Bruce Willis Movies

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*Bruce Willis is taking a break from acting as he battles aphasia, a neurological condition that affects the ability to communicate.  3/30/2022

Want to know the best Bruce Willis movies?  How about the worst Bruce Willis movies?  Curious about Bruce Willis’s box office grosses or which Bruce Willis movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Bruce Willis movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place.

I have followed Bruce Willis’ career since he hit the big time with his star making role as David Addison on Moonlighting. I still think the Moonlighting 3 episode story arc with Mark Harmon,was some the best television I have ever seen and the pinnacle of that series.  Since Moonlighting, Bruce Willis has had a very busy career, making over 60 movies over the last 27 years. It has been a roller coaster ride…the highs….. movies like Pulp Fiction, most of the Die Hards, and The Sixth Sense…..the lows….movies like The Whole Ten Yards, Hudson Hawk, Bonfire of the Vanities and North.  His IMDb page shows 145 acting credits since 1980.  In the table below, Ultimate Movie Rankings ranks movies in 6 different sortable columns.

Bruce Willis Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews, and awards.

Bruce Willis Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Bruce Willis movies by movie title and movie trailers.
  • Sort Bruce Willis movies by co-stars of his movies.
  • Sort Bruce Willis movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
  • Sort Bruce Willis movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
  • Sort Bruce Willis movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each Bruce Willis movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Bruce Willis movie won.
  • Sort Bruce Willis movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Possibly Interesting Facts About Bruce Willis

1. Walter Bruce Willis was born on March 19, 1955, in the town of Idar-Oberstein, West Germany.  His dad was an American while his mother was a German.

2.  Bruce Willis worked as a bartender when he was a struggling actor in New York City.

3.  In 1984, Bruce Willis left New York City to audition for roles in Los Angeles.

4.  Bruce Willis’ big break was getting the role in the television series Moonlighting (1985-1989).  Glenn Gordon Caron had to fight with ABC to put Willis in the lead role having already signed Shepherd for both the pilot and series. Caron claims he tested Willis about a third of the way through testing over 2,000 actors, knew “this was the guy” immediately, and had to fight through twice as many more acting tests and readings while arguing with ABC executives before receiving (initial) conditional authorization to cast Willis in the pilot. ABC, according to Caron, did not feel that anyone viewing would think there could possibly be any “believable” sexual tension between Shepherd and Willis.

5.  Although Bruce Willis was the 115th choice to play John McClane in 1988’s Die Hard….he was given an unheard, at the time, salary of $5 million dollars.

6.  Bruce Willis was the only celebrity that attended Julia Roberts’ wedding to Daniel Moder. Their friendship is referred to in Ocean’s Twelve (2004), when he mistakes Tess Ocean for Julia Roberts, and asks her about ‘Danny’.

7.   Bruce Willis was the first actor to ever “act” in a video game (Apocalypse (1998)). No one before had ever done voice work along with having their likeness and movements digitally added to the game, as well as receiving prominent billing on the game’s cover.

8.  Bruce Willis was considered for the role of Kyle Reese in The Terminator (1984), which went to Michael Biehn.

9.  Bruce Willis has been married two times.  He has 5 daughters.  His first marriage was to Demi Moore.  His current marriage is to Emma Heming.

10. Check out Bruce Willis’ career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

Personal Top Ten Bruce Willis Movies

  • Die Hard
  • The Fifth Element
  • Looper
  • Lucky Number Slevin
  • Nobody’s Fool
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Sin City
  • The Sixth Sense
  • Twelve Monkeys
  • Unbreakable

Our You Tube Video that goes through the Rankings all of Bruce Willis’ movies.

My Letterboxd.com Bruce Willis Movie Reviews.

Steve Lensman’s Bruce Willis Top 50 Movies You Tube Video

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  1. “Speaking of fees going down… I suspect that Bruce Willis’ fee is going even lower than Tony Curtis’ fee”*** opined The Work Horse in a post yesterday on the About site – maybe we should start nicknaming HIM “Walt”! – see below.

