Stage name Scicolone), Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky), and Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino), are four more well known examples of this trend. Similarly, retired veteran broadcaster Dave Roberts was born David T. Boreanaz but is known professionally as Dave Thomas and later Dave Roberts as ethnic surnames were discouraged when he first began his career during the 1950s; however, his son actor David Boreanaz chose not to adopt a stage name. The use of stage names for ethnic purposes may vary widely depending on the media market the personality is representing. For example, in Buffalo, New York, a city
Jack Charles (actor) Jack Charles (actor) Jack Charles (born 5 September 1943) is an Australian Aboriginal actor, musician, potter, and Aboriginal elder. His screen credits include the landmark Australian film "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith" (1978), "Bedevil" (1993), "Blackfellas" (1993), "Tom White" (2004) and "Pan" (2015), among others. Born to a Bunurong mother and Wiradjuri father at Cummeragunja Mission on the Murray River, Charles' great-great-grandfather was a Djadjawurrung man, among the activists who resisted government policy at Victoria’s Coranderrk Aboriginal Reserve in 1881. Charles was a victim of the Australian Government's forced assimilation programme which took him from his mother as an infant.