Charles Bronson
Birthday: 1921-11-03
Place of Birth: Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography: 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 number one box office attraction.
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The Magnificent Seven
An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes....
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The Dirty Dozen
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy châtea...
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Someone Behind the Door
A neurosurgeon with a cheating wife takes an amnesiac into his home and conditions him to believe th...
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Diplomatic Courier
During the Cold War, diplomatic courier Mike Kells must retrieve a dispatch containing top-secret in...
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Never So Few
A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II....
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Farewell, Friend
After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, a mercenary and a doctor leave the service and ...
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The Great Escape
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number...
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From Noon Till Three
Bank robber Graham Dorsey spends a few hours with beautiful widow Amanda Starbuck, in which time his...
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Telefon
Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB age...
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Hard Times
In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-b...
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Caboblanco
Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Naz...
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Breakheart Pass
At the height of the frontier era, a train races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission...
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Red Sun
In 1870, Japanese ambassador Sakaguchi and his entourage travel by train to Washington to deliver a ...
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Breakout
A bush pilot is hired for $50,000 to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner....
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Violent City
A hitman is double-crossed by his girlfriend and barely escapes a murder attempt. He then sets out t...
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Borderline
Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has jus...
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Raid on Entebbe
Based on a true operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the Popular Fron...
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Death Wish 3
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked...
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The Indian Runner
Two brothers cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in e...
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Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
After the death of his girlfriend's daughter from a drug overdose, Paul Kersey takes on the local dr...
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Murphy's Law
A tough police detective escapes from custody after being framed and arrested for the murder of his ...
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Death Hunt
Yukon Territory, Canada, November 1931. Albert Johnson, a trapper who lives alone in the mountains, ...
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Pat and Mike
Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf ...
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The Valachi Papers
When Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps to p...
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Chato's Land
In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventua...
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Messenger of Death
A Denver reporter investigates the mass murder of a family of Mormons in rural Colorado....
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Mr. Majestyk
A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him....
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The Stone Killer
A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Maf...
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Vera Cruz
After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. T...
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Rider on the Rain
A US Army colonel in France tries to track down an escaped sex maniac....
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Battle of the Bulge
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. ...
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Death Wish V: The Face of Death
Paul Kersey is back at working vigilante justice when his fiancée, Olivia, has her business threaten...
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Run of the Arrow
When the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O'Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, takes a wife a...
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X-15
X-15 is a 1961 movie that tells a fictionalized account of the X-15 research rocket plane, the men w...
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Death Wish
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man v...
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The People Against O'Hara
A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client....
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Cold Sweat
During the Korean War, Joe Moran, is convicted for striking a colonel. Imprisoned in Germany he enco...
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Death Wish II
Paul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter...
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Jubal
Jubal Troop is a cowboy who is found in a weakened condition, without a horse. He is given shelter a...
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Apache
Following the surrender of Geronimo, Massai, the last Apache warrior is captured and scheduled for t...
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Machine-Gun Kelly
George Kelly is angry at the world and scared to death of dying. A career bank robber, Kelly gets hi...
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Big House, U.S.A
A tough and realistic crime drama unfolds as merciless kidnapper Jerry Barker (Ralph Meeker) demands...
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St. Ives
A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers....
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Love and Bullets
Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa's goon...
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My Six Convicts
A psychologist takes on the daunting task of getting into the mind of prisoners. He must gain the tr...
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Miss Sadie Thompson
Sadie Thompson winds up stranded on an island and while her boat is being quarantined, she manages t...
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This Property Is Condemned
Owen Legate, a railroad official, comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down the local railway - the...
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The White Buffalo
In this strange western version of Moby Dick, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in ...
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4 for Texas
In the 1870s, two rival businessmen, Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, on a stagecoach heading to Galvest...
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House of Wax
A sculptor opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures, but quickly r...
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10 to Midnight
Warren Stacy, an office equipment repairman, begins murdering women after they reject his advances. ...
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Kid Galahad
After completing his military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the...
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Villa Rides
Pulled into the Mexican Revolution by his own greed, Texas gunrunner and pilot Lee Arnold joins band...
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Assassination
Jay Killon is the bodyguard of the recently elected US president, but he is assigned to the first la...
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Guns for San Sebastian
Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the ...
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Crime Wave
Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out fo...
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You're in the Navy Now
When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experim...
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The Evil That Men Do
A former assassin (Charles Bronson) comes out of retirement to avenge the brutal murder of his frien...
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Showdown at Boot Hill
Bounty hunter Luke Welsh arrives looking for a wanted man. When that man draws on him he has to kill...
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The Valdez Horses
Chino Valdez is a loner horse breeder living in the old west. Partly a loner by choice, and partly b...
