Charles Bronson

Acting · 3.0 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

House of Wax

19536.9

Donato and Daughter

19935.7

Red Sun

19716.8

Hard Times

19756.8

Death Wish II

19826.3

The Mechanic

19726.7

Chato's Land

19726.5

Death Wish 3

19856.2

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

19875.7

Death Hunt

19816.7

Death Wish V: The Face of Death

19945.6

Battle of the Bulge

19656.9

Cold Sweat

19705.7

Breakdown: 1975

20256.8

10 to Midnight

19836.2

Vera Cruz

19546.7

The White Buffalo

19776.0

Breakheart Pass

19756.6

Mr. Majestyk

19746.8

Never So Few

19595.5

Farewell, Friend

19686.3

Borderline

19806.1

Jubal

19566.9

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

19876.0

Breakout

19756.2

Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects

19895.4

Murphy's Law

19866.1

4 for Texas

19635.1

All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra

19836.0

Villa Rides

19686.3

Apache

19546.0

Kid Galahad

19626.1

St. Ives

19765.8

The Valachi Papers

19726.5

This Property Is Condemned

19666.5

The Mob

19516.7

The Evil That Men Do

19845.8

The Stone Killer

19736.3

Raid on Entebbe

19766.0

The Sandpiper

19656.4

Drum Beat

19546.1

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

20147.2

You Can't Win 'Em All

19705.9

Telefon

19776.6

Rider on the Rain

19706.4

Crime Wave

19537.1

From Noon Till Three

19765.9

Guns for San Sebastian

19677.0

Night of 100 Stars II

19856.8

Riding Shotgun

19546.0

A Thunder of Drums

19615.6

La Classe américaine

19937.6

The Valdez Horses

19735.6

Assassination

19875.7

Violent City

19706.0

Machine-Gun Kelly

19586.0

Diplomatic Courier

19526.2

Master of the World

19616.0

Messenger of Death

19886.0

Pat and Mike

19526.4

The Indian Runner

19916.5

Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus

19917.3

Someone Behind the Door

19715.5

The People Against O'Hara

19515.8

Act of Vengeance

19865.7

Family of Cops

19956.4

Love and Bullets

19795.9

Rat Pack

20229.0

Guns of Diablo

19645.3

The Meanest Men in the West

19784.4

The Sea Wolf

19936.2

Caboblanco

19805.3

Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II

19976.4

Miss Sadie Thompson

19535.4

The Bull of the West

19725.7

Off Limits

19525.9

All Star Party for Clint Eastwood

19866.0

The Big Sur

19657.3

You're in the Navy Now

19515.4

Operation Dirty Dozen

20067.3

Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity

20207.5

Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion

19996.7

Run of the Arrow

19576.1

Elvis: A Life in Music

2026

Twinky

19704.8

Big House, U.S.A

19556.6

When Hell Broke Loose

19585.4

Red Skies of Montana

19526.0

Bloodhounds of Broadway

19526.9

Sinatra: 80 Years My Way

1995

The Marrying Kind

19526.7

Torpedo Alley

195310.0

The Clown

19535.6

Showdown at Boot Hill

19586.7

X-15

19615.8

No Time at All

19588.0

Valachi: The Violent Era

1972

Target Zero

19556.1

Spanish Western

20156.2

Battle Zone

19525.5

My Six Convicts

19526.5

Tennessee Champ

19546.5

Gang War

19586.3

Catastrophe: No Safe Place

19808.0

Mean Justice

19717.0