I have five biographies of Charles Bronson on my bookshelf (and two books just on the DEATH WISH films). But Charles Bronson could coast on presence, charisma, and silent brooding menace like no one’s business”. He rarely emoted or even changed his expression, and when he did speak, his voice was a reedy whisper. In the introduction to an article I wrote here at WAMG last year, ‘Top Ten Tuesday: Charles Bronson’ (read it HERE), I wrote “Of all the leading men in the history of Hollywood, Charles Bronson had the least range as an actor.
CHARLES BRONSON SPOUSE MOVIE
It’s not always an endearing portrait of the man, but it’s one that really humanizes the famously reticent and reclusive actor.Ĭharles Bronson has been this Movie Geek’s favorite movie star since I saw THE DIRTY DOZEN on television as a child in the late 1960’s. Her fairy tale may have fallen apart but Harriett Bronson manages to write an upbeat, humorous memoir filled with the type of anecdotes that could only have been written by someone who was there. But it was Jill who ended up co-starring with Charles Bronson in 15 hit films, not because of any great acting ability, but because it was she who was married to the world’s biggest movie star, a man who got what he wanted, and he wanted her there. It was Harriett who had ironed his shirts, raised their children, and offered moral support to the actor as he slowly worked his way through the Hollywood ranks. Harriett was wise enough to recognize that it wasn’t just Jill Ireland that led to the unraveling of their marriage, but the way her husband dealt with his fame. In Charlie and Me, Harriett Bronson tells the story of her marriage and a high-profile divorce with much raw emotion but it’s not an angry, gossipy, or bitter account. She found her own voice with a rewarding career as a radio talk show host on stations in Los Angeles and as the author of three books, including her newest, Charlie and Me, an account of her marriage to Charles Bronson. Famous”, Harriett Bronson did just fine on her own. Determined not to be known as an “Ex Mrs.
What of Harriett? Here was a woman who had put her own acting career on hold to focus on her husband’s pursuits and suddenly had to reinvent herself and discover her niche in life. Charles Bronson died in 2003 at age 82 after almost 50 years as a Hollywood star. The divorces were tabloid-fodder messy but Charles wound up the world’s most bankable movie star throughout most of the 1970’s and Jill became his frequent co-star until her death in 1990. Charles and Harriett divorced and he quickly remarried Jill, who had divorced McCallum. While filming THE GREAT ESCAPE in Germany, Charles met and fell in to an affair with a younger British actress, Jill Ireland, who at the time was married to one of his co-stars, David McCallum. By the mid-1960’s Charles Bronson was on the verge of mega-stardom but the Bronson’s marriage was about to collapse.
Life was good for the Bronsons and they had a daughter and then a son. In 1953 he changed his last name to Bronson and found work as a solid character actor with a rugged face, muscular physique and everyman ethnicity that kept him busy in supporting roles as indians, convicts, cowboys, boxers, and gangsters. Harriett and Charles were married in 1949 and two years later, Charles was cast in his first film.
He had served in WWII as a tail gunner and was using the GI bill to study art and acting. Charles was part of a large Lithuanian family from an impoverished coal mining town in Pennsylvania. It was there she fell in love with Charles Buchinsky, a fellow student eight years her senior. Hicks School of Stage, Screen, and Radio in Philadelphia in 1947. Harriett Tendler was 18, the only child of a widowed Jewish farmer, when she enrolled at the Bessie V.
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