Charles Bronson
Acting
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
Death Wish V: The Face of Death
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Age 72 (now 81)
Breakdown: 1975
as Self - Actor in Death Wish (archive footage)
Age 104 (now 81)
Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity
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Age 99 (now 81)
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
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Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion
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Age 77 (now 81)
Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II
as Commissioner Paul Fein
Age 75 (now 81)
Sinatra: 80 Years My Way
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
Age 74 (now 81)
Death Wish V: The Face of Death
as Paul Kersey
Age 72 (now 81)
Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
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Age 70 (now 81)
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
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Age 67 (now 81)
All Star Party for Clint Eastwood
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The Meanest Men in the West
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Age 56 (now 81)
Bloodhounds of Broadway
as Phil Green, aka 'Pittsburgh Philo' (uncredited)
Age 31 (now 81)
The People Against O'Hara
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Age 29 (now 81)
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
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Age 51 (now 81)
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
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Richard Diamond, Private Detective
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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
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Also Known As
Charles Dennis Buchinsky, Le Sacre Monstre, Karolis Bučinskis, Karolis Dionyzas Bučinskis, چارلز برانسون
IMDB
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