Bronson (film) Bronson (film) Bronson is a 2008 British biographical crime drama film co-written and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and starring Tom Hardy as Michael Peterson, known from 1987 as Charles Bronson. The film follows the life of this notorious prisoner, known for violent attacks against other prisoners, guards, and governors in prison; protests, armed robbery, and art. He was renamed Charles Bronson by his fight promoter, for his bare-knuckle fighting years. Born into a respectable middle-class family, Peterson became known as one of the United Kingdom's most dangerous prisoners. Because of his violence, Bronson was repeatedly put into isolation or
Michael Shapiro (actor) Michael Shapiro (actor) Michael David Shapiro (born 1966) is an American actor, voice actor and theatre director. Michael Shapiro was born in 1966 in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1987 he helped launch the Annex Theater and performed in many of their productions. For a time he lived in Seattle until moving to Brooklyn, New York in 2000. He is of Jewish descent. Michael Shapiro is most famous for voicing Barney Calhoun and the G-Man in all of the games of the "Half-Life series". Other video games in which he is credited as “Mike Shapiro” are "Freddi Fish 4: The Case of