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}} Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky; November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American film and television actor. He starred in films such 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 ''Death Wish'' series. He was often cast in the role of a police officer, gunfighter, or vigilante in revenge-oriented plot lines. He had long collaborations with film directors Michael Winner and J. Lee Thompson. In 1965, he was featured as Major Wolenski in ''Battle of the Bulge''. ==Early life and World War II service== Bronson was born Charles Dennis Buchinsky in Ehrenfeld in Cambria County in the coal region of the Allegheny Mountains north of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He was the 11th of 15 children born to a Lithuanian〔 immigrant father and a Lithuanian-American mother. His father, Walter Bunchinski (who later adjusted his surname to Buchinsky to sound more "American"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Charles Bronson )〕), was an ethnic Lipka Tatar, and hailed from the town of Druskininkai. Bronson's mother, Mary (née Valinsky), whose parents were from Lithuania, was born in the coal mining town of Tamaqua, Pennsylvania. He learned to speak English when he was a teenager; before that he spoke Lithuanian and Russian.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000314/bio )〕 Bronson was the first member of his family to graduate from high school.〔 When Bronson was 10 years old, his father died. Young Charles went to work in the coal mines, first in the mining office and then in the mine.〔 He worked in the mine until he entered military service during World War II.〔 His family was so poor that, at one time, he reportedly had to wear his sister's dress to school because of his lack of clothing.〔The dress story has been repeated in ''Celebrity Setbacks: 800 Stars who Overcame the Odds'' by Ed Lucaire (ISBN 0-671-85031-8) and in an edition of ''Ripley's Believe It or Not!''.〕 In 1943, Bronson enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces and 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 flew 25 missions and received a Purple Heart for wounds received in battle. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Bronson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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