Charles Bronson
Known for Acting · 171 credits
- Born
- 1921-11-03
- Died
- 2003-08-30
- Place of birth
- Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, USA
- Also known as
- Charles Dennis Buchinsky · Le Sacre Monstre · Karolis Bučinskis · Karolis Dionyzas Bučinskis · چارلز برانسون
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky; November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor. He was known for his roles in action films and his "granite features and brawny physique". Bronson was born into extreme poverty in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, a coal mining town in the Allegheny Mountains. Bronson's father, a miner, died when Bronson was young. Bronson himself worked in the mines as well until joining the United States Army Air Forces in 1943 to fight in World War II. Bronson had sizeable co-starring roles in The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Great Escape (1963), This Property Is Condemned (1966), and The Dirty Dozen (1967). Bronson also performed in many major television shows, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for his supporting role in an episode of General Electric Theater. Actor Alain Delon (who was a fan of Bronson) hired him to co-star with him in the French film Adieu l'ami (1968). That year, he also played one of the leads in the Italian spaghetti Western, Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). Bronson continued playing leads in various action, Western, and war films made in Europe, including Rider on the Rain (1970), which won a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. During this time Bronson was the most popular American actor in Europe.
Early life and war service
Bronson was born November 3, 1921, in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, a coal mining region in the Allegheny Mountains, north of Johnstown. He was the 11th of 15 children born into a Roman Catholic family of Lithuanian descent. The very large family slept in shifts in their cold-water shack. The coal car tracks that ran out of the mine's mouth passed just a few yards away. His father, Walter Buchinsky (né Vladislavas Valteris Paulius Bučinskas/Bučinskis), was a Lipka Tatar from Druskininkai in southern Lithuania. Bronson's mother, Mary (née Valinsky), whose parents were from Lithuania, was born in Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, in the Anthracite Coal Region.
Bronson said English was not spoken at home during his childhood, like many other first-generation American children he grew up with. He once recounted that even as a soldier, his accent was strong enough to make his comrades think he was a foreigner. Besides English, he could speak Lithuanian and Russian.
Known For
TV Shows (61)
The Fugitive
1963
as Ralph Schuyler
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Presenter
Bonanza
1959
as Harry Starr
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
as Manfred Holt
The Twilight Zone
1959
as Man
The Virginian
1962
as Ben Justin / Harge Talbot
Dr. Kildare
1961
as Harry Gregg
Rawhide
1959
as Del Lingman
Four Star Playhouse
1952
as Frank Dana
The Big Valley
1965
as Tate
Combat!
1962
as Velasquez
The F.B.I.
1965
as Earl Clayton
Gunsmoke
1955
as Crego / Ben Tiple
Studio One
1948
as Cal
Tales of Wells Fargo
1957
as Butch Cassidy
Yancy Derringer
1958
as Rogue Donovan
The Millionaire
1955
as Jerry Bell
Film '72
1971
as Self
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Det. Krovitch / Frank Bramwell / Ray Bardon
Sugarfoot
1957
as Sandy Randall / Cliff Raven
One Step Beyond
1959
as Yank Dawson
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957
as Dan Rocco
Adventures in Paradise
1959
as Dan Morton
M Squad
1957
as Eddie Loder
Suspicion
1957
as Cal
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Sergeant Borth
Treasury Men in Action
1950
as Frankie Ames
Playhouse 90
1956
as Wolf Hagan / Andy Kovaric / Sgt Meras
Studio 57
1954
as Dawson
Telephone Time
1956
as Guest
Cain's Hundred
1961
as Hank Conrad
The Islanders
1960
as Dutch Malkin
Wire Service
1956
as Sam Adams
Cavalcade of America
1952
as John Stanizewski
Riverboat
1959
as Crowley
Chevron Theatre
1952
as (2 Episodes)
The New Breed
1961
as Jerry Bergason
Medic
1954
as Dr. John Bircher
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
1953
as Joe Krossen
Vacation Playhouse
1963
as John Wesley Hardin
The Aquanauts
1960
as Hector Morrison
Biff Baker U.S.A.
1952
as Czech spy / Wilhelm
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971
as Self
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
as Self
Crusader
1955
as Mike Brod
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
1963
as Linc Murdock
The Walter Winchell File
1957
as Eggers
Hey, Jeannie!
