In 1952, Bronson boxed in a ring with Roy Rogers in Rogers' show Knockout. Other early screen appearances were in The Mob (1951) The People Against O'Hara (1951), directed by John Sturges Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952) Battle Zone (1952) Pat and Mike (1952), as a boxer and mob enforcer Diplomatic Courier (1952), another for Hathaway My Six Convicts (1952) The Marrying Kind (1952) and Red Skies of Montana (1952). His first film role – an uncredited one – was as a sailor in You're in the Navy Now in 1951, directed by Henry Hathaway. Until 1954, Bronson's credits were all as Charles Buchinsky. In 1950, he married and moved to Hollywood, where he enrolled in acting classes and began to find small roles. He later shared an apartment in New York City with Jack Klugman while both were aspiring to play on the stage. ( January 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Īfter the end of World War II, Bronson worked at many odd jobs until joining a theatrical group in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This section needs additional citations for verification. He flew 25 missions and received a Purple Heart for wounds received in battle. He served in the 760th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, and in 1945 as a Boeing B-29 Superfortress aerial gunner with the Guam-based 61st Bombardment Squadron within the 39th Bombardment Group, which conducted combat missions against the Japanese home islands.
Bronson was the first member of his family to graduate from high school.īronson worked in the mine until he enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces in 1943 during World War II. His family was so poor that he once had to wear his sister's dress to school for lack of clothing. His mother could not afford milk for his younger sister, so she was fed warm tea instead. The family suffered extreme poverty during the Great Depression, and Bronson recalled going hungry many times. Bronson later recounted that he and his brother engaged in dangerous work removing "stumps" between the mines, and that cave-ins were common. In another interview, he said that he had to work double shifts to earn $1 a week. He later said he earned one dollar for each ton of coal that he mined. When Bronson was 10 years old, his father died and he went to work in the coal mines, first in the mining office and then in the mine. In a 1973 interview, Bronson said that he did not know his father very well and "I'm not even sure if I loved him or hated him." He said that all he could remember was that when his mother said that his father was coming home, the children would hide. Besides English, he could also speak Lithuanian, Russian and Greek. He recalled that even back when he was in the army, his accent was strong enough to make his comrades think he came from another country (despite Bronson having been born in the US). īronson did not speak any English at home during his childhood in Pennsylvania, like many children he grew up with. Bronson's mother, Mary (née Valinsky), whose parents were from Lithuania, was born in the coal mining town of Tamaqua, Pennsylvania. Bučinskis, a Lipka Tatar, who later adjusted his name to Walter Buchinsky to sound more American, was from Druskininkai in southern Lithuania.
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