
Plot
One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug charges. It's now up to McClane to take on the terrorists, while coping with an inept airport police chief, an uncooperative anti-terrorist squad, and the life of his wife and everyone else trapped in planes circling overhead.
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Cast

Bruce Willis
John McClane

Bonnie Bedelia
Holly McClane

William Sadler
Stuart

Art Evans
Leslie Barnes

Dennis Franz
Capt. Carmine Lorenzo

William Atherton
Richard Thornburg

John Amos
Major Grant

Fred Thompson
Trudeau

Tom Bower
Marvin

Franco Nero
General Ramon Esperanza

Sheila McCarthy
Samantha 'Sam' Coleman

Reginald VelJohnson
Sgt. Al Powell

Don Harvey
Garber

Tony Ganios
Baker

Peter Nelson
Thompson

Robert Patrick
O'Reilly

Mick Cunningham
Sheldon

John Leguizamo
Burke

Tom Verica
Kahn

John Costelloe
Sgt. Oswald Cochrane

Vondie Curtis-Hall
Miller

Mark Boone Junior
Shockley

Ken Baldwin
Mulkey

Danny Weselis
Blue Light Team

Gregg Kovan
Blue Light Team

Don Charles McGovern
Blue Light Team - Lt. Sherman

Danial Donai
Blue Light Team

Jeff Langton
Blue Light Team

Bob 'Rocky' Cheli
Blue Light Team

Dale Jacoby
Blue Light Team

Vincent Mazella Jr.
Blue Light Team

Patrick O'Neal
Corporal Telford

Ben Lemon
Sergeant

Jason Ross-Azikiwe
Second Sergeant

Anthony Droz
Soldier

Michael Francis Clarke
Northeast Plane - Pilot

Steve Pershing
Northeast Plane - Co-Pilot

Tom Everett
Northeast Plane - Navigator

Sherry Bilsing
Northeast Plane - Stewardess

Karla Tamburrelli
Northeast Plane - Stewardess

Jeanne Bates
Northeast Plane - Older Woman

Colm Meaney
Windsor Plane - Pilot

Steffen Foster
Windsor Plane - Co-Pilot

James Lancaster
Windsor Plane - Navigator

Amanda Hillwood
Windsor Plane - Stewardess

Felicity Waterman
Windsor Plane - Stewardess

Alan Berger
Windsor Plane - Passenger

Vance Valencia
Foreign Military Plane - Pilot

Gilbert Garcia
Foreign Military Plane - Co-Pilot

Julian Reyes
Foreign Military Plane - Young Corporal

Richard Domeier
WNTW Cameraman

David Katz
WNTW Soundman

Robert Lipton
WNTW Chopper Pilot

Rob Steinberg
WZDC - Victor

Paul Abascal
WZDC Director

John Rubinow
WZDC Producer

Bob Braun
WZDC Newscaster

Dominique Jennings
WZDC Newscaster

Carol Barbee
WZDC Newscaster

Jerry E. Parrott
Engineer

Martin Lowery
Engineer

Robert Sacchi
Engineer

Dick McGarvin
Engineer

Edward Gero
Engineer

Stafford Morgan
Engineer

Robert J. Bennett
Engineer

Jim Hudson
Engineer

Nick Angotti
Engineer

Tom Finnegan
Engineer

Thomas Tofel
Engineer

Earl Houston Bullock
Engineer

Wynn Irwin
Engineer

Rande Scott
Engineer

Ken Smolka
Engineer

Robert Costanzo
Sgt. Vito Lorenzo

Lauren Letherer
Rent-A-Car Girl

Connie Lillo-Thieman
Information Booth Girl

Ed DeFusco
Morgue Worker

Charles Lanyer
Justice Man

Bill Smillie
Custodian

Dwayne Hargray
Luggage Worker

John Cade
Lobby Cop

Paul Bollen
Airport Cop

Joseph Michael Roth
Airport Cop

David Willis Sr.
Tow Truck Driver

Edward Mannix
Tower Controller (voice) (uncredited)

Dru Berrymore
Capt. Lorenzo's Secretary (uncredited)

Robert M. Bouffard
Police Officer (uncredited)

Michael Luggio
Police Officer (uncredited)

James Wellington
Police Officer (uncredited)

Scott Cranford
Airport Security Guard (uncredited)

Reggie Luck
Airport Cop (uncredited)

Russell McConnell
Engineer (uncredited)

Mickie McGowan
Additional Dialogue Replacement (voice)