@@brando7266 you too lazy to type out “you” what are you 12 years old? I said “one” of the greatest actors that doesn’t mean Brando can’t be one of them too, genius.
Charles Bronson was always my favorite actor. The quite relax personality. He kept in great physical condition something most actors back then did not bother exercising
Charles Bronson was one of a kind. I knew about his hardship when growing up but I must admit I didn't know about his purple heart for his service in the war. A true hero and one of my favorite actors ever. RIP Mr. Bronson
I've always been impressed by the way he seemed to keep himself in good physical shape despite his age. He was 50 or 51 years old when he did the movie "Chato's Land" in 1972 playing a half breed Indian and I envied his great physique in that movie.
I remember watching his movies as a little girl and always wishing I had a father like him because my own father was absent from my life. The tough guy persona appealed to me for reasons I didn't understand at the time. In Death Wish and other movies, I saw him as a man with a hard exterior but with a gentle giant interior. According to the facts in this video, I can understand and empathize with his complexities. I actually have a few of these myself and many of our childhood experiences although seperated by a different time and place, strangely seem to run parallel.
The original 'Magnificent Seven" was the greatest western ever! I saw that when I was about 13 years-old, and we kids talked about 'those badass gunfighters' for a long time! LOL!!
Bronson is my favorite movie actor. He has starred in more great movies than anyone else. My all-time favorites are The Magnificent Seven, Great Escape, Dirty Dozen, Once Upon a Time, Chato's Land, The Mechanic, Mr. Majestyk, Death Wish, and Hard Times. He has always been criminally underrated as an actor. He should've won an Oscar for the original Death Wish. His performance is at times, happy, sad, frightened, fatigued, and of course menacing. He has always represented courage to me. I miss him. Today's Hollywood stars don't hold a candle to his greatness.
For myself, when it comes to male stars, it's a fourway tie between Bronson, Bogart, Langcaster and Schwarzenegger! I have more of their films than anybody else! Rather than say who was the "best" I usually punk out and say they never phoned in a performance; my eyes were always glued to the screen!
@@williamhelm6632 "Sampano is here!" I like his work, but not as much as the guys I listed! The films in my collection are a fraction of the movies I've enjoyed in which they've appeared! BTW LOVED Quinn as Gauguin!
When Charles Bronson passed away in 2003, l was surprised that they mentioned only Death Wish. While he may have found a higher degree of success with this genre, he made numerous movies that showed his versatility as a actor. I always thought he was a no nonsense man. Loved his movies. I think he deserves another look from the academy of motion picture. I think he was a much better actor than given credit for. Thanks for sharing. Be safe.
@@rogerchoate8899 True, I also love COLD SWEAT and DEATH WISH 1 & 3 but "From Noon..." is a delightful change of pace from most of his filmography! Also, check out his MAN WITH A CAMERA TV series if it's still in print! I think I saw it on Hulu back when it was still free!
in 1991-92 I worked in Snowmass Village CO at the reservations office and took his reservations for his Xmas family holidays. I remember our little talk about the great Westerns including his Once Upon a Time....' and when I mentioned liking the classic Peckinpah 'The Wild Bunch, he responded with..."The Wild Bunch was a great film". Such a cool personality and gracious.
I just read a story about a young boy who lost his leg after he tripped and skinned his knee on the sidewalk. Essential or not, it’s reasonable for humans to fear things like germs and fire.
Even the name alone is the most badass there ever was. Seconded perhaps by Chuck Norris or just STALLONE. Well, then there is of course Mr. T, which sounds a lot tougher than Mr. Coffee actually.
That is an amazing film. You spend the first half going "Huh?" But it all comes together in the end. Man with a Camera is worth checking out, it was a TV series Charles did.
@@1978garfield I nearly died of boredom during the first half of the film but made myself watch it as my Dad thinks it's marvellous. It's a slow movie, I'd never watch it again but as a piece of art cinema it's terrific.
im a big charles bronson fan and always thought of him as the average man that worked hard all his life. he is what this country is made of. charles bronson is what america represents.
Bronson seemed like a well-grounded, down to esrth person and he truly loved Jill Ireland. His acting seemed so natural, like he wasn't acting. The Great Escape, Mr Majestyk, so many more. He wad cool.
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams..
I've always enjoyed watching Charles Bronson on screen. Sure, he did play some heavies -- he oozed strength on the screen without even trying, but he was rather quiet in real life, and worked well on screen with his wife, Jill Ireland, in a few movies. Good actor and nice person.
