Bronson, Charles

Bronson, Charles
▪ 2004
Charles Dennis Buchinsky 
      American actor (b. Nov. 3, 1921, Ehrenfeld, Pa.—d. Aug. 30, 2003, Los Angeles, Calif.), spent the early part of his movie and television career cast in small roles as quiet tough guys but later became a star, following strong supporting roles in the hit films The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Great Escape (1963), and The Dirty Dozen (1967), success as an action star in Europe, and the lead role in Death Wish (1974), which caught the American public's fancy and led to four sequels despite the controversy surrounding the films' violence and their theme of vigilante justice. His later performances were acknowledged for the humanity and tenderness apparent below the surface of his craggy-faced toughness.

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▪ American actor
original name  Charles Buchinsky  
born November 3, 1922, Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, U.S.
died August 30, 2003, Los Angeles, California

      American motion-picture and television actor who was best known for his portrayal of tough guys.

      Bronson was one of 15 children of a Lithuanian coal miner, became a miner himself at age 16, and during World War II claimed to have served in the air force as a tail gunner (later reports suggest that he was stationed in Arizona, working as a delivery man). After the war he held a series of odd jobs before being hired by a Philadelphia theatre company to paint scenery. That eventually led to small acting parts, and in 1949 he moved to California. Bronson made his big-screen debut in You're in the Navy Now (1951), and the leathery-faced, muscular actor was soon playing tough-guy leads in B films such as Machine Gun Kelly (1958) and appearing in several television series. More memorable roles followed in The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Great Escape (1963), The Dirty Dozen (1967), and Rider on the Rain (1969).

      A series of European-made gangster and western films made Bronson famous on that continent as le sacre monstre (“the sacred monster”) and Il Brutto (“The Ugly Man”), earning him the Golden Globe Award in 1971 as the most popular actor in the world. He returned to Hollywood and in 1974 appeared in perhaps his best-known film, Death Wish, portraying an architect who becomes a vigilante following the murder of his wife and rape of his daughter. Although the film was criticized for its violence, it established Bronson as a major star in the United States, and four sequels to the movie followed. In 1976 he won critical praise as an aging boxer in Hard Times. Many of his later films were action-thrillers, including Love and Bullets (1979), The Evil That Men Do (1984), and Murphy's Law (1986). Bronson continued to appear in movies and on television into the late 1990s.

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