 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: Die Hard and rise to fame

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).^{[citation needed]}

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.^[22] 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.^[23]

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.^[24] Maxim also ranked his sex scene in the film as the best in film history.^[25]

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.^[26] In 1996, he was the executive producer and star of the cartoon Bruno the Kid which featured a CGI representation of himself.^[27] 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.^[28][29] The same year his voice and likeness were featured in the PlayStation video game Apocalypse.^[30] 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

In 2000, Willis won an Emmy^[31] 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).^[32] 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.^[33] 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.^[34] 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.

On April 12, 2007, he appeared again, this time wearing a Sanjaya Malakar wig.^[35] 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).^[36] Willis also appeared in Japanese Subaru Legacy television commercials.^[37] 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.^[38]

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.^[39] 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.^[40]

2010s

Willis starred with Tracy Morgan in the comedy Cop Out, directed by Kevin Smith, about two police detectives investigating the theft of a baseball card.^[41] The film was released in February 2010. Willis appeared in the music video for the song «Stylo» by Gorillaz.^[42] Also in 2010, he appeared in a cameo with 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». This was the first time these three notable action movie actors 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.^[43] 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.^[44]

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.^[45] Willis returned, in an expanded role, in The Expendables 2 (2012).^[46] 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.^[47] 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.^[48] 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.^[49] 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.»^[50]

On October 12, 2013, Willis hosted Saturday Night Live with Katy Perry as a musical guest.^[51] 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».^[52] Willis was the subject of a roast by Comedy Central in a program broadcast on July 29, 2018.^[53]

Films featuring Willis have grossed between US$2.64 billion and US$3.05 billion at the North American box offices, making him in 2010 the eighth highest-grossing actor in a leading role and 12th-highest including supporting roles.^[54][55] He is a two-time Emmy Award winner, a Golden Globe Award winner, and has been nominated for a Saturn Award four times.

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.^[56] 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.^[57] 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.^[56] Willis would often earn US$2 million for two days’ work, with an average of 15 minutes’ screentime per film.^[58] He nonetheless featured heavily in the films’ promotional materials, earning them the derogatory nickname «geezer teasers».^[59][60]

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.^[57] 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.^[57] 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.^[61]

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.^[62] 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.^[63] At the time of his retirement, Willis had completed eleven films awaiting release.^[62][64][65] On February 16, 2023, Willis’s family announced that he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.^[66] In a statement, the family said that Willis’s condition had «progressed» and that «challenges with communication are just one symptom of the disease».^[67]

Business activities

Willis owns houses in Los Angeles and Penns Grove, New Jersey. He also rents apartments at Trump Tower^[68] and in Riverside South, Manhattan.^[69]

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.^[70] 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.^[71] Willis and the other actors were paid for their appearances and endorsements through an employee stock ownership plan.^[72]

In 2009, Willis signed a contract to become the international face of Belvedere SA’s Sobieski Vodka in exchange for 3.3 percent ownership in the company.^[73]

Personal life

Willis’s acting role models are Gary Cooper, Robert De Niro, Steve McQueen, and John Wayne.^[74] He is left-handed.^[75] He resides in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles with his family.^[76]

Relationships and children

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.^{[77][78][79][80]} Willis and Moore announced their separation on June 24, 1998.^[81] They filed for divorce on October 18, 2000,^[82] and the divorce was finalized later that day.^[83][84] 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.^[85]

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;^[86] 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^[87] and another born in 2014.^[88]

Religious views

Willis was a Lutheran,^[89] 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?»^[90]

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.^[91] Willis was an invited speaker at the 2000 Republican National Convention,^[92] 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.^[93] 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.^[91][94] 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.»^[95]

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.»^[96] 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.^[97]

In 2012, Willis stated that he had a negative opinion of Mitt Romney.^[98]

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. Growing 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.^[99]

In 2003, Willis visited Iraq as part of the USO tour, singing to the troops with his band, The Accelerators.^[100] Willis considered joining the military to help fight the second Iraq War, but was deterred by his age.^[101] 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.^[102]

In popular culture

In 1996, Roger Director, a writer and producer from Moonlighting, wrote a roman à clef on Willis titled A Place to Fall.^[103] Cybill Shepherd wrote in her 2000 autobiography, Cybill Disobedience, that Willis became angry at Director when he read the book and discovered the character had been written as a «neurotic, petulant actor».

A Lego version of himself appeared in the 2019 film The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, with Willis providing the voice.^[104]

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

• 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 honors

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.^[105]
• 1994: Maxim magazine ranked his sex scene in Color of Night the No. 1 sex scene in film history^[25]
• 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^[106]
• 2002: Appointed as national spokesman for Children in Foster Care by President George W. Bush;^[107] 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.»^[108]
• 2005: Golden Camera Award for Best International Actor by the Manaki Brothers Film Festival.^[109]
• 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.»^[110]
• 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.»^[111]
• 2011: Inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame^[112]
• 2013: Promoted to the dignity of Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters on February 11 by French Minister of Culture Aurélie Filippetti^[113]

References

External links

Bruce Willis
Willis at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con
Born	Walter Bruce Willis March 19, 1955 (age 67) Idar-Oberstein, West Germany
Nationality	American
Occupations	Actor singer
Years active	1980–2022
Works	Filmography discography
Spouses	Demi Moore ​ ​ (m. 1987; div. 2000)​ Emma Heming ​ (m. 2009)​
Children	5, including Rumer
Awards	Full list

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

Willis’s other credits include The Last Boy Scout (1991), Death Becomes Her (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), 12 Monkeys (1995), The Fifth Element (1997), Armageddon (1998), The Sixth Sense (1999), Unbreakable (2000), Sin City (2005), Red (2010), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), Looper (2012) and Red 2 (2013). In the later years of his career, Willis starred in many low-budget direct-to-video films, which were poorly received. In March 2022, Willis’s family announced that he was retiring after being diagnosed with aphasia, which damages language comprehension. 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: Die Hard and rise to fame

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).^{[citation needed]}

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.^[22] 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.^[23]

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.^[24] Maxim also ranked his sex scene in the film as the best in film history.^[25]

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.^[26] In 1996, he was the executive producer and star of the cartoon Bruno the Kid which featured a CGI representation of himself.^[27] 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.^[28][29] The same year his voice and likeness were featured in the PlayStation video game Apocalypse.^[30] 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

In 2000, Willis won an Emmy^[31] 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).^[32] 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.^[33] 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.^[34] 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.

On April 12, 2007, he appeared again, this time wearing a Sanjaya Malakar wig.^[35] 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).^[36] Willis also appeared in Japanese Subaru Legacy television commercials.^[37] 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.^[38]

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.^[39] 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.^[40]

2010s

Willis starred with Tracy Morgan in the comedy Cop Out, directed by Kevin Smith, about two police detectives investigating the theft of a baseball card.^[41] The film was released in February 2010. Willis appeared in the music video for the song «Stylo» by Gorillaz.^[42] Also in 2010, he appeared in a cameo with 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». This was the first time these three notable action movie actors 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.^[43] 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.^[44]

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.^[45] Willis returned, in an expanded role, in The Expendables 2 (2012).^[46] 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.^[47] 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.^[48] 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.^[49] 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.»^[50]

On October 12, 2013, Willis hosted Saturday Night Live with Katy Perry as a musical guest.^[51] 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».^[52] Willis was the subject of a roast by Comedy Central in a program broadcast on July 29, 2018.^[53]

Films featuring Willis have grossed between US$2.64 billion and US$3.05 billion at the North American box offices, making him in 2010 the eighth highest-grossing actor in a leading role and 12th-highest including supporting roles.^[54][55] He is a two-time Emmy Award winner, a Golden Globe Award winner, and has been nominated for a Saturn Award four times.

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.^[56] 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.^[57] 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.^[56] Willis would often earn US$2 million for two days’ work, with an average of 15 minutes’ screentime per film.^[58] He nonetheless featured heavily in the films’ promotional materials, earning them the derogatory nickname «geezer teasers».^[59][60]

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.^[57] 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.^[57] 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.^[61]

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.^[62] 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.^[63] At the time of his retirement, Willis had completed eleven films awaiting release.^[62][64][65] On February 16, 2023, Willis’s family announced that he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.^[66] In a statement, the family said that Willis’s condition had «progressed» and that «challenges with communication are just one symptom of the disease».^[67]

Business activities

Willis owns houses in Los Angeles and Penns Grove, New Jersey. He also rents apartments at Trump Tower^[68] and in Riverside South, Manhattan.^[69]

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.^[70] 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.^[71] Willis and the other actors were paid for their appearances and endorsements through an employee stock ownership plan.^[72]

In 2009, Willis signed a contract to become the international face of Belvedere SA’s Sobieski Vodka in exchange for 3.3 percent ownership in the company.^[73]

Personal life

Willis’s acting role models are Gary Cooper, Robert De Niro, Steve McQueen, and John Wayne.^[74] He is left-handed.^[75] He resides in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles with his family.^[76]

Relationships and children

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.^{[77][78][79][80]} Willis and Moore announced their separation on June 24, 1998.^[81] They filed for divorce on October 18, 2000,^[82] and the divorce was finalized later that day.^[83][84] 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.^[85]

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;^[86] 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^[87] and another born in 2014.^[88]

Religious views

Willis was a Lutheran,^[89] 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?»^[90]

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.^[91] Willis was an invited speaker at the 2000 Republican National Convention,^[92] 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.^[93] 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.^[91][94] 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.»^[95]

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.»^[96] 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.^[97]

In 2012, Willis stated that he had a negative opinion of Mitt Romney.^[98]

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. Growing 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.^[99]

In 2003, Willis visited Iraq as part of the USO tour, singing to the troops with his band, The Accelerators.^[100] Willis considered joining the military to help fight the second Iraq War, but was deterred by his age.^[101] 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.^[102]

In popular culture

In 1996, Roger Director, a writer and producer from Moonlighting, wrote a roman à clef on Willis titled A Place to Fall.^[103] Cybill Shepherd wrote in her 2000 autobiography, Cybill Disobedience, that Willis became angry at Director when he read the book and discovered the character had been written as a «neurotic, petulant actor».

