Charles Bronson Movies

Charles Bronson played vigilante Paul Kersey five times in the Death Wish movies from 1974 to 1994.
Charles Bronson played vigilante Paul Kersey five times in the Death Wish movies from 1974 to 1994.

Want to know the best Charles Bronson movies?  How about the worst Charles Bronson movies?  Curious about Charles Bronson’s box office grosses or which Charles Bronson movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Charles Bronson movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst? Well, you have come to the right place…. because we have all of that information.

Welcome to my Charles Bronson (1921-2003) Ultimate Movie Rankings career movie page. My first visit when I started researching Charles Bronson was to his IMDb page. I found that he had 160 acting credits from 1949 to 1999. That is over 3 projects a year for 50 years…a pretty impressive total. After throwing out 78 television performances and 12 uncredited bit parts that left 70 movies to research. I have ranked 61 of his movies from best to worst in this page.

So, I know what you are thinking…. where are the other 9 Charles Bronson movies? Well, I was unable to find box office numbers for 4 of his 1950’s quickie low budget films. And 4 of his movies he made in Europe from 1968-1972 never really got much of a release in North America….so they were not included. 

This page will rank Charles Bronson movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies that were not released in theaters were not included in the rankings.

Charles Bronson in 1968's Once Upon A Time In The West
Charles Bronson in 1968’s Once Upon A Time In The West

Charles Bronson Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Charles Bronson Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

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Charles Bronson Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses

Charles Bronson in 1963's The Great Escape
Charles Bronson in 1963’s The Great Escape

10 Possibly Interesting Facts About Charles Bronson

1. Charles Bronson(1921-2003) was born Charles Dennis Buchinsky.

2. Charles Bronson was one of 14 children born to a Lithuanian immigrant in Pennsylvania. Bronson started working in coal mines as a teenager before serving in World War II. He won a Purple Heart for wounds he received in combat.

3. Charles Bronson changed his name in 1955 due to concerns about the House Un-American Activites Committee(he thought it sounded too Russian). In some of his early successes like Apache, Vera Cruz and House of Wax he is listed in the credits as Charles Buchinsky.

4. Charles Bronson used the same approach to stardom as Clint Eastwood. Both started out in television, both went to Europe to make movies, both become international stars in Europe, and then both came back to the United States as stars. Bronson was actually offered the Man With No Name role in A Fistful of Dollars….but he passed and the role went to Eastwood. Meanwhile when Eastwood passed on Once Upon A Time In The West….the role went to Charles Bronson.

5. Roles that Charles Bronson turned down or was seriously considered for: Superman (Christopher Reeve part), Escape from New York (Kurt Russell part), A Fistful of Dollars (Eastwood part), Jaws (Robert Shaw part) and The French Connection (Gene Hackman part). The role that made Bronson a star in the United States, Death Wish, was originally written for Henry Fonda. Fonda was disgusted with the script and turned down the role.

6. Charles Bronson was married three times in his life. His marriage to Harriet Tendler(1949-1967) and his second marriage to Jill Ireland(1968-1990 her death) produced two children each. His final marriage was to Kim Weeks from 1998 until his death in 2003. He was the step father to David McCallum’s (NCIS) two children as well.

7. Charles Bronson and his wife, Jill Ireland, appeared in a total of 15 movies together. Besides her work along side of Bronson, Ireland is best remember as Spock’s love interest in the classic Star Trek episode…This Side of Paradise.

8. Charles Bronson was known as “le monster sacre” to the French movie going public. Le monster sacre means the sacred monster.

9. Here is a great trivia question…..Who is the only person to be a member of the Magnificent Seven and the Dirty Dozen…. not to mention he played one of the three roles that actually escaped the Great Escape….Mr. Charles Bronson.

10.  Check out Charles Bronson’s career compared to current and stars of the past on my Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time Table.

10A. The missing 9 Charles Bronson movies: 1954’s Crime Wave, Tennessee Champ. 1955’s Big House USA, Target Zero. 1958’s Showdown at Boot-Hill, Gang War, When Hell Broke Loose, 1970’s Lola, You Can’t Win Them All. 1971’s Someone Is Behind the Door. I will continue to search for some North America box office numbers for these movies so they can be included in this page.

