Biography for
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Date of Birth

3 October 1956, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Birth Name

Hart Matthew Bochner

Height

6' 1" (1.85 m)

Mini Biography

Bochner made his feature film debut portraying George C. Scott's son in Ernest Hemingway's Islands in the Stream and would go on to gain notice for his role in the Academy award-winning Breaking Away. However, it was his role in Die Hard, opposite Bruce Willis, that would earn him pop culture status. His performance as the obnoxiously sleazy Harry ("Hans, Bubby") Ellis was bestowed the #2 spot on Maxim's "The Greatest Movie Sleazeballs Of All Time" list. Other films also include playing opposite Susan Sarandon in Wayne Wang's Anywhere But Here, Break Up with Bridget Fonda, the cult hit, Apartment Zero opposite Colin Firth, George Cukor's Rich and Famous, with Jacqueline Bisset, and John Schlesinger's The Innocent, opposite Anthony Hopkins.

On television, Bochner starred in the Emmy award-winning epic miniseries, War and Remembrance, Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, John Steinbeck's East of Eden, And The Sea Will Tell, Children of the Dust, and Haywire.

He would inevitably transition to behind-the-scenes work as a director, making his debut with the cult comedy PCU for Twentieth Century Fox, and High School High for Columbia Pictures. Just Add Water for Sony Pictures is his latest directorial effort, which he also wrote, and stars Danny Devito, Dylan Walsh, Jonah Hill, and Justin Long.

He will next be seen starring in the upcoming Campbell Scott film, Company Retreat, as well as Spread opposite Ashton Kutcher. Most recently was seen starring as Debra Messing's love interest in the USA Network series The Starter Wife.

Bochner lives in Los Angeles and is actively involved in several causes, sitting on the board of directors for the Environmental Media Association as well as the DGA-PAC Leadership Council, and L.A.'s Green Ribbon Commission. In 2008, Bochner was named Time Magazine's 'Greenest Celebrity in Hollywood'.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Julia Foresman, asst. to HB

Trivia

Son of Lloyd Bochner

Bachelor of Arts, Literature, UC San Diego 1978.

Co-Chair, Board of Directors of Environmental Media Association.

Discovered at AFI open house by Oscar-winning director Franklin Schaffner ('Patton'), subsequently Bochner made his film debut opposite George C. Scott in Schaffner's,'Islands in the Stream', 1975.

Made Feature Directorial debut with the film'PCU', for 20th Century Fox, 1994.

Runner-Up Best Actor, Seattle International Film Festival for 'Apartment Zero', 1989.

Sits on the Board of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villeregosa's Green Ribbon Commission.

Studied Archeology, Merton College, Oxford University, 1976.

Voted '#2 Greatest Movie Sleazeball of All Time', for 'Die Hard', Maxim Magazine, 2005.

Voted 'One of Hollywood's 10 Sexiest Bachelors', US Magazine, 1989.

Member of DGA Leadership Council, PAC Committee.

Named Time Magazine's 'Greenest Celebrity in Hollywood', 2008.

Owns a hydrogen-powered car.

Played Harry Ellis in Die Hard, 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.).