bruce willis settles down
Settling down in New Jersey, young Bruce, who was the eldest of four children, led an active childhood. Although he was always an outgoing youngster, bruce wills grew up with a stutter and found it easier to express himself while onstage, performing in front of an audience. This is why his high school days were marked with a drama club membership, as well as the student council presidency.

Rather than go to college after graduation, bruce wills took the route of his father as a blue-collar worker, transporting work crews at the Du Pont factory. He decided to quit after a colleague was killed on the job, and thereafter became a regular at several bars. bruce wills also discovered an innate knack for playing the harmonica, and did so for an R&B group, Loose Goose.

bruce willis persues acting
After a stint as a bodyguard (which he actually plays in his recent movie , Unbreakable ), bruce wills returned to his original passion: acting. He enrolled in the drama program at Montclair State College, where he was cast in the class production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof . The ambitious junior finally decided to leave school in pursuit of more lucrative movie roles by heading for the Big Apple.

bruce wills returned to the bar scene, only this time for a part-time job and as a way to schmooze with New York celebrities. After countless auditions, bruce wills finally made his theater debut in the off-Broadway production of Heaven and Earth . He gained more experience and exposure in Fool for Love , a stint on television's Miami Vice , and a Levi's campaign.

bruce willis gets his break
But bruce wills got his big break when he was cast as smart-talking David Addison, in ABC's Moonlighting , despite network executives who wanted to hand the role to a more experienced thespian. bruce wills and Cybill Shepherd's chemistry made Moonlighting a sensation, and after 4 years of sexual tension and high ratings, Moonlighting 's days were over.

After a bombing in the slapstick comedy Blind Date , bruce wills found what became his trademark role in 1988; detective John McClane in the actioner, Die Hard . He then lent his voice to the sleeper comedy Look Who's Talking a year later, and reprised his Die Hard role in the 1990 sequel.

Unfortunately, bruce wills' career was on its way to dying hard . He starred in consecutive bombs, such as The Bonfire of the Vanities , Hudson Hawk , Death Becomes Her , and Striking Distance (co-starring the lovely Sarah Jessica Parker ), and was becoming more famous as the husband of "it" girl, Demi Moore .

bruce willis is an action star
Thankfully, his role in 1991's The Last Boy Scout featured bruce wills in the type of action role that gave him star power to begin with, which helped keep the actor's head above water. But it was his role as Butch Coolidge in the cult classic film, Pulp Fiction , that gave bruce wills the knockout punch that salvaged his career.

He followed up his 1994 Pulp role with an excellent performance in Nobody's Fool , and went back to basics with the blockbuster, Die Hard: With a Vengeance , the third installment of the successful franchise. It was uphill from thereon in, with hit movies Twelve Monkeys , co-starring Brad Pitt , 1997's Fifth Element , opposite the perfect Milla Jovovich , and the blockbuster Armageddon , which was more moneymaker than quality. The Jackal and Mercury Rising were neither.

In 1999, bruce wills starred in the film adaptation of the novel by the same name, Breakfast of Champions , and was welcomed into the $20 million club with his chilling role in The Sixth Sense . The record-breaking, critically acclaimed movie that featured bruce wills as child psychiatrist Dr. Malcolm Crowe can be considered one of his best roles to date. That same year, bruce wills co-starred with Michelle Pfeiffer in The Story of Us , and starred as hit man Jimmy "The Tulip" in the disappointing, The Whole Nine Yards .

It was on the set of the latter that bruce wills became chummy with Friends star Matthew Perry , which led to bruce wills' Emmy-winning recurring role in the hit NBC sitcom. bruce wills can add his Emmy to his mantle, where his 1987 Emmy for his role in Moonlighting , as well as his Golden Globe for Best Actor in a television series for the same role stand .

bruce wills was last seen in the summer Disney film, The Kid , and as invincible David Dunn in M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable .

A tabloid favorite since his Moonlighting days, bruce wills made headlines in 1998 when his 13-year marriage to Demi Moore, came to an end. The former couple have three daughters together, Rumer Glenn, Scout LaRue and Tallulah Belle. bruce wills was last romantically linked with Spanish model/businesswoman, Mario Bravo Rosado.