A Lego version of himself appeared in the 2019 film The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, with Willis providing the voice.^[104]

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

• 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 honors

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.^[105]
• 1994: Maxim magazine ranked his sex scene in Color of Night the No. 1 sex scene in film history^[25]
• 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^[106]
• 2002: Appointed as national spokesman for Children in Foster Care by President George W. Bush;^[107] 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.»^[108]
• 2005: Golden Camera Award for Best International Actor by the Manaki Brothers Film Festival.^[109]
• 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.»^[110]
• 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.»^[111]
• 2011: Inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame^[112]
• 2013: Promoted to the dignity of Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters on February 11 by French Minister of Culture Aurélie Filippetti^[113]

References

External links

Bruce Willis
Willis at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con
Born	Walter Bruce Willis March 19, 1955 (age 67) Idar-Oberstein, West Germany
Nationality	American
Occupations	Actor singer
Years active	1980–2022
Works	Filmography discography
Spouses	Demi Moore ​ ​ (m. 1987; div. 2000)​ Emma Heming ​ (m. 2009)​
Children	5, including Rumer
Awards	Full list

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

Willis’s other credits include The Last Boy Scout (1991), Death Becomes Her (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), 12 Monkeys (1995), The Fifth Element (1997), Armageddon (1998), The Sixth Sense (1999), Unbreakable (2000), Sin City (2005), Red (2010), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), Looper (2012) and Red 2 (2013). In the later years of his career, Willis starred in many low-budget direct-to-video films, which were poorly received. In March 2022, Willis’s family announced that he was retiring after being diagnosed with aphasia, which damages language comprehension. 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: Die Hard and rise to fame

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).^{[citation needed]}

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.^[22] 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.^[23]

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.^[24] Maxim also ranked his sex scene in the film as the best in film history.^[25]

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.^[26] In 1996, he was the executive producer and star of the cartoon Bruno the Kid which featured a CGI representation of himself.^[27] 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.^[28][29] The same year his voice and likeness were featured in the PlayStation video game Apocalypse.^[30] 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

In 2000, Willis won an Emmy^[31] 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).^[32] 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.^[33] 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.^[34] 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.

On April 12, 2007, he appeared again, this time wearing a Sanjaya Malakar wig.^[35] 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).^[36] Willis also appeared in Japanese Subaru Legacy television commercials.^[37] 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.^[38]

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.^[39] 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.^[40]

2010s

Willis starred with Tracy Morgan in the comedy Cop Out, directed by Kevin Smith, about two police detectives investigating the theft of a baseball card.^[41] The film was released in February 2010. Willis appeared in the music video for the song «Stylo» by Gorillaz.^[42] Also in 2010, he appeared in a cameo with 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». This was the first time these three notable action movie actors 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.^[43] 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.^[44]

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.^[45] Willis returned, in an expanded role, in The Expendables 2 (2012).^[46] 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.^[47] 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.^[48] 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.^[49] 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.»^[50]

On October 12, 2013, Willis hosted Saturday Night Live with Katy Perry as a musical guest.^[51] 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».^[52] Willis was the subject of a roast by Comedy Central in a program broadcast on July 29, 2018.^[53]

Films featuring Willis have grossed between US$2.64 billion and US$3.05 billion at the North American box offices, making him in 2010 the eighth highest-grossing actor in a leading role and 12th-highest including supporting roles.^[54][55] He is a two-time Emmy Award winner, a Golden Globe Award winner, and has been nominated for a Saturn Award four times.

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.^[56] 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.^[57] 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.^[56] Willis would often earn US$2 million for two days’ work, with an average of 15 minutes’ screentime per film.^[58] He nonetheless featured heavily in the films’ promotional materials, earning them the derogatory nickname «geezer teasers».^[59][60]

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.^[57] 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.^[57] 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.^[61]

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.^[62] 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.^[63] At the time of his retirement, Willis had completed eleven films awaiting release.^[62][64][65] On February 16, 2023, Willis’s family announced that he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.^[66] In a statement, the family said that Willis’s condition had «progressed» and that «challenges with communication are just one symptom of the disease».^[67]

Business activities

Willis owns houses in Los Angeles and Penns Grove, New Jersey. He also rents apartments at Trump Tower^[68] and in Riverside South, Manhattan.^[69]

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.^[70] 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.^[71] Willis and the other actors were paid for their appearances and endorsements through an employee stock ownership plan.^[72]

In 2009, Willis signed a contract to become the international face of Belvedere SA’s Sobieski Vodka in exchange for 3.3 percent ownership in the company.^[73]

Personal life

Willis’s acting role models are Gary Cooper, Robert De Niro, Steve McQueen, and John Wayne.^[74] He is left-handed.^[75] He resides in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles with his family.^[76]

Relationships and children

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.^{[77][78][79][80]} Willis and Moore announced their separation on June 24, 1998.^[81] They filed for divorce on October 18, 2000,^[82] and the divorce was finalized later that day.^[83][84] 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.^[85]

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;^[86] 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^[87] and another born in 2014.^[88]

Religious views

Willis was a Lutheran,^[89] 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?»^[90]

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.^[91] Willis was an invited speaker at the 2000 Republican National Convention,^[92] 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.^[93] 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.^[91][94] 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.»^[95]

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.»^[96] 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.^[97]

In 2012, Willis stated that he had a negative opinion of Mitt Romney.^[98]

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. Growing 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.^[99]

In 2003, Willis visited Iraq as part of the USO tour, singing to the troops with his band, The Accelerators.^[100] Willis considered joining the military to help fight the second Iraq War, but was deterred by his age.^[101] 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.^[102]

In popular culture

In 1996, Roger Director, a writer and producer from Moonlighting, wrote a roman à clef on Willis titled A Place to Fall.^[103] Cybill Shepherd wrote in her 2000 autobiography, Cybill Disobedience, that Willis became angry at Director when he read the book and discovered the character had been written as a «neurotic, petulant actor».

A Lego version of himself appeared in the 2019 film The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, with Willis providing the voice.^[104]

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

• 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 honors

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.^[105]
• 1994: Maxim magazine ranked his sex scene in Color of Night the No. 1 sex scene in film history^[25]
• 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^[106]
• 2002: Appointed as national spokesman for Children in Foster Care by President George W. Bush;^[107] 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.»^[108]
• 2005: Golden Camera Award for Best International Actor by the Manaki Brothers Film Festival.^[109]
• 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.»^[110]
• 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.»^[111]
• 2011: Inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame^[112]
• 2013: Promoted to the dignity of Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters on February 11 by French Minister of Culture Aurélie Filippetti^[113]

References

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Брюс Уиллис
Bruce Willis
Брюс Уиллис на премьере фильма Крепкий орешек 4.0, июнь 2007
Имя при рождении:	Walter Bruce Willis
Дата рождения:	19 марта 1955 (54 года)
Место рождения:	Идар-Оберштайн, ФРГ
Гражданство:
Профессия:	актёр, музыкант
Карьера:	1980 — по настоящее
IMDb:	ID 0000246

Брюс Уиллис, урождённый Уолтер Брюс Уиллис (англ. Walter Bruce Willis, род. 19 марта 1955, Идар-Оберштайн, ФРГ) — американский киноактёр, продюсер, музыкант. Один из самых высокооплачиваемых актёров Голливуда. Наибольшую известность получил за роли в таких фильмах как «Крепкий орешек» (1988), «Криминальное чтиво» (1994), «Пятый элемент» (1997), «Армагеддон» (1998), «Шестое чувство» (1999), «Город грехов» (2005).

Биография

Брюс Уиллис родился на американской военной базе в Идар-Оберштейне (Западная Германия) у американца и немки. Его отец Дэвид был сварщиком. В 1957 г., после того как окончилась его служба в Вооружённых силах, семья вернулась в Нью-Джерси. У Брюса — старшего из четырёх детей — было довольно бурное детство. В детстве Брюс заикался. Волнение и переживание буквально лишали его речи. Чтобы побороть себя и свой дефект, он записался в школьный театральный кружок. Уиллису нравилось выступать на сцене перед большой аудиторией. Так что учёбу в средней школе он совмещал с членством в драматическом кружке, где участвовал в постановках Шекспира и Уильямса. Вскоре Уиллис окончил Государственный колледж в Монклер, после чего перебрался в Нью-Йорк, где перебивался случайными заработками в барах, играл в фольклорном ансамбле «Акселераторы» на губной гармонике и изо всех сил стремился попасть на сцену.

