All All. Sign In. Sin City premiere. List activity. Bruce Willis. Actor Producer Writer Die Hard Actor and musician Bruce Willis is well known for playing wisecracking or hard-edged characters, often in spectacular action films. His family moved to the U. While bartending one night, he was seen by a casting director who liked his personality and needed a bartender for a small movie role.
After countless auditions, Willis contributed minor film appearances, usually uncredited, before landing the role of private eye "David Addison" alongside sultry Cybill Shepherd in the hit romantic comedy television series Moonlighting His sarcastic and wisecracking P.
He reprised the role of McClane in the sequel, Die Hard 2 , set at a snowbound Washington's Dulles International Airport as a group of renegade Special Forces soldiers seek to repatriate a corrupt South American general. Excellent box office returns demanded a further sequel Die Hard with a Vengeance , this time co-starring Samuel L. Jackson as a cynical Harlem shop owner unwittingly thrust into assisting McClane during a terrorist bombing campaign on a sweltering day in New York.
Willis found time out from all the action mayhem to provide the voice of "Mikey" the baby in the very popular family comedies Look Who's Talking , and its sequel Look Who's Talking Too also starring John Travolta and Kirstie Alley.
Over the next decade, Willis starred in some very successful films, some very offbeat films and some unfortunate box office flops.
