In interviews, he came across as resentful of those he deemed media darlings, largely actors with intensive stage training. Critics, he said, never pay to see films anyway.
Bronson received critical drubbings for many of these parts, but the actor was not fazed.
Under De Laurentiis, he headlined three films that, cumulatively, made more than $150 million: "The Valachi Papers," in which he plays an aging mob informer "The Stone Killer," as a police detective and "Death Wish," as an architect who hunts down the thugs who murdered his wife and raped his daughter.
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He got his first role, in "You're in the Army Now" (1951), by convincing the director he could burp on cue.įeatured roles in such action films as "The Magnificent Seven" (1960), "The Great Escape" (1963), "Battle of the Bulge" (1965) and "The Dirty Dozen" (1967) brought him accolades as a quietly forceful screen personality, but he found leading roles elusive because of his worn facial features.Īfter making a greater impression in European productions, including Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West" (1969), he came to full promise as a film star in the early 1970s after signing with producer Dino De Laurentiis. After brief stage training, he entered films, usually as a heavy or some swarthy secondary character. Bronson was a coal miner, onion picker and short-order cook before stumbling into acting after World War II. "You take something away from the kids, the next generation, you steal away giving them anything to look up to." "When you see weakness in a hero, you are doing something to his identity," he once told The Washington Post. He said he believed in his characters' basic, uncomplicated integrity and winced at more-nuanced portrayals. He shunned the Hollywood party circuit, held film critics and most actors in disdain and liked to showcase himself as an antidote to the sensitive, self-doubting 1970s male. Bronson, who rose from dire poverty to become one of the world's most recognized and wealthiest stars, said he identified with lone-man roles. Bronson's characters coolly dispatched their nemeses without much talk. But where Callahan used one-liner, "make-my-day" wit before disposing of his enemies, Mr. In reaction to tales of urban violence, "one-man wrecking crew" movies found a wide audience, most notably with Clint Eastwood as "Dirty Harry" Callahan. Bronson, whose characters only sought some solitude, was pushed by larger forces into hunting down street punks, organized crime figures, corrupt landowners and other societal scum. It was not unusual for theatergoers to applaud wildly as Mr.
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Bronson, laconic and leathery, once described himself as resembling "a rock quarry that someone has dynamited." An unlikely movie hero, he spent years in obscurity before becoming one of the most popular film personalities of the 1970s and 1980s in the "Death Wish" series and violent revenge dramas such as "Mr. The actor, whose death was announced a day later, had Alzheimer's disease and was reported to be 81. We kept in touch.Charles Bronson, the poker-faced actor who became a screen star in his fifties by playing quiet, iron-willed vigilantes with nothing to lose, died Aug. I was very sad to hear about Paula as she was a nice girl. They just split up because she took drugs. He immediately called his mother, 88-year-old Eira, who reportedly said: “I could tell Charlie was upset. The news of Williamson’s death was broken to Bronson in his cell at HMP Woodhill, Buckinghamshire. The first person she wanted to tell about us getting married was Charlie. I’d like to think we could've become friends. Paula always thought it might be nice for me and him to meet, so he could see that she had met a genuine man who she loved very much. He always said to Paula - good luck in life and I hope you find someone who will be able to look after you properly.
"If Charlie wanted to meet me, I would quite happily visit. "Before we announced to everybody, she wanted to tell Charlie about me first, out of respect, which I completely agreed with,” said Jones. Jones revealed that the couple had kept their relationship quiet, but Williamson wanted to let Bronson know she had a new man in her life out of respect to him. "I was going to buy her some jewelry and a ring," he added.
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