Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky, Lithuanian name Karolis Bučinskis, November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) 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 and the Death Wish series. In many of his roles, he played a police detective, western gunfighter, boxer, vigilante or Mafia hitman. (more)
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Genres: entertainment, actor, movies
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List of Tatars:
This is a list of notable Tatars (in the modern meaning of this term) and Volga Bulgars.
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Western (genre):
The Western is a fiction genre seen in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in what became the Western United States (known as
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Lola (1969 film):
Lola, also known as Twinky outside the United States, was a 1969 film starring Charles Bronson and Susan George. It was directed by Richard Donner. A middle aged writer of pornographic novels (Charles Bronson) meets and falls in love with a sixteen y
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The Dirty Dozen:
The Dirty Dozen is a 1967 World War II action-war film directed by Robert Aldrich, from the novel by E.M. Nathanson, featuring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Telly Savalas, Charles Bronson and NFL Hall of Famer Jim Brown. Though ostensibly about World
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Once Upon a Time in the West:
Once Upon a Time in the West (Italian title: C'era una volta il West) is a 1968 epic spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone. The film stars Henry Fonda unusually cast as the villain Frank, Charles Bronson as his nemesis "Harmonica", Jason Ro
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Breakout (film):
Breakout is a 1975 action film starring Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Robert Duvall, John Huston, and Randy Quaid. The character portrayed by John Huston frames the character portrayed by Robert Duvall - in order to keep him silent, Duvall is incarc
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Hard Times (1975 film):
Hard Times is a 1975 movie starring Charles Bronson as Chaney, a street fighter who travels to Louisiana during the Great Depression to make his living in illegal boxing matches. It is notable for being Walter Hill's directorial debut.
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Murphy's Law (film):
Murphy's Law is an action-crime film directed by J. Lee Thompson from a screenplay by Gail Morgan Hickman. It was released by Cannon Films to the United States on April 18th, 1986. The film stars Charles Bronson and Kathleen Wilhoite in lead roles wi
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Telefon:
Telefon is a 1977 spy film, starring Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence and Lee Remick. It was directed by Don Siegel (of Dirty Harry fame). It is based on a 1975 novel with a mind control theme by Walter Wager.
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Never So Few:
Never So Few is a 1959 film directed by John Sturges and starring Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Charles Bronson and Steve McQueen. The script was loosely based on an actual OSS Detachment 101 incident recorded in a 1957 novel by To
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This Property Is Condemned:
This Property Is Condemned is a 1966 film starring Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Kate Reid, Charles Bronson and Mary Badham and directed by Sydney Pollack. The screenplay was written by Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Coe and Edith Sommer. The story was s
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4 for Texas:
4 for Texas is a 1963 western comedy starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anita Ekberg, and Ursula Andress, and featuring screen thugs Charles Bronson and Mike Mazurki, with a memorable cameo appearance by the Three Stooges (Larry Fine, Moe Howard, a
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Master of the World (1961 film):
Master of the World is a 1961 science fiction film based upon the Jules Verne novels Robur the Conqueror and Master of the World. The movie stars Vincent Price, Charles Bronson, and Henry Hull, was written by Richard Matheson, and directed by William
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The White Buffalo:
The White Buffalo is a 1977 film starring Charles Bronson (as Wild Bill Hickok), Kim Novak, Jack Warden, Slim Pickens, and Will Sampson (as Chief Crazy Horse). The movie is rated PG in the USA. The film is directed by J. Lee Thompson, who frequently
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The Valachi Papers (1972 film):
The Valachi Papers is a 1972 crime movie starring Charles Bronson, Lino Ventura and directed by Terence Young. Adapted from the book by Peter Maas, it tells the true story of Joseph Valachi, who was the first Mafia informant in the early 1960s. The f
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Breakheart Pass (1975 film):
Breakheart Pass is a 1975 western adventure film that stars Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna and Jill Ireland. The film is based on the novel by Alistair MacLean of the same title.
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Death Hunt:
Death Hunt is a 1981 film starring Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Tantoo Cardinal, Angie Dickinson, Carl Weathers, Maury Chaykin, Ed Lauter and Andrew Stevens. The film was directed by Peter Hunt, and was a fictionalized account of the Royal Canadian M
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10 to Midnight:
10 to Midnight is an action-crime-thriller film directed by J. Lee Thompson from a screenplay originally written by William Roberts. The film stars Charles Bronson in the lead role with a supporting cast that includes Lisa Eilbacher, Andrew Stevens,
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Rider on the Rain:
Rider on the Rain (Fr. Le Passager de la Pluie) is a 1969 French crime thriller film starring Charles Bronson, directed by René Clément, produced by Serge Silberman, with film music composed by Francis Lai.
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The Stone Killer:
The Stone Killer is a 1973 film starring Charles Bronson directed by Michael Winner. It came out in between The Mechanic and Death Wish, all three of which teamed up actor/director Bronson and Winner. Norman Fell and John Ritter appear as cops in thi
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Chato's Land:
Chato's Land is a 1972 Western film directed by Michael Winner and starring Charles Bronson and Jack Palance.
