Bruce Willis

Walter Bruce Willis is a retired American actor. His career began on the off-Broadway stage in the 1970s. He achieved fame with a leading role on the comedy-drama series Moonlighting (1985–1989) and has since appeared in over 70 films, gaining widespread recognition as an action hero after his portrayal of John McClane in the Die Hard franchise (1988–2013) and other subsequent roles. Willis's other credits include The Last Boy Scout (1991), Pulp Fiction (1994), 12 Monkeys (1995), Last Man Standing (1996), The Fifth Element (1997), Armageddon (1998), The Sixth Sense (1999), Hart's War (2002), Tears of the Sun (2003), Hostage (2005), Lucky Number Slevin (2006), Surrogates (2009), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), Rock the Kasbah (2015) and Motherless Brooklyn (2019). As a singer, Willis released his debut album The Return of Bruno in 1987, followed by two more successful albums in 1989 and 2001. He made his Broadway debut in the stage adaptation of Misery in 2015. Willis has received numerous accolades during his career, including a Golden Globe, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and two People's Choice Awards. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006. In March 2022, Willis announced that he was retiring from acting after being diagnosed with aphasia, which affects his ability to communicate. In February 2023, Willis' family announced that they had received a more accurate diagnosis and he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Idar-Oberstein, West Germany [now Germany], 1955-03-19

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1980	The First Deadly Sin	Man Entering Diner as Delaney Leaves	58
2	1980	A Guru Comes	Extra (uncredited)	0
3	1981	Prince of the City	Extra (uncredited)	70
4	1982	The Verdict	Courtroom Observer (uncredited)	74
5	1986	Barbra Streisand: One Voice	Self - Audience Member (uncredited)	76
6	1987	The Pointer Sisters: Up All Nite	Self	65
7	1987	The Return of Bruno	Bruno Radolini	65
8	1987	Blind Date	Walter Davis	60
9	1988	Sunset	Tom Mix	56
10	1988	Die Hard	John McClane	78
11	1989	That's Adequate	Self	32
12	1989	In Country	Emmett Smith	55
13	1989	Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary	Self	75
14	1989	Look Who's Talking	Mikey (voice)	63
15	1990	Die Hard 2	John McClane	70
16	1990	Seriously... Phil Collins	Self	0
17	1990	Look Who's Talking Too	Mikey (voice)	55
18	1990	The Bonfire of the Vanities	Peter Fallow	56
19	1991	Mortal Thoughts	James Urbanski	56
20	1991	Hudson Hawk	Eddie 'Hudson Hawk' Hawkins	57
21	1991	Billy Bathgate	Bo Weinberg	58
22	1991	The Last Boy Scout	Joe Hallenbeck	68
23	1992	The Player	Bruce Willis	72
24	1992	Death Becomes Her	Dr. Ernest Menville	68
25	1993	National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1	John McClane (uncredited)	60
26	1993	Striking Distance	Det. Tom Hardy	59
27	1994	North	Narrator (voice)	50
28	1994	Color of Night	Capa	58
29	1994	Pulp Fiction	Butch Coolidge	85
30	1994	Nobody's Fool	Carl Roebuck	69
31	1995	A Night to Die For	Self	0
32	1995	Die Hard: With a Vengeance	John McClane	73
33	1995	Four Rooms	Leo	59
34	1995	Twelve Monkeys	James Cole	76
35	1996	Last Man Standing	John Smith	64
36	1996	The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys'	Self	69
37	1996	Beavis and Butt-Head Do America	Muddy Grimes (voice)	66
38	1997	Bruno the Kid: The Animated Movie	Bruno the Kid (voice) (archive footage)	60
39	1997	The Fifth Element	Korben Dallas	76
40	1997	The Jackal	The Jackal	64
41	1998	Armageddon: Target Earth	Self	0
