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Charles Bronson

Charles Bronson

Actor · 1921 – 2003 · 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

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  • Movie8.3

    C'era una volta il West

    Once Upon a Time in the West

    1968 · 5.1K votes

  • Movie7.5

    The Magnificent Seven

    1960 · 2.1K votes

  • Movie7.9

    The Great Escape

    1963 · 2.9K votes

  • Movie7.6

    The Dirty Dozen

    1967 · 1.4K votes

  • Movie6.9

    Death Wish

    1974 · 988 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Death Wish 3

    1985 · 499 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Soleil Rouge

    Red Sun

    1971 · 330 votes

  • Movie5.7
  • Movie6.2

    Death Wish II

    1982 · 553 votes

  • Movie6.2

    10 to Midnight

    1983 · 238 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Battle of the Bulge

    1965 · 291 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Chato's Land

    1972 · 172 votes

  • Movie6.9

    House of Wax

    1953 · 396 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Borderline

    1980 · 57 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Breakheart Pass

    1975 · 239 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Death Hunt

    1981 · 214 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Adieu l'ami

    Farewell, Friend

    1968 · 114 votes

  • Movie5.6
  • Movie6.9

    Jubal

    1956 · 93 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Red Skies of Montana

    1952 · 6 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Villa Rides

    1968 · 67 votes

  • Movie6.7

    The Mechanic

    1972 · 361 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Breakout

    1975 · 112 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Breakdown: 1975

    2025 · 33 votes

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  • TV7.0

    Golden Globe Awards

    1944 · 20 votes

  • TV7.5

    Bonanza

    1959 · 500 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Dick Cavett Show

    1968 · 22 votes

  • TV5.7

    Dr. Kildare

    1961 · 19 votes

  • TV7.3

    The Fugitive

    1963 · 63 votes

  • TV7.3

    Have Gun, Will Travel

    1957 · 44 votes

  • TV5.4

    Studio One

    1948 · 13 votes

  • TV8.5

    The Twilight Zone

    1959 · 1.1K votes

  • TV5.6

    The F.B.I.

    1965 · 25 votes

  • TV6.5

    The Virginian

    1962 · 35 votes

  • TV6.8

    Four Star Playhouse

    1952 · 11 votes

  • TV7.9

    Combat!

    1962 · 119 votes

  • TV5.7

    One Step Beyond

    1959 · 15 votes

  • TV7.8

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    1955 · 266 votes

  • TV6.2

    The Big Valley

    1965 · 59 votes

  • TV7.2

    Rawhide

    1959 · 49 votes

  • TV6.2

    Yancy Derringer

    1958 · 11 votes

  • TV6.7

    Gunsmoke

    1955 · 119 votes

  • TV6.1

    Adventures in Paradise

    1959 · 7 votes

  • TV5.8

    The Millionaire

    1955 · 4 votes

  • TV5.1

    Film '72

    1971 · 8 votes

  • TV7.2

    Tales of Wells Fargo

    1957 · 16 votes

  • TV5.1

    Sugarfoot

    1957 · 8 votes

  • TV5.4

    M Squad

    1957 · 7 votes