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Charles Bronson |
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Name: Charles Bronson Birth Name: Charles Dennis Buchinsky Height: 5' 10'' Sex: M Nationality: American Birth Date: November 3, 1921 Birth Place: Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, USA Profession: Actor Place of Death: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Death Date: August 30, 2003 Death Cause: Pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease Husband/Wife: Kim Weeks (actress; married on December 22, 1998), Jill Ireland (actress; born on April 24, 1936; married on October 5, 1968; died on May 18, 1990), Harriet Tendler (married in 1949; divorced in 1967) Son: Tony (mother: Harriet Tendler) Daughter: Suzanne (mother: Harriet Tendler), Zuleika (mother: Jill Ireland) Claim to fame: As Bernardo in the popular Western The Magnificant Seven (1960) before toplining the Death Wish action series in the '70s and '80s Contact: Click here
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- Bronson‘s tiny hometown, the borough of 234, considers honoring him with a historical marker and a renamed street. (September 8, 2003)
- Died on August 30, 2003 after several weeks suffering pneumonia.
- The son of a Lithuanian coal miner, Bronson has claimed to have spoken no English at home during his childhood in Pennsylvania.
- Lashed out at reports he is suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
- Nickname: Il Brutto (Italy), Le Sacre Monstre (France)
- Shared a room with Jack Klugman in a New York boarding house in the 1940s.
- Perhaps the biggest late bloomer in Hollywood history, Bronson never got the marquee treatment he deserved until his late 40s. He was already 53 when Death Wish premiered.
- The name Bronson is said to taken from the Bronson Gate at Paramount Studios, at the north end of Bronson Avenue.
- 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.
- Changed his stage name in the early 50s in the midst of the McCarthy Red Scare for fear his last name (Buchinsky) would damage his career.
- Was drafted in 1943 for Service in the Air Force during World War 2
- Actor Dick Van Dyke would receive a lemon cake every Christmas from Bronson, who lived nearby in Malibu for 16 years
- Director John Huston once summed him up as a grenade with the pin pulled
- In 1954 on the Mexican set of the WESTERN VERA CRUZ, Bronson and Ernest Borgnine decided to go for cigarettes. This ment saddling up in costume, side arms and all, and riding to the nearest town. On the way, the pair was waylaid by a truck full of armed federales who mistook them for bandits and held them at gunpoint.
- Served during World War 2 as a truck driver and later as a tail-gunner on a B-29 bomber
- MORE CHARLES BRONSON TRIVIA
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