1956
as Rocky Harman
The Legend of Jesse James
1965
as Cheyney
Letter to Loretta
1953
as Eugene Walters
Colt .45
1957
as Danny Gordon
Empire
1962
as Paul Moreno
Man with a Camera
1958
as Mike Kovac
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as Sgt. Roy Smith
Those Whiting Girls
1955
as Martin Carroll
General Electric Theater
1953
as Pike / Henry / Soldier Conlon
The Joe Palooka Story
1954
as Eddie Crane
U.S. Marshall
1956
as Zenogalache a.k.a. Apache Kid / Pvt. 'Guardhouse' Ravenal
The Doctor
1952
as Joe Langan
Movies (110)
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
as 'Harmonica'
The Dirty Dozen
1967
as Joseph Wladislaw
The Magnificent Seven
1960
as Bernardo O'Reilly
The Great Escape
1963
as Danny 'Tunnel King'
Death Wish
1974
as Paul Kersey
Death Wish II
1982
as Paul Kersey
Red Sun
1971
as Link
The Mechanic
1972
as Arthur Bishop
The Evil That Men Do
1984
as Holland
This Property Is Condemned
1966
as J.J. Nichols
Death Hunt
1981
as Albert Johnson
Guns for San Sebastian
1967
as Teclo
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Hard Times
1975
as Chaney
Cold Sweat
1970
as Joe Martin
Breakdown: 1975
2025
as Self - Actor in Death Wish (archive footage)
Death Wish 3
1985
as Paul Kersey
You Can't Win 'Em All
1970
as Josh Corey
Donato and Daughter
1993
as Sgt. Mike Donato
Battle of the Bulge
1965
as Maj. Wolenski
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
1987
as Paul Kersey
Death Wish V: The Face of Death
1994
as Paul Kersey
Borderline
1980
as Jeb Maynard
The Valdez Horses
1973
as Chino Valdez
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
1989
as Lieutenant Crowe
The Sandpiper
1965
as Cos Erickson
The Sea Wolf
1993
as Capt. Wolf Larsen
Mr. Majestyk
1974
as Vince Majestyk
House of Wax
1953
as Igor
10 to Midnight
1983
as Leo Kessler
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
as Self
Torpedo Alley
1953
as Submariner
Jubal
1956
as Reb
Master of the World
1961
as John Strock
Family of Cops
1995
as Paul Fein
A Thunder of Drums
1961
as Trooper Hanna
Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion
1999
as Paul Fein
You're in the Navy Now
1951
as Wascylewski
Murphy's Law
1986
as Jack Murphy
The Big Sur
1965
as Self (uncredited)
Drum Beat
1954
as Kintpuash
The Stone Killer
1973
as Lou Torrey
Guns of Diablo
1964
as Linc Murdock
The White Buffalo
1977
as Wild Bill Hickok/James Otis
Riding Shotgun
1954
as Pinto
La Classe américaine
1993
as The Indian (archive footage)
Breakheart Pass
1975
as John Deakin
Act of Vengeance
1986
as Joseph 'Jock' Yablonski
The Bull of the West
1972
as Ben Justin
Telefon
1977
as Major Grigori Borzov
Twinky
1970
as Scott Wardman
Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II
1997
as Commissioner Paul Fein
Villa Rides
1968
as Rodolfo Fierro
Vera Cruz
1954
as Pittsburgh
The Indian Runner
1991
as Mr. Roberts
Breakout
1975
as Nick Colton
Chato's Land
1972
as Pardon Chato
Showdown at Boot Hill
1958
as Luke Welsh
Never So Few
1959
as Sgt. John Danforth
From Noon Till Three
1976
as Graham Dorsey
Farewell, Friend
1968
as Franz Propp
Run of the Arrow
1957
as Blue Buffolo
Assassination
1987
as Jay Killion
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
as Self
Target Zero
1955
as Sgt. Vince Gaspari
The Valachi Papers
1972
as Joe Valachi
Apache
1954
as Hondo
Raid on Entebbe
1976
as Brig. Gen. Dan Shomron
Off Limits
1952
as Russell (Uncredited)
The Marrying Kind
1952
as Eddie
Operation Dirty Dozen
2006
as Self
Red Skies of Montana
1952
as Neff (uncredited)
The Meanest Men in the West
1978
as Harge Talbot Jr.
The Clown
1953
as Gambler (uncredited)
The Mob
1951
as Jack (uncredited)
Rider on the Rain
1970
as Col. Harry Dobbs
Violent City
1970
as Jeff Heston
Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
1991
as Francis Church
Machine-Gun Kelly
1958
as George R. 'Machine Gun' Kelly
Kid Galahad
1962
as Lew Nyack
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1952
as Phil Green, aka 'Pittsburgh Philo' (uncredited)
Messenger of Death
1988
as Garret Smith
Love and Bullets
1979
as Charlie Congers
The People Against O'Hara
1951
as Angelo Korvac (uncredited)
4 for Texas
1963
as Matson
Tennessee Champ
1954
as Sixty Jubel
Diplomatic Courier
1952
as Russian Agent (uncredited)
Elvis: A Life in Music
2026
as Self (archive footage)
Miss Sadie Thompson
1953
as Pvt. Edwards
Gang War
1958
as Alan Avery
Someone Behind the Door
1971
as The Stranger
Spanish Western
2015
as Self (archive footage)
No Time at All
1958
as Wolf Hagan
St. Ives
1976
as Raymond St. Ives
When Hell Broke Loose
1958
as Steve Boland
Rat Pack
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Pat and Mike
1952
as Henry 'Hank' Tasling
Big House, U.S.A
1955
as Benny Kelly
All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra
1983
as Self
Crime Wave
1953
as Ben Hastings
My Six Convicts
1952
as Jocko
Sinatra: 80 Years My Way
1995
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
Caboblanco
1980
as Gifford Hoyt
All Star Party for Clint Eastwood
1986
as Self (uncredited)
Battle Zone
1952
as Marine Private (uncredited)
X-15
1961
as Lt. Col. Lee Brandon
Mean Justice
1971
as Moreno
Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Valachi: The Violent Era
1972
as Self
Catastrophe: No Safe Place
1980
as Self - Host
About Charles Bronson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky; November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor. He was known for his roles in action films and his "granite features and brawny physique". Bronson was born into extreme poverty in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, a coal mining town in the Allegheny Mountains. Bronson's father, a miner, died when Bronson was young. Bronson himself worked in the mines as well until joining the United States Army Air Forces in 1943 to fight in World War II. Bronson had sizeab… With 171 credits spanning from 1944 to 2026, Charles Bronson has appeared in 110 films and 61 TV shows.
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Most Popular Charles Bronson Movies
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) — as 'Harmonica'
- The Dirty Dozen (1967) — as Joseph Wladislaw
- The Magnificent Seven (1960) — as Bernardo O'Reilly
- The Great Escape (1963) — as Danny 'Tunnel King'
- Death Wish (1974) — as Paul Kersey
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