Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson (November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor best known for his “tough guy” image, who starred in such classic films as Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, The Evil That Men Do and the popular Death Wish series. He was most often cast in the role of a policeman or gunfighter.
Bronson’s first film role was as a Polish sailor in You’re in the Navy Now in 1951, he also made several appearances on television in the 1950s and 1960s. Bronson was nominated for an Emmy Award for his supporting role in a TV episode with the title “Memory in White.” In the 1970s he became one of the top ten box-office stars. He made films in many genres including crime, western and others.
Bronson’s last starring role in a theatrically released film was 1994’s Death Wish 
V: The Face of Death. His health deteriorated in later years, and he underwent surgery in 1998. Bronson also suffered from Alzheimer’s disease.
After the war, he decided to pursue acting, not from love of it, but rather because he was impressed with the amount of money that he might be able to make. Bronson was a roommate of Jack Klugman, another struggling actor at the time. Klugman later said of Bronson that he was good at ironing clothes, and shearing sheep.
Charles Bronson gained attention in 1960 with his role in John Sturges’ western The Magnificent Seven, where he played one of seven gunfighters taking up the cause of the defenseless. Two years later, Sturges cast him for another popular Hollywood production The Great Escape as a claustrophobic Polish prisoner of war nicknamed “The Tunnel King” (coincidentally, Bronson was really claustrophobic because of his childhood work in a mine).
His first marriage was to Harriet Tendler, whom he met when both were fledgling actors in Philadelphia. They had two children before divorcing.
Bronson was married to British actress Jill Ireland from the 5th October 1968 until her death from breast cancer at age 54 in 1990. He had met her when she was married to Scottish actor David McCallum. At the time, Bronson (who shared the screen with McCallum in The Great Escape) reportedly told him, “I’m going to marry your wife.” Two years later, Bronson did just that. The Bronsons lived in a grand Bel Air mansion with seven children: two by his previous marriage, three by hers (one of whom was adopted) and two of their own (another one of whom was adopted). They also spent time in a colonial farmhouse on 260 acres in West Windsor, Vermont.
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