March 19: Happy Birthday Bruce Willis

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Bruce Willis turns 62 today. Willis was a virtual unknown, with a couple of uncredited film roles and a few TV guest spots under his belt, when he was cast as David Addison on Moonlighting in 1985. When the show went off the air four years later, he had an Emmy and a Golden Globe on his shelves. What’s more, he seemed to have taken care of any potential typecasting problem as of 1988, when he made the first of his five appearances so far as a New York cop who, somehow, always seemed to be on hand to save the day, wherever trouble might be brewing:

Ever since he became identified with John McClane of Die Hard, Willis has consistently found work in various sorts of action films, whether as a cop, a PI, a current or former soldier, an assassin, or a retired badass (maybe he just replaced one kind of typecasting with another). He has made various attempts at roles at least somewhat outside that range—some successful (Pulp Fiction, Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom), some not (Color of Night). In the last few years he has, in addition to the latest Die Hard film, starred as retired CIA operative Frank Moses in the Red films, and as Mr. Church in the first two Expendables films. This year he will appear as Paul Kersey in the remake of Death Wish.