Bronson was born as Charles Dennis Buchinsky in the notorious Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania coal-mining neighborhood of Scooptown in the Pittsburgh Tri-State area. He was one of 15 children born to a Lithuanian immigrant father of Tatar ancestry, and a Lithuanian-American mother.
Entry in Wikipedia
Amazing the amount of movies he was in, including two of my favorites, The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape. Nonetheless, so many movies.... so many movies.... The Dirty Dozen anyone?
His website, charles-bronson.com
His obituary at CNN.com.
