Acting
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Man
3 Nov 1921
30 Aug 2003 (81)
Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, USA
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,"[2] 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.[3] 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.[4] 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 other "heavies". After playing a villain in the Western film Drum Beat, he was cast in his first leading role by B-movie auteur Roger Corman, playing the title character in the gangster picture Machine-Gun Kelly (1958). The role brought him to the attention of mainstream critics, and led to sizable co-lead parts as an Irish-Mexican gunslinger in The Magnificent Seven (1960), a claustrophobic tunneling expert in The Great Escape (1963), a small-town Southern louche in This Property Is Condemned (1966), and a prisoner-turned-commando in The Dirty Dozen (1967). Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Bronson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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— | Stage 7 | Murray Forman |
— | Stage 7 | Jerry Donn |
2022 | Rat Pack | Self (archive footage) |
2020 | Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity | Self (archive footage) |
2015 | Spanish Western | Self (archive footage) |
2006 | Operation Dirty Dozen | Self |
1999 | Family of Cops III | Paul Fein |
1997 | Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II | Commissioner Paul Fein |
1995 | Family of Cops | Paul Fein |
1995 | Sinatra: 80 Years My Way | Self - Audience Member (uncredited) |
1994 | Death Wish V: The Face of Death | Paul Kersey |
1994 | The Sea Wolf | Capt. Wolf Larsen |
1993 | La Classe américaine | The Indian (archive footage) |
1993 | Donato and Daughter | Sgt. Mike Donato |
1991 | The Indian Runner | Mr. Roberts |
1991 | Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus | Francis Church |
1989 | Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects | Lieutenant Crowe |
1988 | Messenger of Death | Garret Smith |
1987 | Death Wish 4: The Crackdown | Paul Kersey |
1987 | Assassination | Jay Killion |
1986 | Murphy's Law | Jack Murphy |
1986 | Act of Vengeance | Joseph 'Jock' Yablonski |
1985 | Death Wish 3 | Paul Kersey |
1985 | Night of 100 Stars II | Self |
1984 | The Evil That Men Do | Holland |
1983 | 10 to Midnight | Leo Kessler |
1983 | All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra | Himself |
1982 | Death Wish II | Paul Kersey |
1981 | Death Hunt | Albert Johnson |
1980 | Borderline | Jeb Maynard |
1980 | Cabo Blanco | Gifford Hoyt |
1980 | Catastrophe: No Safe Place | Self - Host |
1979 | Love and Bullets | Charlie Congers |
1978 | The Meanest Men in the West | Harge Talbot Jr. |
1977 | The White Buffalo | Wild Bill Hickok/James Otis |
1977 | Telefon | Major Grigori Borzov |
1976 | From Noon Till Three | Graham Dorsey |
1976 | Raid on Entebbe | Brig. Gen. Dan Shomron |
1976 | St. Ives | Raymond St. Ives |
1975 | Hard Times | Chaney |
1975 | Breakheart Pass | John Deakin |
1975 | Breakout | Nick Colton |
1974 | Death Wish | Paul Kersey |
1974 | Mr. Majestyk | Vince Majestyk |
1973 | The Stone Killer | Lou Torrey |
1973 | Chino | Chino Valdez |
1973 | The American Film Institute Salute to ... | Self |
1972 | The Mechanic | Arthur Bishop |
1972 | Chato's Land | Pardon Chato |
1972 | The Valachi Papers | Joe Valachi |
1972 | The Bull of the West | Ben Justin |
1972 | Valachi: The Violent Era | Self |
1971 | Red Sun | Link |
1971 | Someone Behind the Door | The Stranger |
1971 | Mean Justice | Moreno |
1971 | V.I.P. Schaukel | Self |
1970 | Rider on the Rain | Col. Harry Dobbs |
1970 | Violent City | Jeff Heston |
1970 | Cold Sweat | Joe Martin |
1970 | You Can't Win 'Em All | Josh Corey |
1970 | Twinky | Scott Wardman |
1968 | Once Upon a Time in the West | 'Harmonica' |
1968 | Farewell, Friend | Franz Propp |
1968 | Guns for San Sebastian | Teclo |
1968 | Villa Rides | Rodolfo Fierro |
1968 | The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Guest |
1967 | The Dirty Dozen | Joseph Wladislaw |
1966 | This Property Is Condemned | J.J. Nichols |
1965 | Battle of the Bulge | Maj. Wolenski |
1965 | The Big Valley | Tate |
