He’s best known for a classic supporting part in the iconic action thriller Die Hard.
This actor played a scuzzy rival to star Bruce Willis, though he wasn’t one of the film’s main villains.
Aside from that Christmas classic, he has had a long career with dozens of film and television roles.
This actor, who originally hails from Toronto, Canada, capped off his 1970s with a role in the acclaimed coming-of-age dramedy Breaking Away alongside then-rising stars Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern and Jackie Earle Haley.
More recently, he has had a recurring role on the Miles Teller–starring, Nicolas Winding Refn–directed series Too Old To Die Young, Criminal Minds and Scandal.
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This actor, who is best known for a supporting role in 1988’s Die Hard, was spotted looking unrecognizable on a rare outing in LA on Monday. Do you know who he is?
He’s the 68-year-old actor Hart Bochner, who is best known for playing Harry Ellis in Die Hard.
Bochner was spotted out in Los Angeles’ tony Brentwood neighborhood on Monday.
The star, who is rarely seen in public, was pictured with a female friend as they dropped by the popular Brentwood Country Mart for lunch.
He looked cool and casual in a gray T-shirt with a shiny gray–blue flight jacket with red and white stripes running down one side.
He complemented the jacket with of faded blue jeans and wore a set of tan suede clogs, and he accessorized with striking thick-framed eyeglasses.
Bochner’s companion was dressed for the December chill with a fleece-lined beige suede vest over a white blouse.
She had it tucked into an acid wash denim skirt, and she stood out thank to a pair of tasseled beige suede boots.
The woman carried a brown woven leather handbag and eye-catching black-and-white framed sunglasses.
He’s the 68-year-old actor Hart Bochner, who is best known for playing the scuzzy Harry Ellis in Die Hard (pictured), opposite star Bruce Willis
Bochner looked cool while heading to the popular Brentwood Country Mart for lunch with a female friend. He wore a gray shirt with a blue striped flight jacket, jeans and tan suede clogs
In Die Hard, his coke-snorting character has an unfortunate run-in with terrorists when he tries to negotiate with them; still form Die Hard
He’s had numerous film and TV roles, including in the classic coming-of-age film Breaking Away with Dennis Quaid and Daniel Stern
Bochner — whose mother Ruth was a concert pianist while his father Lloyd Bochner was an actor — also appeared in the Jamie Lee Curtis–starring slasher Terror Train in 1980; seen with Frances Fisher in 2010 in Burbank, Calif.
Bochner voiced a role in 1993’s Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm, and he has also directed several films. In recent years he had a recurring role on Too Old To Die Young and guest roles on Criminal Minds and Scandal, among others; seen in 2017 in Beverly Hills
In his most famous role in Die Hard, Bochner played the scuzzy Harry Ellis, a co-worker of Bruce Willis’ on-screen wife Bonnie Bedelia.
When the LA office tower they work in is taken hostage during a company Christmas party, Willis’ character, NYPD detective John McClane tries to free the hostages and take down the terrorist organization one by one.
Ellis finds out the hard way that the terrorists (led by the the late Alan Rickman in his star-making debut role) aren’t interested in negotiating after he puffs himself up in hopes of making a deal to secure the office workers’ freedom.
Bochner — whose mother Ruth was a concert pianist while his father Lloyd Bochner was an actor — also appeared in the Jamie Lee Curtis–starring slasher Terror Train in 1980.
In 1984, he appeared in the box office bomb Super Girl, and he appeared opposite a young Colin Firth in a lead role in the 1988 thriller Apartment Zero.
Later films include the 1999 dramedy Anywhere But Here, starring Natalie Portman and Susan Sarandon, and the 2001 thriller Say Nothing.
Bochner also turned to directing with the films PCU (1994), High School High (1996) and Just Add Water (2008).
Although he’s best known for his on-screen roles, Bochner also had a voice role as City Councilman Arthur Reeves in the 1993 animated classic Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm.
The film, which was part of the Batman universe of the acclaimed series Batman: The Animated Series (1992–1995) had a special connection to his father Lloyd, as he had voiced Mayor Hamilton Hill on that series, as well as its follow-up, The New Batman Adventures (1997–1999).
[H/T Daily Mail]
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