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 Brown (actor) Dew"; and Wilson's "Fences" (1987), in which he portrayed the older son of a character played by James Earl Jones. Television credits included the New York City-shot series "Kojak", "The Cosby Show", "Law & Order", "", and "The Equalizer". In the 1983 TV series "Kennedy", he portrayed the civil rights leader Martin Luther King. Brown was married to Renee Lescook. He died of prostate cancer in Cleveland, Ohio, where he lived. Charles Brown (actor) Charles Brown (January 15, 1946 – January 8, 2004) was an American actor and a member of New York City, New York theater troupe the Negro