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  1. STEVE 1 “Nobody can convey quiet menace quite like Charles Bronson,” wrote one critic. I always thought that it was appropriate that Charlie and Lee Marvin after the ensemble Dirty Dozen were directly paired for Death Hunt in 1981 because (1) Lee too was at times a practitioner of understated menace in his early villainous roles (2) both Lee and Charles served a very long apprenticeship in supporting roles. Even when Charles did progress to lead roles his US grosses as a star were not the greatest.

    2 However Tony Curtis with whom Charlie starred in the 1970 You Can’t Win ‘em All pointed out that it had gone unnoticed in the States that Bronson was a massive star outside the US, so that to fully assess Charlie’s status in terms of box office stardom we would need to know his overseas grosses and I’m sure that if they were easy to come by Bruce would have given them to us by now.

    3 Anyway Bronson’s domestic releases certainly yield a fine array of posters most of which are so stunning that my notes tell me this is your highest rated video in my estimation with 96.5%. At random I’ll highlight White Buffalo, Death Wish 2, 10 to Midnight, From Noon till Three, Red Sun, The Mechanic and Death Hunt. I notice in your poster for the latter Charlie and Lee agreed the type of compromise billing that Newman/McQueen used in Towering Inferno

    4 The posters are backed up by fine stills of Charlie and Tony in You Can’t Win Em All, Elvis and Bronson in Kid Galahad, a ‘sculptured’ Charles with director winner in Chato’s Land, and Bronson supporting Price in House of Wax the poster for which incidentally I saw as the par excellence pick of even the whole excellent bunch.

    5 You and WH agree on 4 of Charles’ Top 5 films with Bruce including House of Wax instead of Hard Times which is your No 5 and I support his choice on this occasion though he does make Hard Times his No 7 so in a sense there is a bit of hair-splitting. As you will have noticed by now in relation to movies if I may paraphrase Baby Houseman’s father in Dirty Dancing “When I think something’s wrong I say it’s wrong!” but conversely when something is praiseworthy I cannot hold back my admiration and this video is certainly entitled to high praise. Super stuff!

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      1. And thanks for the link Bruce, much appreciated.

        Good to see our charts matching occasionally. 🙂

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        1. Wow, my video has over a hundred views already. I’m impressed.

          Charlie still has a lot of fans out there!

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    2. Hi Bob, thanks for the generous rating, review, comment, info, trivia, observation, comparison, appraisal and evaluation, always appreciated.

      Glad you liked posters and stills.

      Hard Times is one of Bronson’s best films, he was superb as the laconic drifter who turns out to be an invincible bare knuckle boxer. The film was retitled ‘The Streetfighter’ here in the UK, and being a huge Bronson fan I saw it several times at the cinema.

      According to my files I saw Death Wish at the cinema in 1978 on a double bill with High Plains Drifter… aaah those were the days my friend, ‘double bills’, a full evenings entertainment. Where are the double bills these days?

      Good to see Bruce has Once Upon a Time in the West at the top of his critics chart, one of the greatest westerns and it wasn’t directed by an American.

      Three Bronson films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape and OUATITW. The Dirty Dozen scored 9.

      Charlie in the real world – “I don’t have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children. They took up all the personal time I had. My children are my friends. My wife was my friend. We were opposite but I figured it made for a better relationship that way. One of the difficult parts of being a public person married to someone who was seriously ill is that people asked, “So, how’s your wife?”, I found it difficult. They were strangers.”

      Derek Flint up next.

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      1. HI STEVE

        1 As always your back-chat gives me a few crumbs of food for thought. Yes the double bills were very exciting and real value for money. For example I vividly remember going to the local Gaumont in 1953 to see Chuck’s Arrowhead (1hr and 45 mins long) on the same bill as Houdini starring Curtis and Janet Leigh (1hr 46 mins). – 3hrs and 31 mins in all at normal prices, just 27 mins short of Gone with the Wind.

