Bruce Willis through the years
Bruce Willis is back on the big screen with "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" Take a look at the actor's life and career over the years.
Bruce Willis is back on the big screen with "G.I. Joe: Retaliation." Take a look at the actor's life and career over the years.
Bruce Willis is back on the big screen with "G.I. Joe: Retaliation." Take a look at the actor's life and career over the years.
1985: Willis burst onto the Hollywood scene with a starring role in the TV comedy "Moonlighting" opposite Cybill Shepherd. Willis played detective David Addison for the series run from 1985-1989.
1988: Willis' first blockbuster film came with the action adventure "Die Hard," where he played officer John McClane -- and delivered the iconic line, "Yippi-kay-ay mother ..."
1992: Willis and then-wife Demi Moore arrive for the Los Angeles premiere of "A Few Good Men" on Dec. 9.
1993: Willis and Sarah Jessica Parker in the action adventure "Striking Distance."
1994: Willis and Moore sing during a fundraiser at Planet Hollywood restaurant in New York City on April 28.
1995: Willis and Brad Pitt in the sci-fi thriller "Twelve Monkeys."
1996: Willis attends the premiere of wife Demi Moore's movie "Striptease" with two of their children, Scout (held by Willis) and Rumor, at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York on June 23.
1997: Willis and Diane Venora, co-stars of "The Jackal," pose with the film's director Michael Caton-Jones as they arrive at the premiere in Beverly Hills on Nov. 10.
1998: Jack Nicholson joins Willis and Moore at the China Club in New York to view the launch of the Planet Hollywood New Music series on Feb. 10.
1998: Willis, who had his shirt ripped off by fans, reacts to the crowd as he arrives for the opening of the Planet Hollywood restaurant in Montreal on July 28.
1998: Willis in the space action adventure "Armageddon."
1999: Haley Joel Osment and Willis are shown in a scene from "The Sixth Sense."
1999: Director Rob Reiner works with Willis and Michelle Pfeiffer on the set of "The Story of Us," which portrays a married couple attempting to recapture the romance in their 15-year marriage.
2000: Willis in the crime comedy "The Whole Nine Yards."
2000: Samuel L. Jackson and Willis in the supernatural thriller "Unbreakable," which was Willis' second movie with "The Sixth Sense" director M. Night Shyamalan.
2002: President George W. Bush greets supporters as Willis and Moore look on during a White House East Room event on adoption on July 23.
2003: Willis, wearing a U.S. Air Force flight suit, belts out a song along with guitarist Doug Hamblin at a USO show in an undisclosed airbase in South West Asia on Sept. 24. Willis was touring with his blues band to entertain U.S. forces in the area for the United Service Organization.
2004: Willis and Paul Newman share a laugh during dedication ceremonies May 22 at "The Painted Turtle Camp" in Lake Hughes, Calif. The camp is part of Newman's family of "Hole in the Wall Camps" and serves chronically and seriously ill children.
2004: Willis and P. Diddy pose on the red carpet at the MTV Video Music Awards in Miami, Fla., on Aug. 29.
2004: B.B. King and Willis perform "Hard Times" during a taping of the CBS television network special "Genius: A Night to Remember" honoring the late Ray Charles in Los Angeles on Oct. 8.
2004: Willis and his daughters, (from left to right) Rumer Glenn Willis, Tallulah Belle Willis and Scout LaRue Willis, pose as they arrive for the "Ocean's Twelve" Hollywood premiere on Dec. 8.
2005: Jessica Alba and Willis in "Sin City."
2006: David Morse and Willis in the crime thriller "16 Blocks."
2007: Willis and Halle Berry in "Perfect Stranger."
2007: Willis in the fourth "Die Hard" movie, "Live Free or Die Hard."
2007: Willis performs on the harmonica with his band The Bruce Willis Blues Band during the Netflix Live On Location concert and movie series at the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Aug. 2.
2008: Rumer Willis stands next to her boyfriend at the time, Michael Alberti, on Aug. 20 at the premiere "The House Bunny." They are flanked by her mother, Demi Moore, and Moore's husband Ashton Kutcher on one side and Willis and then-girlfriend Emma Heming on the other.
2010: Willis in "The Expendables."
2010: Cast members Sylvester Stallone, Willis and Mickey Rourke attend the premiere of the film "The Expendables" in Los Angeles on Aug. 3.
2010: Tracy Morgan and Willis in the crime comedy "Cop Out."
2010: Ben Kingsley poses with Willis after accepting a star on the "Walk of Fame" in Hollywood, Calif., on May 27.
2010: Willis, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren in a scene from the action comedy "Red."
2010: Willis and Mary-Louise Parker in "Red."
2011: Willis and his wife Emma Heming pose at the premiere of the HBO documentary "His Way' at the Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles on March 22.
2012: Willis (far right) stars alongside an ensemble cast including Bill Murray, Frances McDormand and Edward Norton in "Moonrise Kingdom."
2012: Willis and Muray pose during a photocall for "Moonrise Kingdom" at the 65th Cannes Film Festival on May 16.
