Charles Bronson Biography

Birth of Charles Bronson, one of 15 children born to a Lithuanian immigrant father of Lipka Tatar ancestry and a Lithuanian mother

Bronsons first film role, an uncredited one, is as a sailor in Youre in the Navy Now

Makes a strong impact in Drum Beat supporting Alan Ladd

During the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) proceedings, he changed his surname from Buchinsky to Bronson as Eastern European names sounded suspicious in an era of anti-Soviet sentiment

Cast in his first lead role in Roger Cormans Machine-Gun Kelly, a low-budget, though well received, gangster film

Bronson gained attention in 1960 with his role in John Sturges western The Magnificent Seven, where he played one of seven gunfighters taking up the cause of the defenseless, which was based on Akira Kurosawas Seven Samurai

Bronson in the role of Lew Nyack, a veteran boxing trainer who helped Walter Gulick (Elvis Presley) polish his skills for the big fight with Sugarboy Romero in the movie, Kid Galahad

In The Dirty Dozen Bronson plays an Army death row convict conscripted into a suicide mission

In The Dirty Dozen Bronson plays an Army death row convict conscripted into a suicide mission

Stars as Harmonica in Once Upon a Time in the West, director, Sergio Leone, once called him "the greatest actor I ever worked with", and had wanted to cast Bronson for the lead in all three of his previous westerns, now known as the Dollars trilogy

Stars in the film adaptation of the Elmore Leonard hard-boiled gangster-meets-his-match in a farmer saga, "Mr. Majestyk". Stars in, "Death Wish"

Stars in, "St. Ives". Stars in, "Raid On Entebbe"

Stars in, "Borderline"

Stars in, "Death Wish 2"

Stars in, "Death Wish 3"

Stars in, "The Evil That Men Do"

Stars in, "Murphys Law"

Stars in, "Death Wish 4: The Crackdown". Stars in, "Assassination"

Stars in, "Death Wish 5: The Face of Death"

Death of Charles Bronson