        2 It is not really surprising if Bronson had no friends outside his family because if the press that he got back in his heyday was in any way accurate he may not have been a very nice person. You may know that Bronson’s wife Jill Ireland had been married to David McCallum who co-starred with Robert Vaughn in The Man from Uncle TV series and cinematic movies.
        Well the press reports of those days claimed that once Charlie decided he wanted Jill for himself he approached McCallum direct and told him “I’m going to take your wife from you.” And of course so he did.

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        1. Bob, I read that story in one of the many bios on Bronson. I think Jill was visiting McCallum on the set of The Great Escape and Bronson took a fancy to her. He joked that he was going to one day take her away from him and a few years later she had split with David and got married to Charlie. She co-starred in many of his later films.

          As a Star Trek fan I also know Jill Ireland as Shatner’s love interest in arguably the best Trek episode of them all – The City on the Edge of Forever – a time travel tale. Captain Kirk falls in love with Jill but knowing what the future holds has to let her die in a car accident to prevent the nazi’s from developing the atomic bomb and winning WWII.

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          1. Sorry wrong episode – Jill Ireland was in This Side of Paradise. Another great first season episode.

            It was Joan Collins of course in The City on the Edge of Forever. Confusion as I’m watching Rise of the Planet of the Apes while I’m typing this.

            Dawn of the Planet of the Apes tomorrow, and hopefully the new Apes film by the end of the week.

          2. HI STEVE

            1 Press reports at the time insisted the remark was no joke but for me it’s academic as I concentrate on Charlie’s screen persona which has always appealed to me.

            2 Jill played the Jean Arthur role in the 1966 TV series of Shane with David Carradine as Shane.

            3 Yes Charles and Jill were a very prolific screen ream but the bad news for Bronson/Ireland fans who follow this site is that the mean ole Work Horse will not recognise them as an important screen team as he told me in a previous post that their films did not attract high enough grosses for them to merit recognition.

          3. Hi, I can’t provide an artistic review as eloquent as Bob, but Steve’s Charles Bronson video is very nice work indeed! In addition to the stills and posters mentioned by Bob, I would add the Japanese poster of The Great Escape, with the faces of Bronson and Coburn appearing along those of the 3 leading stars of the film. This makes me wonder if this poster was for a re-release after these two actors achieved their stardom, or if The Magnificent Seven was particularly successful in Japan and had already elevated the status of Bronson and Coburn by the time The Great Escape came out. Anyway, I also love the self-deprecating quote at the start.

            Speaking of Bronson’s character, since this video came out just after Steve’s James Garner video, it’s interesting to note that in his memoirs, Garner referred to Bronson as something of a bully. Of course, Garner could also be short-tempered, but whatever, I liked them both as actors and wish all these stars could just get along. No doubt, Bronson appears to have been rather anti-social but hey, that seemed to go well with the kind of roles he had. By the way, although David McCallum lost Jill to Charlie, in an interview McCallum did on The Great Escape, he seemed quite a gentleman about it and didn’t seem to hold any grudge. Of course that was years later but I found McCallum particularly sensible and honorable in that interview.

            A few thoughts on your ratings, Steve ( and this is mostly knit-picking by someone who probably has spent too much time thinking about these things). Just to note, I’ve seen almost all movies included, with the exception of some made from the late 70s, by which time I consider Bronson was stuck in nonsensical violence (Death Hunt may have been an exception).

            1. No argument with your top 5 and the order in which they appear. Perhaps House of Wax should be #5 instead of Hard Times as Bob and Bruce seem to think, but just to even things out, I’ll side with you on this one 😉

            2. I think that there are at least 3 movies that should have been included in the top 30 (well 32 in this case) unless I missed them: (1) Honor Among Thieves (Adieu l’Ami), Bronson’s first starring role in a major film, co-starring Alain Delon – a good French thriller from 1968 that made Bronson a bit of a sensation in France shortly before Once Upon a Time in the West came out; (2) The Family/Violent City – not great by any means but I think better than some of the poorer ones included; (3) Jubal, an unusual but strong 1956 western with Glenn Ford – although Bronson has a supporting role, and I understand you are not including all of his early films where he had small roles, he has quite a significant part in Jubal and it must have been his first notable sympathetic role. Bronson also made a strong impression in Drum Beat with Alan Ladd, but that one usually has low ratings.

