Charles Bronson
American actor (1921-2003) · United States · Actors · Died at 81
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Something wrong?The granite face of 1970s revenge cinema - a former coal miner who became the world's highest-paid film star by playing men who settled scores with fists and firearms.
A life in dates
La Classe américaineFilm, The Indian (archive footage)1989
Kinjite: Forbidden SubjectsFilm, Lieutenant Crowe1986
Murphy's LawFilm, Jack Murphy1984
The Evil That Men DoFilm, Holland1982
Death Wish IIFilm, Paul Kersey1980Star on Hollywood Walk of FameAward1977
TelefonFilm, Major Grigori Borzov1974
Death WishFilm, Paul Kersey1972Henrietta AwardAward1971Film '72Series
Red SunFilm, 1971Link1968
The Dick Cavett ShowSeries
Farewell, FriendFilm, 1968Franz Propp1966
This Property Is CondemnedFilm, J.J. Nichols1965
The Big ValleySeries, Tate1962
Combat!Series, Velasquez1961
Dr. KildareSeries, Harry Gregg1960
The Magnificent SevenFilm, Bernardo O'Reilly1959
Adventures in ParadiseSeries, Dan Morton1957
Have Gun, Will TravelSeries, Manfred Holt1956
JubalFilm, Reb1953
House of WaxFilm, Igor1952
Four Star PlayhouseSeries, Frank Dana1948
Studio OneSeries, Cal1944
Golden Globe AwardsSeries1921Born3 November 1921Also in Deutsch
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Bronson in Man with a Camera, 1959
A publicity photo of Bronson and Patricia Owens for the film X-15, 1961
Bronson in The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, 1963
Bronson as Israeli military officer Dan Shomron in Raid on Entebbe, 1977
Bronson at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival
Bronson's star on the Hollywood Walk of FameFilmography 40
EFElectric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
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TRThe Indian RunnerKSKinjite: Forbidden Subjects
MDMessenger of Death
DCDeath Wish 4: The CrackdownMLMurphy's Law
DWDeath Wish 3TDThe Evil That Men Do
TM10 to MidnightDIDeath Wish II
DHDeath Hunt
TBThe White BuffaloTETelefon
FTFrom Noon Till Three
BPBreakheart Pass
HTHard Times
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MMMr. Majestyk
TMThe Mechanic
CLChato's Land
TPThe Valachi PapersRSRed Sun
CSCold Sweat
RRRider on the Rain
OWOnce Upon a Time in the WestFFFarewell, Friend
TDThe Dirty Dozen
GSGuns for San SebastianTCThis Property Is Condemned
BBBattle of the Bulge
TEThe Great EscapeTSThe Magnificent Seven
NFNever So FewJUJubal
VCVera Cruz
APApacheHWHouse of Wax183 credits on file
Television 24
TSThe Dick Cavett Show
TIThe F.B.I.TVThe Big Valley
TFThe Fugitive
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BOBonanza
TZThe Twilight Zone
RARawhide
OBOne Step BeyondAPAdventures in ParadiseHTHave Gun, Will Travel
SUSugarfoot
MSM Squad
TFTales of Wells Fargo
RDRichard Diamond, Private Detective
GUGunsmoke
APAlfred Hitchcock Presents
TMThe MillionaireFPFour Star PlayhouseSOStudio OneGAGolden Globe AwardsAwards
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About this person
Born Charles Dennis Buchinsky in extreme poverty in a Pennsylvania coal town, Bronson worked the mines after his father died, then joined the Army Air Forces in 1943 to fight in World War II. After the war he studied acting and spent the 1950s in supporting roles until Machine-Gun Kelly (1958) gave him his first lead. He built credibility in ensemble action films - The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Dirty Dozen - but found stardom abroad, where Alain Delon hired him for Adieu l'ami and Sergio Leone cast him in Once Upon a Time in the West. By the early '70s he was the most popular American actor in Europe, commanding $1 million per film. Death Wish (1974) recast him as an architect-turned-vigilante and locked in the template: taciturn, brutal, unshakable. He played variations on that role for two decades, retiring in the late 1990s after a final praised turn in The Indian Runner.
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