Карьера

Слава пришла не сразу — Уиллису пришлось несколько лет играть в малоизвестных столичных театрах и исполнять эпизодические роли в телевизионных постановках, прежде чем на него обратили внимание и пригласили сниматься в телесериале «Детективное агентство „Лунный свет“» (1985—1989 гг.) За Уиллисом закрепилась репутация комика, однако в 1988 г. он неожиданно снялся в боевике «Крепкий орешек», который и принёс ему мировую известность. Впоследствии Уиллис не раз возвращался к амплуа героя-одиночки — достаточно вспомнить такие фильмы, как «Пятый элемент», «Восход Меркурия», а также три довольно успешных сиквела «Крепкого орешка».

В карьере Уиллиса случались и спады, и подъёмы. Например, в начале 90-ых он снялся в нескольких не самых удачных фильмах, но в 1994 г. сыграл заметную, хотя и не главную роль в культовом фильме Квентина Тарантино «Криминальное чтиво» и отвоевал утраченные позиции. В конце 90-ых последовал очередной спад, однако в 1999 г. Уиллис исполнил главную роль в фильме «Шестое чувство», который полюбился как зрителям, так и критикам. Уиллис заработал на этом фильме около 100 миллионов долларов.

В последние годы Уиллис активно сотрудничает с культовым кинорежиссёром Робертом Родригесом и уже снялся в двух его фильмах («Город грехов» и «Планета страха»).

Личная жизнь

С ноября 1987 г. по октябрь 2000 г. Уиллис был женат на актрисе Деми Мур. У них родились три дочери: Румер Гленн Уиллис (англ. Rumer Glenn Willis, р. 1988), Скаут Ляру Уиллис (англ. Scout LaRue Willis, р. 1991) и Талула Бэль Уиллис (англ. Tallulah Belle Willis, р. 1994). Сама пара считалась образцовой. После неожиданного развода Уиллиса и Мур ходили слухи о повторной свадьбе, однако Мур неожиданно вышла замуж за юного Эштона Катчера. Тем не менее, бывшие супруги сохраняют дружеские отношения и деловые связи. В настоящий момент женат на Эмме Хеминг.

Политические взгляды

Некоторые источники сообщают о том, что Уиллис хотел участвовать во второй иракской войне, но получил отказ из-за своего возраста. Он предложил 1 миллион долларов любому человеку, который выдаст Усама бин Мухаммада бин Авада бин Ладина и некоторых других террористических лидеров. Брюсу Уиллису не нравится, как в СМИ освещается иракский конфликт. Поэтому он собирается снять провоенный фильм, в котором американские солдаты будут показаны храбрыми борцами за свободу и демократию.

На вопрос о своём отношении к республиканской партии Уиллис ответил так: «Мне надоело отвечать на этот вопрос. Я республиканец только в том смысле, что я хочу ослабления власти. Я хочу, чтобы они перестали тянуть мои и ваши деньги, я не хочу 50%-ных налогов. Я хочу, чтобы эти лоббисты покинули Вашингтон. Сделайте всё это, и я признаю себя республиканцем. Я ненавижу правительство, ОК? Я аполитичен. Запишите это. Я не республиканец».

Интересные факты

Брюс Уиллис

• …левша.
• …заикался в детстве.
• …иногда носит четыре серёжки в левом ухе (первую дырку проделал в 14 лет).
• …в 2003 г. нанёс татуировку на своё правое плечо.
• …лютеранин.
• …очень неплохо говорит по-немецки.
• …в 1993 г. участвовал в рекламной кампании «Субару», в благодарность за это его именем была названа одна из моделей — Subaru Touring Bruce.
• …выступил в качестве судьи в финале конкурса «Мисс Италия» в 2005 г.
• …снялся в четырёх фильмах с Сэмюэлем Л. Джексоном: «Заряженное оружие, часть 1», «Криминальное чтиво», «Крепкий орешек 3: Возмездие» и «Неуязвимый».
• …не заявлен в титрах культового фильма «Четыре комнаты» / Four Rooms, а также фильма «Планета страха» / Planet Terror.
• …награждён французским Орденом Искусств и Литературы.
• …на пробах в сериал «Детективное агентство „Лунный свет“» был последним после почти 200 участников.

Фильмография

• 1980 — Первый смертный грех / The First Deadly Sin (в титрах не указан)
• 1980 — Принц города / Ein Guru kommt (в титрах не указан)
• 1982 — Вердикт / The Verdict (в титрах не указан)
• 1984 — Полиция Майами / Miami Vice (1-ый сезон, эпизод 7: Нет выхода/No Exit)
• 1985 — Детективное Агентство «Лунный Свет»
• 1987 — Знакомство вслепую / Blind Date
• 1988 — Крепкий орешек / Die Hard
• 1988 — Закат / Sunset
• 1989 — В провинции / In Country
• 1989 — Уж кто бы говорил / Look Who’s Talking (голос)
• 1989 — И это адекватно / That’s Adequate (эпизод)
• 1990 — Костёр тщеславия / The Bonfire of the Vanities
• 1990 — Крепкий орешек 2 / Die Hard 2
• 1990 — Уж кто бы говорил 2 / Look Who’s Talking Too (голос)
• 1991 — Билли Батгейт / Billy Bathgate
• 1991 — Гудзонский ястреб / Hudson Hawk
• 1991 — Последний бойскаут / The Last Boy Scout
• 1991 — Мысли о смерти / Mortal Thoughts
• 1992 — Смерть ей к лицу / Death Becomes Her
• 1992 — Игрок / The Player (эпизод)
• 1993 — Заряженное оружие, часть 1 / National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon 1 (эпизод)
• 1993 — На расстоянии удара / Striking Distance
• 1994 — Цвет ночи / Color of Night
• 1994 — Стреляный воробей / Nobody’s Fool
• 1994 — Норт / North
• 1994 — Криминальное чтиво / Pulp Fiction
• 1995 — Крепкий орешек 3: Возмездие / Die Hard: With a Vengeance’
• 1995 — Четыре комнаты / Four Rooms
• 1995 — Двенадцать обезьян / Twelve Monkeys
• 1996 — Бивис и Батт-Хед уделывают Америку / Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (голос)
• 1996 — Герой-одиночка / Last Man Standing
• 1997 — Пятый элемент / The Fifth Element
• 1997 — Шакал / The Jackal
• 1998 — Меркурий в опасности / Mercury Rising
• 1998 — Армагеддон / Armageddon
• 1998 — Осада / The Siege
• 1999 — Завтрак для чемпионов / Breakfast of Champions
• 1999 — Шестое чувство / The Sixth Sense
• 1999 — История о нас / The Story of Us
• 1999 — Фрэнки едет в Голливуд / Franky Goes to Hollywood (эпизод)
• 2000 — Девять ярдов / The Whole Nine Yards
• 2000 — Малыш / The Kid
• 2000 — Неуязвимый / Unbreakable
• 2001 — Бандиты / Bandits
• 2002 — Война Харта / Hart’s War
• 2002 — Великий Чемпион / Grand Champion (эпизод)
• 2003 — Слёзы солнца / Tears of the Sun
• 2003 — Карапузы встречают Торнберри / Rugrats Go Wild! (голос)
• 2003 — Ангелы Чарли 2: Только вперед / Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (эпизод)
• 2004 — Десять ярдов / The Whole Ten Yards
• 2004 — Двенадцать друзей Оушена / Ocean’s Twelve (эпизод)
• 2005 — Заложник / Hostage
• 2005 — Город грехов / Sin City
• 2006 — Нация фастфуда / Fast Food Nation
• 2006 — 16 кварталов / 16 Blocks
• 2006 — Счастливое число Слевина / Lucky Number Slevin
• 2006 — Лесная братва / Over the Hedge (голос)
• 2007 — Фермер-астронавт / Astronaut Farmer (не указан в титрах)
• 2007 — Альфа Дог / Alpha Dog
• 2007 — Идеальный незнакомец / Perfect Stranger
• 2007 — Крепкий орешек 4.0 / Live Free or Die Hard
• 2007 — Планета страха / Planet Terror (эпизод)
• 2007 — Нэнси Дрю / Nancy Drew (эпизод)
• 2008 — Однажды в Голливуде / What Just Happened?
• 2008 — Убийство школьного президента (Второкурсник в российском прокате) / Assassination of a High School President
• 2008 — The Lost Eagles
• 2009 — Кейн и Линч: Смертники / Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
• 2009 — Суррогаты / The Surrogates

Награды

• 1987 — телевизионная премия «Эмми» (Emmy) за выдающуюся роль первого плана в сериале «Детективное агентство „Лунный свет“».
• 1987 — «Золотой глобус» — «Лучший актёр ТВ-сериала (комедия/мюзикл)» «Детективное агентство „Лунный свет“».
• 1998 — антипремия «Золотая малина» за худшую актёрскую работу в фильме «Армагеддон»
• 2000 — телевизионная премия «Эмми» (Emmy) за выдающуюся роль второго плана в сериале «Друзья».
• 2006 — на знаменитой голливудской Аллее Славы заложена плита с его именем.

