His film debut was in 1951 and he spent the next two decades as a solid character actor with a rugged face, muscular physique and everyman ethnicity that kept him busy in supporting roles as indians, convicts, cowboys, boxers, and gangsters. Bronson did not rise quickly in the Hollywood ranks. But Charles Bronson could coast on presence, charisma, and silent brooding menace like no one’s business and he wound up the world’s most bankable movie star throughout most of the 1970’s. He rarely emoted or even changed his expression, and when he did speak, his voice was a reedy whisper. Of all the leading men in the history of Hollywood, Charles Bronson had the least range as an actor.
Charles Bronson was the unlikeliest of movie stars. HAPPY BRONSON-CENTENNIAL! Charles Bronson was born in Ehrenfield, PA. “It’s like killing roaches – you have to kill ’em all.
