Bruce Willis to retire from acting due to cognitive disease

Bruce Willis, the star of the ‘Die Hard’ franchise and dozens of other action movies, will retire from acting after being diagnosed with aphasia, a disease that has hampered his "cognitive abilities", his family said on Wednesday.

Willis, 67, rose to fame in the 1980s comedy-drama TV series ‘Moonlighting’, and has appeared in about 100 films across his four-decade career, garnering acclaim for his roles in ‘Pulp Fiction’ and ‘The Sixth Sense’, and winning a Golden Globe Award and two Emmys.

But Willis is perhaps best known for...