Ссылки

• Брюс Уиллис(англ.) на сайте Internet Movie Database
• Брюс Уиллис на peoples.ru

Уолтер Брюс Willison сказал Брюс Уиллис ( произносится на английском языке  : [ б ɹ у ː S ш ɪ л ɪ s ] ) является актер и продюсер американский родившийся19 марта 1955 г.в Идар-Оберштайне в Западной Германии .

Его карьера началась на внебродвейской сцене и на телевидении в 1980 году с роли Дэвида Аддисона в сериале « Лунный свет» ( 1985 — 1989 ). Чередуя комедийные, драматические и боевые роли на телевидении и в кино, Брюс Уиллис получил известность благодаря своей роли Джона Макклейна в боевике « Крепкий орешек» в 1988 году, который имел значительный коммерческий успех и стал эталоном жанра.

В течение 1990-х он вернулся для двух сиквелов: « 58 минут до жизни» ( 1990 ) и « Une jour en enfer» ( 1995 ). Он также продолжает зарекомендовать себя в качестве хедлайнера в боевиках с фильмами «Последний самаритянин» (1990), « Последнее прибежище» (1996), Le Chacal (1997). Он также успешно пробовал свои силы в научной фантастике благодаря «Армии двенадцати обезьян» ( 1995 ), « Армагеддон» ( 1998 ) и «Пятый элемент» (1997).

Его несколько набегов на черную комедию и комедию для взрослых проходили под руководством Брайана Де Пальмы ( Le Bcher des vanités , 1990), Роберта Земекиса ( La mort vous va si bien , 1992) и особенно Квентина Тарантино ( Криминальное чтиво , 1994)).

Конец 1990-х и 2000-е годы являются синонимами замечательного двойного сотрудничества с режиссером М. Найтом Шьямаланом, который раскрывает его в более драматических тонах в своих фантастических триллерах « Шестое чувство» (1999) и « Нерушимое» (2000). Впоследствии его набеги в более классическое драматическое кино были восприняты неоднозначно: Bandits (2001), Mission Évasion (2002), Les Larmes du Soleil (2003) и Dangereuse Séduction (2007).

Если он продолжал много гастролировать в течение 2010-х, ему удалось вернуть расположение критиков только фильмами « Город грехов» ( 2005 ), Planète Terreur ( 2007 ), Looper ( 2012 ), а также вторжением во вселенную. из Уэса Андерсона для нашумевшего Moonrise Kingdom (2012 г.). Он также становится Джон Маклейн снова для Die Hard 4: Назад в ад (2007) и Die Hard: Прекрасный день , чтобы умереть (2013), в то время как участие в Red и The Expendables: Специальная группа в 2010 году 2019 , он воссоединяется с М. Найт Шьямалан за стеклом .

Фильмы, в которых снимался актер, собрали почти 3 миллиарда долларов в прокате США и 7 миллиардов долларов в мировом прокате, что сделало его восьмым по величине кассовым актером в истории кино .

Брюс Уиллис женился на актрисе Деми Мур в 1987 году , вместе у них родилось три дочери. Их развод был объявлен в 2000 году, после тринадцати лет совместной жизни. Сейчас он женат на модели Эмме Хеминг , от которой у него две дочери.

биография

Молодость

Уолтер Брюс Уиллисон родился 19 марта 1955 года; он сын Дэвида Уиллисона, американского солдата, базирующегося в Идар-Оберштайне в Западной Германии (ФРГ), и Марлен, немки, родившейся в Касселе . У него есть два брата, Дэвид и Роберт (умерли в 2001 году от рака поджелудочной железы), и сестра Флоренс. Вместе с семьей он уехал из Германии в США в возрасте 2 лет. Большую часть своего детства он провел в Пеннс-Гроув , штат Нью-Джерси . В старших классах он уже проявляет живой интерес к сцене и возглавляет школьный театральный кружок. После школы он нашел работу у охранника атомной электростанции Салема, затем перевез рабочие бригады на завод DuPont Works в Дипуотер  ( штат Нью-Джерси). Он ушел в отставку после смерти одного из его коллег, затем работал барменом в Нью-Йорке .

Он решает начать актерскую карьеру и изучает драму в Государственном университете Монклера . Он выступал в спектакле « Самый горячий кот на раскаленной крыше» , но оставил эту школу в младшем классе. В то же время он посвятил себя музыке и научился играть на губной гармошке . После этого опыта он вернулся к работе в барах, но на этот раз подработал в отеле Plaza на Манхэттене . После нескольких прослушиваний, он фактически дебютировал в театре с производством Неба и Земли из Бродвея и получает больше и больше опыта, особенно с игры Дурак для любви . Он также играет главную роль в рекламе Levi’s и в рекламе женских презервативов. В этот период он посещал Актерскую студию , одну из самых престижных школ актерского мастерства в мире.

Карьера

Дебют и телевизионное откровение (1980-е)

После нескольких небольших ролей и фигур, таких как «Вердикт» с Полом Ньюманом и « Два полицейских в Майами с Доном Джонсоном» , Брюс Уиллис потерял анонимность в 1986 году благодаря телесериалу « Clair de lune» , транслировавшемуся на канале ABC . Вместе с Сибилл Шеперд он играл с 1985 по 1988 год детектива Дэвида Аддисона- младшего , выиграв премию «Эмми» за лучшую мужскую роль в драматическом телесериале и « Золотой глобус» за лучшую мужскую роль в музыкальном или комедийном телесериале в 1987 году .

Он добился своего первого успеха на большом экране в романтической комедии Блейка Эдвардса « Boire et Déboires» , в которой он сыграл Ким Бейсингер . В 1988 году он был выбран на все трудности , чтобы взять на себя роль полицейского Джона Макклейна в действие фильма Die Hard от Мактирнан . Этот глобальный успех открывает сагу « Крепкий орешек » со все более захватывающими продолжениями ( 58 минут до выхода , «День в аду» , « Крепкий орешек 4: Возвращение в ад» и « Крепкий орешек: прекрасный день, чтобы умереть» ), которые сделают Брюса Уиллиса достойным преемником Арнольда. Шварценеггер и Сильвестр Сталлоне в категории большого оружия .

Тем временем он пользуется своим кинематографическим успехом, чтобы попытаться сделать карьеру певца . Он записал два альбома : «Возвращение Бруно» (1987) и « Если это не убьет тебя, то только сделает тебя сильнее» (1989).

Звезда боевиков (1990-е)

В течение 1990-х Брюс Уиллис пытался разнообразить свой репертуар. Он снялся с Томом Хэнксом и Морганом Фрименом в Костер тщеславия от Брайана Де Пальмы и помеченное действия комедии Последний бойскаут от Тони Скотта и Hudson Hawk , которые он написал сценарий. Он играет роль в неправильном направлении в Роберта Земекиса Смерть выглядит так хорошо , в главной роли Мерил Стрип и Голди Хоун .

Он подтверждает это, играя роль боксера в « Криминальном чтиве » Квентина Тарантино вместе с такими звездами, как Джон Траволта , Сэмюэл Л. Джексон и Ума Турман . Благодаря значительному энтузиазму публики и критиков, « Криминальное чтиво» стало культовым фильмом десятилетия и позволило ему вернуть себе большую популярность. Помимо саги « Крепкий орешек », которую он продолжает успешно снимать, у него есть ряд амбициозных фильмов; так, в «Армии двенадцати обезьян » Терри Гиллиама он путешествует во времени и оказывается интернированным с Брэдом Питтом . В «Пятом элементе » Люка Бессона он должен сопровождать инопланетянина Миллу Йовович , а Армагеддон из Майкл Бэй , он управляет командой астронавтов (в том числе Беном Аффлеком , Оуэном Уилсоном и Стивом Бушеми ), чтобы уничтожить метеорит, угрожающий человечеству. Эти три научно-фантастических фильма с большим бюджетом делают его архетипом «спасителя мира» в глазах широкой публики.

В конце десятилетия актер начал успешное сотрудничество с режиссером М. Найтом Шьямаланом с фильмами « Шестое чувство в компании Хейли Джоэл Осмент» и « Нерушимое», в которых он воссоединился с Сэмюэлем Л. Джексоном . Эти две фантастические драмы позволяют ему показать другой аспект своей игры, обращаясь к более психологическим ролям.

Диверсификация (2000-е годы)

Тем не менее, актер продолжает это диверсификацию, идя на этот раз в области комедии: для комедий « Мой сосед убийца» ( 2000 ) и « Мой сосед убийца 2» ( 2004 ), где он запугивает Мэтью Перри . Он воссоединился с актером в трех эпизодах сериала « Друзья» , но также появился в других популярных комедийных сериалах того времени: « Элли МакБил» и «Шоу 70-х» . Он также носит семейную комедию от Диснея студии , Продажа Môme . Он также доверяет признанным режиссерам: когда он сыграл в 2001 году в комедийной драме « Бандиты » Барри Левинсона или даже сыграл со своим звездным образом в 2002 году в комедии «Двенадцать друзей Оушена » Стивена Содерберга .

