The iconic actor, Charles Bronson was born in 1921, 3rd of November. In a coal camp, at Croyle Township. He was the number nine of fifteen children.
He was raised in a shack, where his family were sleeping in shifts, since they were a large family.
He had a terrible childhood, in his hometown where there were no drinkable water, sidewalks, or trees. There were only miners and company owners. There were only coal mining, and nothing else to do.
He was an unhappy child. He was also a poor one. He was using his sister’s school uniform, and other dresses too. His father died, when he was a teen. He had to quit his school to help his family to work as a coal miner.
“During my years as a miner, I was just a kid, but I was conceived that I was the lowliest of all forms of man.” Bronson said.
He stated that he was experiencing headaches, as he was working as a child miner. Also, he developed an inferiority complex.
He revealed that many other miners had developed the inferiority complex.
“Very few people know what it is like to live down there underneath the surface of the world, in that total blackness.”
“During my years as a miner, I was just a kid, but I was convinced that I was the lowliest of all forms of man,”
After he was drafted into the army, he felt that it was a good chance for him. After he served during WWII, he then studied art, and attended to the Pasadena Playhouse in California.
In 1951, after one of his teachers was impressed by him, he acted in “You’re in the Navy Now,” and later, in 1954, he appeared in “Vera Cruz.” After that, he starred in “Machine-Gun Kelly,” in 1958.
He was not only acting, he was also working as a bricklayer, a short-order cook, and an onion-picker in New York. Then he moved to Atlantic City, he was renting benches in there.
He received his breakthrough with the 1974 movie, Death Wish.
He changed his name from Charles Dennis Buchinsky to Bronson, in the 50s, as he was thinking that his name was too Russian, during the the anti-Communist era.
But as he started to gain fame, he was facing with the traumas his childhood brought. Andrew Stevens, Bronson’s friend had stated that Bronson was trying to escape from the people, who he was thinking that threatening.
He married three times, from 1949 to 1967. He first married with Harriet Tendler, which they welcomed two children.
Then he married with Jill Ireland. They had one child together, and they stayed together until she passed away in 1990. Then he married with kim Weeks, in 1998, and they separated in 2003. After his child was passed, Bronson had raised money for the John Wayne Cancer Institute.
Sadly, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, which was stated as, “stark contrast to the high-octane vitality of his incredible life.”
Catherine Pidgeon, Bronson’s sister stated, “The family has known for almost a year that something was wrong because Charles just hasn’t been himself.”
He passed away at the age of 81, on the 20th of August, 2003, at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles.
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