While it might be hard to believe, John McClane isn’t actually Willis’s most profitable movie role. He actually earned his juiciest salary playing Malcolm Crowe in the 1999 low-budget horror movie The Sixth Sense.

The star earned an upfront fee of $14 million for the project – or $25.7 million (£21m) when inflation-adjusted – and also negotiated himself a 17.5% share of the box office takings.

The savvy deal paid off when the indie flick became an unexpected hit, grossing an inflation-adjusted sum of $1.2 billion (£960m). Willis ultimately took home $114 million for his performance, or a jaw-dropping $209 million (£167m) in today’s money.

As well as being Willis's most lucrative movie role, his astronomical salary from The Sixth Sense is the single highest Hollywood payday of all time.

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