Acting
Charles Bronson
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
Filmography
Breakdown: 1975
Film · 2025
Rat Pack
Film · 2022
Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity
Film · 2020
Spanish Western
Film · 2015
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Film · 2014
Operation Dirty Dozen
Film · 2006
Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion
Film · 1999
Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II
Film · 1997
Family of Cops
Film · 1995
Sinatra: 80 Years My Way
Film · 1995
Death Wish V: The Face of Death
Film · 1994
Donato and Daughter
Film · 1993
The Sea Wolf
Film · 1993
La Classe américaine
Film · 1993
The Indian Runner
Film · 1991
Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
Film · 1991
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
Film · 1989
Messenger of Death
Film · 1988
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
Film · 1987
Assassination
Film · 1987
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Film · 1987
Murphy's Law
Film · 1986
Act of Vengeance
Film · 1986
All Star Party for Clint Eastwood
Film · 1986
Death Wish 3
Film · 1985
Night of 100 Stars II
Film · 1985
The Evil That Men Do
Film · 1984
10 to Midnight
Film · 1983
All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra
Film · 1983
Death Wish II
Film · 1982
Death Hunt
Film · 1981
Caboblanco
Film · 1980
Borderline
Film · 1980
Catastrophe: No Safe Place
Film · 1980
Love and Bullets
Film · 1979
The Meanest Men in the West
Film · 1978
Telefon
Film · 1977
The White Buffalo
Film · 1977
From Noon Till Three
Film · 1976
Raid on Entebbe
Film · 1976
St. Ives
Film · 1976
Hard Times
Film · 1975
Breakheart Pass
Film · 1975
Breakout
Film · 1975
Mr. Majestyk
Film · 1974
Death Wish
Film · 1974
The Stone Killer
Film · 1973
The Valdez Horses
Film · 1973
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Series · 1973
The Valachi Papers
Film · 1972
Chato's Land
Film · 1972
The Bull of the West
Film · 1972
The Mechanic
Film · 1972
Valachi: The Violent Era
Film · 1972
Someone Behind the Door
Film · 1971
Red Sun
Film · 1971
Mean Justice
Film · 1971
V.I.P. Schaukel
Series · 1971
Film '72
Series · 1971
Violent City
Film · 1970
Rider on the Rain
Film · 1970
Cold Sweat
Film · 1970
Twinky
Film · 1970
You Can't Win 'Em All
Film · 1970
Farewell, Friend
Film · 1968
Villa Rides
Film · 1968
Once Upon a Time in the West
Film · 1968
The Dick Cavett Show
Series · 1968
The Dirty Dozen
Film · 1967
Guns for San Sebastian
Film · 1967
This Property Is Condemned
Film · 1966
Battle of the Bulge
Film · 1965
The Sandpiper
Film · 1965
The Big Sur
Film · 1965
The F.B.I.
Series · 1965
The Big Valley
Series · 1965
The Legend of Jesse James
Series · 1965
Guns of Diablo
Film · 1964
The Great Escape
Film · 1963
4 for Texas
Film · 1963
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
Series · 1963
The Fugitive
Series · 1963
Vacation Playhouse
Series · 1963
Kid Galahad
Film · 1962
Combat!
Series · 1962
The Virginian
Series · 1962
The Virginian
Series · 1962
Empire
Series · 1962
Empire
Series · 1962
Empire
Series · 1962
X-15
Film · 1961
Master of the World
Film · 1961
A Thunder of Drums
Film · 1961
Cain's Hundred
Series · 1961
The New Breed
Series · 1961
Dr. Kildare
Series · 1961
The Magnificent Seven
Film · 1960
The Islanders
Series · 1960
The Aquanauts
Series · 1960
Never So Few
Film · 1959
The Twilight Zone
Series · 1959
Rawhide
Series · 1959
One Step Beyond
Series · 1959
Adventures in Paradise
Series · 1959
Riverboat
Series · 1959
Bonanza
Series · 1959
Machine-Gun Kelly
Film · 1958
Showdown at Boot Hill
Film · 1958
Gang War
Film · 1958
When Hell Broke Loose
Film · 1958
No Time at All
Film · 1958
Man with a Camera
Series · 1958
Yancy Derringer
Series · 1958
U.S. Marshall
Series · 1958
Run of the Arrow
Film · 1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
Series · 1957
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Series · 1957
M Squad
Series · 1957
Sugarfoot
Series · 1957
Sugarfoot
Series · 1957
The Walter Winchell File
Series · 1957
Colt .45
Series · 1957
Tales of Wells Fargo
Series · 1957
Suspicion
Series · 1957
Jubal
Film · 1956
Wire Service
Series · 1956
Hey, Jeannie!
Series · 1956
Telephone Time
Series · 1956
Playhouse 90
Series · 1956
Playhouse 90
Series · 1956
Playhouse 90
Series · 1956
Big House, U.S.A
Film · 1955
Target Zero
Film · 1955
Gunsmoke
Series · 1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Series · 1955
The Millionaire
Series · 1955
Gunsmoke
Series · 1955
Those Whiting Girls
Series · 1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Series · 1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Series · 1955
Crusader
Series · 1955
Vera Cruz
Film · 1954
Apache
Film · 1954
Drum Beat
Film · 1954
Riding Shotgun
Film · 1954
Tennessee Champ
Film · 1954
Medic
Series · 1954
The Joe Palooka Story
Series · 1954
Studio 57
Series · 1954
Miss Sadie Thompson
Film · 1953
House of Wax
Film · 1953
Crime Wave
Film · 1953
Torpedo Alley
Film · 1953
The Clown
Film · 1953
General Electric Theater
Series · 1953
Letter to Loretta
Series · 1953
General Electric Theater
Series · 1953
General Electric Theater
Series · 1953
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
Series · 1953
Diplomatic Courier
Film · 1952
Pat and Mike
Film · 1952
My Six Convicts
Film · 1952
Off Limits
Film · 1952
Bloodhounds of Broadway
Film · 1952
Battle Zone
Film · 1952
Red Skies of Montana
Film · 1952
The Marrying Kind
Film · 1952
Cavalcade of America
Series · 1952
Biff Baker U.S.A.
Series · 1952
Biff Baker U.S.A.
Series · 1952
Four Star Playhouse
Series · 1952
Chevron Theatre
Series · 1952
The People Against O'Hara
Film · 1951
You're in the Navy Now
Film · 1951
The Mob
Film · 1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Series · 1951
Lux Video Theatre
Series · 1950
Treasury Men in Action
Series · 1950
Studio One
Series · 1948
Golden Globe Awards
Series · 1944
After Death
Film
Stage 7
Series
Stage 7
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