Date of birth: 1921-11-03
Place of birth: Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Charles Dennis Buchinsky, Le Sacre Monstre, Karolis Bučinskis, Karolis Dionyzas Bučinskis, چارلز برانسون
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.
1960-10-12
An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.
1967-06-15
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy châtea
1971-07-28
A neurosurgeon with a cheating wife takes an amnesiac into his home and conditions him to believe th
1952-06-13
During the Cold War, diplomatic courier Mike Kells must retrieve a dispatch containing top-secret in
1959-12-07
A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II.
1968-08-14
After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, a mercenary and a doctor leave the service and
1963-07-03
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number
1976-08-01
Bank robber Graham Dorsey spends a few hours with beautiful widow Amanda Starbuck, in which time his
1977-12-16
Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB age
1975-08-13
In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-b
1980-01-23
Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Naz
1975-12-09
At the height of the frontier era, a train races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission
1971-09-15
In 1870, Japanese ambassador Sakaguchi and his entourage travel by train to Washington to deliver a
1975-05-21
A bush pilot is hired for $50,000 to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner.
1970-09-17
A hitman is double-crossed by his girlfriend and barely escapes a murder attempt. He then sets out t
1980-12-19
Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has jus
1976-12-26
Based on a true operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the Popular Fron
1985-11-01
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked
1991-09-20
Two brothers cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in e
1987-06-11
After the death of his girlfriend's daughter from a drug overdose, Paul Kersey takes on the local dr
1986-04-18
A tough police detective escapes from custody after being framed and arrested for the murder of his
1981-04-15
Yukon Territory, Canada, November 1931. Albert Johnson, a trapper who lives alone in the mountains,
1952-06-13
Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf
1972-01-06
When Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps to p
1972-05-25
In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventua
1988-09-16
A Denver reporter investigates the mass murder of a family of Mormons in rural Colorado.
1974-07-17
A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him.
1973-08-08
A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Maf
1954-12-25
After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. T
1970-01-21
A US Army colonel in France tries to track down an escaped sex maniac.
1965-12-16
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year.
1994-01-14
Paul Kersey is back at working vigilante justice when his fiancée, Olivia, has her business threaten
1957-09-05
When the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O'Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, takes a wife a
1961-12-22
X-15 is a 1961 movie that tells a fictionalized account of the X-15 research rocket plane, the men w
1974-07-24
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man v
1951-09-01
A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.
1970-12-18
During the Korean War, Joe Moran, is convicted for striking a colonel. Imprisoned in Germany he enco
1982-02-20
Paul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter
1956-02-25
Jubal Troop is a cowboy who is found in a weakened condition, without a horse. He is given shelter a
1954-07-09
Following the surrender of Geronimo, Massai, the last Apache warrior is captured and scheduled for t
1958-05-01
George Kelly is angry at the world and scared to death of dying. A career bank robber, Kelly gets hi
1955-03-03
A tough and realistic crime drama unfolds as merciless kidnapper Jerry Barker (Ralph Meeker) demands
1976-02-24
A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers.
1979-04-05
Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa's goon
1952-03-20
A psychologist takes on the daunting task of getting into the mind of prisoners. He must gain the tr
1953-12-23
Sadie Thompson winds up stranded on an island and while her boat is being quarantined, she manages t
1966-08-03
Owen Legate, a railroad official, comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down the local railway - the
1977-05-01
In this strange western version of Moby Dick, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in
1963-12-21
In the 1870s, two rival businessmen, Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, on a stagecoach heading to Galvest
1953-04-16
A sculptor opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures, but quickly r
1983-03-11
Warren Stacy, an office equipment repairman, begins murdering women after they reject his advances.
1962-11-29
After completing his military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the
1968-05-29
Pulled into the Mexican Revolution by his own greed, Texas gunrunner and pilot Lee Arnold joins band
1987-01-09
Jay Killon is the bodyguard of the recently elected US president, but he is assigned to the first la
1968-03-20
Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the
1953-10-22
Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out fo
1951-02-23
When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experim
1984-03-14
A former assassin (Charles Bronson) comes out of retirement to avenge the brutal murder of his frien
1961-05-01
A mad genius tries to bomb the world into peace.
