Charles Bronson
Born: November 3, 1921,
Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania
Died: August 30, 2003, Los Angeles, California
 Charles
Bronson (Charles Dennis Buchinsky) was an American
actor known for "tough guy" roles who starred in such
classic films as Once Upon a Time in the West,
The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen,
The Great Escape as well as many other action
melodramas, including the popular Death Wish
series, which ran for two decades. He was most often
cast as a police cop or a western gunfighter.
What do you know about Charles
Bronson? Try this quick quiz.
1. Bronson's father died when he
was only 10, and he went to work in the coal mines like
his older brothers until he entered military service
during World War II. He earned $1 per ton of coal mined.
His family was so poor that, at one time, he reportedly
had to wear his sister's dress to school because he had
nothing else to wear. True or False?
2. In 1943, Bronson joined the
United States Army Air Forces and served as an aircraft
gunner in the 760th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron,
and in 1945 as a B-29 Superfortress crewman with the
39th Bombardment Group. Where was his group based?
3. What struggling actor was
Bronson a roommate of. He later said of Bronson that he
was good at ironing clothes?
4. In 1958 he was first cast in
his first lead role in Roger Corman's a low-budget,
though well received, gangster film. What was the movie?
5. Bronson also scored the lead in
ABC's detective series (from 1958 to 1960), in which he
portrayed Mike Kovac, a former combat photographer
freelancing in New York City. Frequently, Kovac was
involved in dangerous assignments for the New York
Police Department. What was the TV series?
6. Bronson was married to British
actress Jill Ireland from 1968 until her death from
breast cancer at age 54 in 1990. He had met her when she
was married to British actor David McCallum. What movie
did McCallum and Bronson play in?
7. What was he cause of Bronson's
death?
8. Where is Charles Bronson
buried?
Answers
1. True
2. Guam
3. Jack Klugman
4.
Machine-Gun Kelly
5.
Man with a Camera
6.
The Great Escape
7. Bronson died of pneumonia while
suffering from Alzheimer's disease at Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center in Los Angeles. He had been in poor
health since undergoing hip replacement surgery in
August 1998.
8. Brownsville Cemetery, West
Windsor, Vermont
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