42	1998	Mercury Rising	Art Jeffries	63
43	1998	Armageddon	Harry S. Stamper	68
44	1998	Jackie Chan: My Story	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	62
45	1998	The Siege	Major-General William Devereaux	63
46	1999	Breakfast of Champions	Dwayne Hoover	51
47	1999	The Sixth Sense	Malcolm Crowe	80
48	1999	The Story of Us	Ben Jordan	61
49	2000	The Whole Nine Yards	Jimmy 'Tulipán' Tudeski	65
50	2000	The Kid	Russ Duritz	67
51	2000	Unbreakable	David Dunn	71
52	2001	Bandits	Joseph Blake	63
53	2002	Hart's War	Col. William A. McNamara	64
54	2002	True West	Lee	74
55	2002	The Art of Action: Martial Arts in the Movies	Self - Interviewee (uncredited)	57
56	2002	Pulp Fiction: The Facts	Self (archive footage)	0
57	2003	Tears of the Sun	Lieutenant A.K. Waters	69
58	2003	Rugrats Go Wild	Spike (voice)	63
59	2003	Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle	William Rose Bailey (uncredited)	55
60	2004	The Whole Ten Yards	Jimmy Tudeski	57
61	2004	Grand Champion	Mr. Blandford	60
62	2004	Genius. A Night for Ray Charles	Self	73
63	2004	Ocean's Twelve	Bruce Willis	66
64	2005	Hostage	Jeff Talley	63
65	2005	Sin City	Det. John Hartigan	75
66	2005	My Date with Drew	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	59
67	2006	Tarantino's Mind	Butch Coolidge (archive footage)	70
68	2006	Alpha Dog	Sonny Truelove	67
69	2006	Lucky Number Slevin	Mr. Goodkat	75
70	2006	16 Blocks	Jack Mosley	64
71	2006	The Hip Hop Project	Self	85
72	2006	Over the Hedge	RJ (voice)	66
73	2006	Hammy's Boomerang Adventure	RJ (voice)	61
74	2006	Fast Food Nation	Harry Rydell	61
75	2006	Tony Bennett: An American Classic	Self - Speaker	84
76	2007	The Astronaut Farmer	Doug Masterson (uncredited)	62
77	2007	Planet Terror	Lieutenant Muldoon	67
78	2007	Grindhouse	Muldoon (segment "Planet Terror")	70
79	2007	Perfect Stranger	Harrison Hill	58
80	2007	Nancy Drew	Bruce (uncredited)	61
81	2007	Live Free or Die Hard	John McClane	66
82	2008	Assassination of a High School President	Principal Kirkpatrick	57
83	2008	Shine a Light	Self - Concert Audience (uncredited)	68
84	2008	What Just Happened	Self	54
85	2009	Surrogates	Tom Greer	61
86	2010	Cop Out	Jimmy Monroe	56
87	2010	The Expendables	Mr. Church (uncredited)	62
88	2010	I'm Still Here	Self - Guest	60
89	2010	RED	Frank Moses	67
90	2010	Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables'	Self	80
91	2011	His Way	Self	64
92	2011	The Black Mamba	Mister Suave	64
93	2011	Setup	Biggs	49
94	2011	Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts	Self	68
95	2011	Catch.44	Mel	51
96	2012	Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen	(archive footage)	76
97	2012	The Cold Light of Day	Martin	54
98	2012	Moonrise Kingdom	Captain Sharp	77
99	2012	Lay the Favorite	Dink Heimowitz	52
100	2012	The Expendables 2	Church	63
101	2012	Fire with Fire	Mike Cella	57
102	2012	Looper	Old Joe	69
103	2012	Close Up	Self (archive footage)	95
104	2012	B.B. King: The Life of Riley	Self	69
105	2013	A Good Day to Die Hard	John McClane	53
106	2013	Bruce Willis: Why the Legend Never Dies	Narrator (voice) / Self	59
107	2013	G.I. Joe: Retaliation	Joe Colton	56
108	2013	RED 2	Frank Moses	65
109	2014	Altman	Self	65
110	2014	Sin City: A Dame to Kill For	Hartigan	64
111	2014	The Prince	Omar	49
112	2015	Vice	Julian	44
113	2015	Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'	Self / Cap Sharp	61
114	2015	Rock the Kasbah	Bombay Brian	54
115	2015	Extraction	Leonard Turner	45
116	2016	Marauders	Hubert	58
117	2016	Precious Cargo	Eddie	51
118	2016	Tony Bennett Celebrates 90	Self	80
119	2017	Split	David Dunn (uncredited)	73
