Bruce Willis the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006. Walter Bruce Willis was born on March 19, 1955, in the town of Idar-Oberstein, West Germany. His father, David Willis, was an American soldier. His mother, Marlene, was German, born in Kassel. Willis is the oldest of four children with a sister named Florence and two brothers, Robert (deceased) and David. After being discharged from the military in 1957, Willis's father took his family back to Carneys Point Township, New Jersey. Willis has described himself as having come from a "long line of blue collar people". His mother worked in a bank and
Bruce Willis would play in the television series "Moonlighting" and the 1991 film "The Last Boy Scout"), Willis turned to acting. He enrolled in the Drama Program at Montclair State University, where he was cast in the class production of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". Willis left school in his junior year in 1977 and moved to New York City, where in the early 1980s he supported himself as a bartender at the West 19th Street art bar Kamikaze. He performed as an extra in Paul Newman's closing summation scene in "The Verdict" in 1982. Willis left New York City and