Charles Bronson Overview:

Legendary actor, Charles Bronson, was born Charles Dennis Buchinsky on Nov 3, 1921 in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania. Bronson died at the age of 81 on Aug 30, 2003 in Los Angeles, CA .

MINI BIO:

Rugged, latterly mustachioed American star, a former juvenile delinquent, miner, and boxer who turned to acting after World War II. For many years cast as villains and men of violence, he broke through to stardom only in 1968, after which he played heroes and men of violence at just as prolific a rate as before. One of the world's top box office stars through most of the 1970s, he was married (second) to British-born actress Jill Ireland from 1968 to her death. Kept going in craggy leading roles into his late seventies.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Stars).

HONORS and AWARDS:

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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures. Bronson was never nominated for an Academy Award.

BlogHub Articles:

Seven Things to Know About

By Rick29 on Jan 26, 2026 From Classic Film & TV Cafe

Bronson in The Dirty Dozen.1. and Jack Klugman were roommates early in their careers. According to Klugman, Bronson was by far the neater of the two--in other words, he was sort of the Felix to Klugman's Oscar. When Bronson died in 2003, Klugman wrote a farewell tribute to his friend... Read full article


Stages a Breakout

By Rick29 on Mar 31, 2025 From Classic Film & TV Cafe

as Colton.When her husband is framed for murder (by his grandfather, no less!) and tossed into a Mexican prison, Ann Wagner (Jill Ireland) becomes determined to free her man. She engages a border bush pilot named Colton () to fly her husband to freedom, but his first a... Read full article


Seeks The Stone Killer

By Rick29 on Sep 26, 2022 From Classic Film & TV Cafe

as Torrey.Made two years after Dirty Harry (1971), The Stone Killer stars as a Harry clone named Lou Torrey. After being suspended for his violent behavior, police detective Torrey transfers from New York City to Los Angeles. After two quiet years, Torrey arrests a fo... Read full article


Day 3 of Noirvember: Happy Birthday,

By shadowsandsatin on Nov 3, 2019 From Shadows and Satin

If you know anything at all about , it?s probably as the craggy-faced, mustachioed actor whose primary claim to fame was his performances as a vigilante in movies like Death Wish (1974) and its four sequels. But prior to the crag and before the mustache, Bronson was known as Charles B... Read full article


The 4 Movie Collection On Blu-ray From Mill Creek (Part Two)

By Dan Day Jr. on May 5, 2018 From The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog

Yesterday I reviewed one of the two discs in the " 4 Movie Collection" Blu-ray set from Mill Creek. Today I'll look at the other one, which features THE STONE KILLER and THE VALACHI PAPERS. THE STONE KILLER This movie is a perfect representation of a 1970s violent , gritty, urban cr... Read full article


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Charles Bronson Quotes:

Teclo: [cutting Leon down from a tree where he has been hung] Priest, you have one day to get your strength back, and one day to get over the mountains. If not: on the third day, just like your book says, YOU WILL RISE.


Joseph T. Wladislaw: Killin' generals could get to be a habit with me.


[repeated lines]
Rodolfo Fierro: Who cooked this?
Ramirez: Me, Jefe.
Rodolfo Fierro: No, you didn't!
Ramirez: No, I didn't.
Rodolfo Fierro: COOK IT!


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Charles Bronson Facts
Sergio Leone once called him "the greatest actor I ever worked with". Leone had wanted Bronson for all three of what became known as the "Man with No Name" trilogy, but Bronson turned him down each time.

Spoofed in an episode of "The Simpsons" (1989) in which the Simpson family mistakenly travels to Bronson, Missouri, instead of Branson. In Bronson, such lines of dialogue as these are spoken by its citizens: "No dice.", "This ain't ovah."

From a Lithuanian family, he grew up in a western Pennsylvania coal-mining town. Like all the men in his family, he worked in the mines, but hated it and used a variety of means to escape it (including the military and, eventually, acting). His expertise with tunneling and working underground turned out to be quite helpful when making The Great Escape (1963) in the role of "Tunnel King" Velinski. However, even though the "tunnel" he was working in was a cutaway set, he could only stay in it for a few minutes at a time before he had to get up and leave. As a boy working in the mines, he was caught in a cave-in and almost died before he was finally rescued. Ever since that time he had had a deathly fear of enclosed spaces.

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