Bruce Willis American Actor Known for Pulp Fiction

Bruce Willis (19 March 1955, Idar-Oberstein) is an American actor. His best-known titles on this site are Pulp Fiction (1994) and The Sixth Sense (1999).

Early life

Schooling on record includes Penns Grove High School and Montclair State University.

Career

His first listed screen credit dates to 1980, with A Guru Comes. Work from the 1980s includes The Verdict (1982) and Die Hard (1988, as John McClane). 12 Monkeys (1995, as James Cole) and The Fifth Element (1997, as Korben Dallas) are among his 1990s credits. In the 2000s, he appeared in Sin City (2005, as John Hartigan) and Live Free or Die Hard (2007, as John McClane). The 2010s brought The Expendables (2010) and The Expendables 2 (2012).

The list below counts 121 films and 4 TV series from 1980 to 2023. Drama is the most frequent genre among his listed titles (27), followed by action (25) and comedy (18). His latest credit on record is Detective Knight: Independence (2023). Of his 17 titles with worldwide box-office figures on record, The Sixth Sense (1999) has the highest, at $673 million. Bruce Willis also worked as writer on Hudson Hawk.

Samuel L. Jackson appears in five of his listed titles, including Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) and Unbreakable (2000). Other co-stars who recur in his credits are M. Night Shyamalan (four titles) and Michael Clarke Duncan (four titles). M. Night Shyamalan directed four of his titles on record, among them Split (2016) and Glass (2019). Robert Rodriguez is credited as director on four of them, including Four Rooms (1995) and Planet Terror (2007).

Music credits include 3 albums, among them The Universal Master Collection: Bruce Willis (2001). He is listed as playing harmonica. He has released music through Motown.

Recognition

Among his honours is the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy, won in 1987 for Moonlighting. Other wins include two Primetime Emmy Awards (1987 and 2000) and the New Jersey Hall of Fame (2011). Among his nominations is the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy in 1986 for Moonlighting. In all, Bruce Willis has won 8 awards and received 12 nominations.

Personal life

He has been married to Emma Heming Willis since 2009. Earlier marriages on record are to Demi Moore (1987 to 2000, divorced). He is the father of Rumer Willis, and has 5 children in total.