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Charles Bronson (November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003), born Charles Dennis Buchinsky was an American actor, of Polish and Lithuanian background, best known for such films as Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, Rider on the Rain, The Mechanic, and the popular Death Wish series. He was often cast in the role of a police officer or gunfighter, often in revenge-oriented plot lines. During his career, Bronson had a long-term partnership with directors Michael Winner and J. Lee Thompson.
Bronson was born Charles Dennis Buchinsky (or Buchinskas) in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, in the Allegheny Mountain Coal region north of Johnstown. During the McCarthy hearings, he changed his last name to Bronson, fearing that Buchinsky sounded "too Russian".
He was one of 15 children born to a Lithuanian immigrant father of Lipka Tatar ancestry, and a Lithuanian-American mother. His father hailed from the town of Druskininkai (or Druskienniki). His mother, Mary Valinsky, whose parents were from the Lithuania was born in the anthracite coal mining town of Tamaqua, Pennsylvania.
Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch (28 September 1916 – 14 January 1977) was a British-born Australian actor. He is best remembered for his role as "crazed" television anchorman Howard Beale in the film Network, which earned him a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor, his fifth Best Actor award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and a Best Actor award from the Golden Globes. He was the first of two people to win a posthumous Academy Award in an acting category; the other was fellow Australian Heath Ledger.
Finch was born as Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch in London to Alicia Gladys Fisher. At the time, Alicia was married to George Finch. George Finch was born in New South Wales, Australia, but was educated in Paris and Zurich. He was a research chemist when he moved to England in 1912 and later served during the first World War with the Royal Army Ordnance Depot and the Royal Field Artillery. In 1915, at Portsmouth, in Hampshire, George married Alicia Fisher, the daughter of a Kent barrister. However, George Finch was not Peter Finch's biological father. He learned only in his mid-40s that his biological father was Wentworth Edward Dallas "Jock" Campbell, an Indian Army officer, whose adultery with Finch's mother was the cause of George and Alice's divorce, when Peter was two years old. Alicia Finch married "Jock" Campbell in 1922.
Actors: Bob Gale (actor), Kate Ogborn (producer), Bob Gale (actor), Tom Hardy (actor), Tom Hardy (actor), Nicolas Winding Refn (director), Nicolas Winding Refn (writer), Jonny Phillips (actor), Allan Niblo (producer), Lesley Wise (miscellaneous crew), Thor Sigurjonsson (producer), Hugh Ross (actor), Rupert Preston (producer), Ruth Halliday (miscellaneous crew), James Richardson (producer),
Plot: In 1974, a hot-headed 19 year old named Michael Peterson decided he wanted to make a name for himself and so, with a homemade sawn-off shotgun and a head full of dreams he attempted to rob a post office. Swiftly apprehended and originally sentenced to 7 years in jail, Peterson has subsequently been behind bars for 34 years, 30 of which have been spent in solitary confinement. During that time, Michael Petersen, the boy, faded away and 'Charles Bronson,' his superstar alter ego, took center stage. Inside the mind of Bronson - a scathing indictment of celebrity culture.
Keywords: 19-year-old, alter-ego, anger, animated-sequence, art, art-class, art-teacher, artist, attempted-murder, babyActors: Zach Selwyn (actor), Elle Travis (actress), Andrew Pressman (actor), Santio East (actor), Santio East (actor), Brian Callaway (actor), Brian Callaway (actor), Michelle Carr (actress), Michelle Carr (actress), Asaf Livni (producer), Asaf Livni (writer), Jennifer Cook (actress), Jennifer Cook (actress), Katharina Nicol (actress), Katharina Nicol (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Short,Actors: Byron Allen (actor), Elizabeth Ashley (actress), Jacqueline Saint Anne (costume designer), Jill Clayburgh (actress), Jill Ireland (writer), Lance Henriksen (actor), Jack Gwillim (actor), Guy Moon (composer), Ian Patrick Williams (actor), Michael Ray Rhodes (director), Lila Kaye (actress), Liane Curtis (actress), Steve Tyrell (composer), Jimmy McNichol (actor), Jeff Austin (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Don Beddoe (actor), Stanley Blystone (actor), Lynton Brent (actor), Stanley Brown (actor), Allan Cavan (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Steve Clark (actor), Clancy Cooper (actor), James Craig (actor), Dick Curtis (actor), George DeNormand (actor), John Dilson (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Curley Dresden (actor), Richard Alexander (actor),
Plot: Columbia's 6th serial (following "The Spider's Web" and preceding "Mandrake the Magician") is a pre-WW II sabre-rattler that has planes crashing, secret plans disappearing and a reign of terror sweeping the USA as (unidentified) enemy spies strike at the nation's defenses. Four flying G-Men, Hal Andrews, Bart Davis, John Cummings and Charles Bronson, are assigned to the crisis. The four agree that one of them shall assume a mysterious identity so he can strike with the swiftness of a falcon...and the result is The Black Falcon, whose identity is unknown only to those who didn't have the screen credits to look at. The Falcon has a black leather flying outfit that is handier to get to when needed than the Durango Kid's horse, while his two remaining partners are stuck with your basic gray (Bronson gets knocked off early), and together they are close to being a precursor to "Blackhawk" and his band. With the aid of Babs McKay and her kid brother Billy and his band of Junior Air Defenders, the three Flying G-Men keep a straight face as they face the legions of henchmen sent their way by the unknown master-mind spy chief. Keeping a straight face is not easy to do when facing a gang of henchmen directed by James W. Horne behind the over-wrought narration of Knox Manning.
Keywords: serial