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Family of Cops
Paul Fein is a veteran police detective whose son Eddie is also a cop. Paul is assigned to investiga...
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Guns of Diablo
14-year-old Kurt Russell plays Jamie, an orphaned boy heading westward with a wagon train. Charles B...
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Gang War
A Los Angeles teacher becomes a mob target when he agrees to be a star witness in a gangland murder ...
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The Sandpiper
A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian board...
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Twinky
A middle aged writer of pornographic novels meets and falls in love with a sixteen year old school g...
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Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
A brutal Los Angeles police lieutenant is determined to bust up an organization that forces underage...
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A Thunder of Drums
Captain Maddocks will never be promoted beyond Captain because of a mistake that he made in the past...
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When Hell Broke Loose
Near the end of the war in Germany, GI Steve Boland, a self-described "sharp-operator", meets a Germ...
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Off Limits
Wally Hogan has things going his way. He is the manager-trainer of Bullet Bradley, a fighter who has...
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Donato and Daughter
Though emotionally estranged, a father and daughter team of Los Angeles police detectives must work ...
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Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II
The family of cops is back, this time dealing with the murder of a priest tied in with the Russian M...
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Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion
Police Inspector Paul Fein copes with family troubles while also dealing with the possibility of adv...
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Drum Beat
President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and...
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The Bull of the West
Two episodes of the TV series "The Virginian" edited together: "Duel at Shiloh" (2 Jan. 1963) and "N...
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Riding Shotgun
When a stagecoach guard tries to warn a town of an imminent raid by a band of outlaws, the people mi...
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You Can't Win 'Em All
During the 1922 Turkish Civil War, two Americans and a group of foreign mercenaries offer their serv...
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The Meanest Men in the West
Bronson and Marvin star as murderous half-brothers who are running from the law as well as each othe...
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Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
While newspaper writer Church struggles with the death of his wife, he receives a "special" assignme...
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Bloodhounds of Broadway
A musical comedy based on several Damon Runyon short stories. When a bookie on the run, Robert 'Numb...
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Target Zero
International soldiers fight to ignore their differences while holding a hill during the Korean War....
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The Sea Wolf
Jack London's brutal Wolf Larson brings a shipwrecked aristocrat and a con woman aboard his doomed s...
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Battle Zone
Two Marine Corps combat photographers compete for the love of a Red Cross nurse during the Korean Wa...
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Rat Pack
In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Fran...
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Operation Dirty Dozen
A short film looking behind the scenes at the making of The Dirty Dozen. Showing many scenes being f...
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All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra
A Celebration of the great life of Frank Sinatra with song, dance, and many famous guests....
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Sinatra: 80 Years My Way
'Ol' Blue Eyes' eightieth birthday celebration; star-studded entertainment, tributes by a diverse co...
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No Time at All
An airliner flying nonstop at night from Miami to New York fails to check in, then disappears from r...
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Act of Vengeance
In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and be...
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Night of 100 Stars II
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a...
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Catastrophe: No Safe Place
Catastrophe-No Safe Place is a 1980's documentary series presented by Charles Bronson and Jill Irela...
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Red Skies of Montana
When a large forest fire breaks out in the mountains of Montana, a squad of 'Smoke Jumpers', the par...
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Torpedo Alley
After carrier pilot Lt Bingham is rescued at sea by a submarine when he crashes, he applies for subm...
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Mean Justice
Moreno (Bronson) is a tough ranch hand on the vast half million acre Garret Ranch. Rich in timber, ...
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The Marrying Kind
Florence and Chet Keefer have had a troublesome marriage. Whilst in the middle of a divorce hearing ...
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The Mob
An undercover officer tracks waterfront corruption from California to New Orleans and back....
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The Big Sur
This MGM short film narrated by Richard Burton promotes its upcoming major release "The Sandpiper" (...
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The Mechanic
Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem li...
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The Clown
Once a famous Ziegfeld star, Dodo Delwyn is reduced to playing clowns in burlesque and amusement par...
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La Classe américaine
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an ...
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Once Upon a Time in the West
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jil...
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Spanish Western
A vindication of the role of the technicians and artists who made spaghetti western genre possible, ...
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Valachi: The Violent Era
Promotional short taking a look at the making of The Valachi Papers....
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Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film....
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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film compa...
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Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity
With his grizzled moustache and chiselled features, Charles Bronson is the embodiment of a slightly ...
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Breakdown: 1975
In 1975, as America faced social and political upheaval, filmmakers turned chaos into art....
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Elvis: A Life in Music
A retrospective on the life of the legendary entertainer Elvis Presley, featuring the most significa...
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