Movie star Bruce Willis recently shocked a German family when he turned up at their doorstep with his father and daughter and requested if he could see inside since he was born there 50 years ago.

According to Internet Movie Database, the star appeared unannounced at the home of Idar-Oberstein. Willis, in his rusty German, asked if he could take some photographs of the basement bedroom where he spent the first two years of his life.

The property owner said, "We were sitting in the garden and didn't even hear that someone was there. My mother still had her curlers in her hair." Willis was named "special ambassador" for his birthplace, Idar-Oberstein on his 50th birthday in March.