Bochner made his feature film debut portraying George C. Scott's son in Ernest Hemingway's Islands in the Stream (1977) and would go on to gain notice for his role in the Academy award-winning, Breaking Away (1979). However, it was his role in Die Hard (1988), opposite Bruce Willis, that would earn him pop culture status. His performance as the ...
War and Remembrance, The Starter Wife, East of Eden
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Has starred opposite Jane Seymour in three miniseries: As her son in "East of Eden" (1981), her would-be paramour in "The Sun Also Rises" (1984) and as her husband in "War and Remembrance" (1988/1989).
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Played "Harry Ellis" in Die Hard (1988), based on Roderick Thorp's novel, "Nothing Lasts Forever". Twenty years earlier, his father Lloyd Bochner played "Dr. Roberts" in "The Detective", based on another Thorp novel. (As books, "Nothing Lasts Forever" was the sequel to "The Detective". The films, however, are unrelated).
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Owns a hydrogen-powered car.
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Named Time Magazine's 'Greenest Celebrity in Hollywood', 2008.
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Member of DGA Leadership Council, PAC Committee.
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Voted 'One of Hollywood's 10 Sexiest Bachelors', US Magazine, 1989.
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Voted "#2 Greatest Movie Sleazeball of All Time", for Die Hard (1988), Maxim Magazine, 2005.
Sits on the Board of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's Green Ribbon Commission.
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Runner-Up for Best Actor, Seattle International Film Festival, for Apartment Zero (1988), 1989.
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Made Feature Directorial debut with the film, PCU (1994), for 20th Century Fox, 1994.
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Discovered at AFI open house by Oscar-winning director 'Franklin Schaffner' (Patton (1970)), subsequently Bochner made his film debut opposite George C. Scott in Schaffner's Islands in the Stream (1977), 1975.
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Co-Chair, Board of Directors of Environmental Media Association.
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