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.
Tom Hickey (actor) Bernard Farrell, and Marina Carr. In the early 1980s, the playwright Tom MacIntyre asked him to play the lead role in his adaptation of Patrick Kavanagh's poem "The Great Hunger". Following the success of that collaboration, he has become an acclaimed interpreter of MacIntyre's work, in such plays as "Rise Up Lovely Sweeney", "The Gallant John Joe" and "What Happened Bridgie Cleary". As a character actor, Hickey has appeared in numerous films, including "My Left Foot", "Inside I'm Dancing", and "Breakfast on Pluto". He was also cast in two of director Lenny Abrahamson's films: "Garage" and "What Richard Did". In