Charles Bronson

Known for ActingBorn 1921-11-03Died 2003-08-30Ehrenfeld, 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. CLRRead more

Movies & web series

Torpedo Alley

Rat Pack

Wire Service

The Twilight Zone

The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse

Once Upon a Time in the West

Night of 100 Stars II

Catastrophe: No Safe Place

Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity

Vacation Playhouse

The Islanders

No Time at All

Studio 57

The Great Escape

La Classe américaine

Chevron Theatre

Combat!

Operation Dirty Dozen

V.I.P. Schaukel

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

The Big Sur

U.S. Marshall

The New Breed

Biff Baker U.S.A.

The Dirty Dozen

Playhouse 90

Bonanza

The Magnificent Seven

The Walter Winchell File

Breakdown: 1975

The Fugitive

Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus

Have Gun, Will Travel

Rawhide

Mean Justice

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion

Guns for San Sebastian

Tales of Wells Fargo

Death Wish

Golden Globe Awards

Empire

Crime Wave

Hard Times

Battle of the Bulge

Those Whiting Girls

Mr. Majestyk