            3. I see that Red Sun, The Valachi Papers and Rider on the Rain (all good films in my view) do relatively better on your scale than on Bruce’s. I suspect that Bronson’s French and Italian films are rated more harshly in North America, and perhaps to a lesser extent in the UK as well, than on the European continent, reflecting a cultural difference. Whatever the case, as mentioned in my March 4 comment below, I feel that Rider on the Rain, co-starring French actress Marlene Jobert, is one of Bronson’s best films as a star. It was a big hit in France.. but maybe it is too French 😉

            4. Apart from these relatively minor issues (oh yeah, and Battle of the Bulge being over-rated), this video is another great addition to your collection! Thanks again.

          4. Hey Phil…..well you have done well in giving Bob a run for the money when it comes to an artistic review. Lots of great information on Bronson. Some of the differences in the ratings could come from the time difference when the pages were done. Two of my main sources of my ratings are IMDb and RottenTomatoes. Well those two scores change over time.

            Good breakdown on Garner and Bronson. Plus the difference between American and oversea views on Bronson. Good feedback for sure.

  2. I was just watching again Once Upon a Time in the West and thought to check out this page. I’ve seen 37 movies on the list, plus You Can’t Win Them All (1970) co-starring Tony Curtis (glad he finally got his own page) and a little western Bronson did in 1958, Shoot-out at Boothill in which he interestingly plays a complex bounty hunter insecure about his height…not the typical role he would become famous for. But what I wanted to say is that in my mind, there is no doubt that Once Upon a Time was Charles Bronson’s greatest film as a star. He may have been 4th billed but it’s his movie all the way and he exudes a quiet, mysterious presence that would make the Man with the Harmonica one the iconic roles of cinema. When I was a little kid growing up in Europe and then Canada, Once Upon a Time had made Bronson maybe the most popular star in the world (albeit he would only become a top star in North America with Death Wish). In retrospect, his era of mega fame was relatively short, about a decade, and many of his subsequent movies are not that memorable. One that should be highlighted, however, is Le Passager de la pluie (Rider on the Rain) by renowned French director Rene Clement, a gripping psychological thriller that was successful at least in France. There, Bronson displays not only his usual machismo, but some subtle intelligence, charm and sensitivity as well (and Jill Ireland has a small role so this may answer the question of whether the two have ever been in a good film together). Not as great, but also worth noting are Red Sun, The Valachi Papers, Breakheart’s Pass and Hard Times. Of course for two decades before that, Bronson was a first-rate supporting player (and occasional lead of B-films) and has the unique distinction of appearing in the 3 of the most popular ensemble cast adventures of all times (The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape and The Dirty Dozen) making a strong impression in each one. All this considered, I think Bronson was a better actor than he was sometimes credited for and it’s too bad that in the US he became increasingly known only for his violent avenger roles – even though the first Death Wish was pretty good.

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    1. Hey Phil
      1. Well good job….your total of 37 Tony Curtis movies watched put you on the top of our tally contest….I will have to update that on his page.
      2. You Can’t Win Them All is a movie that I have tried aand failed to get in our database…so far I am having no luck with that one.
      3. I agree with you about How The West Was Won….and yes…he was billed 4th….but he had the Eastwood role….which was by far the best in the movie.
      4. I also agree with you about how Bronson was the biggest star in the world back then….action sells tickets…and he was all about action.
      5. His trilogy of ensemble movies are awesome…and ones I re-watch all the time….with The Great Escape being my favorite.
      6. I think all of the Death Wish sequels really hurt his legacy.
      Good feedback.

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      1. Hi Cogerson,
        1. I meant 37 movies on the Charles Bronson list, not Tony Curtis’ – so I humbly return the gold medal for that one! Not that I’m proud of it – many of Bronson’s movies do not exactly qualify as great cinema, but I enjoy watching him and seeing how his career slowly evolved from a bit player to a top star. Very unusual to see a supporting player emerge as a superstar at the age of almost 50.
        2. Yes, I see that The Great Escape is one of your favorites (and I saw it was one of your dad’s also) as well as several others commenters on this site. It’s certainly one of my all-time favorite films since I was 10 years old and I will probably provide more comments on this one day. For now, I would note that Bronson was indeed quite memorable in it as the tunnel king .The anxiety and tension he conveys towards the latter part of the film was very effective. Also, in The Magnificent 7, his few scenes with the village kids are some of the best moments of the movie and his career. This suggests he was quite capable of playing multi-dimensional characters when given the chance.

