Bruce Willis Movies

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*Bruce Willis is taking a break from acting as he battles aphasia, a neurological condition that affects the ability to communicate.  3/30/2022

Want to know the best Bruce Willis movies?  How about the worst Bruce Willis movies?  Curious about Bruce Willis’s box office grosses or which Bruce Willis movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Bruce Willis movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place.

I have followed Bruce Willis’ career since he hit the big time with his star making role as David Addison on Moonlighting. I still think the Moonlighting 3 episode story arc with Mark Harmon,was some the best television I have ever seen and the pinnacle of that series.  Since Moonlighting, Bruce Willis has had a very busy career, making over 60 movies over the last 27 years. It has been a roller coaster ride…the highs….. movies like Pulp Fiction, most of the Die Hards, and The Sixth Sense…..the lows….movies like The Whole Ten Yards, Hudson Hawk, Bonfire of the Vanities and North.  His IMDb page shows 145 acting credits since 1980.  In the table below, Ultimate Movie Rankings ranks movies in 6 different sortable columns.

Bruce Willis Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews, and awards.

Bruce Willis Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Bruce Willis movies by movie title and movie trailers.
  • Sort Bruce Willis movies by co-stars of his movies.
  • Sort Bruce Willis movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
  • Sort Bruce Willis movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
  • Sort Bruce Willis movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each Bruce Willis movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Bruce Willis movie won.
  • Sort Bruce Willis movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Possibly Interesting Facts About Bruce Willis

1. Walter Bruce Willis was born on March 19, 1955, in the town of Idar-Oberstein, West Germany.  His dad was an American while his mother was a German.

2.  Bruce Willis worked as a bartender when he was a struggling actor in New York City.

3.  In 1984, Bruce Willis left New York City to audition for roles in Los Angeles.

4.  Bruce Willis’ big break was getting the role in the television series Moonlighting (1985-1989).  Glenn Gordon Caron had to fight with ABC to put Willis in the lead role having already signed Shepherd for both the pilot and series. Caron claims he tested Willis about a third of the way through testing over 2,000 actors, knew “this was the guy” immediately, and had to fight through twice as many more acting tests and readings while arguing with ABC executives before receiving (initial) conditional authorization to cast Willis in the pilot. ABC, according to Caron, did not feel that anyone viewing would think there could possibly be any “believable” sexual tension between Shepherd and Willis.

5.  Although Bruce Willis was the 115th choice to play John McClane in 1988’s Die Hard….he was given an unheard, at the time, salary of $5 million dollars.

6.  Bruce Willis was the only celebrity that attended Julia Roberts’ wedding to Daniel Moder. Their friendship is referred to in Ocean’s Twelve (2004), when he mistakes Tess Ocean for Julia Roberts, and asks her about ‘Danny’.

7.   Bruce Willis was the first actor to ever “act” in a video game (Apocalypse (1998)). No one before had ever done voice work along with having their likeness and movements digitally added to the game, as well as receiving prominent billing on the game’s cover.

8.  Bruce Willis was considered for the role of Kyle Reese in The Terminator (1984), which went to Michael Biehn.

9.  Bruce Willis has been married two times.  He has 5 daughters.  His first marriage was to Demi Moore.  His current marriage is to Emma Heming.

10. Check out Bruce Willis’ career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

Personal Top Ten Bruce Willis Movies

  • Die Hard
  • The Fifth Element
  • Looper
  • Lucky Number Slevin
  • Nobody’s Fool
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Sin City
  • The Sixth Sense
  • Twelve Monkeys
  • Unbreakable

Our You Tube Video that goes through the Rankings all of Bruce Willis’ movies.

My Letterboxd.com Bruce Willis Movie Reviews.

Steve Lensman’s Bruce Willis Top 50 Movies You Tube Video

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245 thoughts on “Bruce Willis Movies”

  1. Tragic end to a good career. Your chronological table really shows how far his career fell off. The good news his early career was so good. Even his misfires like Hudson Hawk and Bonfire of the Vanities seem entertaining today. Your page was a nice discovery.

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    1. Hey Ryan From Philly. Thanks for finding our Bruce Willis page. I agree with your comment. Being a huge Bruce fan, I have been watching all of his low budget movies…..and that 1/2 ratings are pretty accurate. Glad you discovered UMR. Good comment.

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  2. You did not have his Feast movies or probably his best movie, The Last Picture Show listed. RIP Clu.

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    1. Hey In The Shadows…pretty sure this was supposed to be on our Clu Gulager tribute page. I will move it there and comment it on it there as well.

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    1. Hey Dan….pretty sure he is third….second is Samuel L. Jackson with 117. Ward Bond has the most with 127. Not many reach 100. Hope your fourth was awesome.

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      1. john wayne had 170 according to UMR. love you, miss you. you and yours are in my thoughts and prayers.

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        1. Hey bob cox…..Wayne has a ton more movies than are on his page….I was talking about actors with UMR rankings. I would love to include all of Wayne’s B movies from the 1930s…but there is almost no record for box office for those movies. Hope things are going well. My summer break is flying by.

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  5. Following on from Part 2, it is an anomaly in my perception that whilst Sarandon/Theron/Winslet do well in the Cogerson ranking lists on this site Willis barely gets a look-in. However maybe John McClane himself would agree with the cynical observation of the hard-boiled heroes who have peppered the bleak Hollywood film noirs down the years: if you expect the world to be a fair place you are rather naïve.

    Anyway as I’ve said before Demi Moore’s ex-inferior-other-half is my favourite modern action star along with Clint Eastwood and “Arnie” so I was pleased to see all the comments that have been posted to mark Brucie’s sad but understandable retirement.

    As it is though I think that on the Willis page in my database -admittedly compared with the Cogerson pages “A poor thing but mine own!” – I’ll stick with the original 80 or so movies [minus “now you see him now you don’t” Split]as that 80ish-entry filmography contains every one of the Willis movies that I like to remember him by and as well is a better reflection of his heyday stardom than are the 107 entries

    However naturally I respect The Work Horse’s decision to give his viewers the more complete picture warts and all as the saying goes.

    ADDITIONAL TRIVIA: The Cogerson site doesn’t do Home Market stats and indeed they can be hard to come-by; but as I never try to steal WH’s thunder there is no harm in mentioning that the final 2 Die Hard movies 2007’s Live Free or Die Hard and 2013’s A Good Day to Die Hard raked in so-far a staggering $175 million in adjusted domestic takings via DVDs/Video/Blue Ray sales. The ACTUAL -ie pre-inflation adjustment- overall Home Market figure recorded for the 2 movies is $131.4 million for just the US and Canada.

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