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Charles Bronson
Birthday: November 3, 1921

Birth Place: Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, USA
Height: 5' 7"

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Biography

The son of a Lithuanian coal miner, American actor Charles Bronson claimed to have spoken no English at home during his childhood in Pennsylvania. Though he managed to complete high school, it was expected that Bronson would go into the mines like his father and many brothers. Experiencing the world outside Pennsylvania during World War II service, however, Bronson came back to America determined to pursue an art career. While working as a set designer for a Philadelphia theater troupe, Bronson played a few small roles and almost immediately switched his allegiance from the production end of theater to acting. After a few scattered acting jobs in New York, Bronson enrolled in the Pasadena Playhouse in 1949. By 1951, he was in films, playing uncredited bits in such pictures as The People Against O'Hara (1951); You're in the Navy Now (1952), which also featured a young bit actor named Lee Marvin; Diplomatic Courier (1952); Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952), as a waiter(!); and The Clown (1953). When he finally achieved billing, it was under his own name, Charles Buchinsky (sometimes spelled Buchinski). His first role of importance was as Igor, the mute granite-faced henchman of deranged sculptor Vincent Price in House of Wax (1953). The actor was billed as Charles Bronson for the first time in Drum Beat (1954), although he was still consigned to character roles as Slavs, American Indians, hoodlums, and convicts. Most sources claim that Bronson's first starring role was in Machine Gun Kelly (1958), but, in fact, he had the lead in 1958's Gang War, playing an embryonic version of his later Death Wish persona as a mild-mannered man who turned vengeful after the death of his wife. Bronson achieved his first fan following with the TV series Man With a Camera (1959), in which he played adventurous photojournalist Mike Kovac (and did double duty promoting the sponsor's camera products in the commercials). His best film role up until 1960 was as one of The Magnificent Seven (1960), dominating several scenes despite the co-star competition of Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, and others. Most of Bronson's film roles after Seven remained in the "supporting-villainy category," however, so, in 1968, the actor packed himself off to Europe, where American action players like Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef were given bigger and better opportunities. Multiplying his international box-office appeal tenfold with such films as Guns for San Sebastian (1967), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), Cold Sweat (1970), and The Valachi Papers (1971), Bronson returned to Hollywood a full-fledged star at last. His most successful films of the 1970s were Death Wish (1974) and its sequels, a series of brutal "vigilante" pictures which suggested not so subliminally that honest people would ultimately have to dole out their own terminal justice to criminals. In many of his '70s films, Bronson co-starred with second wife Jill Ireland, with whom he remained married until she lost her fight against cancer in 1990. Bronson's bankability subsequently fell off, due in part to younger action stars doing what he used to do twice as vigorously, and because of his truculent attitude toward fans. He did little but television work after 1991's The Indian Runner (Sean Penn's directorial debut), with Death Wish 5: The Face of Death (1994) his only feature since. Bronson's onscreen career would soon draw to a close with his role as law enforcing family patriarch Paul Fein in the made-for-cable Family of Cops series.On August 30, 2003 Charles Bronson died of pneumonia in Los Angeles. He was 81.

