Father’s Day: Hollywood Dads Who Would Do Everything and Anything to Save their Children

Bruce Willis plays a heroic father in the Len Wiseman-helmed fourth installment of the Die Hard franchise.

When cyber terrorists that John McClane is eyeing get personal and kidnap his estranged daughter (Mary Elizabeth Winstead).

In Michael Bay’s Armageddon, his ultimate sacrifice saves the entire world, including daughter Liv Tyler.

Liam Neeson has become the paternal hero with a particular set of skills, due to the Luc Besson-produced trilogy of thrillers.

His career-pivoting turn as Bryan Mills begins with Pierre Morel’s installment, in which Mills’ teenage daughter is kidnapped in France by human traffickers for sexual slavery, triggering vengeful deaths until she is brought to safety.

Hugh Jackman takes matters into his own hands as Keller Dover in Denis Villeneuve’s crime thriller, in which his young daughter and her friend are suddenly abducted. Thrown into a tailspin investigation alongside detective Jake Gyllenhaal, the desperate father pursues leads with torture interrogation strategies to potentially ensure his child’s safety.

Dwayne Johnson, as helicopter-rescue pilot Ray Gaines, will stop at nothing to save his daughter (Alexandra Daddario) from becoming another casualty in Brad Peyton’s disaster epic, as she gets trapped in a collapsed parking garage and nearly drowns in a tsunami that follows the West Coast earthquake.

Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) has always focused on his family.

But the auto enthusiast turned it up a notch when he and Elena Neves (Elsa Pataky) welcomed their son, Brian Marcos Toretto, whose name pays tribute to Dom’s longtime friend Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker).

The new addition to the racing kin is part of the films The Fate of the Furious (2017) and F9 (2021).