Charles Bronson Actor Wallpapers, Biography, Filmography, Photos
Charles Bronson (November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor of "tough guy" roles. In most of his roles he starred as a brutal police detective, a western gunfighter, vigilante, boxer or a Mafia hitman.Bronson was born as Charles Dennis Buchinsky in the notorious Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania coal mining neighborhood of Scooptown part of the Pittsburgh Tri-State area. He was one of 15 children born to a Lithuanian immigrant father of Tatar ancestry, and a Lithuanian-American mother. Bronson's father died when he was only 10, and he went down to the coalmines like his older brothers until he was drafted. He earned $1 per ton of coal mined. His family was so poor that, at one time, he had reportedly been forced to wear his sister's dress to school because he had no other clothes.This story has also been repeated in Celebrity Setbacks: 800 Stars who Overcame the Odds by Ed Lucaire (ISBN 0-671-85031-8) and in an edition of Ripley's Believe It or Not!. In 1943, Bronson signed up for the United States Army Air Forces and served in the Pacific theater as a tail gunner onboard 39th Bombardment Group B-29 bombers.Bronson was a descendant of the Lipka Tatars of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth which caused many people to think that he looked like a Chicano or Mexican-American who was a Mestizo (mixture of Spanish and Indian ancestry). Thus, due to his looks Bronson sometimes played characters who were Mexican or who were part-Indian.
FILMOGRAPHY
* The People Against O'Hara (1951)
* The Mob (1951)
* The Marrying Kind (1952)
* My Six Convicts (1952)
* Pat and Mike (1952)
* Battle Zone (1952)
* House of Wax (1953)
* Crime Wave (1954)
* Apache (1954)
* Vera Cruz (1954)
* Jubal (1956)
* The Magnificent Seven (1960)
* Master of the World (1961)
* X-15 (1961)
* Kid Galahad (1962)
* The Great Escape (1963)
* Battle of the Bulge (1965)
* This Property Is Condemned (1966)
* The Dirty Dozen (1967)
* Honor Among Thieves (1968)
* Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
* Lola (1969)
* The Family (1970)
* Cold Sweat
* Red Sun (1971)
* The Valachi Papers (1972)
* The Mechanic (1972)
* Chino (1974)
* Mr. Majestyk (1974)
* Death Wish (1974)
* Breakout (1975)
* Hard Times (1975)
* St. Ives (1976)
* From Noon Till Three (1976)
* Telefon (1977)
* Love and Bullets (1979)
* Borderline (1980)
* Murphy's Law (1986)
* Death Hunt (1981)
* Death Wish II (1982)
* The Evil That Men Do (1984)
* Death Wish 3 (1985)
* Assassination (1987)
* Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)
* Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989)
* The Indian Runner (1991)
* Death Wish V: The Face of Death (1994)