    According to Celebrity Net Worth site Walter Willis has a current net worth of $180 million. That’s UP $30 million from their previous quotation of $150 million a few years ago for Brucie so he must still have good earning-power however it is generated and there seems to be multiple sources – see Trivia in Part 2.

    For example Brucie Willis is – like his idolater and namesake! – a committed Work Horse and even at the moment is involved with an enormous number of movie projects [again see Trivia in Part 2] and collectively these must be quite lucrative even if his price per movie has gone down as WH suggests from what it was previously – think for example of the huge payback he DESERVED to rake in from Split!!!

    So the Ex Mr More will not be on his uppers financially for some time to come if ever; and even if he did go broke he could always ask that financially-loaded and well-heeled Ex of his for a handout: M-s Gimme More!

    And to add to his good luck Celeb Net Worth reckons that Mrs Emma Frances Heming Willis-Cogerson has brought $5 million of her own money [as well as 2 children!] to the family table from modelling assignments as well as film/TV work. Poor ole Marlon unfortunately had no rich wives/Ex-wives to bail him out when he was on his uppers and couldn’t immediately sell his private island to pay-off his debts.

    *** It’s possible anyway that Bernie Swartz could have gone-on making a reasonable living via his renowned party-piece impersonations of his idol Al Leach; but as it was Bernie spent his final years as a painter of art works.

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    1. Hey Bob…as always…thanks for sharing this information. Well…I am glad to see that Bruce’s net worth is increasing….with all of these low budget movies he now appears in…I was getting worried. Good to see Emma is helping out…..she has been nice enough to reach out a couple of times on social media….made me a fan of her as well as Bruce. Good info on Bernie Swartz.

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    1. Great link. Thanks for sharing it. The most entertaining thing Bruce has done in awhile….using it as the post of the day. Thanks again.

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  3. Back to porridge as the saying goes. The flight from Belfast to Lanzarote lasts about 4 hours; and about 2 hours out we were told that the aircraft was returning to Belfast because a massive sandstorm was sweeping the landscape ahead and it was unsafe to land in Lanzarote.

    We’ll have to reschedule but it is unclear if we can and when that would be. In the end I may have to settle for a week in Manchester where I can amuse myself by rapping Steve’s door and running away, to paraphrase Groucho in Duck Soup.

    We were the lucky ones as at least we got home; whereas as far off as Iceland people and their children are stranded at airports and cannot fly because of Hurricane Hirsch [my own private nickname for The Beast]. I gather social media is going nuts – “check it out!” as Bill Murray kept urging in Scrooged.

    Although my sense of humour has returned now, the initial announcement mid-air was a shock and, in denial, I kept waiting for John McClane to suddenly materialise, seize the controls, put the captain and crew under lock and key and announce “I’m in charge here and people who want their holiday are going to get it, so I’m gonna fly this kite through the eye of the storm and land it in Lanzarote and I’ll take no **** from anybody. So **** Hurricane Hirsch!” Alas he never came-

    Where have all the good men gone
    And where are all the gods?
    Where’s the streetwise Hercules to fight the rising odds?
    Isn’t there a white knight upon a fiery steed?
    Late at night I toss and I turn
    And I dream of what I need

    Somewhere after midnight
    In my wildest fantasy
    Somewhere just beyond my reach
    There’s someone reaching back for me
    Racing on the thunder and rising with the heat
    It’s gonna take a superman to sweep me off my feet
    I need a hero

    I’m holding out for a hero ’til the end of the night
    He’s gotta be strong
    And he’s gotta be fast
    And he’s gotta be fresh from the fight. [Bonnie Tyler: “Holding out for a Hero”]

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    1. Hey Bob…..sorry to hear about your canceled plans. That sucks! I hope you will be able to get your money back on all the probable reservations you made. Funny stuff when you heard the news….that would indeed be a pretty difficult pill to swallow. Good luck finding Steve’s door….lol. Once again…sorry to hear this news.

