Bruce Willis is best remembered as a movie star, but he won Emmys for Moonlighting

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In fact, Willis -- who retired from acting Wednesday because of the neurodegenerative disease aphasia -- only won major awards for his TV work. He won an Emmy for his three-episode stint on Friends in 2000. He was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and two Emmys for Moonlighting, winning one of each. "Willis was basically unknown when Moonlighting creator Glen Gordon Caron hired him to play quippy private detective David Addison opposite Cybill Shepherd as uptight former fashion model Maddie Hayes," says Alan Sepinwall. "Along with Cheers, Moonlighting helped cement the 'will they or won’t they?' model of unresolved sexual tension as a part of romantic comedies going forward, as David and Maddie’s initial disdain for one another generated spectacular chemistry onscreen. Offscreen was another story, though, as Willis and Shepherd’s difficulty working together became one of several reasons — including Caron’s perfectionism causing episodes to be finished too late to air as scheduled — that Moonlighting went from smash hit to afterthought within the space of a few years. (It was not because David and Maddie finally slept together, contrary to the myth that has built up around the show.)"