Charles Bronson

Charles Bronson, born Charles Dennis Buchinsky, was born on November 3, 1921 in Pennsylvania. His family was of Lithuanian origin, and since only Lithuanian and Russian were spoken in their home, he did not know much English until his teenage years. Bronson, who had a difficult childhood as the eleventh of fifteen siblings, had to work various jobs when he lost his father at an early age.

II. Bronson joined the US Army during World War II and continued to work in temporary jobs after the war. After stepping into the cinema, he started his career with extra roles in 1951 and started playing a leading role for the first time in 1958 with the movie Machine-Gun Kelly.

In 1960, he starred in The Magnificent Seven, which was the American adaptation of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's famous work Seven Samurai. Bronson, who mostly appeared in Western films during these years, successfully took part in important productions such as 1967's The Dirty Dozen and 1968's Once Upon a Time in the West.

He became widely known especially for his character Paul Kersey in the movie Death Wish, shot in 1974. After this movie, four more sequels of the series were shot, and Bronson played the same role in all of them. In the 1980s, he began to act in action films with low box office success, and public interest decreased during this period.

Bronson had a daughter with actress Jill Ireland, whom he married in 1968. Bronson, who also adopted two children named Katrina and Jason, was deeply saddened when his wife Jill died of breast cancer in 1990. Jason died at the age of 27 due to drugs. After these losses, Bronson's health problems gradually increased and he had to fight diseases such as Alzheimer's.

Charles Bronson, who struggled with health problems in the last years of his life, died of pneumonia on August 30, 2003, at the age of 81, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was treated. With his death, the world of cinema lost a powerful legend.