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Charles Bronson


Charles Bronson: Biography

Charles Buchinski born on November 3, 1921 in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania. Though the only one of 15 children to finish high school, Bronson worked in the coal mines alongside his brothers to support the family. Born to Lithuanian immigrant parents, he served during World War II as a tailgunner, then used his G.I. Bill to study art in Philadelphia and, intrigued by acting, enrolled at California's Pasadena Playhouse. An instructor there introduced him to director Henry Hathaway, which resulted in his debut film role in You're in the Navy Now. Bronson has two children with his first wife, Harriet Tendler. He married actress and producer Jill Ireland in 1958, 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. Ireland died in 1990. Bronson married his third wife, Kim Weeks, in December, 1998. On August 30, 2003 Charles Bronson died of pneumonia in Los Angeles. He was 81.

Charles Bronson: Career

The role of Bernardo, one of the The Magnificent Seven, that Bronson's career took off. Subsquent roles in The Great Escape in 1963, where he played claustrophobic tunnel-digger Danny Velinski, and The Dirty Dozen in 1967 solidified his status. Bronson spent the next few years in Europe, where he became a box-office draw with such films as Alain Delon's Adieu l'ami and Sergio Leone's classic Once Upon a Time in the West, both in 1968. He return the United States where true stardom evaded him until 1974, when Michael Winner directed him in Death Wish, a revenge fantasy about an architect who turns vigilante when his wife and daughter are raped. The movie was both controversial and extremely popular (and spawned four inferior sequels in 1982, 1985, 1987 and 1994). It also established Bronson as a celebrity in his own country and set the tough, cold, violent persona that made him a film icon. Some exceptions include Hard Times in 1975, where he played a 1930s streetfighter and the 1976 offbeat black comedy From Noon Till Three. However, Bronson was drawn to action-thrillers like Breakout in 1975 and Love and Bullets in 1979, as well as the super-gory Ten to Midnight in 1983, The Evil That Men Do in 1984 and Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects in 1989. Bronson's TV work included such movies as Raid on Entebbe in 1977, Act of Vengeance in 1986, The Sea Wolf in 1993, and Sean Penn's The Indian Runner in 1991.

Charles Bronson: Films

Twinky (2005), Hot Lead (2001), Family of Cops III (1998), Family of Cops 2 (1997), Family of Cops (1996), Dead to Rights (1995), Death Wish V: The Face of Death (1994), The Indian Runner (1991), Kinjite (1989), Messenger of Death (1988), Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987), Assassination (1987), Murphy's Law (1986), Death Wish 3 (1985), The Evil That Men Do (1984), Ten to Midnight (1983), Death Wish 2 (1982), Honor Among Thieves (1982), Cabo Blanco (1981), Death Hunt (1981), Borderline (1980), Love and Bullets (1979), Chino (1977), Telefon (1977), The White Buffalo (1977), From Noon Till Three (1976), Raid on Entebbe (1976), St. Ives (1976), St. Ives (1976), Breakheart Pass (1975), Breakout (1975), Hard Times (1975), Act of Vengeance (1974), Death Wish (1974), Mr. Majestyk (1974), The Stone Killer (1973), Violent City (1973), Chato's Land (1972), The Mechanic (1972), Cold Sweat (1971), Red Sun (1971) Someone Behind the Door (1971), Rider on the Rain (1970), Lola (1969), Once Upon a Time in the West (1969), The Dirty Dozen (1967), This Property Is Condemned (1966), Battle of the Bulge (1965), The Sandpiper (1965), 4 for Texas (1963), The Great Escape (1963), Kid Galahad (1962), , - 15 (1962), Master of the World (1961), The Magnificent Seven (1960), Never So Few (1959), Machine Gun Kelly (1958), Showdown at Boot Hill (1958), When Hell Broke Loose (1958), Jubal (1956), Run of the Arrow (1956), Apache (1954), Drum Beat (1954), Miss Sadie Thompson (1954), Treasury Men in Action (1954), Vera Cruz (1954), The Witness (1953), House of Wax (1953), Pat and Mike (1952)

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