...no mention of his great role in the Magnificent Seven, where he was one of those who sacrificed his life to protect the children who adored him in life and death.
I've remember in the 1980's Charles Bronson he made good-movies in brooklyn newyork , in east newyork brooklyn , he was one ofthe best actor's of the 70' s , 80 's .
In 1943, Bronson enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces and served as an aerial gunner in the 760th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, and in 1945 as a Boeing B-29 Superfortress crewman with the 39th Bombardment Group based on Guam. he also received a purple heart for wounds received in battle.
I’ve always liked him. I used to watch the western channel with my aging mother. Charles Bronson showed up many times on the old tv westerns of the fifties.
Once Upon a Time in the West is the most brilliant and best western ever. I remember watching it for the first time when it came out. I was traumatized by the beginning, the scene with Henry Fonda (Frank) when his name was said and the consequences. I was very young and Henry Fonda was a favorite actor of mine and always a good guy. I still remember the shock lol. Bronson was brilliantly stoic and Claudia Cardinale, Jack Elam, and especially Jason Robards were amazing. I still cry when I watch it.
He was first choice for the spaghetti westerns that Mr Eastwood took on..... Can you imagine what a good job he would've done🎬 Death wish came about at a time we needed a hero, to pull us out of sutch DARK TIME'S.. I guess he's back with the woman he truly loved 😍 Bless his SOUL🙏😇💪💯🇬🇧
His best moment in Death Wish 2 when he asks a bad guy with a cross dangling on his neck " So , You Believe In Jesus " Bad Guy " Yes I Do " Charles " Well , You're Gonna Meet Him " 🔫
One time in 1969 when I was a baby mr Bronson and his beautiful wife were in grand central station along side of my mom and noticed me and asked if they could hold me and they did. What an honor it is to be held by them
I am most surprise d about his true personality, in 1981 a man called on my new homes for sale ad in the paper, he asked how i could build new houses for such low prices, he sounded exactly like Charles Bronson, but denied it when I asked...I still think it was probably him...my own father worked in a coal mine under Stalin....concentration camp conditions....only 25% of the men survived. Bronson has always been one of my favorite actors
I've always enjoyed Charles Bronson. I guess it started with his parts in westerns 1st, thru all the Death Wish movies & everything else I could find thru the years. I believe he was also a boxer in his early years.
With all due respect,....... Charles Bronson became a star in Europe first. However, he was already a famous and well-known actor in the U.S. He had already played several leading roles in movies and TV series in the 1950s and '60s. In order to achieve a certain status, one has to be well known and have certain fame....... Fame and stardom are two different things....... Please do not confuse one with the other.
According to IMDB Bronson's first acting credit was on TV in 1949, but soon after his first film was in the service comedy You're in the Navy Now starring Gary Cooper just a few years later as a Sailor. The film had many future tough guys and TV Icons such as Lee Marvin's in an uncredited role like Bronson, another was Eddie Albert of Green Acres fame as an Officer who like the other characters fought the ship's quirky engine at the center of the film. A very young Jack Webb of Dragnet fame also played another Officer that went into the boxing ring when Bronson's character was hurt by the engine but in the end all involved got to join a convoy once the " USS Teakettle" got a Diesel engine after the Navy gave up on its experiment power plant. Indeed Bronson did more TV in his career than he did films like The Great Escape and though Death Wish was his most remembered role his Tough Guy persona was well established in films like The Mechanic before it and others. Like many working actors in the 1950s thru the 1960s he often did more TV roles than films because studios went into the new medium as films were no longer the main entertainment they once were when it arrived and he acted in some way just a few years before he passed away at 81 in 2003. But many recalled that the loss of Jill Clayberg to cancer was when he truly began to leave this earth and missed her everyday carrying small part of her ashes with him where he went supposedly in a cane he used until his was mixed with hers soon after his own death nearly 20yrs ago...
I wasn’t really surprised about the languages or that he was more popular in Europe first… I think I’ve seen a video about him already. Thank you very much for the very good video!
Charles Bronson, WOW he was a hunk, I loved him in the scene Chino , also Death Wish, and The Dirty Dozen.. oh heck, I loved him in all the movies that he played in... The one movie he played in was Apache I think! It has been a long time since I saw that movie.. HE WAS GREAT.. I MISS HIM........Thank you Mr. Charles Bronson for the memories.....
