This person was born on the 19 th March 1955, in West Germany. He was raised in New Jersey from the age of 2 and as a youth he had a terrible stammer which he only seemed to lose when he was performing, which at high school he did a lot of as he was always know as the class clown. After leaving high school he attended Montclair State College studying drama. From there he went on to star first on stage in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof and Heaven On Earth , then he went on to star on the small screen. In 1995 he had his first audition for a major film role in the film Desperately Seeking Susan but was rejected and Aidan Quinn eventually got the part. But then in 1987 he finally got his first major film role as Walter Davis - Blind Date.

In the next few years he starred in some major hits but also starred in some major flops as well, some of the roles in which he starred were as Emmett Smith - Sunset, Peter Fallow - Bonfire Of The Vanities, James Urbanski - Mortal Thoughts, Eddie Hawkins - Hudson Hawk, Bo Weinberg - Billy Bathgate and Joseph Hallenbeck - The Last Boy Scout. He also at the time had a love for music and brought out 2 albums one called “The Return Of Bruno” and the second was called ”If It Don't Kill You, It Just Makes You Stronger”

He starred in a couple more films after that as Doctor Ernest Menville- Death Becomes Her and Doctor Bill Capa - Colour Of Night but it seemed as though his acting career was taking a major downward spiral. But in 1994 he got the role of Butch Coolidge - Pulp Fiction and it put his career back on track and he was very much back in the limelight, the film was a huge box office hit and it was after that he landed some major film roles such as James Cole- 12 Monkeys, John Smith - Last Man Standing and Art Jeffries - Mercury Rising.

After these films he was firmly back in the spotlight of Hollywood, and the big movie roles just kept coming in and some of the characters in which he portrayed were as Harry S Stamper - Armageddon, Korben Dallas - The Fifth Element, Malcolm Crowe - The Sixth Sense, Jimmy “The Tulip” Tudeski - The Whole Nine Yards, David Dunn - Unbreakable and Mikey- Look Who's Talking. With his new found status he also had involvement in co-ownership of a big restaurant chain.

And finally his most famous film role which he has returned to three times is as Detective John McClane in Die Hard the lonesome cop who always seemed to manage to save the day. And next year it is believed that they are making a forth Die Hard in which he will play the role again he is of course: