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 Coleman (actor) Charles Coleman (actor) Charles Pearce Coleman (December 22, 1885 – March 8, 1951) was an Australian-born American character actor of the silent and sound film eras. Coleman began his film career in the 1915 silent film, "The Mummy and the Humming Bird", which was also the screen debut of Charles Cherry, a noted stage actor. In his over 200 performances in films, he would appear in over half of them as either a butler, doorman/concierge, valet, or waiter. The 1930s would see Coleman appear in such notable films as "Beyond Victory" (1931), starring Bill Boyd and James Gleason, the Wheeler