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 consider to be freedom." In 1996, Roger Director, a writer and producer from "Moonlighting", wrote a roman à clef on Willis titled "A Place to Fall". Cybill Shepherd wrote in her 2000 autobiography, "Cybill Disobedience", that Willis became angry at Director when he read the book and discovered the character had been written as a "neurotic, petulant actor." In 1998, Willis participated in "Apocalypse", a PlayStation video game. The game was originally announced to feature Willis as a sidekick, not as the main character. The company reworked the game using Willis's likeness and voice and changed the game to use