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 Collins (actor) Charles Collins (actor) Charles Clyde Collins (7 January 1904 – 26 June 1999) was an American singer and actor. He was particularly known for his work within musical comedy, between broadway, films and television series. Collins made his Broadway debut in 1927 in Harry Akst's "Artists and Models (1927)". He went on to star in several Broadway productions during the 1930s, including "Ripples" (1930), where he met Dorothy Stone. In 1931, he married Dorothy in London on 12 September 1931. He starred in "Smiling Faces" (1932), "Say When" (1935), "Conjur Man Dies" (1936), "Macbeth" (1936), and "Sea Legs" (1937) (with