LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Bruce Willis is to appear alongside teenage daughter Rumer in a movie for the second time, entertainment industry press reported Friday.

The "Die Hard" star is to portray a Gulf War veteran and school principal while his daughter will play the trouble-making accomplice to heroine Mischa Barton in the comedy "The Sophomore," according to The Hollywood Reporter.

It is the third time Rumer Willis, 18, has appeared in movies involving one of her movie star parents.

She appeared alongside mother Demi Moore in "Now and Then" as a five-year-old, and more recently starred in the 2005 film "Hostage" with her father.

Bruce Willis, who split from Moore in 2000, reprises his role as cop John McClane in the fourth "Die Hard" film, "Live Free or Die Hard," due out this later month.