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        1. Hey Phil…..I will fix that tally count on the Curtis page….still…poor Bern1960 was surpassed by Bob as well….so she goes Gold less for a little while longer. I will have to go back and see where your 37 Bronson movies rank.

          I agree….it is rare that a supporting player reaches superstar status. Everytime I watch The Great Escape…I am always glad that The Tunnel King gets away….and I always hope that one time Garner’s plane will have enough gas to make it to the border…sadly it has not happened yet…but one day…lol.

          Thanks for the clarification on the tally count.

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  4. ROBERT ROY.
    July 21, 2016 at 6:57 am
    1 Charlie’s career falls distinctly into two parts and this very welcome update from Bruce faithfully charts the box office figures that can be credited to each part

    2 The first part of the career was from his film debut in 1951 until about 1969 when he served a very long apprenticeship playing second fiddle or even less to the likes of Ladd, Glenn Ford, Burt Lancaster, the Burtons, Mitchum and Brynner. He had a larger than usual part in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) but was still just 4th billed in that movie and it was anyway a low grosser in the States.

    3 The Top Star stand alone 2nd part of his career was from around 1970 until 1994 when he brought out the 4th and final Death Wish film which virtually nobody went to see in the States He made 30 films in those years and they amounted to just around 0.930 million overall in inflation adjusted domestic grosses which is a paltry 0.31 million per movie.

    4 Indeed a close analyses of Bruce’s figures illustrates that of those 30 stand-alones just two movies got into the Cogerson 100 million bracket and in all only four out of the thirty films are credited with an individual domestic gross of over 70 million dollars. Most of the remainder are well below even the 50 million dollar mark.

    5 However Tony Curtis opined that Charles was an especially massive star outside the States
    but because foreign grosses were not at that time (the early 70s) widely reported Charlie’s
    box office appeal was under-valued in America.

    6 It could be therefore that more than is the case with most stars we would need some idea of Charlie’s worldwide grosses before we can place his box office success in a reasonable overall context.

    7 Action heroes often achieve more with foreign than domestic earnings. For example whilst the individual worldwide grosses that I have seen for Jean Claude Van Damme films have been sporadic I did once glimpse overall figures in Box Office Mojo that suggested that Jean Claude’s foreign grosses were three times his US ones.

    8 By my rough calculation in inflation adjusted figures his US total gross was around the billion mark whereas his foreign earnings were approx 3 billion – a worldwide adjusted gross of approx 4 billion or just under.

    9 Regardless of all that the Charles Bronson of 1970-1995 has always been one of my personal favourite action stars and I find him very entertaining to watch even in humdrum films. Perhaps here I’m proving Tony’s point as I am not American !!

    10 He had no great acting range but one critic in my view shrewdly observed that Bronson’s stock-in-trade was the ability to convey quiet menace on the screen like no other actor. Not for him the bawling and yelling of a Lee J Cobb. In his films Charles was repeatedly able to build up the audience’s feeling of tension and danger in the low-key way Glenn Ford succeeded in doing in the hotel scenes with Van Heflin in 3.10 to Yuma

    11 His two big Cogerson 100 million dollar stand-alone films were of course The Valachi Papers and the first Death Wish. The Valachi Papers was about the Mafia and Charles may have been lucky in that it came out at the time when the US was enthralled with Godfathers.

    12 However sociologists have opined that Death Wish resonated with American audiences because at that time the ordinary citizen had lost a degree of confidence in the official law enforcement agencies to protect the general public and the vigilante was therefore seen as a kind of a Robin Hood figure who protected the weak. Certainly if audiences sought comfort in that respect Charlie was their ideal man.
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    ROBERT ROY.

