Rịba ama amaokwu a dị n'okpuru ma zaa ajụjụ ahụ mgbe e mesịrị n'otu asụsụ ahụ dị ka amaokwu ahụ:  Walter Bruce Willis mụrụ na March 19, 1955, n'obodo Idar-Oberstein, West Germany. Nna ya, David Willis, bụ onye agha America. Nne ya, Marlene, bụ onye Germany, amụrụ na Kassel. Willis bụ nwa mbụ n'ime ụmụ anọ nwere nwanne nwanyị aha ya bụ Florence na ụmụnne nwoke abụọ, Robert (onye nwụrụ anwụ) na David. Mgbe a tọhapụsịrị ya n'ọrụ agha na 1957, nna Willis kpọghachiri ezinụlọ ya na Carneys Point Township, New Jersey. Willis kọwara onwe ya dị ka onye sitere na "ogologo ndị ọrụ". Nne ya rụrụ ọrụ n'ụlọakụ ma nna ya bụ onye na-agbanye ọkụ, onye na-arụzi ígwè, na onye ọrụ ụlọ ọrụ. Willis gụrụ akwụkwọ na Penns Grove High School n'obodo ya, ebe o zutere nsogbu na nkụda mmụọ. Ụmụ akwụkwọ ibe ya na-akpọ ya "Buck-Buck". Willis sonyeere klọb ihe nkiri n'ụlọ akwụkwọ sekọndrị, na-eme ihe nkiri n'elu ikpo okwu belatara ya ịsụ nsụ. E mesịrị họpụta ya ịbụ onyeisi oche nke kansụl ụmụ akwụkwọ. Ọ gara mahadum na Mahadum Montclair State. Mgbe ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na ụlọ akwụkwọ sekọndrị na 1973, Willis nwetara ọrụ dịka onye nche na Salem Nuclear Power Plant ma na-ebufe ndị ọrụ na ụlọ ọrụ DuPont Chambers Works na Deepwater, New Jersey. Mgbe ọ rụsịrị ọrụ dị ka onye nyocha onwe (ọrụ ọ ga-arụ na usoro ihe nkiri telivishọn Moonlighting na ihe nkiri 1991 The Last Boy Scout), Willis tụgharịrị na-eme ihe nkiri. O debanyere aha na Mmemme Egwuregwu na Mahadum Montclair State, ebe a tụbara ya na mmepụta klas nke Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Willis hapụrụ ụlọ akwụkwọ na afọ nke atọ ya na 1977 wee kwaga na New York City, ebe na mbido afọ 1980 ọ kwadoro onwe ya dị ka onye na-a bartụ mmanya na West 19th Street art bar Kamikaze. N'oge ahụ, ọ bi na Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. Ọ rụrụ dị ka onye na-agbakwunye na Paul Newman mmechi mmechi na The Verdict na 1982.  Ajụjụ: Olee ebe Willis gara mahadum?
Mahadum Montclair State