
Charles Bronson
Born November 3, 1921 · Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, USA
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
Notable Appearances
Movies

Once Upon a Time in the West

The Great Escape

The Magnificent Seven

The Dirty Dozen

Death Wish

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

House of Wax

The Mechanic

Death Wish 3

Death Wish II

Battle of the Bulge

Red Sun

Death Wish V: The Face of Death

10 to Midnight

Hard Times

You Can't Win 'Em All

Never So Few

From Noon Till Three

Death Hunt

Kid Galahad

This Property Is Condemned

Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects

Breakheart Pass

Mr. Majestyk

The Indian Runner

Chato's Land

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

The White Buffalo

Borderline

The Sandpiper

Breakout

Night of 100 Stars II

Cold Sweat

Vera Cruz

A Thunder of Drums

Sinatra: 80 Years My Way

Murphy's Law

Guns for San Sebastian

Breakdown: 1975

Assassination

The Stone Killer

The Evil That Men Do

Run of the Arrow

Act of Vengeance

Villa Rides
TV Shows

Have Gun, Will Travel

Dr. Kildare

The F.B.I.

The Twilight Zone

Four Star Playhouse

The Virginian

Studio One

The Big Valley

Rawhide

Combat!

Gunsmoke

One Step Beyond

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Adventures in Paradise

Sugarfoot

Tales of Wells Fargo

M Squad

The Millionaire

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

Playhouse 90

Studio 57

Telephone Time

Yancy Derringer

Riverboat

Cain's Hundred

Cavalcade of America

The New Breed

Suspicion

The Legend of Jesse James

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

The Aquanauts

Letter to Loretta

The Walter Winchell File

Man with a Camera

Wire Service

Treasury Men in Action

The Islanders

Hey, Jeannie!

The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters

Biff Baker U.S.A.

Medic

General Electric Theater

Colt .45

U.S. Marshall

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
More Movies

Telefon

Rider on the Rain

Drum Beat

Jubal

Farewell, Friend

The Valachi Papers

Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II

Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion

Raid on Entebbe

Rat Pack

Crime Wave

The Sea Wolf

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

Apache

The People Against O'Hara

Messenger of Death

Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus

Master of the World

Machine-Gun Kelly

4 for Texas

The Meanest Men in the West

Donato and Daughter

Guns of Diablo

You're in the Navy Now

The Bull of the West

Someone Behind the Door

Pat and Mike

Love and Bullets

Red Skies of Montana

La Classe américaine

Family of Cops

Violent City

Riding Shotgun

Caboblanco

All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra

No Time at All

Big House, U.S.A

St. Ives

The Valdez Horses

The Mob

Twinky

Miss Sadie Thompson

Spanish Western

Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity

When Hell Broke Loose

Diplomatic Courier

Off Limits

Showdown at Boot Hill

X-15

My Six Convicts

Tennessee Champ

Bloodhounds of Broadway

The Marrying Kind

Torpedo Alley

The Clown

Target Zero

Operation Dirty Dozen

The Big Sur

Catastrophe: No Safe Place

Mean Justice

Battle Zone

Gang War

Valachi: The Violent Era