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    1. Hey Bob.
      1. Like Steve wrote….this is a great comment.
      2. I agree…..he was a supporting actor for most of his peak years….but he still created some memorable movie roles….The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape and Once Upon A Time in The West (which was supposed to be Clint Eastwood’s role….but then again….the spaghetti western trilogy that made Clint a star were meant for Bronson).
      3. Wow….good stats….glad my page was able to let you pull those out. You are right….if you take out The Valachi Papers and Death Wish…..the rest of his starring roles….are not impressive at the box office. I think Jason Statham might be the modern day Charles Bronson. Which is fitting especially since he has already remade one of Bronson’s movies…The Mechanic. They both (Charles and Jason) had/have a nice following…..but there movies have somewhat of a limited audience.
      4. Sorry….when it comes to overseas box office……that is a huge void…..maybe someday a resource will surface. But I agree he was very popular overseas. Action sells….Arnold, Bruce and Sly still sell lots of tickets overseas for sure.
      5. I can buy your rough estimation of his foreign box office numbers.
      6. I remember when I was first researching Valachi Papers…it was unknown to me…..when I was looking through Variety to find a box office rental number….I was looking at the bottom of their Top Grossers lists….at one point I was like….never going to find that number….and I gave up. About a week later I was back in those Variety listings and I was shocked to see Valachi Papers near the top of the list. If I had not caught that….it would probably the biggest mistake I have ever made on these pages. The current winner on that regard is From The Terrance ……I only underestimated that box office by $140 million….lol.
      7. Death Wish is about to get some renewed interest….as Bruce Willis is signed to appear in the reboot….maybe Bruce can crank out 5 Death Wish movies like Charles did…..or he could merge Die Hard with Death Wish….I can see it now ….coming to a theater soon….Bruce Willis in Die Wish or Death Hard…..lol
      Thanks for sharing some great information….it is greatly appreciated.

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      1. Hey Bob….You know….all jokes aside….making Death Wish the sixth Die Hard movie is not actually crazy. Think about…McClane is retired….living in New York….a horrible crime happens to his family….no longer a cop….. he can no longer do anything about….he slowly drives him crazy……he pulls out his old guns….and rides the subway looking for trouble……he takes out a copy of bad guys…..now his old friends on the force have to catch him….all the while not really wanting to catch him. It sounds a heck of a lot better than McClane goes to Russia and destroys Russia….like part 5.

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        1. BRUCE:

          1 Sadly for me as I am a big Bronson fan the Death Wish franchise can not hold a candle to the Die Hard one at the box office. I will ignore foreign earnings because we don’t have any for Charlie but his five Death Wish films total just around 225 million in inflated US grosses – an average of just 45 million. Wikipedia branded Death Wish 5 as a box office ‘disaster’

          2 Bruce’s Die Hard franchise on the other hand totals around 835 million in inflation adjusted domestic grosses – an average of a whopping 165 million+ over the five films and almost equal to the combined gross Charlie’s entire 30 films from 1970-1995.

          3 A recent in-depth article in an American magazine opined that the FRANCHISE was almost the template for modern stardom and it quoted the emergence of people like Stallone (with his three franchises) to prove the point.

          4 Bruce was in the first two Expendables films with Stallone but I read that he was excluded from the 3rd because he wanted too much money. Some critics try to bracket Stallone and Willis because of their action hero films but I don’t think Sly has the same acting range as Bruce and I couldn’t have seen Sly doing highly sensitive parts like 6th Sense.

          5 Your links column clearly brings out something that is never generally mentioned – what a prolific screen team were Charlie and Jill Ireland. Doris and Rock are hailed as a great team and they made only 3 films together. I am aware that the Bronson/Ireland films were mainly low grossers and were not artistic classics; but there were 8 of them according to your list and surely that entitles Charlie and Jill to some credit as a screen team?

          BOB

          PS:
          (1) I am of course quoting your own figures back to you above.
          (2) In my main post I wrongly said that Death Wish 4 was the final film in the franchise whereas DW 5 was the last one. I make that mistake all the time because the income of DW 5 was so abysmal.

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          1. When Jill Ireland was on the set of the Star Trek episode where she guest starred, Bronson was on set and Leonard Nimoy was in Spock makeup and afraid.

            He pointed out to him all the time that this was a TV show only.