Movie Credits
Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion (1999)
[ Joe Penny ]
Breach of Faith: Family of Cops II (1997)
[ Joe Penny ]
Family of Cops (1995)
[ Daniel Baldwin ][ John Vernon ]
Death Wish V: The Face of Death (1994)
[ Saul Rubinek ][ Miguel Sandoval ][ Robert Joy ]
Donato and Daughter (1993)
[ Xander Berkeley ][ Gregory Itzin ]
The Sea Wolf (1993)
[ Christopher Reeve ][ Ken Kirzinger ]
Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (1991)
The Indian Runner (1991)
[ Viggo Mortensen ][ Benicio Del Toro ][ Dennis Hopper ][ David Morse ][ Corey Michael Eubanks ]
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989)
[ Danny Trejo ][ Bill McKinney ]
Messenger of Death (1988)
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)
[ Danny Trejo ][ Mitch Pileggi ][ Tim Russ ]
Assassination (1987)
[ Peter Lupus ][ Frank Zagarino ]
Act of Vengeance (1986)
[ Keanu Reeves ][ Wilford Brimley ]
Murphy's Law (1986)
[ Lawrence Tierney ]
Death Wish 3 (1985)
[ Alex Winter ][ Martin Balsam ]
The Evil That Men Do (1984)
[ John Glover ]
10 to Midnight (1983)
[ Wilford Brimley ][ Geoffrey Lewis ]
Death Wish II (1982)
[ Laurence Fishburne ]
Death Hunt (1981)
[ Lee Marvin ][ Carl Weathers ][ William Sanderson ]
Borderline (1980)
[ Ed Harris ][ Wilford Brimley ][ Bruno Kirby ][ John Ashton ][ Michael Lerner ]
Caboblanco (1980)
[ Jason Robards ][ Irving Berlin ]
Love and Bullets (1979)
[ Rod Steiger ][ Strother Martin ]
Telefon (1977)
[ Donald Pleasence ][ Tyne Daly ]
The White Buffalo (1977)
[ Jack Warden ][ Slim Pickens ][ Martin Kove ]
Raid on Entebbe (1977)
[ James Woods ][ Robert Loggia ][ Jack Warden ][ Yaphet Kotto ][ John Saxon ]
From Noon Till Three (1976)
St. Ives (1976)
[ Jeff Goldblum ][ Robert Englund ][ Maximilian Schell ][ Harris Yulin ][ Dana Elcar ]
Breakheart Pass (1975)
[ Charles Durning ][ Richard Crenna ][ Ben Johnson ][ Bill McKinney ]
Hard Times (1975)
[ Brion James ][ Strother Martin ][ Bruce Glover ]
Breakout (1975)
[ Robert Duvall ][ Randy Quaid ][ John Huston ][ Alan Vint ]
Mr. Majestyk (1974)
Death Wish (1974)
[ Jeff Goldblum ][ Christopher Guest ][ Paul Dooley ]
Valdez, il mezzosangue (1973)
The Stone Killer (1973)
[ John Ritter ][ Martin Balsam ][ Norman Fell ]
The Mechanic (1972)
[ Jan-Michael Vincent ][ Keenan Wynn ]
Chato's Land (1972)
[ Jack Palance ][ Richard Jordan ][ James Whitmore ]
The Valachi Papers (1972)
Quelqu'un derrière la porte (1971)
[ Anthony Perkins ]
Soleil rouge (1971)
[ Alain Delon ][ Toshirô Mifune ]
The Bull of the West (1971)
[ George Kennedy ][ Brian Keith ][ DeForest Kelley ][ Ben Johnson ][ Lee J. Cobb ]
De la part des copains (1970)
[ James Mason ]
Città violenta (1970)
[ Telly Savalas ]
You Can't Win 'Em All (1970)
[ Tony Curtis ]
Passager de la pluie, Le (1969)
Twinky (1969)
Villa Rides (1968)
[ Yul Brynner ][ Robert Mitchum ][ Sam Peckinpah ][ Herbert Lom ][ Frank Wolff ]
Bataille de San Sebastian, La (1968)
[ Anthony Quinn ]
C'era una volta il West (1968)
[ Henry Fonda ][ Jason Robards ][ Dario Argento ][ Jack Elam ][ Keenan Wynn ]
Adieu l'ami (1968)
[ Alain Delon ]
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
[ Donald Sutherland ][ Ernest Borgnine ][ Lee Marvin ][ John Cassavetes ][ Telly Savalas ]
