As Willis turns 64, Newsweek looks at critical aggregation websites Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and IMDb to find the 15 best movies of his career so far.
Bruce Willis, who turns 64 today, was a 29-year-old bartender and off-Broadway stage actor when he pulled off the kind of coup every Hollywood hopeful dreams of—getting picked out of 3,000 auditionees to play the lead role alongside Cybill Shepherd in the TV showA man of many talents—the New Jersey native had previously worked in a chemical factory and as a security guard—Willis soon became a household name.
was a bigger hit than his album, and a movie career soon took off. He starred in two forgettable movies before landing the iconic role of John McClane, the wisecracking, hardboiled cop in 1988’s Despite being an unknown only three years previously, Willis commanded what was then an astronomical fee of $5 million for the movie.made Willis an A-list star, establishing the blue-collar everyman image that still gets him parts today.
, playing the washed-up boxer Butch Coolidge. His vivid, nuanced performance got rave reviews: “The days whencould scoff ‘Bruce Willis in a great movie?’ may be behind him, thanks to the extraordinary reviews for
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