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Bruce Willis Appreciation #2: "Still the Man of Action!"
BRUCE WILLIS APPRECIATION THREAD #2.  Fansite: Bruce Willis PL: Probably The Best Bruce Willis Fansite in The World Bruce Willis @ Internet Movie Database Bruce Willis @ Wikipedia.org Previous Thread: Bruce Willis Appreciation: He's single again! #1 ________________________________  Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is an American actor, and film producer. 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 as John McClane in the Die Hard series. Willis was married to actress Demi Moore and they had three daughters before their divorce in 2000 after thirteen years of marriage. Willis has released several albums and has appeared in several television shows. He has also starred in over sixty films, including Pulp Fiction, Sin City, Die Hard, Unbreakable, Armageddon and The Sixth Sense. Motion pictures featuring Willis have grossed US$2.55 to US$3.04 billion at North American box offices, making him the seventh highest-grossing actor in a leading role, and eighth highest including supporting roles. He is a two-time Emmy Award-winning, Golden Globe Award-winning, and four-time Saturn Award-nominated actor and has publicly shown his support for the United States armed forces. Willis was born in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany, the son of a Kassel-born German mother, Marlene, who worked in a bank, and David Willis, an American soldier. Willis was the eldest of four children (his siblings are Florence, David, and Robert). After being discharged from the military in 1957, Willis' father took his family back to Penns Grove, New Jersey, where he worked as a welder and factory worker. His parents separated in 1972 while Willis was in his teens. He was always an outgoing youngster, although he grew up with a stutter. Willis attended Penns Grove High School in his hometown. Finding it easy to express himself on stage and losing his stutter in the process, Willis began performing on stage and his high school activities were marked by such things as the drama club and school council president. After high school, Willis took a job as a security guard and he also transported work crews at the DuPont Chambers Works factory in Deepwater, New Jersey. He quit after a colleague was killed on the job, and became a regular at several bars. Willis learned to play the harmonica and joined an R&B band called Loose Goose. After a stint as a private investigator (a role he would play in the television series Moonlighting as well as in the 1991 film, The Last Boy Scout), Willis returned to acting. He enrolled in the drama program at Montclair State University, where he was cast in the class production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Willis left school in his junior year and moved to New York City. Willis returned to the bar scene, only this time for a part-time job at the West Bank Cafe in New York City's Manhattan Plaza. After countless auditions, Willis made his theater debut in the off-Broadway production of Heaven and Earth. He gained more experience and exposure in Fool for Love, an appearance on television's Miami Vice, and in a Levi's commercial.  The Last Full Measure (2010) (in production) Pinkville (2009) (announced) .... William R. Peers Three Stories About Joan (2009) (filming) Surrogates (2009) (post-production) .... Agent Greer What Just Happened (2008) .... Actor Assassination of a High School President (2008) .... Principal Kirkpatrick Planet Terror (2007) .... Muldoon Nancy Drew (2007) (uncredited) .... Bruce Live Free or Die Hard (2007) .... John McClane Perfect Stranger (2007) .... Harrison Hill Grindhouse (2007) .... Lt. Muldoon (segment "Planet Terror") Hammy's Boomerang Adventure (2006) (V) (voice) .... RJ The Astronaut Farmer (2006) (uncredited) .... Col. Doug Masterson Fast Food Nation (2006) .... Harry Rydell Over the Hedge (2006) (voice) .... RJ 16 Blocks (2006) .... Det. Jack Mosley Lucky Number Slevin (2006) .... Mr. Goodkat Alpha Dog (2006) .... Sonny Truelove That '70s Show .... Vic (1 episode, 2005) Misfire (2005) TV episode .... Vic Sin City (2005) .... Hartigan Hostage (2005/I) .... Jeff Talley ... aka Hostage - Entführt (Germany) Ocean's Twelve (2004) (uncredited) .... Bruce Willis The Whole Ten Yards (2004) .... Jimmy Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) (uncredited) .... William Rose Bailey Rugrats Go Wild (2003) (voice) .... Spike Tears of the Sun (2003) .... Lieutenant A.K. Waters True West (2002) (TV) .... Lee Grand Champion (2002) .... Mr. Blandford Hart's War (2002) .... Col. William A. McNamara Bandits (2001) .... Joseph 'Joe' Blake Unbreakable (2000) .... David Dunn The Kid (2000) .... Russ Duritz "Friends" .... Paul Stevens (3 episodes, 2000) The One with the Ring (2000) TV episode .... Paul Stevens The One Where Paul's the Man (2000) TV episode .... Paul Stevens The One Where Ross Meets Elizabeth's Dad (2000) TV episode .... Paul Stevens The Whole Nine Yards (2000) .... Jimmy 'The Tulip' Tudeski The Story of Us (1999) .... Ben Jordan The Sixth Sense (1999) .... Dr. Malcolm Crowe Breakfast of Champions (1999) .... Dwayne Hoover Ally McBeal .... Dr. Nickle (1 episode, 1999) - Love Unlimited (1999) TV episode (uncredited) .... Dr. Nickle Apocalypse (1998) (VG) .... Trey Kincaid The Siege (1998/I) .... Major General William Devereaux The Fifth Element (1998) (VG) (voice) .... Korben Dallas Armageddon (1998/I) .... Harry S. Stamper Mercury Rising (1998) .... Art Jeffries The Jackal (1997) .... The Jackal The Fifth Element (1997) .... Korben Dallas Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996) (voice) .... Muddy Grimes Last Man Standing (1996/I) .... John Smith "Bruno the Kid" (1996) TV series (voice) .... Bruno the Kid Bruno the Kid: The Animated Movie (1996) (V) (voice) .... Bruno the Kid Twelve Monkeys (1995) .... James Cole Four Rooms (1995) (uncredited) .... Leo (segment "The Man from Hollywood") Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995) .... John McClane Nobody's Fool (1994) .... Carl Roebuck Color of Night (1994) .... Dr. Bill Capa North (1994) .... Narrator Pulp Fiction (1994) .... Butch Coolidge Striking Distance (1993) .... Det. Tom Hardy Loaded Weapon 1 (1993) (uncredited) .... John McClane ... aka National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 (USA: complete title) Death Becomes Her (1992) .... Dr. Ernest Menville The Last Boy Scout (1991) .... Joe Hallenbeck Billy Bathgate (1991) .... Bo Weinberg Hudson Hawk (1991) .... Eddie 'Hudson Hawk' Hawkins Mortal Thoughts (1991) .... James Urbanski The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) .... Peter Fallow Look Who's Talking Too (1990) (voice) .... Mikey Die Hard 2 (1990) .... John McClane Look Who's Talking (1989) (voice) .... Mikey In Country (1989) .... Emmett Smith Moonlighting .... David Addison Jr. / ... (40 episodes, 1985-1989) Die Hard (1988) .... Officer John McClane Sunset (1988) .... Tom Mix ... aka Catalina (USA: cable TV title) The Return of Bruno (1988) .... Bruno Radolini Blind Date (1987) .... Walter Davis "The Twilight Zone" .... Peter Jay Novins (segment "Shatterday") (1 episode, 1985) Shatterday/A Little Peace and Quiet (1985) TV episode .... Peter Jay Novins (segment "Shatterday") "Miami Vice" .... Tony Amato (1 episode, 1984) No Exit (1984) TV episode .... Tony Amato The Verdict (1982) (uncredited) .... Courtroom Observer Ein Guru kommt (1980) (TV) (uncredited) .... Extra The First Deadly Sin (1980) (uncredited) .... Man Entering Diner as Delaney Leaves  Pav *Krissy* In Theaters maej26 Ngatiara Cotton Candy Princess Bing Niffler Cadence Pressanloch M.I.S.S.Y Mesoc DefLeppardFan PiCkLeS4dAwSoN Insanitic Enigma Ms_Melika lamagamorgana Courtz_BV ROCKSTAR chasin' the wind miskyblue J.R. 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I always liked the movie Bruce did with Kim Basinger called "Blind Date". It is so funny.  __________________
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I don't remember Blind Date. I'll have to watch it.
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Yes you must see Blind Date. It's so funny.
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Then I'll see it too. I love Bruce Willis in Whole Nine/Ten Yards films
He's so funny there.__________________
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awww u gotta love him
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And we do
 One of my favourite male celebs!__________________
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Can I be added?He's one of my favorite actors.
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