В то же время он продолжил драматический список в фильмах о войне  : триллер Mission Évasion ( 2002 ), в котором он столкнулся с восходящей звездой Колином Фарреллом, затем воинственная мелодрама Les Larmes du Soleil ( 2003 ) Антуана Фукуа , который ассоциирует ее с Моникой Беллуччи .

Однако в середине десятилетия он вернулся к мускулистым героям: он снял боевик « Заложник» ( 2005 ) французского режиссера Флорана Эмилио-Сири , затем « 16 блоков» ( 2006 ) Ричарда Доннера . Наконец, он снова становится Джоном МакКлейном с четвертой частью « Крепкого орешка» . Он также возвращается к фильму по комиксам, играя Джона Хартигана в экспериментальном Городе грехов ( 2005 ), режиссером которого является Роберт Родригес . Он находит последнего для роли в « Планете террора» , сопродюсером которого стал Квентин Тарантино .

Он также участвует в хоровых кастингах независимых проектов, ориентированных на непочтительность и сатиру: в 2006 году « Нация быстрого питания » Ричарда Линклейтера  ; «Слевин » Пола Макгигана  ; в 2007 году, Alpha Dog , Ник Кассаветис . Эти художественные фильмы не убеждают критиков.

Это десятилетие закончилось, прежде всего, критическими неудачами: романтическим триллером Dangereuse Séduction (2007), в котором он столкнулся с Холли Берри , а затем особенно научно-фантастическим блокбастером « Клоны» , которым он руководил под руководством Джонатана Мостоу .

Этот двойной провал в роли хедлайнера объявляет десятилетие 2010 года более трудным для актера.

Переход на задний план (2010-е)

Чтобы остаться в боевике, актер будет пародировать себя: в 2010 году для приятельского фильма « Лучшие копы» , где Кевин Смит противопоставляет его комику Трейси Морган  ; затем выступал в роли пенсионеров в комедийном боевике « Красный» ( 2010 ); или стать частью былой славы боевиков, воссоединившихся для « Неудержимые 2: Особый отряд» ( 2012 ) по инициативе Сильвестра Сталлоне . Он также нашел другую актрису в упадке, Кэтрин Зету-Джонс , для комедии « Леди Вегас: Воспоминания об игроке» , поставленной англичанином Стивеном Фрирзом . Он также играет старыми руками в блокбастере GI Joe: Conspiracy (2013), который носит Ченнинг Татум .

Он также дает ответ молодым набирающим силу голливудским ценностям в боевиках, которые остаются незамеченными: « Грабители» (2011) с Райаном Филлиппом , « Выхода нет» (2012), который носил Генри Кавилл . Он также играет яркую роль второго плана в боевике « Без компромиссов» (2012), который носит Малин Окерман . Некоторые из этих художественных фильмов выпускаются прямо на видео  : Огонь с огнем: Vengeance par le feu (2012), с Джошем Дюамелем , Принц (2014), с Джейсоном Патриком .

Это было в 2012 году , что он имел два последних критических успехов, благодаря двум независимым кинематографистам: Уэс Андерсон , который включил его в хоровом складу своего нашумевшего Moonrise Kingdom , то Риан Джонсон, который без косточек его против . Джозеф Гордон -Levitt в его научно-фантастический фильм Looper .

Его последовательное возвращение к признанным брендам закончилось критическими неудачами: когда в 2013 году он вернулся к Джону Макклейну для работы Джона Мура « Крепкий орешек: прекрасный день, чтобы умереть » Джона Мура , он был измучен критикой и потерпел коммерческую неудачу в Северной Америке. шансы на шестой и последний Крепкий орешек . Кроме того , красный 2 из Дина Паризо и Sin City: Я убил ее из Фрэнка Миллера и Роберта Родригеса огромные разочарования. Оба эти фильма получают негативные отзывы, и, хотя первый успевает окупить свой бюджет, второй является крупным коммерческим провалом 2014 года.

В 2016 году , когда он уже был задействован на съемках фильма Вуди Аллена « Общество кафе» , его внезапно заменил Стив Карелл . Его трудности с воспроизведением диалогов, написанных режиссером, привели бы к его увольнению.

Вторая половина десятилетия 2010 года знаменует собой смещение фона для актера, где он соединяет истощенные критикой боевики серии B и выходящие прямо на видео: Vice (2015) с Томасом Джейном  ; «Добыча» (2015), с Келланом Лутцем  ; «Драгоценный груз» (2016 г.), с Марком-Полем Госселааром  ; Мародеры (2016) с Кристофером Мелони  ; LA Rush (2017) с Джоном Гудманом и Джейсоном Момоа  ; Первое убийство (2017), с Хайденом Кристенсеном  ; «Акты насилия» (2018) с Коулом Хаузером  ; Reprisal (2018), с Фрэнком Грилло  ; затем китайский военный фильм « Стражи Тихого океана» (2018), выпущенный непосредственно на видео из-за значительного отмывания денег и уклонения от уплаты налогов, повлиявшего на производство.

В 2018 году он попытался вернуться с двумя проектами: боевиком « Жажда смерти» , вдохновленным романом Брайана Гарфилда, который сорок четыре года назад был адаптирован для кино с «Бдительным в городе» . Однако фильм был плохо воспринят критиками и не имел кассовых сборов.

Затем он воссоединился с М. Найтом Шьямаланом и персонажем Дэвида Данна для независимого фантастического триллера « Стекло» , завершив трилогию, начатую в 2000 году знаменитым « Несокрушимым» , в котором он был помещен в драматический регистр, и продолжился в 2017 году « Сплит ». выступление Джеймса МакЭвоя . Брюс Уиллис также воссоединяется с Сэмюэлем Л. Джексоном . Несмотря на неоднозначные отзывы англоязычной прессы (за исключением Франции, где он воспринимается лучше), полнометражный фильм позволяет актеру вернуться к коммерческому успеху.

В том же году он озвучил успешный анимационный фильм The Great Lego Adventure 2 .

В 2019 году Актер сыграл главную роль второго плана во второй режиссуре актера Эдварда Нортона — исторической независимой драме « Бруклинские дела» . Однако он не отказывается от боевиков серии B: таким образом он делится постером 10 Minutes Gone с Майклом Чиклисом . Он также готовился попрощаться с Джоном Макклейном в шестом и последнем полнометражном фильме в начале следующего десятилетия, увидев, как он передает эстафету младшей версии персонажа, но проект был окончательно отменен.

В начале десятилетия 2020 года репутация актера в Голливуде была запятнана после того, как несколько режиссеров, с которыми он снимался, раскрыли его плохое поведение на съемочной площадке. Менее востребованный в больших постановках, актер продолжает сниматься в небольших боевиках категории Б.

Частная жизнь

С 1987 по 2000 год Брюс Уиллис был женат на американской актрисе Деми Мур , от союза которой родились три дочери по имени Румер Гленн (1988), Скаут ЛаРю (1991) и Таллула Белль (1994). Он был помолвлен с Брук Бернс с 2003 по 2004 год.22 марта 2009 г.Агентство Rogers & Cowan, отвечающее за связи с общественностью, сообщает, что 54-летний актер только что женился повторно на модели Эмме Хеминг , которая была на 23 года моложе его. Они встречаются с 2008 года. У них есть две дочери, Мейбл Рэй (род.1 — ^го апреля 2012) и Эвелин Пенн (родилась 5 мая 2014 г.). Он был натурализованным американцем в 1988 году. Он левша и говорит по- немецки . Он также был назначен послом своего родного города Идар-Оберштейна в день своего пятидесятилетия. Что касается его убеждений, то он исповедует лютеранскую протестантскую религию . В политике он сказал, что не принадлежит ни к одной партии, хотя он часто голосовал за кандидатов- республиканцев на многих выборах.

Он накопил большое состояние за свою актерскую карьеру и благодаря своей деятельности в различных компаниях . Он владеет недвижимостью в Лос-Анджелесе , снимает квартиру в Trump Tower в Нью-Йорке , дом в Малибу , ранчо в Монтане , виллу в Parrot Cay на островах Теркс и Кайкос и несколько объектов недвижимости в Sun Valley , штат Айдахо .

Вокруг актера

В 1996 году писатель Роджер Директор, продюсер сериала « Клер де Люн» , написал ключевой роман о Брюсе Уиллисе под названием «Место падения» . Сибилл Шеперд пишет в своей автобиографии Cybill Disobedience (2000), что актер был зол на режиссера, потому что он описал его как «невротичного и раздражительного актера».

В 1998 году Брюс Уиллис участвовал в Apocalypse , видеоигре для PlayStation . Игра рекламируется с актером как второстепенным, а не главным героем. Впоследствии компания переработала игру, используя внешность и голос актера для использования в качестве главного героя.

В 2005 году за значительный вклад в мировую киноиндустрию актер был удостоен звания специалиста по искусству и литературе .