A great actor. Always saw him as the strong silent type with a lot more going on beneath the surface. Handsome man, very intelligent. Didn't know that he could speak so many languages. One of the American Greats. Nx😘
I love Charles Bronson! Sly Stallone said that Bronson was very un-Hollywood: avoided the limelight, scandals, etc. He was a family man. And, he had a rigorous workout program. RIP
Yeah The Mechanic. One of my all time favorites. Now I gotta go watch it again. Then maybe Red Sun again too. Annnnndd Dirty Dozen and The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, Showdown at Boothill. Crap, there goes my sleep for the week.
I REMEMBER MEETING MR BRONSON AND HIS WIFE JILL IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA, WHILE SHOOTING A MOVIE. I ACTUALLY TALKED TO HER, AND FINALLY HIM ON THE PHONE, THEY JUST PUT THE PHONE CALL THROUGH TO THEM, HARD TO BELIEVE, HUH? JILL TOLD ME WHERE THEY WOULD BE, AND WHEN, OUT BY THE POOL EATING LUNCH, AND WHAT TIME ALSO. MY MOTHER AND I WERE THERE, SAT DOWN, TABLES WERE EMPTY, THEN CAME THE BRONSON PARTY, SITTING ONLY 2 TABLES AWAY FROM US. HAD OUR LUNCH. THEY COULD HAVE SAT ANYWHERE IN THE PATIO, ANYWHERE, AND WHERE DID THEY SIT, WITHIN BREATHING ROOM OF US, VERY EXCITING. JILL SAID YOU CAN TAKE PHOTOS OF HIM/US, BUT, HE DOES NOT POSE FOR PHOTOS, SO DO NOT ASK HIM, SO, WE DID'NT. KNEW THAT CHARLES AND HIS DAUGHTER WAS GOING TO BE AT THE MINI GOLF COURSE AT THE HOTEL, AND WHEN. WE SHOWED UP, WATCHED THEM PLAY FOR AWHILE, WALKED OVER TO THEM, AND SAID A FEW THINGS, ASKED FOR HIS AUTOGRAPH, HE SIGNED IT, WE WISHED HIM GREAT SUCCESS ON HIS NEW MOVIE, AND LEFT. OH, I FORGOT ONE THING, WHEN SPEAKING TO JILL, SHE SAID THAT CHARLES IS JUST LIKE YOU SEE HIM ON CAMERA, ROUGH, GROUGH, IF YOU HAVE NOTHING TO SAY THAT INTERESTS HIM, HE WILL NOT RESPOND, IF IT IS NOT INTERESTING TO TALK ABOUT, THEN HE SAYS NOTHING. VERY TRUE, BUT HE WAS STILL VERY NICE TO SPEAK TO, AS WELL AS JILL. I SPOKE TO HER ON THE PHONE 2 TIMES, EACH ABOUT 20 MINUTES. WAS VERY EXCITING FOR US. I SHOWED HIM A COLLAGE OF PHOTOS OF HIM I HAD COLLECTED, AND PLACED ON MY WALL, HE HAD A HUGE SMILE ON HIS FACE. SO GOOD LOOKING, SO KIND, VERY SWEET. WILL NEVER FORGET THIS EXCITING TIME OF MY LIFE. LOST THE COLLAGE OVER THE YEARS, VERY SAD ABOUT THAT, BUT WILL NEVER FORGET THE DAY I MET HIM AND HIS WIFE, AND DAUGHTER. LOVE THIS MAN, AND JILL ALSO, OF CORSE. WONDER WHAT THEIR DAUGHTER IS DOING NOWDAYS. WILL HAVE TO CHECK IT OUT IF I CAN.
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I was amazed to find out he was a germaphobe . I guess everyone has their idiosyncrasies . No one ever seems to talk about his physique . Let's face it the man was built and it appears that he was blessed with that body and didn't do anything to maintain it especially if he'd been smoking since he was nine . Amazing . I liked a lot of his movies . Chato's Land , Hard Times , Once Upon A time In The West and The Great Escape to name a few . Gone but not forgotten .
That Henry Fonda was repulsed by the Death Wish script and Bronson jumped on it tells me what I already guessed, that Bronson was the Alpha male of the two.
@@Bodiddly55 Also Fonda was already an established movie actor long before the eighties and had the option of choosing his roles carefully. Bronson saw an opportunity to possibly establish himself like the tough persona we all loved about him. Noon to three is one of my favorite movies. he excelled as a true actor in that along with Ireland his wife.
And don't forget it was Charles Bronson vs Henry Fonda (Fonda's only really bad guy role that he did with perfection except Sergio Leon wanted no eye lenses to cover Fonda's baby blues) at the end of Leon's masterpiece Once Upon A Time In The West. The gunfight just as memorable as Leon's Dollar Trilogy and of course, The Good The Bad And The Ugly.
