Charles Bronson
Birthday: 1921-11-03
Deathday: 2003-08-30
Birthplace: Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, USA
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned
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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
Credits
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1999-01-12 | Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion | Paul Fein |
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1997-02-02 | Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II | Commissioner Paul Fein |
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1995-11-26 | Family of Cops | Paul Fein |
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1994-01-14 | Death Wish V: The Face of Death | Paul Kersey |
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1993-09-21 | Donato and Daughter | Sgt. Mike Donato |
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1993-04-18 | The Sea Wolf | Capt. Wolf Larsen |
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1991-12-08 | Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus | Francis Church |
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1991-09-20 | The Indian Runner | Mr. Roberts |
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1989-02-03 | Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects | Lieutenant Crowe |
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1988-09-16 | Messenger of Death | Garret Smith |
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1987-06-11 | Death Wish 4: The Crackdown | Paul Kersey |
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1987-01-09 | Assassination | Jay Killion |
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1986-09-04 | Act of Vengeance | Joseph 'Jock' Yablonski |
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1986-04-18 | Murphy's Law | Jack Murphy |
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1985-11-01 | Death Wish 3 | Paul Kersey |
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1984-03-14 | The Evil That Men Do | Holland |
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1983-03-11 | 10 to Midnight | Leo Kessler |
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1982-02-20 | Death Wish II | Paul Kersey |
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1981-04-15 | Death Hunt | Albert Johnson |
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1980-12-19 | Borderline | Jeb Maynard |
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1980-01-23 | Caboblanco | Gifford Hoyt |
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1979-04-05 | Love and Bullets | Charlie Congers |
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1978-05-04 | The Meanest Men in the West | Harge Talbot Jr. |
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1977-12-16 | Telefon | Major Grigori Borzov |
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1977-05-01 | The White Buffalo | Wild Bill Hickok/James Otis |
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1976-12-26 | Raid on Entebbe | Brig. Gen. Dan Shomron |
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1976-08-01 | From Noon Till Three | Graham Dorsey |
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1976-02-24 | St. Ives | Raymond St. Ives |
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1975-12-09 | Breakheart Pass | John Deakin |
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1975-08-13 | Hard Times | Chaney |
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1975-05-01 | Breakout | Nick Colton |
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1974-07-24 | Death Wish | Paul Kersey |
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1974-07-17 | Mr. Majestyk | Vince Majestyk |
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1973-09-14 | The Valdez Horses | Chino Valdez |
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1973-08-08 | The Stone Killer | Lou Torrey |
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1972-10-06 | The Mechanic | Arthur Bishop |
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1972-05-25 | Chato's Land | Pardon Chato |
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1972-05-04 | The Bull of the West | Ben Justin |
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1972-01-06 | The Valachi Papers | Joe Valachi |
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1971-09-15 | Red Sun | Link |
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1971-07-28 | Someone Behind the Door | The Stranger |
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1971-02-08 | Mean Justice | Moreno |
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1970-12-18 | Cold Sweat | Joe Martin |
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1970-09-17 | Violent City | Jeff Heston |
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1970-07-23 | You Can't Win 'Em All | Josh Corey |
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1970-01-21 | Rider on the Rain | Col. Harry Dobbs |
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1970-01-06 | Twinky | Scott Wardman |
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1968-12-21 | Once Upon a Time in the West | 'Harmonica' |
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1968-08-14 | Farewell, Friend | Franz Propp |
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1968-05-29 | Villa Rides | Rodolfo Fierro |
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1967-06-15 | The Dirty Dozen | Joseph Wladislaw |
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1967-04-26 | Guns for San Sebastian | Teclo |
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1966-08-03 | This Property Is Condemned | J.J. Nichols |
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1965-12-16 | Battle of the Bulge | Maj. Wolenski |
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1965-06-23 | The Sandpiper | Cos Erickson |
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1964-10-04 | Guns of Diablo | Linc Murdock |
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1963-12-21 | 4 for Texas | Matson |
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1963-07-03 | The Great Escape | Danny 'Tunnel King' |
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1962-11-29 | Kid Galahad | Lew Nyack |
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1961-12-22 | X-15 | Lt. Col. Lee Brandon |
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1961-09-26 | A Thunder of Drums | Trooper Hanna |
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1961-05-01 | Master of the World | John Strock |
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1960-10-12 | The Magnificent Seven | Bernardo O'Reilly |
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1959-12-07 | Never So Few | Sgt. John Danforth |
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1958-11-01 | When Hell Broke Loose | Steve Boland |
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1958-07-01 | Gang War | Alan Avery |
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1958-05-01 | Machine-Gun Kelly | George R. 'Machine Gun' Kelly |
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1958-05-01 | Showdown at Boot Hill | Luke Welsh |
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1958-02-13 | No Time at All | Wolf Hagan |
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1957-09-05 | Run of the Arrow | Blue Buffolo |
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1956-02-25 | Jubal | Reb |
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1955-11-15 | Target Zero | Sgt. Vince Gaspari |
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1955-03-03 | Big House, U.S.A | Benny Kelly |
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1954-12-25 | Vera Cruz | Pittsburgh |
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1954-11-10 | Drum Beat | Kintpuash |
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1954-07-09 | Apache | Hondo |
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1954-04-01 | Riding Shotgun | Pinto |
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1954-03-03 | Tennessee Champ | Sixty Jubel |
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1953-12-25 | Torpedo Alley | Submariner |
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1953-12-23 | Miss Sadie Thompson | Pvt. Edwards |
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1953-10-22 | Crime Wave | Ben Hastings |
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1953-04-16 | House of Wax | Igor |
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1953-01-16 | The Clown | Gambler (uncredited) |
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1952-12-30 | Off Limits | Russell (Uncredited) |
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1952-11-14 | Bloodhounds of Broadway | Phil Green, aka 'Pittsburgh Philo' (uncredited) |
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1952-10-26 | Battle Zone | Marine Private (uncredited) |
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1952-06-13 | Diplomatic Courier | Russian Agent (uncredited) |
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1952-06-13 | Pat and Mike | Henry 'Hank' Tasling |
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1952-03-20 | My Six Convicts | Jocko |
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1952-02-01 | The Marrying Kind | Eddie |
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1952-01-23 | Red Skies of Montana | Neff (uncredited) |
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1951-09-07 | The Mob | Jack (uncredited) |
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1951-09-01 | The People Against O'Hara | Angelo Korvac (uncredited) |
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1951-02-23 | You're in the Navy Now | Wascylewski |