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The Great Escape (film):
The Great Escape, written by James Clavell, W.R. Burnett, and Walter Newman (uncredited), and directed by John Sturges is a popular 1963 World War II film starring Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough and James Garner, based on a true story about Alli
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Assassination (1987 film):
Assassination is a 1987 action-thriller film about a bodyguard who is assigned to protect the First Lady of the United States against an assassination plot. The film was directed by Peter R. Hunt, and stars Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, and Stephen
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Vera Cruz (film):
Vera Cruz is a 1954 film starring Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Denise Darcel, and Cesar Romero. The Technicolor Western was directed by Robert Aldrich from a story by Borden Chase. Considered one of the most influential Western movies ever filmed, Ve
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Battle of the Bulge (film):
Battle of the Bulge is a war film released in 1965. It was directed by Ken Annakin. It starred Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Telly Savalas, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews and Charles Bronson. Battle of the Bulge had its world premiere on 16 December 1965, the
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Death Wish (film):
Death Wish is a 1974 action-crime-drama film based on the 1972 novel by Brian Garfield. The film was directed by Michael Winner and stars Charles Bronson as Paul Kersey, a man who becomes a vigilante after his wife is murdered and his daughter is sex
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X-15 (film):
X-15 is a 1961 movie that tells a fictionalized account of the X-15 research rocket plane, the men who flew it and the women who loved them. It starred David McLean, Charles Bronson, Mary Tyler Moore, Kenneth Tobey, and James Gregory and it was narra
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Death Wish II:
Death Wish II (also known as Death Wish 2 in more recent years) was a 1982 sequel to the 1974 film Death Wish. The movie starred Charles Bronson, was written by David Engelbach, and was directed by Michael Winner. The soundtrack, also titled Death Wi
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The Sandpiper:
The Sandpiper is a 1965 film starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. It was directed by Vincente Minnelli. Taylor portrays a free-spirited, unwed single mother living with her young son in an isolated beach house on the California coast. Her so
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Red Sun:
Red Sun is a film in the western genre with an international flavor. It starred the U.S. born Charles Bronson, the Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune, the French actor Alain Delon and the Swiss actress Ursula Andress. It was filmed in Spain by the British
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Death Wish 3:
Death Wish 3 is a 1985 action thriller, and the second sequel to the 1974 film Death Wish. Written by Don Jacoby (under the pseudonym Michael Edmonds), and featuring Charles Bronson returning to the role of Paul Kersey, Death Wish 3 is the last in th
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The Mechanic:
The Mechanic is a 1972 action thriller film, directed by Michael Winner. It stars Charles Bronson and Jan-Michael Vincent. The film is noted for its opening. There is no dialogue for the first 16 minutes of the film, as Arthur prepares for killing hi
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Lithuanian American:
Lithuanian Americans are citizens of the United States who are of Lithuanian ancestry. According to the 2000 US census, there are 659,992 Americans of full or partial Lithuanian descent. The states with the largest Lithuanian-American populations are
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The Mob (film):
The Mob is a 1951 crime thriller film, considered film noir, starring Broderick Crawford as a hard-nosed cop that infiltrates the Mob in order to bust their illegal dockyard activities. Actor Charles Bronson makes one of his first film appearances as
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The Marrying Kind:
The Marrying Kind (1952) is a dramedy film directed by George Cukor, starring Aldo Ray and Judy Holliday. Other cast members include John Alexander, Charles Bronson, Peggy Cass, Barry Curtis, Tom Farrell, Frank Ferguson, Ruth Gordon (who co-wrote the
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You're in the Navy Now:
You're in the Navy Now is a Hollywood film released in 1951 by Twentieth Century Fox about the United States Navy in the first months of World War II. Its initial release was titled USS Teakettle. Directed by Henry Hathaway, the film is a comedy star
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The Evil That Men Do (film):
The Evil That Men Do is a politically-oriented action film directed by J. Lee Thompson. The film was adapted by David Lee Henry and John Crowther from a novel by R. Lance Hill. It was first released by ITC Entertainment to French cinemas on March 15,
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The Evil That Men Do:
In its full length "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones." is a quote from a speech in the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. As with many Shakepeare quotes it has taken on a life of its own. It is
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Mr. Majestyk:
Mr. Majestyk is an action film released in 1974. It was directed by Richard Fleischer and starred Charles Bronson. The film is based on a novel written by Elmore Leonard. This film was one of the more popular Bronson tough-guy movies during the 1970s
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Paul Kersey (Death Wish):
Paul Kersey is a fictional main character in the Death Wish film franchise. Kersey is portrayed by Charles Bronson through out the whole series.
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Love and Bullets (1979 film):
Love and Bullets is a 1979 film directed by Stuart Rosenberg. Starring Charles Bronson in a leading role, it is based on a screenplay by Wendell Mayes (writer of the 1974 film Death Wish) and John Melson.
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La Bataille de San Sebastian:
La Bataille de San Sebastian (English title: Guns for San Sebastian) is a 1968 spaghetti western directed by Frenchman Henri Verneuil. In a rare instance this film was actually shot in Mexico instead of substituting Spain or some similar location. Th
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From Noon till Three:
From Noon Till Three was an American motion picture that was released in 1976 by United Artists. It starred Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland (Bronson's wife at the time). It was written and directed by Frank D. Gilroy, based on his novel.
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