John McClane in third, behind only Ellen Ripley and Dirty Harry. In April 2009, "Entertainment Weekly" ranked John McClane sixth in list of the top twenty "All-Time Coolest Heroes in Pop Culture", describing "Bruce Willis' wisecracking, terrorist-foiling New York cop" character as "the anti-Bond". The magazine called the characters portrayed by Keanu Reeves in "Speed", Wesley Snipes in "Passenger 57", and Jean-Claude Van Damme in "Sudden Death" as "copycat descendants" of John McClane. Bruce Willis was called "an excellent casting choice as a sardonic action hero." John McClane John McClane is the main protagonist of the "Die Hard" film series. He is
Bruce Harwood Bruce Harwood Bruce Harwood (born April 29, 1963) is a Canadian character actor best known for his role of John Fitzgerald Byers, one of The Lone Gunmen on the television series "The X-Files". In addition to "The X-Files", Harwood portrayed Byers in the spin-off series "The Lone Gunmen", which aired thirteen episodes in 2001. He has also played other roles with a strong similarity to Byers, such as Willis, a technician from the Phoenix Foundation in "MacGyver", and government-scientist-turned-conspiracy-theorist Dr. Avery Strong in "The Outer Limits". He was a founding member of the Vancouver summer Shakespeare festival, Bard on the