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Charles Bronson

The archetypal screen tough guy with weatherbeaten features--one film critic described his rugged looks as "a Clark Gable who had been left out in the sun too long"--Charles Bronson was born Charles Buchinsky, one of 15 children of struggling parents in Pennsylvania. His mother, Mary (Valinsky), was born in Pennsylvania, to Lithuanian parents, and his father, Walter Buchinsky, was a Lithuanian immigrant coal miner. He completed high school and joined his father in the mines (an experience that resulted in a lifetime fear of being in enclosed spaces) and then served in WW II. After his return from the war, Bronson used the GI Bill to study art (a passion he had for the rest of his life), then enrolled at the Pasadena Playhouse in California. One of his teachers was impressed with the young man and recommended him to director Henry Hathaway, resulting in Bronson making his film debut in You're in the Navy Now (1951). He appeared on screen often early in his career, though usually uncredited. However, he made an impact on audiences as the evil assistant to Vincent Price in the 3-D thriller Panoptikum - A viaszbabák háza (1953). His sinewy yet muscular physique got him cast in action-type roles, often without a shirt to highlight his manly frame. He received positive notices from critics for his performances in Vera Cruz (1954), Target Zero (1955) and Run of the Arrow (1957). Indie director Roger Corman cast him as the lead in his well-received low-budget gangster flick Machine-Gun Kelly (1958), then Bronson scored the lead in his own TV series, Man with a Camera (1958). The 1960s proved to be the era in which Bronson made his reputation as a man of few words but much action. Director John Sturges cast him as half Irish/half Mexican gunslinger Bernardo O'Reilly in the smash hit western A hét mesterlövész (1960), and hired him again as tunnel rat Danny Velinski for the WWII POW big-budget epic A nagy szökés (1963). Several more strong roles followed, then once a

English Magyar
  • Born In Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Born November 3, 1921
  • Died August 30, 2003
  • Gender Male
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The Great Escape

1963
as Flight Lt. Danny Velinski

The Mechanic

1972
as Arthur Bishop

Classified X

1998
as Self (archive footage)

Jubal

1956
as Reb

Cold Sweat

1970
as Joe Martin

The Stone Killer

1973
as Lou Torrey

Someone Behind the Door

1971
as The Stranger

The Indian Runner

1991
as Mr. Roberts

Machine-Gun Kelly

1958
as George R. 'Machine Gun' Kelly

Breakheart Pass

1975
as Deakin

Battle of the Bulge

1965
as Maj. Wolenski

Death Hunt

1981
as Albert Johnson

Mr. Majestyk

1974
as Vince Majestyk

Donato and Daughter

1993
as Sgt. Mike Donato

Vera Cruz

1954
as Pittsburgh

Red Sun

1971
as Link Stuart

Hard Times

1975
as Chaney

Master of the World

1961
as John Strock

Big House, U.S.A.

1955
as Benny Kelly

Love and Bullets

1979
as Charlie Congers

Villa Rides

1968
as Rodolfo Fierro

Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects

1989
as Lieutenant Crowe

The Bull Of The West

1972
as Ben Justin

A Thunder of Drums

1961
as Trooper Hanna

The Sea Wolf

1993
as Capt. Wolf Larsen

Guns of Diablo

1965
as Linc Murdock

Raid on Entebbe

1976
as Brig. Gen. Dan Shomron

Murphy's Law

1986
as John J. "Jack" Murphy

Man with a Camera

1958
as Mike Kovac

Farewell, Friend

1968
as Franz Propp

Kid Galahad

1962
as Lew Nyack

La classe américaine

1993
as Indian (Archive footage)

Showdown at Boot Hill

1958
as Luke Welsh - Deputy US Marshal

The Sandpiper

1965
as Cos Erickson

Cabo Blanco

1980
as Gifford Hoyt

The Valachi Papers

1972
as Joe Valachi

Pat and Mike

1952
as Henry 'Hank' Tasling

Family of Cops

1995
as Paul Fein

Breakout

1975
as Nick Colton

Target Zero

1955
as Sgt. Vince Gaspari

Violent City

1970
as Jeff Heston

When Hell Broke Loose

1958
as Steve Boland

Never So Few

1959
as Sgt. John Danforth

Twinky

1970
as Scott Wardman

Assassination

1987
as Jay Killion

Riding Shotgun

1954
as Pinto (as Charles Buchinsky)

