Charles Bronson

Charles Bronson (English: Charles Bronson, November 3, 1921 - August 30, 2003), an American actor, was born in Pennsylvania to a family of Tatar immigrants from Lithuania. Known for starring in action movies, he won the 1976 Golden Globe Award for "The World's Most Popular Entertainer". Bronson, who was born into abject poverty, worked in a mine when he was young until he joined the U.S. Army Air Forces in 1943 to fight in World War II. After retiring, he joined a theater troupe and studied acting. He began playing various supporting roles in films and television in the 1950s, and his performance in the 1958 film "Machine Gun Kelly" was his first leading role. He played heavy supporting roles in "The Magnificent Seven" (1960), "The Third Concentration Camp" (1963), "Pengmen Jasper's Beauty Tears" (1966) and "Commando" (1967). On television, she was nominated for an Emmy Award for an episode of "GE Playhouse." Afterwards, actor Alain Delon (a fan of Bronson) hired him to co-star in the French film "Goodbye" (1968), and in the same year he played one of the leading roles in the spaghetti western "The Sands", and Bronson was becoming a big star in Europe. Bronson went on to star in a number of action, Western and war films produced in Europe, including Strangers in the Rain (1970), which won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Finally, he returned to the United States and collaborated with director Michael Weiner on many occasions, including "Wolf" (1972), "Dragon" (1972), "The Devil" (1973), and "Stranger Things" (1974). At this point, Bronson became the world's number one box office star, with each film grossing $1 million. Among them, he played an architect-turned-vigilante in "Stranger Things" and became a representative character for the rest of his acting career. Although the film was controversial, it was a box office success and spawned four sequels. Until his retirement in the late 1990s and his death in 2003, Bronson starred almost exclusively in action films, often working with director J. Lee Thompson, and also appeared in television movies. In 1991, he participated in "Brotherhood" directed by Sean Penn.