Charles Bronson - biography

“I got the job because I could belch on cue.”

“Stripping naked is not entertainment.  It’s for voyeurs and I’m damned sure I’m not going to feed their imaginations and let them get their licks from seeing me totally nude.”

“Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.”

“I don’t have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances.  No friends.  I figured I had a wife and children.”

“I guess [my face] looks like a rock quarry that somebody has dynamited.”

“I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.”

“Maybe I’m too masculine.  Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image.  Maybe I don’t look like anybody’s ideal.”

“Thing I look forward to the most about retiring is not having to worry about my weight.”

“I don’t look like someone who leans on a mantelpiece with a cocktail in my hand, you know.”

“I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish.  You can’t be detached.  She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind.”

“I wouldn’t tell Jill how I felt.  I behaved in such a way that was opposite to how I felt.  I must have seemed strong to her.  I didn’t want to bring her down.”

“Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.  You always worry about charlatans.  We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought.”

“The fear really hits you.  That’s what you feel first.  And then it’s the anger and frustration.  Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.”

“There’s a lot of pear-shaped critics, like that Jay Cocks, who think if an actor’s in shape, he can’t be any good.  One way or another, I’ll get that man.”

“We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought.  So, you think maybe there are other answers.  There are not but if you belief something will help you it probably will: it will help, not cure.”

“What kind of man would I have been if I had not been there to help her?  I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish.  You can’t be detached.”

Charles Bronson has appeared in the following films:
You’re in the Navy Now (1951)
The People Against O’Hara (1951)
The Mob (1951)
Red Skies of Montana (1952)
The Marrying Kind (1952)
My Six Convicts (1952)
Pat and Mike (1952)
Diplomatic Courier (1952)
Battle Zone (1952)
Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952)
The Clown (1953)
Torpedo Alley (1953)
Off Limits (1953)
House of Wax (1953)
Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)
Crime Wave (1954)
Tennessee Champ (1954)
Riding Shotgun (1954)
Apache (1954)
Drum Beat (1954)
Vera Cruz (1954)
Big House, U.S.A. (1955)
Target Zero (1955)
Jubal (1956)
Run of the Arrow (1957)
Showdown at Boot Hill (1958)
Ten North Frederick (1958)
Machine-Gun Kelly (1958)
Gang War (1958)
When Hell Broke Loose (1958)
Never So Few (1959)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Master of the World (1961)
A Thunder of Drums (1961)
X-15 (1961)
This Rugged Land (1962)
Kid Galahad (1962)
The Great Escape (1963)
4 for Texas (1963)
Guns of Diablo (1964)
The Sandpiper (1965)
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
This Property Is Condemned (1966)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
La Bataille de San Sebastian (1968)
Villa Rides (1968)
Adieu l’ami (1968)
C’era una volta il West (1968)
Twinky (1969)
Le Passager de la pluie (1969)
You Can’t Win ’Em All (1970)
Città violenta (1970)
De la part des copains (1970)
Quelqu’un derrière la porte (1971)
Soleil rouge (1971)
The Valachi Papers (1972)
Chato’s Land (1972)
The Mechanic (1972)
The Stone Killer (1973)
Valdez, il mezzosangue (1973)
Mr. Majestyk (1974)
Death Wish (1974)
Breakout (1975)
Hard Times (1975)
Breakheart Pass (1975)
St. Ives (1976)
From Noon Till Three (1976)
The White Buffalo (1977)
Telefon (1977)
Love and Bullets (1979)
Caboblanco (1980)
Borderline (1980)
Death Hunt (1981)
Death Wish II (1982)
10 to Midnight (1983)
The Evil That Men Do (1984)
Death Wish 3 (1985)
Murphy’s Law (1986)
Assassination (1987)
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)
Messenger of Death (1988)
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989)
The Indian Runner (1991)
Death Wish V: The Face of Death (1994)