St. Ives

1976
as Raymond St Ives

Run of the Arrow

1957
as Blue Buffolo

Family of Cops II - Breach of Faith

1997
as Commissioner Paul Fein

The Dirty Dozen

1967
as Joseph Wladislaw

Mean Justice

1963
as Paul Moreno

The Meanest Men in the West

1978
as Harge Talbot Jr.

10 to Midnight

1983
as Leo Kessler

4 for Texas

1963
as Matson

Death Wish

1974
as Paul Kersey

Apache

1954
as Hondo

Death Wish II

1982
as Paul Kersey

Borderline

1980
as Jeb Maynard

You Can't Win 'Em All

1970
as Josh Corey

The Magnificent Seven

1960
as Bernardo O'Reilly

House of Wax

1953
as Igor

Chato's Land

1972
as Pardon Chato

The White Buffalo

1977
as Wild Bill Hickok (James Otis)

Le passager de la pluie

1970
as Col. Harry Dobbs

Act of Vengeance

1986
as Joseph 'Jock' Yablonski

Crime Wave

1953
as Ben Hastings

Messenger of Death

1988
as Garret Smith

Telefon

1977
as Major Grigori Borzov

Chino

1973
as Chino Valdez

X-15

1961
as Lt. Col. Lee Brandon

Death Wish 3

1985
as Paul Kersey

Miss Sadie Thompson

1953
as Pvt. Edwards

Mob Handed

2016
as The Voice

Drum Beat

1954
as Kintpuash, aka Captain Jack

Guest Star

Episode Colt .45
Young Gun
1957
Episode Combat!
Heritage
1965
Episode Richard Diamond, Private Detective
The Pete Rocco Case (a.k.a. Prison Break)
1957
Episode Rawhide
Duel at Daybreak
1965
Episode Have Gun, Will Travel
Ben Jalisco
1961
Episode Adventures in Paradise
Survival
1961
Episode Have Gun, Will Travel
Brotherhood
1963
Episode General Electric Theater
Memory In White
1961
Episode Alfred Hitchcock Presents
There Was an Old Woman
1956
Episode M Squad
The Fight
1958
Episode The New Breed
The Valley of the Three Charlies
1961
Episode The Fugitive
The One That Got Away
1967
Episode Playhouse 90
The Rank and File
1959
Episode Have Gun, Will Travel
The Outlaw
1957
Episode Cain's Hundred
Dead Load
1961
Episode Dr. Kildare
Who Ever Heard Of Two-Headed Doll?
1963
Episode Gunsmoke
Lost Rifle
1958
Episode The F.B.I.
The Animal
1974
Episode Have Gun, Will Travel
A Proof of Love
1961
Episode The Jack Benny Program
General Electric Theater: The Honest Man
1956
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, Lana Cantrell, Jill Ireland
1972
Episode The Islanders
The Generous Politician
1961
Episode Sugarfoot
The Bullet and the Cross
1958
Episode The Twilight Zone
Two
1961
Episode Alfred Hitchcock Presents
And So Died Riabouchinska
1956
Episode The F.B.I.
The Animal
1966
Episode U.S. Marshal
Pursuit
1959
Episode Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Woman Who Wanted to Live
1962
Episode Have Gun, Will Travel
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1958
Episode Conflict
Warner Brothers Presents: (Anthology No.4) Deep Freeze
1956
Episode Cavalcade of America
Chain Of Hearts
1955
Episode One Step Beyond
The Last Round
1961
Episode Conflict
Warner Brothers Presents: (Anthology No.3) Explosion
1956
Episode Sugarfoot
Man Wanted
1958
Episode Gunsmoke
The Killer
1956
Episode The Untouchables
The Death Tree
1962
Episode Riverboat
Zigzag
1960