Charles Bronson
Gender: Male
Born: 3rd November 1921
Died: 30th August 2003
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, Man with a Camera, Empire
Movies: Cold Sweat, Death Wish, From Noon Till Three, Once Upon a Time in the West, Raid on Entebbe, Telefon, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, The Mechanic, This Property is Condemned, Death Wish V: The Face of Death, The Indian Runner, Death Wish 4: The Crackdown, Mr. Majestyk, Red Sun, Lola, X-15, Death Wish 3, Murphy's Law, Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects, Master of the World, Breakout, Pat and Mike, Death Wish II, Rider On The Rain, Miss Sadie Thompson, The Sandpiper, The Valachi Papers, Hard Times, Assassination, Vera Cruz, Kid Galahad, La Bataille de San Sebastian, 4 for Texas, House of Wax, 10 to Midnight, The Stone Killer, Love and Bullets, Chato's Land, You're in the Navy Now, Death Hunt, Family of Cops 3, Breakheart Pass, The White Buffalo, Città violenta, Run of the Arrow, Caboblanco, La Classe américaine, Villa Rides, Guns of Diablo, A Thunder of Drums, Jubal, You Can't Win 'Em All, St. Ives, The Marrying Kind, A Family of Cops, Crime Wave, Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops 2, Machine-Gun Kelly, Valdez Horses, Messenger of Death, The Evil That Men Do, Battle of the Bulge, Never So Few, Bloodhounds of Broadway, Apache, Act of Vengeance, Honor Among Thieves, Charles Bronson: Vital Hits, Someone Behind the Door, Big House, U.S.A., Donato and Daughter, Borderline, Family of Cops 3, When Hell Broke Loose, Johnny Legend: TV Noir, Federal Men: Vol. 5, Tennessee Champ, The Light at the Edge of the World
Charles Bronson (November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003), born Charles Dennis Buchinsky was a Lithuanian-American actor, best known for such films as Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, Rider on the Rain, The Mechanic, and the popular Death Wish series. He often cast in the role of a police officer or gunfighter, often in revenge-oriented plot lines. During his career, Bronson had a long-term partnership with directors Michael Winner and J. Lee Thompson.
Bronson was born Charles Dennis Buchinsky (or Buchinskas) in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, in the Allegheny Mountain Coal region north of Johnstown. During the McCarthy hearings, he changed his last name to Bronson, fearing that Buchinsky sounded "too Russian".
He was one of 15 children born to a Lithuanian immigrant father of Lipka Tatar ancestry, and a Lithuanian-American mother. His father hailed from the town of Druskininkai (or Druskienniki). His mother, Mary Valinsky, whose parents were from the Lithuania was born in the anthracite coal mining town of Tamaqua, Pennsylvania.
Bronson was the first member of his family to graduate from high school. As a young child, Bronson did not
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