Bruce Willis

1955-

Biography: life and films

Bruce Willis is an American actor, producer and singer whose birth name is Walter Bruce Willis. He was born in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany on 10th March 1955.

His best films as an actor include John McTiernan's crime-thriller Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995), Terry Gilliam's thriller Twelve Monkeys (1995), M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense (1999), Paul McGuigan's Lucky Number Slevin (2006) and Barry Levinson's What Just Happened (2008).

Bruce Willis has so far appeared in 74 films.

He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Robert Rodriguez (2 films), Robert Benton (2), Rob Reiner (2), M. Night Shyamalan (2), John McTiernan (2), Blake Edwards (2), Barry Levinson (2), Amy Heckerling (2) and Alan Rudolph (2).

His most frequent genres include: Thriller (40 films), comedy (26), crime-thriller (19), drama (18), comedy-thriller (9), comedy-romance (6), comedy-drama (6), romance (4), Fantasy (3), Animation (3), Western (2), Horror (2) and Documentary (2).

Our average rating for Bruce Willis over all films is: 3.1

Filmography

Key: a = actor; w = writer

Blind Date (1987) [a]

Die Hard (1988) [a]

Sunset (1988) [a]

The Return of Bruno (1988) [a]

In Country (1989) [a]

Look Who's Talking (1989) [a]

That's Adequate (1989) [a]

Die Hard 2 (1990) [a]

Look Who's Talking Too (1990) [a]

The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) [a]

Billy Bathgate (1991) [a]

Hudson Hawk (1991) [a,w]

Mortal Thoughts (1991) [a]

The Last Boy Scout (1991) [a]

Death Becomes Her (1992) [a]

Striking Distance (1993) [a]

Color of Night (1994) [a]

Nobody's Fool (1994) [a]

North (1994) [a]

Pulp Fiction (1994) [a]

Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995) [a]

Twelve Monkeys (1995) [a]

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996) [a]

Last Man Standing (1996) [a]

The Fifth Element (1997) [a]

The Jackal (1997) [a]

Armageddon (1998) [a]

Mercury Rising (1998) [a]

The Siege (1998) [a]

Breakfast of Champions (1999) [a]

The Sixth Sense (1999) [a]

The Story of Us (1999) [a]

The Kid (2000) [a]

The Whole Nine Yards (2000) [a]

Unbreakable (2000) [a]

Bandits (2001) [a]

Grand Champion (2002) [a]

Hart's War (2002) [a]

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) [a]

Rugrats Go Wild (2003) [a]

Tears of the Sun (2003) [a]

My Date with Drew (2004) [a]

The Whole Ten Yards (2004) [a]

Hostage (2005) [a]

Sin City (2005) [a]

16 Blocks (2006) [a]

Alpha Dog (2006) [a]

Fast Food Nation (2006) [a]

Lucky Number Slevin (2006) [a]

Over the Hedge (2006) [a]

The Astronaut Farmer (2006) [a]

Grindhouse (2007) [a]

Live Free or Die Hard (2007) [a]

Nancy Drew (2007) [a]

Perfect Stranger (2007) [a]

Planet Terror (2007) [a]

Assassination of a High School President (2008) [a]

Shine a Light (2008) [a]

What Just Happened (2008) [a]

Surrogates (2009) [a]

Cop Out (2010) [a]

Red (2010) [a]

The Expendables (2010) [a]

Catch .44 (2011) [a]

Setup (2011) [a]

Fire with Fire (2012) [a]

Lay the Favorite (2012) [a]

Looper (2012) [a]

Moonrise Kingdom (2012) [a]

The Cold Light of Day (2012) [a]

The Expendables 2 (2012) [a]

A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) [a]

G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) [a]

Red 2 (2013) [a]

Vice (2015) [a]



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