BIOGRAPHY
Burly, thick-featured and balding, Bruce Willis looks as if he would be perfectly at home behind the wheel of an 18-wheeler. Instead, he is one of Hollywood's more popular action heroes. Though he was born on an American military base in West Germany on March 19th, 1955, Willis was raised in New Jersey from the age of two. As a youth, Willis had a stammer that only disappeared when he was performing, something he continued to do during high school as a class clown. He had less to laugh about after his participation in a racial incident during his senior year got him expelled until his father hired a lawyer and Willis was allowed to graduate. After his graduation, Willis worked several odd jobs and played the harmonica for a local blues band by the name of Loose Goose. While attending Montclair State College, he performed in a production of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and his love of acting blossomed. He spent much time in New York trying out for various off-Broadway productions, finally succeeding in 1977. He left school to work in the play Heaven on Earth, but his subsequent acting career was spotty, with a commerical here and a small theatrical role there.
However, in 1984 he landed the lead in an off-Broadway production of Fool for Love and then, during a trip to Los Angeles, was selected out of 3,000 auditioners to co-star in Cybill Shepherd's romantic sitcom Moonlighting as the egotistical, self-assured private detective David Addison.
Though the show experienced trouble behind the scenes, in large part due to a long-running conflict between Willis, Shepherd and the show's creator, Glenn Cordon Caron, it was a major hit during most of its 1985-1989 run. In the early '80s, Willis had bit parts in two major features, but did not make his official big screen debut until he starred opposite Kim Basinger in the Blake Edwards farce Blind Date. He again worked with Edwards for his sophomore effort playing a cowboy star in the western spoof Sunset. Both films reaped modest profits, but did little in the way of making Willis a major star.
Then came Die Hard. The movie was slick, fast paced and filled with amazing stunts. Its tremendous popularity put Willis on Hollywood's A-list, and naturally suggested that Willis would have followed up his success with another blockbuster, but he instead appeared in Norman Jewison's Vietnam drama In Country. Willis next lent his vocal talents to the voice of the baby in the inventive comedy Look Who's Talking and its critically panned sequel Look Who's Talking Too. He went on to reprise his role as detective John McClane in Die Hard 2 and Die Hard With a Vengeance and made his screenwriting debut with 1991's  critically panned Hudson Hawk. Since then, his film career has continued to be prolific but uneven, with lows such as Color of Night and Four Rooms and highs such as Pulp Fiction and The Sixth Sense. In 1998, Willis' reputation as an action hero was reinforced with the big-budget, box office smash Armageddon, but following this success, Willis opted for smaller projects that didn't necessarily focus on "action"  in the form of Breakfast of Champions, The Story of Us and The Whole Nine Yards.
In addition to acting, Willis has recorded a music CD, produced movies, and a children's animated show, and taken part in the Planet Hollywood venture. Willis was married to actress Demi Moore from 1987 until 1998. They have three children. (The majority of this biography was taken from Yahoo! Movies. Click here to view it.)
FILMOGRAPHY
SIN CITY (2005)
OCEAN'S TWELVE (2004)
HOSTAGE (2004)
THE WHOLE TEN YARDS (2003)
CHARLIE'S ANGELS: FULL THROTTLE (2003)
TEARS OF THE SUN (2003)
HART'S WAR (2002)
BANDITS (2001)
UNBREAKABLE (2000)
THE KID (2000)
THE WHOLE NINE YARDS (2000)
THE STORY OF US (1999)
THE SIXTH SENSE (1999)
BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS (1999)
THE SIEGE (1998)
ARMAGEDDON (1998)
MERCURY RISING (1998)
THE JACKAL (1997)
THE FIFTH ELEMENT (1997)
LAST MAN STANDING (1996)
TWELVE MONKEYS (1995)
FOUR ROOMS (1995)
DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE (1995)
COLOR OF NIGHT (1994)
NORTH (1994)
NOBODY'S FOOL (1994)
PULP FICTION (1994)
STRIKING DISTANCE (1993)
DEATH BECOMES HER (1992)
BILLY BATHGATE (1991)
THE LAST BOY SCOUT (1991)
HUDSON HAWK (1991)
MORTAL THOUGHTS (1991)
LOOK WHO'S TALKING TOO (1990)
THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES (1990)
DIE HARD 2 (1990)
LOOK WHO'S TALKING (1989)
IN COUNTRY (1989)
SUNSET (1988)
DIE HARD (1988)
BLIND DATE (1987)
TRIVIA
HEIGHT: 5'10"
SPOUSE: Demi Moore (November 1987 -- June 1998, divorced); has three daughters with Moore: Rumer Willis (1988), Scout Larue (1991) and Tallulah Belle (1994). Dated Spanish model Maria Bravo Rosado.
- His recording of "Respect Yourself" reached #5 in January of 1987.
- Ranked #22 in Empire (UK) magazine's "Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" List
- Lost his job as Seagram's spokesperson when he was arrested for drunk driving.
FEES: $14.8 million for Armageddon; $5 million for The Siege; $10 million for Look Who's Talking; $5 million for Die Hard; $800,000 for Pulp Fiction.
MISCELLANEOUS WORK: Appeared in uncredited cameos in The First Deadly Sin (1980) and The Verdict (1982); Appeared as himself in Franky Goes to Hollywood (1999), The Player (1992) and That's Adequate (1989); Voiced Muddy Grimes in Beavis & Butt-head Do America (1996, uncredited) movie and Bruno the Kid in TV series Bruno the Kid (1996), as well as voiced video game characters Trey Kincaide in Apocalypse (1998) and John McClane in Die Hard Trilogy (1996). He also appeared uncredited in National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 as the Wrong Mobile Home Owner.