Celebrity Name : Charles Bronson

Celebrity Real Name : Charles Buchinski

Date of Birth : 3 November 1921

Birth Location : Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography :
Charles Bronson (November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor of “tough guy” roles.Bronson was born as Charles Dennis Buchinsky in the notorious Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania coal mining neighborhood of Scooptown part of the Pittsburgh Tri-State area. He was one of 15 children born to a Lithuanian immigrant father of Tatar ancestry, and a Lithuanian-American mother. In most of his roles he starred as a brutal police detective, a western gunfighter, vigilante, boxer or a Mafia hitman.

Career:
After the war, he decided to pursue acting, not from any love of the subject, but rather, because he was impressed with the amount of money that he could potentially make in the business. Bronson was roommates with Jack Klugman, another starving actor at the time. Klugman later said of Bronson that he was good at ironing clothes.
During the McCarthy hearings he changed his surname to Bronson as Slavic-sounding names were suspect, taking his inspiration from the Bronson Gate at Paramount Studios, situated on the corner of Melrose Ave. and Bronson St. One of his earliest screen appearances under his new name was as Vincent Price’s henchman in the 1953 horror classic House of Wax.
Bronson made several appearances on television in the 1950s and 1960s, including three leading roles on Alfred Hitchcock Presents in the episodes “And So Died Riabouchinska” (1956), “There Was an Old Woman” (1956), and “The Woman Who Wanted to Live” (1962); he also starred alongside Elizabeth Montgomery in The Twilight Zone episode “Two” (1961)[wikipedia]