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12 unusual facts about Charles Bronson


Brucine

Brucine was also mentioned in the 1972 movie The Mechanic, starring Charles Bronson in which the young hitman Steve McKenna (Jan-Michael Vincent) betrays his mentor, aging hitman Arthur Bishop (Bronson), using a celebratory glass of wine spiked with brucine, leaving Bishop to die of an apparent heart attack.

Bugatti Type 49

The Type 49 shown in the photo here was owned by the late actor, Charles Bronson.

Camas prairie

Breakheart Pass, a 1975 film starring Charles Bronson, was filmed on portions of the railroad on the Camas Prairie.

Camas Prairie Railroad

The 1975 film Breakheart Pass starring Charles Bronson was filmed on portions of the railroad, as were parts of 1999's Wild Wild West.

Colt Police Positive

A nickel Police Positive with pearl grips was used by Charles Bronson as Paul Kersey in Death Wish.

John Tomkins

Security analysts who have examined "The Bishop"'s modus operandi speculate that he may be emulating the 1972 Charles Bronson movie The Mechanic.

Lipka Tatars

Charles Bronson - Polish-Lithuanian American actor whose father was a Lipka Tatar, born in Druskininkai (Druskienik)

Lonesome Dove

Four other actors (Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, James Garner, and Jon Voight) were offered the role of Woodrow Call but declined for various reasons before the role fell to Tommy Lee Jones.

Prakash Mehra

The movie was to include Hollywood actors such as Charles Bronson among others, but the project though funded heavily initially, never came to fruition.

W. A. Boyle

The murders were also portrayed in a 1986 HBO television movie, Act of Vengeance. Charles Bronson (himself a native of Ehrenfeld, in the western Pennsylvania mining region) portrayed Yablonski and Wilford Brimley played Boyle.

Wally Floody

He is popularly considered the real-life counterpart to that film's fictional "Tunnel King", Danny Velinski, played by Charles Bronson.

Wildey

The firearm was integral to a large number of scenes from the Charles Bronson film Death Wish 3.


Broderick Crawford

In the film, Crawford's character is a hardened convict so violent he commands the obedience of even the most violent and psychotic prisoners in the prison yard, including those portrayed by such famous tough-guy actors as Charles Bronson, Ralph Meeker, William Talman, and Lon Chaney, Jr..

Denne Bart Petitclerc

Petitclerc wrote several movies for television and the screenplay for the 1972 feature film Red Sun with Charles Bronson and Toshirō Mifune.

Frank de Kova

He played Abiram in The Ten Commandments, appeared in Cowboy (1958) with Glenn Ford and Jack Lemmon, and in The Mechanic (1972) with Charles Bronson and Jan-Michael Vincent and the Ralph Bakshi film American Pop.

History of Brookfield, Connecticut

Wildey Magnum gun, later made famous in the 1985 Charles Bronson movie Death Wish 3, was developed by Wildey J. Moore in Brookfield in the early 1970s (the factory has since moved to Warren, Connecticut).

Holy Molar

Holy Molar is a noise rock band from San Diego, composed of members that play or have played in The Locust, Antioch Arrow, Charles Bronson, Heroin, Cattle Decapitation, The Crimson Curse, Glass Candy, Get Hustle, Swing Kids, Das Oath, Struggle and Some Girls.

John Bromfield

Sheriff of Cochise featured numerous younger actors who later became well known in the industry: Dan Blocker, Peter Breck, Charles Bronson, Mike Connors, David Janssen, Stacy Keach, Sr., Michael Landon, Jack Lord, Gavin MacLeod, Doug McClure, Ross Martin, Martin Milner, Roger Smith, Lee Van Cleef, and child actor Johnny Crawford.

Leo Gordon

Among the most notable feature films he wrote were You Can't Win 'Em All (1970) starring Tony Curtis and Charles Bronson and Tobruk (1967) starring Rock Hudson and George Peppard and directed by Arthur Hiller, in which he appeared as Sergeant Krug.

Nobuhiko Obayashi

In the 1970s he began a series of Japanese ads featuring well-known American stars such as Kirk Douglas and Charles Bronson.

Pest of the West

Aspects of the musical cues used in the high noon duel between SpongeBuck and Dead Eye Plankton was from Sergio Leone's 1968 Spaghetti Western film Once Upon a Time in the West, complete with Ennio Morricone's harmonica riff used for the Charles Bronson character.