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- Bruce WillisDetective John McClane
- Alan RickmanHans Gruber
- Bonnie BedeliaHolly Gennero McClane
- Reginald VelJohnsonSgt. Al Powell
- De'voreaux WhiteArgyle
- Alexander GodunovKarl
- Paul GleasonLAPD Deputy Chief Dwayne T. Robinson
- William AthertonRichard Thornburg
- James ShigetaJoseph Yoshinobu Takagi
- Hart BochnerHarry Ellis
- Andreas WisniewskiTony
- Clarence GilyardTheo
- Joseph PlewaAlexander
- Lorenzo CaccialanzaMarco
- Al LeongUli
- Gary RobertsHeinrich
- Hans BuhringerFritz
- Wilhelm von HomburgJames
See the complete list of actors, directors, writers, producers, and other crew members who worked on the 1988 action film Die Hard, starring Bruce Willis as John McClane. Find out who played Hans Gruber, Holly Gennaro McClane, Al Powell, and more.
Die Hard is a 1988 American action thriller film directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza based on the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp.
Jul 20, 1988 · Die Hard is a classic action thriller film starring Bruce Willis as a New York cop who fights terrorists in a Los Angeles skyscraper. IMDb provides cast and crew information, plot summary, trivia, goofs, quotes, and user and critic reviews for the movie.
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- Action, Thriller
- John McTiernan
- 1988-07-20
John McClane is a New York City cop who finds himself taking on terrorists and saving his loved ones. In Die Hard, he gets invited to his wife's Christmas Party at Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles when the building she is in is under attack by terrorists led by Hans Gruber.
- Bruce Willis (John McClane) The success of Die Hard catapulted Bruce Willis from Emmy-winning colead of the hit TV series Moonlighting to A-list movie star overnight.
- Alan Rickman (Hans Gruber) After accumulating several stage credits, a few TV roles, and a Tony nomination for his performance in Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 1985, Alan Rickman made his film debut as the iconic villain Hans Gruber in Die Hard.
- Bonnie Bedelia (Holly Gennaro McClane) Born Bonnie Bedelia Culkin, the Golden Globe-nominated aunt of Macaulay, Kieran, and Rory Culkin, was an accomplished actress prior to the success of Die Hard.
- Reginald VelJohnson (Al Powell) After a series of blink-and-you-'ll-miss-them roles in Ghostbusters (1984) and Crocodile Dundee (1986), Reginald VelJohnson found breakout success as Sgt.
Die Hard is an American action film series that originated with Roderick Thorp 's 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever. All five films revolve around the main character of John McClane, a police detective who continually finds himself in the middle of a crisis where he is the only hope against disaster. [3]
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A New York policeman (Bruce Willis) outwits foreign thugs in an L.A. high-rise.