Bruce Willis Free Screensaver. Photos slideshow. Bruce Willis (born Walter Bruce Willis on March 19, 1955) is an American actor and singer. He went to New York to become an actor. He waited tables and tended bar for a living until he began to get roles in plays. While tending bar one night he was seen by a casting director who liked his personality and needed a bartender for a small movie role. He came to fame in the late 1980s and has since retained a career as both a Hollywood leading man and a supporting actor.Best known as the action hero behind cinema's Die Hard series, Bruce Willis (b. March 19, 1955; Penns Grove, NJ) became a twice-over recording artist during the late '80s. His debut album, The Return of Bruno, became a surprise seller after the single "Respect Yourself" hit the Top Five in early 1987. Willis had two other modest hits, and recorded another LP two years later, but has remained outside music for the most part -- performing only occasionally to inaugurate several Planet Hollywood restaurants.Bruce Willis embodies one of Hollywood's most beloved and iconic leading men. The actor sports a cocky, everpresent smirk, projects a constant stream of quips, and has virtually mastered the slow burn, but unlike some of his contemporaries with that approach (such as James Woods), Willis never hesitates to let the audience know that it's partially done in goofy jest, or to reveal, at closer glance, a level of soft-hearted affability buried beneath it all.