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BRUCE WILLIS BIOGRAPHY 1
BRUCE WILLIS BIOGRAPHY Willis was born in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany. His father, David Willis, was an American soldier. His mother, Marlene K, had been born in Kaufungen, near Kassel. Willis is the oldest among four children: he has a sister, Florence, and a brother, David. His brother Robert died of pancreatic cancer in 2001, aged 42. Willis attended Penns Grove High School in his hometown, where he encountered issues with a stutter. He was nicknamed Buck-Buck by his schoolmates. 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 student council president. Willis left New York City and headed to California to audition for several television shows. In 1984, he appeared in an episode of the TV series Miami Vice, titled "No Exit". In 1985, he was the guest actor in the first episode of The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series). During the height of the show's success, beverage maker Seagram hired Willis a
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Bruce Willis
American actor (born 1955)
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| Born | Walter Bruce Willis (1955-03-19) March 19, 1955 (age 69) Idar-Oberstein, West Germany |
| Citizenship | United States |
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| Years active | 1980–2022 |
| Works | Filmography |
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| Children | 5, including Rumer |
| Awards | Full list |
Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is a retired American actor. He achieved fame with a leading role on the comedy-drama series Moonlighting (1985–1989) and has appeared in over one hundred films, gaining recognition as an action hero for his portrayal of John McClane in the Die Hard franchise (1988–2013).[1][2]
Willis's other credits include The Last Boy Scout (1991), Pulp Fiction (1994), 12 Monkeys (1995), The Fifth Element (1997), Armageddon (1998), The Sixth Sense (1999), Unbreakable, The Whole Nine Yards (both 2000), Tears of the Sun (2003), Sin City (2005), The Expendables, Red (bot
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Bruce Willis
While the world knows Bruce Willis as an A-list actor, few know that he struggled with stuttering throughout his first 20 years.
Walter Bruce Willis was born in 1955 in West Germany to his German mother, Marlene, and his American GI father, David Willis. The family settled in David’s hometown of Penns Grove, New Jersey in 1957, and the couple has three other children.
After Willis came onto the radar screen in 1985 with his role as David Addison in the hot TV show Moonlighting, the actor would occasionally discuss his past struggles with stuttering in both print and television interviews.
In the 1997 book, Bruce Willis: The Unauthorized Biography, by British author John Parker, Willis is quoted as saying, “I could hardly talk. It took me three minutes to complete a sentence. It was crushing for anyone who wanted to express themselves, who wanted to be heard and couldn’t. It was frightening. Yet, when I became another character, in a play, I lost the stutter. It was phenomenal.”
Parker also writes that Willis had a definite formula to conquer his stuttering by
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