Bruce Willis

Bruce Willis is an American actor known for playing John McClane in the Die Hard films and for roles in Pulp Fiction and The Sixth Sense.

Die Hard: The 1988 action film in which Bruce Willis plays New York police officer John McClane. John McClane made Willis an action-film star.
Action film: A film genre built around physical feats, pursuit, combat, and other high-energy sequences. Willis became a leading action star while often grounding spectacle in character and humor.
Idar-Oberstein: A town in western Germany where Bruce Willis was born in 1955. Willis was born there while his father was stationed in Germany with the U.S. military.
John McClane: The New York police detective played by Bruce Willis in the Die Hard film series. The character’s vulnerability and improvisation became central to Willis’s action-star image.
Pulp Fiction: Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 crime film, told through interwoven stories of criminals in Los Angeles. Willis plays boxer Butch Coolidge in this ensemble crime story.
Action hero: A protagonist whose physical skill and resolve drive an action story. John McClane helped define Willis’s image as an everyman action hero.
New Jersey: A state in the northeastern United States where Bruce Willis grew up. His family moved to New Jersey after his father left military service.
Die Hard (franchise): An action-film series centered on police detective John McClane. Its commercial success made Willis a major Hollywood star.
The Sixth Sense: M. Night Shyamalan’s 1999 supernatural thriller about a child who says he sees dead people. Willis plays child psychologist Malcolm Crowe in one of his defining dramatic roles.
Antihero: A central character who lacks some conventional heroic qualities or virtues. Several Willis roles rely on flawed, reluctant protagonists rather than polished heroes.

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