Charles Bronson

Acting · 3.2 popularity

Age

104

Movies

110

Born: November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003
From: Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky; November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor. He was known for his roles in action films and his "granite features and brawny physique". Bronson was born into extreme poverty in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, a coal mining town in the Allegheny Mountains. Bronson's father, a miner, died when Bronson was young. Bronson himself worked in the mines as well until joining the United States Army Air Forces in 1943 to fight in World War II. Bronson had sizeable co-starring roles in The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Great Escape (1963), This Property Is Condemned (1966), and The Dirty Dozen (1967). Bronson also performed in many major television shows, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for his supporting role in an episode of General Electric Theater. Actor Alain Delon (who was a fan of Bronson) hired him to co-star with him in the French film Adieu l'ami (1968). That year, he also played one of the leads in the Italian spaghetti Western, Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). Bronson continued playing leads in various action, Western, and war films made in Europe, including Rider on the Rain (1970), which won a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. During this time Bronson was the most popular American actor in Europe. Early life and war service Bronson was born November 3, 1921, in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, a coal mining region in the Allegheny Mountains, north of Johnstown. He was the 11th of 15 children born into a Roman Catholic family of Lithuanian descent. The very large family slept in shifts in their cold-water shack. The coal car tracks that ran out of the mine's mouth passed just a few yards away. His father, Walter Buchinsky (né Vladislavas Valteris Paulius Bučinskas/Bučinskis), was a Lipka Tatar from Druskininkai in southern Lithuania. Bronson's mother, Mary (née Valinsky), whose parents were from Lithuania, was born in Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, in the Anthracite Coal Region. Bronson said English was not spoken at home during his childhood, like many other first-generation American children he grew up with. He once recounted that even as a soldier, his accent was strong enough to make his comrades think he was a foreigner. Besides English, he could speak Lithuanian and Russian. Marriages His first marriage was to Harriet Tendler, whom he met when both were fledgling actors in Philadelphia. They had two children, Suzanne and Tony, before divorcing in 1965. Bronson died at age 81 on August 30, 2003, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Bronson was married to English actress Jill Ireland from October 5, 1968, until her death in 1990. Death Bronson died at age 81 on August 30, 2003, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Although pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease have been cited as his cause of death, neither appears on his death certificate, which cites "respiratory failure", "metastatic lung cancer", with, secondarily, "chronic obstructive pulmonary disease" and "congestive cardiomyopathy" as the causes of death. He was interred at Brownsville Cemetery in West Windsor, Vermont. CLR

Works

110 films

Once Upon a Time in the West

19688.3

The Magnificent Seven

19607.5

The Great Escape

19637.9

The Dirty Dozen

19677.6

Death Wish

19746.9

Red Sun

19716.8

Donato and Daughter

19935.7

Death Wish 3

19856.2

House of Wax

19536.9

Chato's Land

19726.5

Hard Times

19756.8

The Mechanic

19726.7

Death Wish II

19826.3

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

19875.7

Death Hunt

19816.7

Vera Cruz

19546.7

Cold Sweat

19705.7

Battle of the Bulge

19656.9

10 to Midnight

19836.2

Death Wish V: The Face of Death

19945.6

Breakheart Pass

19756.6

Farewell, Friend

19686.3

Mr. Majestyk

19746.8

The White Buffalo

19776.0

Jubal

19566.9

Never So Few

19595.5

Murphy's Law

19866.1

Breakdown: 1975

20256.8

Borderline

19806.1

4 for Texas

19635.1

Villa Rides

19686.3

The Valachi Papers

19726.5

Kid Galahad

19626.1

Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects

19895.4

Raid on Entebbe

19766.0

Breakout

19756.2

From Noon Till Three

19765.9

Apache

19546.0

This Property Is Condemned

19666.5

La Classe américaine

19937.6

Drum Beat

19546.1

All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra

19836.0

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

19876.0

The Evil That Men Do

19845.8

Rider on the Rain

19706.4

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

20147.2

Telefon

19776.6

St. Ives

19765.8

The Mob

19516.7

The Stone Killer

19736.3

Crime Wave

19537.1

You Can't Win 'Em All

19705.9

Night of 100 Stars II

19856.8

Messenger of Death

19886.0

The Valdez Horses

19735.6

The Sandpiper

19656.4

Love and Bullets

19795.9

Guns for San Sebastian

19677.0

Assassination

19875.7

Guns of Diablo

19645.3

Violent City

19706.0

Pat and Mike

19526.4

Riding Shotgun

19546.0

Diplomatic Courier

19526.2

The Indian Runner

19916.5

Machine-Gun Kelly

19586.0

A Thunder of Drums

19615.6

Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus

19917.3

Master of the World

19616.0

Run of the Arrow

19576.1

Someone Behind the Door

19715.5

Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II

19976.4

The People Against O'Hara

19515.8

Family of Cops

19956.4

Act of Vengeance

19865.7

The Sea Wolf

19936.2

Rat Pack

20229.0

The Meanest Men in the West

19784.4

Big House, U.S.A

19556.6

Miss Sadie Thompson

19535.4

Operation Dirty Dozen

20067.3

Caboblanco

19805.3

Sinatra: 80 Years My Way

1995

Elvis: A Life in Music

2026

You're in the Navy Now

19515.4

Twinky

19704.8

The Bull of the West

19725.7

Off Limits

19525.9

Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity

20207.5

All Star Party for Clint Eastwood

19866.0

The Clown

19535.6

The Marrying Kind

19526.7

Red Skies of Montana

19526.0

Bloodhounds of Broadway

19526.9

Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion

19996.7

Showdown at Boot Hill

19586.7

X-15

19615.8

The Big Sur

19657.3

My Six Convicts

19526.5

Torpedo Alley

195310.0

Battle Zone

19525.5

Valachi: The Violent Era

1972

When Hell Broke Loose

19585.4

Gang War

19586.3

Target Zero

19556.1

Spanish Western

20156.2

No Time at All

19588.0

Catastrophe: No Safe Place

19808.0

Tennessee Champ

19546.5

Mean Justice

19717.0