1958-05-01
Bounty hunter Luke Welsh arrives looking for a wanted man. When that man draws on him he has to kill
1973-09-14
Chino Valdez is a loner horse breeder living in the old west. Partly a loner by choice, and partly b
1995-11-26
Paul Fein is a veteran police detective whose son Eddie is also a cop. Paul is assigned to investiga
1964-10-04
14-year-old Kurt Russell plays Jamie, an orphaned boy heading westward with a wagon train. Charles B
1958-07-01
A Los Angeles teacher becomes a mob target when he agrees to be a star witness in a gangland murder
1965-06-23
A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian board
1970-01-06
A middle aged writer of pornographic novels meets and falls in love with a sixteen year old school g
1989-02-03
A brutal Los Angeles police lieutenant is determined to bust up an organization that forces underage
1961-09-26
Captain Maddocks will never be promoted beyond Captain because of a mistake that he made in the past
1958-11-01
Near the end of the war in Germany, GI Steve Boland, a self-described "sharp-operator", meets a Germ
1952-12-30
Wally Hogan has things going his way. He is the manager-trainer of Bullet Bradley, a fighter who has
1993-09-21
Though emotionally estranged, a father and daughter team of Los Angeles police detectives must work
1997-02-02
The family of cops is back, this time dealing with the murder of a priest tied in with the Russian M
1999-01-12
Police Inspector Paul Fein copes with family troubles while also dealing with the possibility of adv
1954-11-10
President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and
1972-05-04
Two episodes of the TV series "The Virginian" edited together: "Duel at Shiloh" (2 Jan. 1963) and "N
1954-04-01
When a stagecoach guard tries to warn a town of an imminent raid by a band of outlaws, the people mi
1970-07-23
During the 1922 Turkish Civil War, two Americans and a group of foreign mercenaries offer their serv
1978-05-04
Bronson and Marvin star as murderous half-brothers who are running from the law as well as each othe
1991-12-08
While newspaper writer Church struggles with the death of his wife, he receives a "special" assignme
1952-11-14
A musical comedy based on several Damon Runyon short stories. When a bookie on the run, Robert 'Numb
1955-11-15
International soldiers fight to ignore their differences while holding a hill during the Korean War.
1954-03-03
A boxer desperate for money falls in with a shady promoter.
1993-04-18
Jack London's brutal Wolf Larson brings a shipwrecked aristocrat and a con woman aboard his doomed s
1952-10-26
Two Marine Corps combat photographers compete for the love of a Red Cross nurse during the Korean Wa
2022-01-11
In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Fran
2006-01-01
A short film looking behind the scenes at the making of The Dirty Dozen. Showing many scenes being f
1983-12-11
A Celebration of the great life of Frank Sinatra with song, dance, and many famous guests.
1995-12-14
'Ol' Blue Eyes' eightieth birthday celebration; star-studded entertainment, tributes by a diverse co
1958-02-13
An airliner flying nonstop at night from Miami to New York fails to check in, then disappears from r
1986-09-04
In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and be
1985-03-10
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a
1980-09-18
Catastrophe-No Safe Place is a 1980's documentary series presented by Charles Bronson and Jill Irela
1952-01-23
When a large forest fire breaks out in the mountains of Montana, a squad of 'Smoke Jumpers', the par
1953-12-25
After carrier pilot Lt Bingham is rescued at sea by a submarine when he crashes, he applies for subm
1971-02-08
Moreno (Bronson) is a tough ranch hand on the vast half million acre Garret Ranch. Rich in timber,
1952-02-01
Florence and Chet Keefer have had a troublesome marriage. Whilst in the middle of a divorce hearing
1951-09-07
An undercover officer tracks waterfront corruption from California to New Orleans and back.
1965-05-01
This MGM short film narrated by Richard Burton promotes its upcoming major release "The Sandpiper" (
1972-10-06
Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem li
1953-01-16
Once a famous Ziegfeld star, Dodo Delwyn is reduced to playing clowns in burlesque and amusement par
1993-12-31
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an
1968-12-21
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jil
2015-05-04
A vindication of the role of the technicians and artists who made spaghetti western genre possible,
1972-01-01
Promotional short taking a look at the making of The Valachi Papers.
1987-05-18
A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film.
1986-11-30