Soooo, for a "Crazy cool," smart, hard working stoic that he was... he was quite sane, in an increasing more insane world. !(: THANKS Mr. Buchinsky and may you R.I.P. :)!
I worked in the Paramount Studios mailroom back in the late-80's and used to park my motorcycle just to the right side of the Bronson Gate, back when the studio's property ended there, just before the expansion that swallowed up the original Western Costumes building right across the street. Bronson was the name of the street that ran north and south on the east side of the lot. But an older security guard who was working the Bronson Gate one day told me he knew Bronson from his pre-star days and that the actor took the name from the gate, not the road when he would stand around for hours a the gate, hoping to get picked as an extra back in the days before Central Casting's background players' department existed and hopefuls would stand, waiting to be picked out for a job that day. And actor Jack Klugman's name was pronounced "Clug-men" not Kloog-men."
Very great actor liked him right away loved him in once upon a time in the west. Didn't know he could talk .to other languages he was right for death wish and others that he did better actors then not now. Xx
not only was he was recognized in Europe prior to the US, he was also famous in the far east long before America. Bronson was a big hit and a well known actor there way back. He was an icon in Asia.
I really liked Bronson in the French movie called Passenger In The Rain (also called Rider In The Rain) with Marlene Jobert, as well as other movies he was in, but this French movie was kind of special. I also liked him in the TV Series called Man With A Camera. He was a great actor. Marlene Jobert was also one of my favourite actresses, so this film was a double like for me.
It might not or wouldn't be "considered" so by a world gone mad, yet it remains as irrational a fear as one can develop and harbor. Sad times in which we live, indeed. Logical, level-headed, fact-based behavior supplanted by hysteria, superstition, myth and the ever convenient talisman eg. the moron-mask
@@manofiske3318 Yeah, very sad times, especially when fools spread disinformation, ignore the science, believe snake oil right wing fake politicians and lie about masks or vaccines being a giant conspiracy.
Make that majority most of the underrated actors of the 1960s through 1980s , Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood, Steve McQueen, Chuck Norris and more. Unfortunately those times are gone now we have soy betas of Hollyweird.
Great American actor who loved his country and as for him being a big star in Europe first , The magnificant seven , the great escape, the Dirty dozen, Machine gun Kelly, four for Texas, Battle of the Bulge, This Property is condemned , all made before 1968, his reputation was always that of a professional and in America he had a huge following all before 1968.
He was my mom favorite actor. I remember her mentioning his name thru out most of my youth. Though I doubt she knew how good of a person he also was off screen. R.I.P. Charlie Bronson!
@@FactsVerse The death wish series. I still have a lot of Bronson’s archives to go thru, especially his early work. Still have yet to see magnificent 7.
Great video ..shame you didn't include a clip from "Once Upon A Time In The West " ..especially when hes asked " Will you come back " That look he gives...is awesome!
He grew up being a coal miner. Clostrophobia . When he was no longer afraid of it , he had no fear of anything .including actors. It was said that he was very nice to anyone who approached and wanted a autograph that he would ask them what do you do . Had been in war . He was born poor .Truly a American treasure .he was even a shoe shine boy in West Virginia he is from wheeling .
That was interesting. I was more impressed with how many languages he spoke. I wasn't surprised that he changed his name. They almost all do that. Actors from then to now are so different in their personalities. He was classy and even kept his fear of germs to himself. Today they boast about their fear of germs while they display how they wear gloves to shake hands with fans, which is why I don't believe most of them. And back then they liked being Americans and didn't want any parts of marxism. Today they talk about the reasons they hate American and push for things like Marxism. But anyway, this was a great video on Charles Bronson.
I remember reading that he was demanding $1 million for one movie. I believe that was in the 1970’s. He was also in old western shows on TV. Bonanza wagon train and some twilight zone episodes.
The first time I saw Bronson he played a rough looking softie! I only remember that there was a little blind girl who had befriended him. He loved this little girl and was happy that she would be getting her sight back even tho she would see what he really looked like when she did. I will never forget the look of sheer happiness on his face when his looks didn’t frighten her. His looks didn’t change her love for him. It was a tv program but I can remember nothing else! It shaped Bronson in my mind as a man of gentle kindness. I was a young girl but I couldn’t help but feel his appeal to women even if I didn’t understand it! I’m now a 75yr old who remembers how he made my heart flutter so long go! Does anyone else remember this show? I somehow remember, “tomatoes,” played a part! Of course at 75 my memory “may” be a bit faulty! Lol
