Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky; November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor. Known for his "granite features and brawny physique," he gained international fame for his starring roles in action, Western, and war films; initially as a supporting player and later a leading man. A quintessential cinematic "tough-guy", Bronson was cast in various roles where the plot line hinged on the authenticity of the character's toughness and brawn. At the height of his fame in the early 1970s, he was the world's No. 1 box office attraction, commanding $1 million per film. Born to a Lithuanian-American coal mining family in rural Pennsylvania, Bronson served in the United States Army Air Forces as a bomber tail gunner during World War II. He worked several odd jobs before entering the film industry in the early 1950s, playing bit and supporting roles as henchmen, thugs, and ...
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Operation Dirty Dozen
Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion
Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II
Family of Cops
Death Wish V: The Face of Death
Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
The Indian Runner
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
Messenger of Death
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
Assassination
Act of Vengeance
Murphy's Law
Death Wish 3
The Evil That Men Do
All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra
10 to Midnight
Death Wish II
Death Hunt
Borderline
Cabo Blanco
Love and Bullets
The Meanest Men in the West
Telefon
The White Buffalo
Raid on Entebbe
From Noon Till Three
St. Ives
Breakheart Pass
Hard Times
Breakout
Death Wish
Mr. Majestyk
The Valdez Horses
The Stone Killer
The Mechanic
Chato's Land
The Bull of the West
The Valachi Papers
Red Sun
Someone Behind the Door
Cold Sweat
Violent City
You Can't Win 'Em All
Rider on the Rain
Twinky
Once Upon a Time in the West
Farewell, Friend
Villa Rides
The City of Gods
The Dirty Dozen
Guns for San Sebastian
This Property Is Condemned
Battle of the Bulge
The Sandpiper
Guns of Diablo
4 for Texas
The Great Escape
Kid Galahad
X-15
A Thunder of Drums
Master of the World
The Magnificent Seven
Never So Few
Gang War
Showdown at Boot Hill
Machine-Gun Kelly
When Hell Broke Loose
Run of the Arrow
Jubal
Big House, U.S.A
Target Zero
Vera Cruz
Drum Beat
Apache
Riding Shotgun
Tennessee Champ
Miss Sadie Thompson
Crime Wave
House of Wax
Off Limits
Diplomatic Courier
The Marrying Kind
Red Skies of Montana