Charles Bronson Net Worth , Biography Age, Family, wiki, And Life Story $65 Million Category: Richest Celebrities › Actors Net Worth: $65...
Charles Bronson Net Worth, Biography Age, Family, wiki, And Life Story
$65 Million
Category:
Richest Celebrities › Actors
Net Worth:
$65 Million
Date of Birth:
Nov 3, 1921 - Aug 30, 2003 (81 years old)
Place of Birth:
Ehrenfeld
Gender:
Male
Height:
5 ft 8 in (1.74 m)
Profession:
Actor, Soldier, Miner
Nationality:
United States of America
What were Charles Bronson's net worth and salary?
At the time of his death, Charles Bronson, an American star, was worth $65 million. From the 1950s to the 1990s, Charles Bronson worked in movies. He often played tough roles like gunfighters and vigilantes in movies and TV shows. In the early 1970s, when Charles was at the top of his game, he was the highest-paid actor in the world.
In 1960, he got a part in the movie "The Magnificent Seven," which became his big break. Steve McQueen was also in the movie. From then on, Bronson would be a regular in action/adventure movies with a large cast, like "The Great Escape." He finally got his own movie, "Death Wish," which made him a real star with smaller companies. He went on to star in sequels to "Death Wish" and other action movies that had nothing to do with it. He is still a cult favorite among people who like movies. He died on August 30, 2003, when he was 81 years old. He was married three times and left behind four children from each marriage.
Early Years
Charles Bronson was born in Pennsylvania on November 3, 1921, in the town of Ehrenfeld. He was born Charles Dennis Buchinsky, but when he started acting, he changed his name to Charles Bronson. Mary and Valteris Bucinskis are his parents. When his father moved from Lithuania to the United States, he changed his name to Walter Buchinsky. Bronson's mother's parents were also from Lithuania, and he didn't learn English as a child because he lived in a coal mine town with a lot of foreigners. He is the eleventh of fifteen children in a Roman Catholic family.
When Charles Bronson was ten years old, his father died. At that time, Bronson went to work in the coal mines. During the Great Depression, the family was very poor and had a hard time. Bronson was the first person in his family to finish high school. He then joined the U.S. Army Air Forces in 1943, when World War II was going on. He was a gunner in an airplane and did combat flights against the Japanese home islands while he was stationed in Guam. He flew 25 flights and was hurt in battle, which earned him a Purple Heart.
Career in Acting
Charles Bronson had a few odd jobs after World War II finished before he joined a theater group in Philadelphia. He then moved to New York City to try his hand at theater. In 1950, he went to Hollywood. All of his early parts are either uncredited or credited to Charles Buchinsky. In 1954, an agency told him to change his last name to Bronson, which he did. In 1954, "Vera Cruz," a movie, was the first thing he did under his new name. In the second half of the 1950s, he was in the movies "Target Zero," "Big House, U.S.A.," and "Jubal." He also got parts in TV shows like "U.S. Marshal," "Colt.45," and "Tales of Wells Fargo."
In 1958, he got the lead role in the detective show "Man with a Camera," and then he started getting more and more lead parts in movies and TV shows. He got a part in "The Magnificent Seven," and in an episode of "General Electric Theater," for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award. In 1963, he was cast in "The Great Escape," which was a big hit. Then, he got parts in the movies "4 for Texas" and "Guns of Diablo." In the 1966 movie "The Sandpiper," he acted with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. He also played the main character in "This Property is Condemned."
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In 1967, he got a lead part in "The Dirty Dozen," which was a huge hit at the box office. But he was still unhappy with his parts, which were usually third or fourth on the list. He wanted to be a real leading man. This made him want to move to Europe, where he had a lot of success in the late 1960s and early 1970s. There, Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West," "Guns for San Sebastian," and "Rider on the Rain," which won a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, were some of his most popular movies.
Bronson went to Europe for a few years and did well there. When he came back to the U.S., he finally started getting big parts. His most well-known part was in the movie "Death Wish," which he got when he was 52 years old. After that, he was in movies like "Breakout," "Breakheart Pass," and "Hard Times." By the late 1970s, he was one of Hollywood's most popular stars.
In the 1980s, he started to be in movies made by smaller businesses. He was in "Death Wish II," "10 to Midnight," "The Evil That Men Do," "Murphy's Law," "Assassination," and "Messenger of Death," among other movies. In the 1990s, he made his last movie and TV roles in the "Family of Cops" trilogy of TV movies, which ran from 1995 to 1999.
Personal Life
Bronson was said to be shy and quiet, and people who had not given him a chance early on in his career made him wary. Some people said he was willing to hold a grudge against reviewers and directors who didn't pay attention to him until he was at the top of his fame. He couldn't even watch his own movies. He also didn't say much about his playing style or why he became an actor. But his tough guy image and his ability to give his parts real strength won him many fans in Hollywood. In 1980, he got a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood.
Bronson met fellow actor Harriet Tendler when she was 18 and taking a class in Philadelphia. He was 26 at the time. They got married in 1949 and had two kids together. In 1965, they got a divorce. He remarried the English actress Jill Ireland in 1968. A few years earlier, in 1962, when they were both married to other people, they met. After they got married, they moved into a house in Bel Air with seven children: two from Bronson's first marriage, three from Ireland's first marriage, and two from their own relationship. The two people worked together a lot. They were in fifteen movies together. They stayed married until 1990, when Ireland died of breast cancer. In 1998, Bronson got married to his third wife, Kim Weeks. After he got a new hip, Bronson's health started to get worse in the last few years of his life. He died at age 81 in August of 2003 in Los Angeles.
Most Money-Making Actor
At the height of his success, Charles Bronson made more money than any other actor on Earth. He made $1 million for each of "The Stone Killer", "Chino", "Death Wish", and "St. Ives". "Death Wish II" made him $1.5 million. In 1982, "10 to Midnight" made him $2 million, which is the same as $5 million today. In addition to his salary, Bronson was smart enough to arrange for some of his movies to have high gross points. As part of the deal he made with Warner Brothers in 1975, Bronson would get 10-15% of the total money made from selling movie tickets and renting movies. In the 1970s, it was very forward-thinking to talk about getting a cut of picture rentals. When he made the deal, there were almost no places to rent movies. During the 1980s, the market for renting VHS tapes grew quickly. In 2011, the estate of Charles Bronson sued Warner Brothers, saying that the company didn't account for his 1975 revenue-share deal correctly.
Properties and Houses
His will said that when he died in 2003, Charles Bronson was worth $45 million. That's about $65 million in today's money. She got $1.6 million in cash and a $8 million home in Malibu. His children also got a $5 million beach house in Vermont and a $5 million home in Bel Air, which was sold by a third party for $20 million in 2014.
In 1999, a woman named Audrey Knauer left $300,000 to Charles Bronson, a person she had never met. This made Knauer's family very angry. The will was challenged in court by Knauer's family, but they lost. Bronson gave the money to the Louisville public library, which was the woman's favorite cause.
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