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
Elvis: A Life in Music
Self (archive footage)
Breakdown: 1975
Self - Actor in Death Wish (archive footage)
Rat Pack
Self (archive footage)
Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity
Self (archive footage)
Spanish Western
Self (archive footage)
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Operation Dirty Dozen
Self
Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion
Paul Fein
Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II
Commissioner Paul Fein
Sinatra: 80 Years My Way
Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
Family of Cops
Paul Fein
Death Wish V: The Face of Death
Paul Kersey
La Classe américaine
The Indian (archive footage)
Donato and Daughter
Sgt. Mike Donato
The Sea Wolf
Capt. Wolf Larsen
Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
Francis Church
The Indian Runner
Mr. Roberts
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
Lieutenant Crowe
Messenger of Death
Garret Smith
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
Paul Kersey
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Self
Assassination
Jay Killion
All Star Party for Clint Eastwood
Self
Act of Vengeance
Joseph 'Jock' Yablonski
Murphy's Law
Jack Murphy
Death Wish 3
Paul Kersey
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
The Evil That Men Do
Holland
All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra
Self
10 to Midnight
Leo Kessler
Death Wish II
Paul Kersey
Death Hunt
Albert Johnson
Borderline
Jeb Maynard
Catastrophe: No Safe Place
Self - Host
Caboblanco
Gifford Hoyt
Love and Bullets
Charlie Congers
The Meanest Men in the West
Harge Talbot Jr.
Telefon
Major Grigori Borzov
The White Buffalo
Wild Bill Hickok/James Otis
Raid on Entebbe
Brig. Gen. Dan Shomron
From Noon Till Three
Graham Dorsey
St. Ives
Raymond St. Ives
Breakheart Pass
John Deakin
Hard Times
Chaney
Breakout
Nick Colton
Death Wish
Paul Kersey
Mr. Majestyk
Vince Majestyk
The Valdez Horses
Chino Valdez
The Stone Killer
Lou Torrey
The Mechanic
Arthur Bishop
Chato's Land
Pardon Chato
The Bull of the West
Ben Justin
The Valachi Papers
Joe Valachi
Valachi: The Violent Era
Self
Red Sun
Link
Someone Behind the Door
The Stranger
Mean Justice
Moreno
Cold Sweat
Joe Martin
Violent City
Jeff Heston
You Can't Win 'Em All
Josh Corey
Rider on the Rain
Col. Harry Dobbs
Twinky
Scott Wardman
Once Upon a Time in the West
'Harmonica'
Farewell, Friend
Franz Propp
Villa Rides
Rodolfo Fierro
The Dirty Dozen
Joseph Wladislaw
Guns for San Sebastian
Teclo
This Property Is Condemned
J.J. Nichols
Battle of the Bulge
Maj. Wolenski
The Sandpiper
Cos Erickson
The Big Sur
Self (uncredited)
Guns of Diablo
Linc Murdock
4 for Texas
Matson
The Great Escape
Danny 'Tunnel King'
Kid Galahad
Lew Nyack
X-15
Lt. Col. Lee Brandon
A Thunder of Drums
Trooper Hanna
Master of the World
John Strock
The Magnificent Seven
Bernardo O'Reilly
Never So Few
Sgt. John Danforth
When Hell Broke Loose
Steve Boland
Gang War
Alan Avery
Showdown at Boot Hill
Luke Welsh
Machine-Gun Kelly
George R. 'Machine Gun' Kelly
No Time at All
Wolf Hagan
Run of the Arrow
Blue Buffolo
Jubal
Reb
Target Zero
Sgt. Vince Gaspari
Big House, U.S.A
Benny Kelly
Vera Cruz
Pittsburgh
Drum Beat
Kintpuash
Apache
Hondo
Riding Shotgun
Pinto
Tennessee Champ
Sixty Jubel
Torpedo Alley
Submariner
Miss Sadie Thompson
Pvt. Edwards
Crime Wave
Ben Hastings
House of Wax
Igor
The Clown
Gambler (uncredited)
Off Limits
Russell (Uncredited)
Bloodhounds of Broadway
Phil Green, aka 'Pittsburgh Philo' (uncredited)
Battle Zone
Marine Private (uncredited)
Pat and Mike
Henry 'Hank' Tasling
Diplomatic Courier
Russian Agent (uncredited)
My Six Convicts
Jocko
The Marrying Kind
Eddie
Red Skies of Montana
Neff (uncredited)
The Mob
Jack (uncredited)
The People Against O'Hara
Angelo Korvac (uncredited)
You're in the Navy Now
Wascylewski