This Property Is Condemned (1966)
[ Robert Redford ][ Robert Blake ][ Dabney Coleman ]
Nobility of Kings (1965)
[ George Kennedy ]
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
[ Henry Fonda ][ Robert Shaw ][ Telly Savalas ][ Dana Andrews ][ Robert Ryan ]
Luke and the Tenderfoot (1965)
[ Michael Landon ]
The Sandpiper (1965)
[ Peter O'Toole ][ Richard Burton ][ Robert Urich ]
Guns of Diablo (1964)
[ Kurt Russell ][ John Fiedler ]
4 for Texas (1963)
[ Dean Martin ][ Yaphet Kotto ][ Jack Elam ]
The Great Escape (1963)
[ Steve McQueen ][ James Garner ][ Richard Attenborough ][ Donald Pleasence ]
This Rugged Land (1962)
[ Ryan O'Neal ][ Richard Egan ]
Kid Galahad (1962)
[ Elvis Presley ]
X-15 (1961)
[ James Stewart ]
A Thunder of Drums (1961)
[ Richard Chamberlain ][ Slim Pickens ][ George Hamilton ]
Master of the World (1961)
[ Vincent Price ]
Ben Jalisco (1961)
A Proof of Love (1961)
[ George Kennedy ]
Hennesey à La Gunn (1960)
Street of Hate (1960)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
[ Steve McQueen ][ Yul Brynner ][ Eli Wallach ][ Robert Vaughn ]
The Rank and the File (1959)
Pursuit (1959)
Never So Few (1959)
[ Steve McQueen ][ George Takei ]
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958)
When Hell Broke Loose (1958)
Gang War (1958)
Machine-Gun Kelly (1958)
Man Wanted (1958)
Ten North Frederick (1958)
[ Gary Cooper ]
Showdown at Boot Hill (1958)
No Time at All (1958)
[ Buster Keaton ]
The Outlaw (1957)
Run of the Arrow (1957)
[ Rod Steiger ][ Brian Keith ]
Explosion (1956)
The Honest Man (1956)
Jubal (1956)
[ Ernest Borgnine ][ Glenn Ford ][ Rod Steiger ][ Jack Elam ]
Have Camera Will Travel (1956)
[ Mike Connors ]
There Was an Old Woman (1956)
[ Dabbs Greer ]
And So Died Riabouchinska (1956)
[ Claude Rains ]
The Killer (1956)
Big House, U.S.A. (1955)
[ Lon Chaney Jr. ]
Prosper's Old Mother (1955)
The Boxing Match (1955)
Target Zero (1955)
[ Chuck Connors ][ Strother Martin ]
The Case of the Deadly Dilemma (1955)
Debt of Honor (1955)
Vera Cruz (1954)
[ Burt Lancaster ][ Ernest Borgnine ][ Gary Cooper ][ Jack Elam ][ Cesar Romero ]
Drum Beat (1954)
[ Alan Ladd ][ Strother Martin ]
Apache (1954)
[ Burt Lancaster ]
Riding Shotgun (1954)
[ Randolph Scott ]
Tennessee Champ (1954)
[ Keenan Wynn ]
Crime Wave (1954)
[ Sterling Hayden ]
My Brother Joe (1954)
The Case of the Escaped Convict (1954)
Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)
[ Aldo Ray ]
House of Wax (1953)
[ Vincent Price ][ Dabbs Greer ]
Off Limits (1953)
[ Mickey Rooney ][ Bob Hope ]
Torpedo Alley (1953)
The Clown (1953)
[ Billy Barty ]
Pat and Mike (1952)
[ Katharine Hepburn ][ Spencer Tracy ][ Chuck Connors ][ Aldo Ray ]
My Six Convicts (1952)
[ Harry Morgan ]
The Marrying Kind (1952)
[ Aldo Ray ]
Red Skies of Montana (1952)
[ Richard Widmark ][ Richard Crenna ][ Jeffrey Hunter ]
The Guest (1952)
Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952)
Battle Zone (1952)
Diplomatic Courier (1952)
[ Lee Marvin ][ Karl Malden ][ Tyrone Power ][ Dabbs Greer ]
The Mob (1951)
[ Ernest Borgnine ]
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
[ Spencer Tracy ][ James Arness ][ Strother Martin ]
You're in the Navy Now (1951)
[ Lee Marvin ][ Gary Cooper ][ Jack Warden ][ Edward Albert ][ Eddie Albert ]