One of the stars to hold a stake in the dying Planet Hollywood restaurant chain and considered one of today's most powerful actors, bruce wills will next be seen in the films Hart's War and Bandits

bruce willis was high school student council president.

His recording of "Respect Yourself" reached #5 in January of 1987.

bruce willis and demi announce they are ending their marriage of eleven years. No reasons given. [24 June 1998]

Ranked #22 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]

bruce willis has three daughters with Moore: Rumer bruce wills (b. 1988), Scout Larue (b. 1991) and Tallulah Belle bruce wills (b. 1994).

bruce willis' mother Marlene was born in Kassel, Germany.

bruce willis appeared on "Late Show with David Letterman" (1993) to advertise for Demi Moore 's Striptease (1996) by doing his own undressing act. [1996]

As a young man his personality was very much like that of the character that he portrayed on "Moonlighting" (1985). He was always getting into trouble because of this and was bodily ejected from parties by the hosts for being obnoxious.

bruce willis Has been very vocal in his support of almost every major Republican candidate in recent history except Bob Dole . He felt that presidential candidate Dole was out of line in his attacks on Demi Moore and her part in the movie Striptease (1996).

Was the first actor to ever "act" in a video game. No one before has ever done voice work along with having their movements digitally added to the game.

Stated he will no longer be doing violent action or "save-the-world" movies. [2001]

Wears his watch upside down with the face on the inside of his hand. This is also visible in many movies he's done (Die Hard with a Vengeance, Mercury Rising, etc.) where they haven't requested him to flip it over.

Memorial Day weekend, 1987: bruce willis Was arrested after reportedly disturbing the peace and assaulting a police officer who was called to quiet a raucous party at his home. The charges were dropped after bruce willis agreed to apologize to his neighbors.

According to friends, he had a terrible stammer as a child.

Younger brother Robert died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 42. [2001]

bruce willis Was originally cast as Terry Benedict in Ocean's Eleven (2001) but dropped out.

bruce willis Attended Montclair State College in Montclair, NJ.

Set a new benchmark for actors' salaries when he was paid $5 million for Die Hard (1988) in 1988. Eight years later, his wife, Demi Moore , set a benchmark of 12 million with Striptease (1996).

His ineptness as a waiter forced him to become a bartender.

bruce willis Was named Man of the Year by Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals. [February 2002]

bruce willis Was born on a military base in Germany.

bruce willis Was president of a drama club at school.

bruce willis Worked in a chemical factory before going to college.

He filled in as a last-minute host for David Letterman on February 26, 2003, a show he was supposed to be the guest for. It was Letterman's first "sick day" in 20 years (other than his time off for heart surgery).

bruce willis Ranked #3 in Star TV's Top 10 Box Office Stars of the 1990s (2003)

Lives in Hailey, Idaho, where he owns The Mint bar and the Liberty Theater. He also owns the old Hailey Drug Store, but the building has been vacant and unused since the early 90s.

The scar on his right shoulder is from surgery due to complications from a broken arm when he was 17.

Has been in 7 movies with numbers in the title: _First Deadly Sin, The (1980)_ , Twelve Monkeys (1995), Four Rooms (1995), The Fifth Element (1997), The Sixth Sense (1999), The Whole Nine Yards (2000) and The Whole Ten Yards (2004).

Personally recommended Bonnie Bedelia for the role of his estranged wife in Die Hard (1988).

He is the hero of singer Nick Lachey .

Producers chose bruce willis for the role of John McClane because they felt he added a warmth and a sense of humor to an otherwise humorless character.

He ad-libbed many of John McClane's one-liners in the "Die Hard" films.

Graduate of Penns Grove High School, Penns Grove, New Jersey. Class of 1973 who voted him "Most School Spirit."

He was the only celebrity that attended Julia Roberts ' wedding to 'Danny Moder' .

bruce willis Recommended Michael Clarke Duncan to play the part of John Coffey in The Green Mile.

20 October 2004 - Sued Revolution Studios for unspecified damages related to a blow to his forehead that he received during "ultrahazardous activity" involved in the filming of 'Tears of The Sun'. He claims that it has caused him extreme mental, physical and emotional pain & suffering.

Attented the Stella Adler Conservatory / Theatre program in New York City for Three years.