В 2010 году актер появился в музыкальном клипе группы Gorillaz Stylo в роли полицейского в машине, преследующей Мёрдока , 2D и киборга Нудл .

В 2000 году актер появился в нескольких эпизодах сериала « Друзья » в роли Пола Стивенса, отца Элизабет (студентки, с которой Росс состоит в отношениях).

Фильмография

Награды

Награды

• Эмми Награды
  • 1987  : выдающийся ведущий актер в драматическом сериале для Клэр де Лун (1985)
  • 2000  : Лучший приглашенный актер в комедийном сериале ( Выдающийся приглашенный актер в комедийном сериале ) за роль Пола Стивенса в фильме « Друзья» (1999)
• Золотые глобусы
  • 1987  : Лучший актер в комедии или музыкальном сериале ( Лучшая роль актера в сериале — комедия / мюзикл ) Moonlighting (1985)
• Награды Золотого Яблока
  • 1987  : Победитель конкурса кислого яблока
• Приз зрительских симпатий
  • 2000  : Любимая звезда драмы ( Любимая кинозвезда драмы )
• Razzie Awards
  • 1992  : Худший сценарий для « Гудзонского ястреба» (1991) со Стивеном Э. де Соуза , Дэниелом Уотерсом , Робертом Крафтом .
  • 1999  : Худший актер в фильмах «Армагеддон» (1998), « Восход Меркурия» (1998) и «Осада» (1998).
• Хлотрудис Награды
  • 1995  : Лучший актер второго плана — Сэмюэл Л. Джексон и Брюс Уиллис в » Криминальном чтиве» (1995)

Назначения

• 1986  : Золотой глобус за лучшую мужскую роль в драматическом сериале за Клер де Люн (1985–1989)
• 1986  : Primetime Emmy Awards за лучшую мужскую роль в драматическом сериале за Клер де Люн (1985–1989)
• 1988  : Золотой глобус за лучшую мужскую роль в драматическом сериале за Клер де Люн (1985–1989)
• 1990  : Золотой глобус за лучшую мужскую роль второго плана в драме о таком герое, как многие (1989)
• 1992  : Премия MTV Movie Awards за лучший экранный дуэт за «Последний самаритянин» (1991) совместно с Дэймоном Уэйансом
• 1993  : Премия Сатурна за лучшую мужскую роль в комедии о смерти выглядит так хорошо (1992)
• 1993  : Премия американской комедии за лучшую мужскую роль в комедии о смерти выглядит так хорошо (1992)
• 1995  : Премия Сатурна за лучшую мужскую роль второго плана за почти идеальный мужчина (1994) и Криминальное чтиво (1994)
• 1996  : Премия Сатурна за лучшую мужскую роль в научно-фантастическом фильме «Армия двенадцати обезьян» (1995)
• 1998  : Премия Blockbuster Entertainment за лучшую мужскую роль за фильм Шакал (1997)
• 1999  : Премия Сатурна за лучшую мужскую роль в научно-фантастическом фильме Армагеддон (1998)
• 2000  : Премия MTV Movie Awards за лучший экранный дуэт в триллере Sixth Sense (1999) совместно с Хейли Джоэл Осмент
• 2000  : Премия MTV Movie Awards за лучшую мужскую роль в триллере для шестого чувства (1999)
• 2000  : Премия Сатурна за лучшую мужскую роль в триллере для шестого чувства (1999)
• 2001  : Премия американской комедии за лучшую приглашенную звезду мужского пола за сериал « Друзья » (1993)
• 2001  : Премия Blockbuster Entertainment за лучшую мужскую роль в триллере » Нерушимый» (2000)
• 2004  : Премия Blockbuster Entertainment за лучший анимированный голос за » Ох уж эти детки знакомятся с Delajungle» (2003)
• 2006  : Приз зрительских симпатий фильм критиков за лучшую ролях для Sin City совместно с Микки Рурком , Клайв Оуэн , Джессика Альба , Бенисио дель Торо , Бриттани Мерфи , Розарио Доусон , Элайджа Вуд , Алексис Бледел , Джейми Томас Кинг , Девон Аоки и Ник Шталь
• 2007  : Премия Blockbuster Entertainment за лучший голос в анимационном фильме » Наши соседи, мужчины» (2006)
• 2007  : Национальные кинопремии за лучшую мужскую роль в боевике за « Крепкий орешек 4: Возвращение в ад» (2007)
• 2012  : Премия Готэма за лучший актерский состав для Moonrise Kingdom (2012) совместно с Эдвардом Нортоном , Биллом Мюрреем , Фрэнсис МакДорманд , Тильдой Суинтон , Джаредом Гилманом , Карой Хейворд и Джейсоном Шварцманом.
  
• 2013  : Премия «Выбор критиков» за лучший актерский состав за « Королевство восхода луны» (2012) совместно с Джаредом Гилманом , Карой Хейворд , Эдвардом Нортоном , Биллом Мюрреем , Фрэнсис МакДорманд , Тильдой Суинтон , Харви Кейтелем , Бобом Балабаном и Джейсоном Шварцманом
  
• 2013  : Премия Independent Spirit Awards за лучшую мужскую роль в Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

Украшения

• Кавалер ордена искусств и литературы (2013 г.); офицер (2005)

Франкоязычные голоса

Патрик Пойви (умер в июне 2020 года) был официальным французским голосом Брюса Уиллиса, которого он дублировал со времен телесериала Clair de lune в 1987 году . Среди наиболее заметных ролей американского актера , Poivey особенно озвучивает его характер Джона Макклейна в Die Hard саге от 1988 до 2013 года . Он также озвучил французские версии L’Armée des twelve Singes (1995), Armageddon (1998) и Sixième Sens (1999). Брюс Уиллис был озвучен другими актерами на более исключительной основе, в частности, Бернаром Метро в 1997 году в Le Cinquième Élément и в 1999 году в Une vie à deux . В анимации, Брюс Уиллис озвучивают по Кловису Корнийяк в наших соседях, мужчины ( 2006 ).

После смерти Патрика Пойви в июне 2020 года Эрик Херсон-Макарель и Стефан Годен озвучивали актера на французском языке в его последних фильмах.

В Квебеке , Жан-Люк Montminy его регулярный голос. Он удваивает актера, в частности, в « 12 обезьян» , « Армагеддон» , «Шестое чувство» и «Несокрушимое» (2000).

Французские версии

• Патрик Пойви  : Лунный свет , Хрустальная ловушка , Армия двенадцати обезьян , Армагедон , Шестое чувство и  т. Д.
• Бернар Метро  : Пятый элемент и жизнь для двоих .
• Эрик Херсон-Макарель  : Hard Kill и Anti-Life
• Стефан Годин  : Космический грех

Квебекские версии

• Жан-Люк Montminy  : 12 Monkeys , Армагеддон , Шестое чувство , нерушимое ,  и т.д.

Примечания и ссылки

Внешние ссылки

В Википедии есть статьи о других людях с такой фамилией, см. Уиллис.

Уо́лтер Брюс Уи́ллис (англ. Walter Bruce Willis, род. 19 марта 1955^[1][2][…], Идар-Оберштайн, Рейнланд-Пфальц, ФРГ^[3]) — американский актёр, продюсер и музыкант. Был одним из самых высокооплачиваемых актёров Голливуда. Наибольшую известность получил благодаря роли полицейского Джона Макклейна в серии фильмов «Крепкий орешек», а также таким картинам, как «Смерть ей к лицу» (1992), «Криминальное чтиво» (1994), «12 обезьян» (1995), «Пятый элемент» (1997), «Армагеддон» (1998), «Шестое чувство» (1999), «Неуязвимый» (2000), «Город грехов» (2005), «Счастливое число Слевина» (2005), «РЭД» (2010).

Биография

Ранние годы

Уолтер Брюс Уиллис родился 19 марта 1955 года в Идар-Оберштайне в Западной Германии. Его мать, Марлен, была немкой из Касселя, а отец Дэвид Уиллис — американским военным. Брюс Уиллис — старший из четверых детей в семье. После увольнения из армии в 1957 году отец перевез семью в Карнис-Пойнт, штат Нью-Джерси. Уиллис в детстве заикался. Начал играть в школьном драматическом кружке, заметив, что игра на сцене уменьшает заикание. После окончания средней школы в 1973 году работал охранником на АЭС в Сейлеме. Поступил на драматическое отделение в Монтклерский государственный университет^[en]. В конце 1970-х переехал в Нью-Йорк. Жил на Манхэттене в Адской кухне, работал барменом^[4][5][6].

Актёрская карьера

Уиллис несколько лет играл в малоизвестных театрах и исполнял эпизодические роли в телевизионных постановках, прежде чем на него обратили внимание и пригласили играть частного сыщика в телесериале «Детективное агентство „Лунный свет“» (1985—1989). За Уиллисом закрепилась репутация комика, однако в 1988 году он неожиданно сыграл отставного полицейского Джона Макклейна в боевике «Крепкий орешек», который и принёс ему мировую известность. Впоследствии Уиллис исполнил роль того же героя в четырёх продолжениях «Крепкого орешка».