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      1. HI BRUCE Thanks for the commiserations.

        However in the curcumstances it was the BEST bad outcome for my party personally. WE got home to our own beds and didn’t have to spend any ADDITIONAL money, whatever happens regarding the fainacial outlay we had already made; we’re looking into that.

        Others are trapped at airports and are likely having to spend money that they never budgeted for by for example paying for expensive food at the terminals, some are maybe having to incur extra hotel charges; and many may well not be able to meet work commitments that they would have discharged had they returned home on time. Image you, say, not being able to get back to your students or worse still – to us!

        Also Lanzarote is not the place to be at the moment as I understand conditions will be horrendous for several days; and even when Hurrican Hirsch passes ther is bound to be a disorganised aftermath.

        So all in all I am not too disheartened because one way or another, to parahrase Fu Manchu “Lanzarote will hear from me again!”; and if I don’t end up in Mnachester, I have realitives there who would go roud and kick Steve’s door for me if I asked them to! Pity McClane didn’t turn up though and save the day – this page could do with some fresh grosses!

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          1. HI STEVE

            Thanks for your sympathy and for the link. Reading through the material in the latter made me realise just how lucky my party is to be safe at home for now. Even the Meg would cower in a warery den if Hurricane Hirsch were raging above!

            We may have the option of taking a refund of the money we paid out on the aborted flight, or else the cash being credited to bookings on a later flight; so I haven’t given up returning to Lanzarote in the next month or so.

            Anyway thanks again for your courtesy and keep safe yourself.

  4. Lee Grant has finally published her memoir, and it’s a must-read. She was blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator Joseph McCarthy. That story alone is worth the price of her book called “I Said Yes to Everything.”

    I’ve pulled out a couple of OTHER anecdotes: On BRUCE WILLIS Lee tried to make a movie in 1997 directing Bruce Willis in “Broadway Brawler,” about a hockey player. Lee writes: “The problem when you are a star [as Willis was] when the money rests on you as an actor, is that your freedom to fail is gone. You can’t take chances.” Willis was in a bad slump at the time. He didn’t like the way the movie was going and had her fired. She was replaced, but no one would work for the new director. The $28 million feature was aborted. However, two years later, after a string of horrendous flops, Willis especially with “The Sixth Sense” was back – big time.

    On BRANDO: “Marlon had asked me out the year before. Picked me up on his motorcycle— thrilling— and took me to a nightclub in the Fifties on Eighth Avenue. We sat on a long leather settee, had drinks at a small black table, and silently watched a naked woman on a small black couch. Not a word exchanged. What can you say? Back on the motorcycle, holding on to his back, to my front door. I had my key out, no kiss, thanked him, opened and closed the door.”

    TOP 10 MOST BIZZARE ACTORS WHEN FILMING
    1/Lindsay Lohan
    2/BRUCE WILLIS. After releasing “Cop Out” 2010 director Kevin Smith expressed on air the way he felt while directing Bruce. In his words, it was truly soul-crushing. Bruce was called a p***k by Kevin for Willis’ rude and extraterrestrial behavior on the set and during promotions.
    3/Christian Vale
    4/Jennifer Lopez
    5/Julia Roberts
    6/MARLON BRANDO
    On “The Score”, 2001 Marlon Brando habitually addressed the director unflatteringly as “Miss Piggy”. Marlon even brought a note from his medical assistant doctor, claiming Brando was physically allergic to Oz. Oz, had to sit in a different room and give direction to Brando through co-star Robert De Niro in an ear piece. Other co-star Ed Norton said “I kept out of it and just let them all get on with it.”
    7/Gene Hackman
    8/Faye Dunaway
    9/George Clooney
    10/Steven Seagal

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