Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Or Willis: Who The Biggest '80s Action Star Was
Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Bruce Willis were among the biggest movie stars of the 1980s, but which action icon most dominated the decade? The '80s was a period filled with fame and excess, which translated into astronomical box office totals largely tied to an actor's star power. However, only one star would rise to the very top of Hollywood to define the rapidly evolving action genre. These three giants of the film industry made a stronger impact than their competition thanks to the glut of big-budget action movies produced during this extravagantly lucrative time period.
With so many different action franchises in the ‘80s, household names arose that were both permanent and legendary. Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis starred in roles that solidified their place within the action genre. Philadelphia's blue-collar icon Stallone revisited the titular boxer Rocky in the same year he proudly introduced another larger-than-life hero in John Rambo. Concurrently, the infamous Terminator villain Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in multiple properties like the crowd-pleasing Commando and the fantastical Dino De Laurentiis Conan series. The boyish and charismatic television actor Bruce Willis began his Die Hard film franchise, imbued with a clear sense of humor towards the end of the 1980s. Though the decade was littered with dozens of unforgettable action titles, a simple Google search of the biggest action stars of the decade will turn up these three names over and over again.
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