После «Крепкого орешка» за Уиллисом закрепилось амплуа простого героя из народа, похожего на Макклейна^[7][8][9], — обычно полицейского или частного сыщика — в боевиках и детективах, таких как «Последний бойскаут», «Гудзонский ястреб», «Герой-одиночка», «Меркурий в опасности», «Осада», «Город грехов». В 1994 году Уиллис сыграл заметную, хотя и не главную роль боксёра, бросившего вызов мафии, в фильме Квентина Тарантино «Криминальное чтиво», за которую получил ряд номинаций на премии. В конце 1990-х Уиллис прославился ролями спасителей мира в фантастических блокбастерах «Пятый элемент» и «Армагеддон». Редкими исключениями из геройского амплуа Уиллиса были роль врача-недотёпы в чёрной комедии «Смерть ей к лицу»^[10] и террориста в триллере «Шакал»^[11]. Он также сыграл второстепенную роль полицейского в трагикомедии Уэса Андерсона «Королевство полной луны», эта роль принесла Уиллису целый ряд номинаций на кинопремии.

Уиллис постоянно снимался в фильмах своего друга^[12] М. Найта Шьямалана, начиная с мистической драмы «Шестое чувство» (эта роль принесла ему 100 миллионов долларов^[13][14][15] и премию People’s Choice). Он трижды сыграл у Шьямалана роль «народного мстителя» Дэвида Данна в фильмах «Неуязвимый», «Сплит» (камео) и «Стекло». Шьямалан считает, что обязан своим успехом именно поддержке Брюса Уиллиса^[12].

Вместе с Арнольдом Рифкиным основал кинокомпанию Cheyenne Enterprises^[16], которая выпустила около трёх десятков фильмов^[17].

Болезнь, кризис и завершение карьеры

Во второй половине 2010-х карьера Уиллиса пошла на спад, он начал часто играть в малобюджетных и низкокачественных фильмах (нередко выходящих прямо на DVD, без премьеры^[18][19]), чаще всего небольшие роли, позволяющие использовать его имя в рекламной кампании^[20][21]. Такие фильмы как «Дожить до утра», «Брешь», «За гранью жизни» и в особенности «Звёздный рубеж» получили разгромную критику. На антипремии «Золотая малина» в 2022 году даже была введена отдельная номинация «Худшая игра Брюса Уиллиса в фильме 2021 года», в которую были включены все 8 фильмов, в которых Брюс Уиллис снялся в 2021 году^[22][23]. Победителем был назван фильм «Звёздный рубеж»^[24]. После того, как раскрылась информация о болезни актёра, организаторы анти-премии отозвали награду Брюсу Уиллису^[25].

В 2022 году семья Брюса Уиллиса подтвердила бытовавшую ранее^[26][27] теорию, что причиной его карьерного кризиса стали возрастные заболевания мозга, мешающие ему исполнять более сложные роли. У Уиллиса развилась выраженная афазия — нарушение речи, в связи с чем он завершает актёрскую карьеру^[28][29][30].

В 2023 году у актера была диагностирована лобно-височная деменция^[31], одним из симптомов которой является афазия. Об этом сообщила семья актера на странице сайта, занимающегося изучением заболевания^[32].

Вне кино

Уиллис занимается музыкой, он участник группы The Accelerators, играющей блюзовые стандарты, но также работает и сольно — в 1980-х выпустил два альбома, исполненных в стилях поп-рок, софт-рок и блюз. В 2010 году снялся в клипе группы Gorillaz «Stylo».

Уиллис часто участвует в рекламе. 23 апреля 2009 года компания Belvedere S.A. подписала длительный рекламный контракт с Уиллисом, который стал новым лицом водки Sobieski^[en][33][34]. В фильме «РЭД» герою Уиллиса дезинфицируют рану именно этой водкой. С 2010 года — лицо рекламной кампании банка «Траст», проходящей под различными лозунгами, выполненными как фразы самого Уиллиса^[35]. В 2022 году Брюс Уиллис «снялся» в рекламе мобильной сети «Мегафон». Его персонажа сыграл другой актёр, а его лицо было заменено с использованием технологии deepfake^[36].

В октябре 2015 года стартовала театральная постановка романа Стивена Кинга «Мизери» (1987) с участием Лори Меткалф и Брюсом Уиллисом. Для Уиллиса, не считая ролей в малобюджетных театрах в юности^[37], это был дебют на театральной сцене^[38]. Свою роль он описал как «85-минутное пребывание в постели и всего несколько мгновений пребывания вне её»^[39]. Инсценировка продлилась 16 недель^[40].

Личная жизнь

С ноября 1987 года по октябрь 2000 года Уиллис был женат на актрисе Деми Мур. Пара познакомилась на премьере фильма «Слежка». У них родились три дочери: Румер Гленн Уиллис (англ. Rumer Glenn Willis, р. 1988), Скаут Ларю Уиллис (англ. Scout LaRue Willis, р. 1991) и Таллула Белль Уиллис (англ. Tallulah Belle Willis, р. 1994). В июне 1998 года Мур и Уиллис заявили о расставании, развод был оформлен спустя два года. После неожиданного развода Уиллиса и Мур ходили слухи о повторной свадьбе, однако Мур неожиданно вышла замуж за 37-летнего Эштона Кутчера. Тем не менее, бывшие супруги сохраняют дружеские отношения и деловые связи; Уиллис даже посетил свадьбу Мур и Кутчера^[42].

В 2004 году около года встречался с моделью Брук Бёрнс^[43].

21 марта 2009 года женился на фотомодели Эмме Хеминг, которая моложе Уиллиса на 23 года. На свадьбе присутствовала и Деми Мур вместе со своим мужем Эштоном Кутчером. У Эммы и Брюса две дочери: Мейбел Рей (р. 01.04.2012), Эвелин Пенн (р. 05.05.2014)^[44]. Семья живёт в Нью-Йорке, в квартире рядом с Центральным парком^[45].

Брюс Уиллис — левша^[46]. Рост 183 см^[47].