1965 | The Sandpiper | Cos Erickson |
1965 | The F.B.I. | Earl Clayton |
1965 | The Legend of Jesse James | Cheyney |
1965 | The Big Sur | Self (uncredited) |
1964 | Guns of Diablo | Linc Murdock |
1963 | The Great Escape | Danny 'Tunnel King' |
1963 | 4 for Texas | Matson |
1963 | The Fugitive | Ralph Schuyler |
1963 | The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters | Linc Murdock |
1963 | Vacation Playhouse | John Wesley Hardin |
1962 | Combat! | Velasquez |
1962 | Kid Galahad | Lew Nyack |
1962 | The Virginian | Ben Justin |
1962 | The Virginian | Harge Talbot |
1962 | Empire | Paul Moreno |
1962 | Empire | Moreno |
1962 | Empire | Paul |
1961 | Master of the World | John Strock |
1961 | A Thunder of Drums | Trooper Hanna |
1961 | Dr. Kildare | Harry Gregg |
1961 | X-15 | Lt. Col. Lee Brandon |
1961 | Cain's Hundred | Hank Conrad |
1961 | The New Breed | Jerry Bergason |
1960 | The Magnificent Seven | Bernardo O'Reilly |
1960 | The Aquanauts | Hector Morrison |
1960 | The Islanders | Dutch Malkin |
1959 | The Twilight Zone | Man |
1959 | Bonanza | Harry Starr |
1959 | Never So Few | Sgt. John Danforth |
1959 | Rawhide | Del Lingman |
1959 | One Step Beyond | Yank Dawson |
1959 | Adventures in Paradise | Dan Morton |
1959 | Riverboat | Crowley |
1958 | Machine-Gun Kelly | George R. 'Machine Gun' Kelly |
1958 | Showdown at Boot Hill | Luke Welsh |
1958 | When Hell Broke Loose | Steve Boland |
1958 | Yancy Derringer | Rogue Donovan |
1958 | Gang War | Alan Avery |
1958 | Man with a Camera | Mike Kovac |
1958 | No Time at All | Wolf Hagan |
1957 | Run of the Arrow | Blue Buffolo |
1957 | Have Gun, Will Travel | Manfred Holt |
1957 | Tales of Wells Fargo | Butch Cassidy |
1957 | Suspicion | Cal |
1957 | M Squad | Eddie Loder |
1957 | Sugarfoot | Sandy Randall |
1957 | Sugarfoot | Cliff Raven |
1957 | Richard Diamond, Private Detective | Dan Rocco |
1957 | Colt .45 | Danny Gordon |
1957 | The Walter Winchell File | Eggers |
1956 | Jubal | Reb |
1956 | Playhouse 90 | Wolf Hagan |
1956 | Telephone Time | Guest |
1956 | Hey, Jeannie! | Rocky Harman |
1956 | U.S. Marshall | Pvt. 'Guardhouse' Ravenal |
1956 | U.S. Marshall | Zenogalache a.k.a. Apache Kid |
1956 | Wire Service | Sam Adams |
1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Det. Krovitch |
1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Frank Bramwell |
1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Ray Bardon |
1955 | Gunsmoke | Crego |
1955 | Gunsmoke | Ben Tiple |
1955 | Big House, U.S.A | Benny Kelly |
1955 | Target Zero | Sgt. Vince Gaspari |
1955 | The Millionaire | Jerry Bell |
1955 | Those Whiting Girls | Martin Carroll |
1954 | Vera Cruz | Pittsburgh |
1954 | Apache | Hondo |
1954 | Drum Beat | Kintpuash |
1954 | Riding Shotgun | Pinto |
1954 | Tennessee Champ | Sixty Jubel |
1954 | Medic | Dr. John Bircher |
1953 | House of Wax | Igor |
1953 | Crime Wave | Ben Hastings |
1953 | Miss Sadie Thompson | Pvt. Edwards |
1953 | The Clown | Gambler (uncredited) |
1953 | Letter to Loretta | Eugene Walters |
1953 | General Electric Theater | Pike |
1953 | General Electric Theater | Henry |
1953 | General Electric Theater | Soldier Conlon |
1953 | Torpedo Alley | Submariner |
1952 | Pat and Mike | Henry 'Hank' Tasling |
1952 | The Marrying Kind | Eddie |
1952 | Diplomatic Courier | Russian Agent (uncredited) |
1952 | Off Limits | Russell (Uncredited) |
1952 | My Six Convicts | Jocko |
1952 | Bloodhounds of Broadway | Phil Green, aka 'Pittsburgh Philo' (uncredited) |
1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Frank Dana |
1952 | Red Skies of Montana | Neff (uncredited) |
1952 | Battle Zone | Marine Private (uncredited) |
1952 | Cavalcade of America | John Stanizewski |
1952 | Biff Baker U.S.A. | Czech spy |
1952 | Biff Baker U.S.A. | Wilhelm |
1952 | Chevron Theatre | (2 Episodes) |
1952 | Chevron Theatre | |
1952 | The Doctor | Joe Langan |
1951 | The Mob | Jack (uncredited) |
1951 | The People Against O'Hara | Angelo Korvac (uncredited) |
1951 | You're in the Navy Now | Wascylewski |
1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | Sgt. Roy Smith |
1950 | Lux Video Theatre | Sergeant Borth |
1950 | Treasury Men in Action | Frankie Ames |
1948 | Studio One | Cal |