Bruce Willis Biography

- Willis’s recording of 'Respect Yourself' reached number 5 in the charts in January 1987.

- Willis wears his watch upside down with the face on the inside of his hand. This is also visible in many movies he's done ('Die Hard: With a Vengeance' (1995), 'Mercury Rising' (1998) where they haven't requested him to flip it over.

- According to friends, Willis had a terrible stammer as a child.

- Willis’s younger brother Robert died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 42 in 2001.

- Willis was originally cast as Terry Benedict in 'Ocean's Eleven' (2001) but dropped out.

- Willis filled in as a last-minute host for David Letterman on February 26th 2003, a show he was supposed to be the guest for. It was Letterman's first "sick day" in 20 years (other than his time off for heart surgery).

- The scar on Willis’s right shoulder is from surgery due to complications from a broken arm when he was 17.

- Willis ad-libbed many of John McClane's one-liners in the 'Die Hard' films.

- Willis was the only celebrity that attended Julia Roberts's wedding to Danny Moder.

- Willis has been special ambassador of his birth town Idar-Oberstein since his 50th birthday.

- Eight directors cast Willis twice in their films: Blake Edwards, Amy Heckerling, Rob Reiner, Robert Benton, John McTiernan, Alan Rudolph, M. Night Shyamalan and Quentin Tarantino.