120	2017	John Travolta, le miraculé d'Hollywood	Self - Actor (archive footage)	73
121	2017	Once Upon a Time in Venice	Steve	52
122	2017	First Kill	Howell	57
123	2018	Acts of Violence	Detective James Avery	56
124	2018	Death Wish	Paul Kersey	62
125	2018	Comedy Central Roast of Bruce Willis	Self	66
126	2018	Reprisal	James	52
127	2018	Air Strike	Jack	50
128	2019	Glass	David Dunn / The Overseer	67
129	2019	The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part	Bruce Willis (voice)	67
130	2019	Between Two Ferns: The Movie	Bruce Willis (archive footage)	59
131	2019	10 Minutes Gone	Rex	53
132	2019	QT8: The First Eight	Self (archive footage)	72
133	2019	Motherless Brooklyn	Frank Minna	67
134	2019	Trauma Center	Lt. Det. Wakes	55
135	2020	Survive the Night	Frank	49
136	2020	Hard Kill	Chalmers	49
137	2020	Bruce Willis, l'indestructible		98
138	2020	Breach	Clay Young	42
139	2021	Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend	Self (archive footage)	50
140	2021	Cosmic Sin	James Ford	40
141	2021	Out of Death	Jack Harris	54
142	2021	Midnight in the Switchgrass	Karl Helter	58
143	2021	Survive the Game	David	53
144	2021	Apex	Thomas Malone	51
145	2021	Deadlock	Ron Whitlock	53
146	2021	Fortress	Robert	57
147	2022	American Siege	Ben Watts	53
148	2022	Gasoline Alley	Detective Freeman	50
149	2022	A Day to Die	Alston	57
150	2022	Corrective Measures	Julius 'The Lobe' Loeb	50
151	2022	Fortress: Sniper's Eye	Robert	53
152	2022	Vendetta	Donnie Fetter	60
153	2022	White Elephant	Arnold Soloman	59
154	2022	Wrong Place	Frank	43
155	2022	Wire Room	Shane Mueller	62
156	2022	Detective Knight: Rogue	Det. James Knight	61
157	2022	Paradise City	Ian Swan	55
158	2022	Detective Knight: Redemption	Det. James Knight	54
159	2023	Detective Knight: Independence	Det. James Knight	54
160	2023	Assassin	Valmora	52
161	2023	The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump	Self (archive footage)	56
162	2023	Sly	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	72
163		Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life	Self (archive footage)	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1949	The Emmy Awards	Self	79
2	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	70
3	1984	Goldene Kamera Verleihung	Self	35
4	1984	Miami Vice	Tony Amato	75
5	1985	Moonlighting	David Addison	75
6	1985	The Twilight Zone	Peter Novins (segment "Shatterday")	78
7	1987	Dolly	Self	0
8	1992	HBO First Look		49
9	1992	HBO First Look	Self	49
10	1992	Mad About You	Bruce Willis	67
11	1993	Late Show with David Letterman	Self	63
12	1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Self - Guest	72
13	1994	Inside the Actors Studio	Self	75
14	1994	Friends	Paul Stevens	84
15	1996	The Daily Show	Self	64
16	1996	E! True Hollywood Story	Self	81
17	1996	Bruno the Kid	Bruno the Kid (voice)	60
18	1997	Taff	self	32
19	1997	The View	Self	45
20	1997	Ally McBeal	Dr. Nickle (uncredited)	66
21	1998	The Entertainment Biz	Self	0
22	1998	That '70s Show	Vic	79
23	1999	Where Are They Now?	Self	75
24	1999	The Early Show	Self - Guest	57
25	2002	Top Gear	Self	75
26	2003	The Ellen DeGeneres Show	Self	57
27	2005	The Reichen Show	Self - Guest	48
28	2006	America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions	Narrator (voice)	80
29	2008	Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis	Self	75
30	2017	The Orville	Groogen (voice)	76
31	2018	James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction	Self	68
32	2019	The Movies That Made Us	Det. John McClane (archive footage)	72

Bruce Willis

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