Charles Bronson Charles Bronson Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky; ; November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor. He was often cast in the role of a police officer, gunfighter, or vigilante in revenge-oriented plot lines. He had long-term collaborations with film directors Michael Winner and J. Lee Thompson, and appeared in fifteen films alongside his second wife, Jill Ireland. Bronson was born Charles Dennis Buchinsky, the 11th of 15 children, in a Roman Catholic family of Lithuanian descent in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, in the coal region of the Allegheny Mountains north of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. His father, Valteris P.
Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914) has been the subject of two biographies: "Charles Hawtrey 1914–1988: The Man Who Was Private Widdle" (2002) by Roger Lewis and "Whatshisname: The Life and Death of Charles Hawtrey" (2010) by the broadcaster Wes Butters. BBC Radio 4 broadcast Butters's documentary, "Charles Hawtrey: That Funny Fella with the Glasses", in April 2010. John Lennon facetiously introduces the Beatles' recording of the song "Two of Us" as "'I Dig a Pygmy', by Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf Aids". Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914) George Frederick Joffre Hartree (30 November 1914 – 27 October 1988), known as Charles Hawtrey, was an English