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Bruce Willis
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Versatile Action Star
Bruce Willis (born Walter Bruce Willis on March 19, 1955) is a two-time Emmy Award-winning, Golden Globe-winning American actor and singer. He came to fame in the late 1980s and has since retained a career as both a Hollywood leading man and a supporting actor, in particular for his role in the Die Hard series.
As an old-timer, I first remember him in the hit TV series Moonlighting in the late 80s with Cybill Shepherd. But it the Die Hard series that catapulted him to fame.
In the early 1990s, he picked some flops like The Bonfire of the Vanities and Hudson Hawk, among others. He came back in in 1994 with Quentin Tarantino's acclaimed Pulp Fiction, which gave a new boost to his career, however, by the end of the '90s, his career had fallen into another slump with critically panned films like The Jackal, Mercury Rising and Breakfast of Champions, saved only by the success of the Michael Bay-directed Armageddon which was the highest grossing film of 1998 in the US.
In 1999, he got his best role in The Sixth Sense. The film was both a commercial and critical success and launched Willis' career to a new level of stardom. He also starred that year in The Breakfast of Champions, based on the book by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., who died this week.
He won a 2000 Emmy 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). 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. Willis was originally cast as Terry Benedict in Ocean's Eleven (2001) but dropped out. In Ocean's Twelve (2003), he makes a cameo appearance as himself.
Willis has appeared in four movies with Samuel L. Jackson (Unbreakable, Pulp Fiction, Die Hard with a Vengeance, and National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1). He is also currently working on the film Black Water Transit alongside Jackson due this year.
He has worked with director Robert Rodriguez in Sin City and Grindhouse.
His thriller Perfect Stranger, opposite Halle Berry, opens today, and he is now filming his return to the role of John McClane in Live Free or Die Hard.
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 | Tim
Apr 17, 2007 12:06 AM
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I like Willis alot, he is a great action star but he also does really well in other roles. He has became a Hollywood Icon, one of those actors that you will watch any film just because he is in it............It seems in his case the older he gets the better.....just like a fine bottle of wine!
I really liked him in Lucky Number Slevin..... |
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Apr 17, 2007 5:37 AM