Trivia

  • Shared a room with Jack Klugman in a New York boarding house in the 1940s.
  • He had two children with his first wife, Tony and Suzanne. He then married Jill Ireland, who had two sons with her first husband, David McCallum. One adopted son (Jason) died in 1989. He and Ireland had a daughter named Zuleika.
  • Perhaps the biggest late bloomer in Hollywood history, he did not get the marquee treatment he deserved until his late 40s. He was already 53 when Death Wish (1974) premiered.
  • The name Bronson is said to taken from the "Bronson Gate" at Paramount Studios, at the north end of Bronson Avenue.
  • Spoofed in an episode of "The Simpsons" (1989) in which the Simpson family mistakenly travels to Bronson, Missouri, instead of Branson. In Bronson, such lines of dialogue as these are spoken by its citizens: "No dice.", "This ain't ovah."
  • Changed his stage name in the early 1950s in the midst of the McCarthy "Red Scare" at the suggestion of his agent, who was fearful that his last name (Buchinsky) would damage his career.
  • Actor Dick Van Dyke received a lemon cake every Christmas from Bronson, who lived nearby in Malibu for 16 years
  • In 1949 he moved to California, where he signed up for acting lessons at the Pasadena Playhouse
  • In 1954 on the Mexican set of the Vera Cruz (1954), he and fellow cast member Ernest Borgnine had some spare time on their hands and decided to go to a nearby town for cigarettes. They saddled up in costume, sidearms and all, and began riding to town. On the way they were spotted by a truck full of Mexican "federales"--national police--who mistook them for bandits and held them at gunpoint until their identities could be verified.
  • Was drafted into the army 1943 and placed in the Army Air Corps. At first given duties as a truck driver, he was later trained as a tail-gunner and assigned to a B-29 bomber. He flew on 25 missions and received, among other decorations, a Purple Heart for wounds incurred in battle.
  • "I am not a Casper Milquetoast," Bronson told The Washington Post in 1985, recalling the time he was visiting Rome and felt someone stick a gun in his side. "A guy in broken English asked me for money. I said, 'You give ME money.' He turned around and walked away."
  • Director John Huston once summed him up as "a grenade with the pin pulled"
  • Was by all accounts a very quiet and introspective collaborator, often sitting in a corner for much of a shoot and listening to a director's instructions and not saying a word until cameras were rolling.
  • Was the first actor considered for the role of Snake Plissken in Escape from New York (1981)
  • He grew privately frustrated by the declining quality and range of his roles over his career, as he became pigeonholed as a violent vigilante after the commercial success of Death Wish (1974). His own favorite of his "vigilante" movies was C'era una volta il West (1968) (aka Once Uupon a Time in the West).
  • In 1963 Sergio Leone asked him to star in his western Per un pugno di dollari (1964)(A Fistful of Dollars),he turned the role down, so Leone asked Clint Eastwood.
  • His father died when he was 10, and at 16 he followed his brothers into the mines to support the family. He was paid per ton of coal and volunteered for perilous jobs because the pay was better.
  • Responding to critics' complaints, he said: "We don't make movies for critics, since they don't pay to see them anyhow."
  • Called West Windsor, Vermont his home for more than three decades (Bronson Farm), and was buried in nearby Brownsville Cemetery, near the foot of Mt. Ascutney.
  • Appeared with Steve McQueen and James Coburn in two films, both of which were directed by John Sturges: The Magnificent Seven (1960) and The Great Escape (1963).
  • He grew up with his Lithuanian family in a Western Pennsylvania coal-mining town. Like all the men in his family, Charles worked in the mines, but deeply hated the work and used a variety of means to escape from that background (including the military and, eventually, acting). However, his expertise with tunneling and working underground turned out to be quite helpful when making 'The Great Escape' (1963) in the role of 'The Tunnel King' Velinski.
  • With his death on August 30, 2003, Robert Vaughn is the only one of the seven main stars of the The Magnificent Seven (1960) who is still alive as of November 2005.
  • His stepson, Jason McCallum Bronson, the adoptive son of David McCallum and Jill Ireland, died of an accidental drug overdose in 1989.
  • Was introduced to his second wife, Jill Ireland, by her then-husband David McCallum during the filming of The Great Escape (1963).
  • Spoke fluent Russian, Lithuanian and Greek.
  • Owned homes in Europe, including Lithuania and Greece.
  • Had hip replacement surgery in August 1998.
  • Diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2000 after suffering ill health for the past two years.
  • The voice of the sarcastic store clerk in "The Simpsons" (1989) is based on him.
  • Sergio Leone once called him "the greatest actor I ever worked with". Leone had wanted Bronson for all three of what became known as the "Man with No Name" trilogy, but Bronson turned him down each time.
  • The term "Charles Bronson" is frequently uttered in Reservoir Dogs (1992) in reference to a hard-man.
  • He was very active in raising funds for the John Wayne Cancer Institute.
  • In the latter part of his career, he worked predominantly with Guns of Navarone director J. Lee Thompson. They made nine films together in just over a decade between 1977 and 1989. These included 10 to Midnight (1983), Caboblanco (1980), Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987), The Evil That Men Do (1984), Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989), Messenger of Death (1988), Murphy's Law (1986), St. Ives (1976) and The White Buffalo (1977).

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