Editing Die Hard (section)

==Cast==
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* [[Bruce Willis]] as [[John McClane]], a New York City police detective<ref name="ReviewLATimes"/>
* [[Alan Rickman]] as [[Hans Gruber]], the ruthless leader of the terrorists<ref name="ReviewNYT"/>
* [[Alexander Godunov]] as Karl, Gruber's second-in-command<ref name="ReviewLATimes"/>
* [[Bonnie Bedelia]] as Holly Gennaro-McClane, a high-ranking Nakatomi executive and John's estranged wife<ref name="NewYorkerThemes"/>
* [[Reginald VelJohnson]] as [[Al Powell]], an LAPD sergeant<ref name="ReviewDesson"/>
* [[Paul Gleason]] as Dwayne T. Robinson, the LAPD Deputy Chief<ref name="THRCast"/>
* [[De'voreaux White]] as Argyle, John's limousine driver<ref name="ReviewDesson"/>
* [[William Atherton]] as Richard Thornburg, an unscrupulous TV reporter<ref name="Thornburg1"/><ref name="DOGRankings"/>
* [[Clarence Gilyard]] as Theo, Gruber's tech specialist<ref name="NewYorkerThemes"/>
* [[Hart Bochner]] as Harry Ellis, a sleazy Nakatomi executive<ref name="DigitalSpyEllis"/>
* [[James Shigeta]] as Joseph Yoshinobu Takagi, Nakatomi's head executive<ref name="NewYorkerThemes"/>

Other cast members include Gruber's henchmen: Bruno Doyon as Franco, [[Andreas Wisniewski]] as Tony, Joey Plewa as Alexander, [[Lorenzo Caccialanza]] as Marco, Gerard Bonn as Kristoff, [[Dennis Hayden (actor)|Dennis Hayden]] as Eddie, [[Al Leong]] as Uli, Gary Roberts as Heinrich, Hans Buhringer as Fritz, and [[Wilhelm von Homburg]] as James. [[Robert Davi]] and [[Grand L. Bush]] appear as FBI Special Agents Big Johnson and Little Johnson, respectively, [[Tracy Reiner]] appears as Thornburg's assistant, and [[Taylor Fry]] and Noah Land make minor appearances as McClane's children Lucy McClane and John Jr.<ref name="BFICast"/>