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Bruce Willis Diagnosed With Frontotemporal Dementia
Yippie-Kai-Yay, it's Bruce Willis' birthday.
The legendary actor—cemented his action-hero presumption playing John McClane successful the iconic Die Hard franchise—turned 68 connected March 19, and we couldn't deliberation of a amended mode to observe the juncture than by looking backmost connected immoderate of Willis' champion movie roles.
Willis stepped distant from his prolific acting vocation successful March 2022 after his family—including woman Emma Heming Willis, ex Demi Moore, as good arsenic kids Rumer Willis, 34, Scout Willis, 31, Tallulah Willis, 28, Mabel Willis, 9, and Evelyn Willis, 7—announced he was diagnosed with aphasia, which impacts a person's quality to communicate.
Last month, they provided an update connected his condition, sharing that Willis had received a "more circumstantial diagnosis" of frontotemporal dementia, known arsenic FTD.
Since his breakout relation on the 1980s TV play Moonlighting, which earned him Golden Globe and Emmy awards for Best Actor successful a Comedy oregon Musical successful 1987, Willis has appeared successful much than 1 100 movies—including Pulp Fiction, The Sixth Sense and Moonrise Kingdom—which person culminatively grossed implicit $5 cardinal worldwide.
Keep speechmaking to instrumentality a look backmost astatine his astir memorable roles.
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Die Hard Franchise
Bruce Willis cemented his presumption arsenic 1 of Hollywood's apical starring men successful 1988 erstwhile helium starred arsenic John McClane successful this enactment (and, arguably, Christmas) film. The movie yet spawned 4 sequels, each starring Willis, and the bid has grossed $1.4 cardinal worldwide.
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The Fifth Element
The actor's archetypal foray into sci-fi was this 1997 Luc Besson movie playing a taxi operator who becomes liable for the endurance of satellite Earth successful the 23rd century.
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Pulp Fiction
Willis co-starred alongside John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Ving Rhames and Uma Thurman successful Quentin Tarantino's 1994 noir film, which went connected to gross more than $213 cardinal astatine the container bureau and was nominated for 7 Oscars, winning for Best Original Screenplay.
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Armageddon
Moviegoers didn't privation to miss a infinitesimal of Willis' touching show arsenic a dedicated begetter who sacrifices his beingness to prevention the satellite (and Ben Affleck) in Michael Bay's catastrophe flick, which went connected to go the highest grossing movie of 1998.
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Looper
Rian Johnson's 2012 sci-fi enactment thriller saw Willis facing disconnected against Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who was playing a younger mentation of Willis. Loopy, indeed.
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The Sixth Sense
Willis and M. Night Shyamalan teamed up for the archetypal clip for this 1999 fearfulness hit, which delivered 1 of cinema's astir shocking twists and went connected to go the 2nd highest grossing movie of that year.
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Unbreakable
Willis starred arsenic a erstwhile shot prima who gained superhuman spot aft surviving a bid clang successful this 2000 intelligence thriller, his second collaboration with from Shyamalan. He'd spell connected to reprise this quality in Split and Glass.
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The Expendables
Willis appeared alongside a stacked roster of enactment stars—including Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, Jet Li and Dolph Lundgren—in the archetypal 2 films of the franchise, though helium opted retired of 2014's The Expendables 3.
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Moonrise Kingdom
In his quirkiest performance, Willis starred alongside Edward Norton, Frances McDormand and Billy Murray successful Wes Anderson's critically acclaimed 2012 coming-of-age dramedy.
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Sin City
In Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez's 2005 neo-noir transgression anthology film, Willis fronted "That Yellow Bastard" conception arsenic aging bull John Hartigan.
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Alpha Dog
Based connected the existent communicative of the kidnapping and execution of Nicholas Markowitz, Willis played Sonny Truelove, a quality inspired by John "Jack" Hollywood, begetter of convicted killer Jesse James Hollywood, successful this 2006 transgression drama.
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The Whole Nine Yards
Willis played to some his enactment and comedic strengths portion playing a hitman other Matthew Perry successful this 2000 deed that spawned a sequel, 2004's The Whole Ten Yards.
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Red
The 68-year-old was R.E.D. (Retired, Extremely Dangerous) arsenic a erstwhile CIA cause successful the 2010 enactment movie, which besides starred Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren.
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Death Becomes Her
The histrion was the entity of Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn's affection successful this satirical drama from 1992.
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The Siege
The 1998 enactment thriller saw Willis play General William Devereaux alongside Denzel Washington, Annette Bening and Tony Shalhoub.
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Cop Out
Willis played consecutive (yet inactive funny) antheral other comedian Tracy Morgan in Kevin Smith's 2010 buddy bull movie.
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