Фильмография

Актёр

Год		Русское название	Оригинальное название	Роль
1980	ф	Первый смертный грех	The First Deadly Sin	человек, заходящий в закусочную
1980	тф	Принц города[de]	Ein Guru kommt	неизвестно
1981	ф	Принц города	Prince of the City	наблюдатель в суде
1982	ф	Вердикт	The Verdict	наблюдатель в суде
1984	с	Полиция Майами	Miami Vice	Тони Амато
1985—1989	с	Детективное агентство «Лунный свет»	Moonlighting	Дэвид Эддисон Мл.
1985	с	Сумеречная зона	The Twilight Zone	Питер Джей Новинс
1987	ф	Свидание вслепую	Blind Date	Уолтер Дэвис
1987	тф	Возвращение Бруно[en]	The Return of Bruno	Бруно
1988	ф	Крепкий орешек	Die Hard	Джон Макклейн
1988	ф	Закат	Sunset	Том Микс
1989	ф	Страна	In Country	Эмметт Смит
1989	ф	Уж кто бы говорил	Look Who’s Talking	Майки
1989	ф	Это адекватно[en]	That’s Adequate	камео
1990	ф	Костёр тщеславия	The Bonfire of the Vanities	Питер Фаллоу
1990	ф	Крепкий орешек 2	Die Hard 2	Джон Макклейн
1990	ф	Уж кто бы говорил 2	Look Who’s Talking Too	Майки
1991	ф	Билли Батгейт	Billy Bathgate	Бу Вайнберг
1991	ф	Гудзонский ястреб	Hudson Hawk	Эдди Хоукинс
1991	ф	Последний бойскаут	The Last Boy Scout	Джо Хелленбек
1991	ф	Смертельные мысли	Mortal Thoughts	Джеймс Урбански
1992	ф	Смерть ей к лицу	Death Becomes Her	Эрнест Минвайл
1992	ф	Игрок	The Player	камео
1993	ф	На расстоянии удара	Striking Distance	Том Харди
1993	ф	Заряженное оружие	National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon	Джон Макклейн
1994	ф	Цвет ночи	Color of Night	Билл Капа
1994	ф	Без дураков	Nobody’s Fool	Карл Робук
1994	ф	Норт	North	Пасхальный Заяц
1994	ф	Криминальное чтиво	Pulp Fiction	Буч Кулидж
1995	ф	Крепкий орешек 3: Возмездие	Die Hard: With a Vengeance	Джон Макклейн
1995	ф	Четыре комнаты	Four Rooms	Лео
1995	ф	12 обезьян	Twelve Monkeys	Джеймс Коул
1996	мф	Бивис и Баттхед уделывают Америку	Beavis and Butt-head Do America	Мадди Граймс
1996	ф	Герой-одиночка	Last Man Standing	Джон Смит
1996—1997	мс	Малыш Бруно[en]	Bruno The Kid	малыш Бруно
1997	ф	Пятый элемент	The Fifth Element	Корбен Даллас
1997	ф	Шакал	The Jackal	«Шакал»
1997	с	Без ума от тебя	Mad About You	пациент, страдающий амнезией
1998	ф	Армагеддон	Armageddon	Гарри Стэмпер
1998	ф	Меркурий в опасности	Mercury Rising	Арт Джеффрис
1998	ф	Осада	The Siege	Уильям Деверо
1998	кор	Фрэнки едет в Голливуд	Franky Goes to Hollywood	камео
1999	ф	Завтрак для чемпионов	Breakfast of Champions	Двейн Гувер
1999	ф	История о нас	The Story of Us	Бен Джордан
1999	с	Элли Макбил	Ally McBeal	Найкл
1999	ф	Шестое чувство	The Sixth Sense	Малькольм Кроув
2000	ф	Девять ярдов	The Whole Nine Yards	Джимми Тодески
2000	ф	Неуязвимый	Unbreakable	Дэвид Данн
2000	ф	Малыш	The Kid	Расс Дариц
2000	с	Друзья	Friends	Пол Стивенс
2001	ф	Бандиты	Bandits	Джо Блейк
2002	ф	Война Харта	Hart’s War	Вильям Макнамара
2002	тф	Истинный Запад	True West	Ли
2002	ф	Великий чемпион[en]	Grand Champion	мистер Блэндфорд
2003	ф	Слёзы солнца	Tears of the Sun	лейтенант А. К. Уотерс
2003	ф	Ангелы Чарли: Только вперёд	Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle	Уильям Роуз Бейли
2003	ф	Десять ярдов	The Whole Ten Yards	Джимми Тодески
2003	мф	Карапузы встречаются с Торнберри[en]	Rugrats Go Wild	Спайк
2004	ф	Двенадцать друзей Оушена	Ocean’s Twelve	камео
2005	ф	Заложник	Hostage	Джефф Тейли
2005	ф	Город грехов	Sin City	Джон Хартиган
2005	ф	Счастливое число Слевина	Lucky Number Slevin	мистер Добрый Кот
2005	ф	Альфа Дог	Alpha Dog	Сонни Трулав
2005	с	Шоу 70-х	That ’70s Show	Вик
2006	мф	Лесная братва	Over the Hedge	Эр-джей
2006	ф	16 кварталов	16 Blocks	Джек Мосли
2006	ф	Нация фастфуда	Fast Food Nation	Гарри Райделл
2007	ф	Астронавт Фармер[en]	The Astronaut Farmer	полковник Дуг Мастерсон
2007	ф	Крепкий орешек 4.0	Live Free or Die Hard	Джон Макклейн
2007	ф	Идеальный незнакомец	Perfect Stranger	Харрисон Хилл
2007	ф	Планета страха	Planet Terror	Малдун
2007	ф	Нэнси Дрю	Nancy Drew	камео
2008	ф	Однажды в Голливуде	What Just Happened	камео
2008	в	Убийство школьного президента	Assassination of a High School President	К. Киркпатрик
2009	ф	Суррогаты	The Surrogates	Том Грир
2010	ф	Двойной КОПец	Cop Out	Джимми Монро
2010	ф	Неудержимые	The Expendables	Чёрч
2010	ф	РЭД	Red	Фрэнк Мозес
2011	кор	Чёрная мамба	The Black Mamba	мистер Суав
2011	в	Подстава	Setup	Биггс
2011	в	Уловка .44[en]	Catch .44	Мел
2012	ф	Фортуна Вегаса	Lay the Favorite	Динк Хаймовиц
2012	ф	Средь бела дня	The Cold Light of Day	Мартин
2012	ф	Королевство полной луны	Moonrise Kingdom	капитан Шарп
2012	ф	Неудержимые 2	The Expendables 2	Чёрч[48]
2012	ф	Петля времени	Looper	старый Джо
2012	в	Клин клином	Fire with Fire	Майк Челла
2013	ф	Крепкий орешек: Хороший день, чтобы умереть	A Good Day to Die Hard	Джон Макклейн[49][50][51]
2013	ф	G.I. Joe: Бросок кобры 2	G.I. Joe: Retaliation	Джозеф Колтон[52]
2013	ф	РЭД 2	Red 2	Фрэнк Мозес[53]
2014	ф	Город грехов 2: Женщина, ради которой стоит убивать	Sin City: A Dame to Kill For	Джон Хартиган
2014	в	Принц	The Prince	Омар
2015	в	Добро пожаловать в рай	Vice	Джулиан
2015	ф	Рок на Востоке	Rock the Kasbah	«Бомбей» Брайан
2015	в	Спасение[en]	Extraction	Леонард Тёрнер
2016	в	Ценный груз	Precious Cargo	Эдди Пилоса
2016	в	Налётчики	Marauders	Джеффри Хьюберт
2017	ф	Сплит	Split	Дэвид Данн (камео)
2017	в	Его собачье дело	Once Upon a Time in Venice	Стив
2017	в	Первое убийство[en]	First Kill	Марвин Хауэлл
2018	в	Акты насилия	Acts of Violence	детектив Джеймс Авери
2018	ф	Жажда смерти	Death Wish	Пол Керси
2018	в	Расправа[en]	Reprisal	Джеймс
2018	в	Воздушный удар	Air Strike	Джек
2019	ф	Стекло	Glass	Дэвид Данн
2019	мф	Лего. Фильм 2	The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part	Брюс Уиллис
2019	с	Орвилл	The Orville	Груген
2019	в	10 минут спустя[en]	10 Minutes Gone	Рекс
2019	ф	Сиротский Бруклин	Motherless Brooklyn	Фрэнк Минна
2019	в	Ночь в осаде	Trauma Center	лейтенант полиции Стив Уэйкс
2020	в	Дожить до утра	Survive the Night	Фрэнк
2020	в	Приказано: уничтожить[en]	Hard Kill	Чалмерс
2020	в	Брешь	Breach	Клэй Янг
2021	в	Звёздный рубеж	Cosmic Sin	Джеймс Форд
2021	в	За гранью жизни	Out of Death	Джек Харрис
2021	ф	Полночь на злаковом поле	Midnight in the Switchgrass	Карл Хелтер
2021	в	Выжить в игре	Survive the Game	детектив Дэвид Уотсон
2021	в	Преступный квест	Apex	Томас Мэлоун
2021	в	Тупик	Deadlock	Рон Уитлок
2021	в	Крепость	Fortress	Роберт Майклс
2021	в	Осада	American Siege	Бен Уоттс
2022	в	Заговор в Голливуде	Gasoline Alley	детектив Билл Фримен
2022	в	Отряд «Призрак»	A Day to Die	Олстон
2022	в	Крепость 2: Глаз снайпера	Fortress: Sniper’s Eye	Роберт Майклс
2022	в	Тюрьма суперзлодеев	Corrective Measures	Лоуб
2022	в	Вендетта. Банды Атланты	Vendetta	Донни Феттер
2022	в	Белый слон	White Elephant	Арнольд Соломон
2022	в	Опасный свидетель	Wrong Place	Фрэнк Ричардс
2022	в	Под наблюдением	Wire Room	Шейн Мюллер
2022	в	Детектив Найт: Мерзавец[en]	Detective Knight: Rogue	Джеймс Найт
2022	в	Райский город	Paradise City	Иан Суон
2022	в	Детектив Найт: Искупление[en]	Detective Knight: Redemption	Джеймс Найт
2023	в	Детектив Найт: Независимость[en]	Detective Knight: Independence	Детектив Джеймс Найт
2023	в	Миссия ассасина	Assassin	Валмора

Продюсер

• 1987 — Возвращение Бруно (телефильм)
• 1996 — Малыш Бруно (телефильм)
• 2002 — Охотник на крокодилов: Схватка
• 2002 — Истинный запад (телефильм)
• 2004 — Прикосновение зла (телесериал)
• 2005 — Заложник
• 2006 — Хип-хоп проект (документальный фильм)
• 2013 — Крепкий орешек: Хороший день, чтобы умереть

Сценарист

• 1987 — Возвращение Бруно (телефильм)
• 1991 — Гудзонский ястреб

Дискография

Студийные альбомы

• 1987 — The Return of Bruno^[en][54]
• 1989 — If It Don’t Kill You, It Just Makes You Stronger^[en][55]

Сборники

• 1999 — Classic Bruce Willis: The Universal Masters Collection^[56]

Награды

• 1987 — телевизионная премия «Эмми» (Emmy) за выдающуюся роль первого плана в сериале «Детективное агентство „Лунный свет“».
• 1987 — «Золотой глобус» — «Лучший актёр ТВ-сериала (комедия/мюзикл)» «Детективное агентство „Лунный свет“».
• 1998 — антипремия «Золотая малина» за худшую актёрскую работу в фильмах «Армагеддон», «Меркурий в опасности» и «Осада»^[57].
• 2000 — телевизионная премия «Эмми» (Emmy) за выдающуюся роль второго плана в сериале «Друзья».
• 2006 — на знаменитой голливудской «Аллее славы» заложена плита с его именем.
• 2006 — офицер французского ордена Искусств и литературы^[58].
• 2013 — командор французского ордена Искусств и литературы^[59].

Примечания

Ссылки

• Официальный сайт (англ.)
• Индустрия кино. Рассекреченные материалы: Брюс Уиллис

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