Due to health problems, Bruce Willis interrupted his career and no longer works in the cinema. But his iconic roles stay with us, however, and he once started out as an extra. It’s the debut of your favorite actor that we suggest you remember – we bet you haven’t seen it for sure!
Willis’ filmography includes over 100 roles and he has been acting in films for over 30 years. He became known to a wide audience after the release of the film Die Hard, where Bruce played policeman John McClane. He also created unforgettable images in the films The Fifth Element, Pulp Fiction, The Sixth Sense and others.
We are familiar with these images and have reviewed them more than once. But what was Willis’ early life like? Quite modest.
Bruce began his career in 1980 as an extra. His first screen appearance was in the thriller The First Deadly Sin. His role was really tiny and Willis isn’t even mentioned in the credits. But the project itself was huge in scale by Hollywood standards. The main roles were played by Frank Sinatra and Faye Dunaway, and Sinatra after this film had effectively ended his film career, then appearing as himself in several projects.
And here he played an aging police officer who investigates a brutal murder. In one of the episodes, he walks into a restaurant, letting out a man in a cap… Look closely – it’s Bruce Willis!
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It was Willis’ first film
After her debut, Willis stayed on as an extra for a few years, then started getting bigger roles. For example, in the series “Miami Vice” and “Detective Agency” Moonlight “- at least now its characters had names. Well, in 1988 came its finest hour – the first film “Die Hard” was released .
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