Charles Bronson with, secondarily, "chronic obstructive pulmonary disease" and "congestive cardiomyopathy" as the causes of death. He was interred at Brownsville Cemetery in West Windsor, Vermont. 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
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.