          2. Hey Bob
            1. I like it….I have lots of stories about Bruce Willis….he is my Brando…..we are currently in the 1960s part of Willis’ career….things look bleak….but the Godfather is coming.
            2. Even Death Wish was not a huge box office winner…..and the Death Wish movies from Cannon were pretty much in and out of a theater and in video stores in a few months.
            3. At this time it seems that Die Hard is the last thing keeping Bruce relevant…..amazing what the prospect of making lots of money can do.
            4. Yep Bruce took it on the chin when he did not take the original deal….in fairness to Bruce (I admit I am biased)…if Bruce had appeared in the movie…..he would have been a huge part of the promotions for the movie….so they were willing to use him…seems only fair he would try and use them too.
            5. Jill and Charles made lots of movies together….but is there a classic among the bunch?…heck is there a really good movie in the bunch? Maybe The Valachi Papers is good (I have not seen that one)…the rest are pretty unmemorable….at least from my viewpoint.
            As always…thanks for your thoughts on movies.

          3. Hey Flora….cool Star Trek story. Perfect timing with Star Trek Beyond about to open.

    2. I will have to respectfully disagree about acting range here Bobby. It is true that once you are steereotyped in a type of role, you are not given the opportunity to do much more thn one type of role.

      He had great range when he was doing smaller roles such as the fabulous Harmonica and in the days when he went under his real name.

      Regarding me always talking about Henry Fonda, Mr. Fonda was originally offered The Death Wish franchise, but found it disgusting to be a viginlante.

      Originally, I could not figure out why he was so outspoken about why he turned down the role. Why not say something like: It’s a bad script?

      Then Peter and Jane did the featurette in which they reveal that Henry witnessed a lynching and that this had a profound afftect on me much in the same way, I think, that knowing so many artistic people who committed suicide has had on me.

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      1. I meant to say it had a profound affect on Henry. However, knowing this featurette had a profound affect on my attitude towards the entire Fonda family.

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      2. It’s all relative Flora…I was comparing Charlie’s range with that of acknowledged GREAT actors like Greg, Widmark and Fonda. I don’t think he’s in that class but he is still massively entertaining.

        Anyway thanks for responding to my post. Enjoyed your extended poem on 3.10 to Yuma Also great fun.

        BOBBY

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        1. Thank you Bobby.
          And I am sorry that we misunderstood each other earlier due to the fact that usually we are joking.

          When you eliminate facial expressions, it is often hard to tell.

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  5. An update on one of my favorite actors. Nice. er what did you update if I may be so bold? Box Office figures?

    House of Wax was a big hit for WB thanks to its successful use of 3D, a year later and people were already losing interest in the new gimmick.

    Looking at the list there are only a handful of Charlie Bronson films I haven’t seen. I must be a fan.

    Never much liked Newman, Redford or Beatty and would avoid their films if possible but Bronson, Coburn and McQueen were my faves back in the 70s.

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      1. Was almost going to write and give u the reply but I take it from your link reference that you’re
        casting the net out again to see who’ll bite !!!

        “You can fool all of the people some of the time!”

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        1. It didn’t occur to me until after I posted that comment that those three actors were in two of my favorite films together. I’d just finished that John Sturges video yesterday, it still has that new car smell. 🙂

          I let Bruce handle the box office on his site while I go off and do my own thing at youtube, sometimes our ratings match but not always. I think he was quite happy with the top spot on my Sturges video.

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      3. I am guessing that I already wrote about this video on Hubpages.

        I’ve seen all the films of course.

        And I am partial – I mean I LOVE – the posters with McQueen, Widmark, Peck etc.

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        1. I love those posters too Flora. One of my main excuses for compiling those videos is to show off those wonderful old posters from all over the world.

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          1. It is a great “excuse” – it is too bad that people don’t make those posters anymore – or at least not as often.

            Like I have said before, the reeason I write on this site for free is simply because this is a site that exists and I love to talk to people all over he world about these artists.

    2. Steve Steve Steve…..lots of stuff got updated.
      (1) Two new to this page movies were added
      (2) Yearly box office rank for all of his movies were added
      (3) Co-star UMR links were added
      (4) New box office grosses were used….as how we calculate how we turn rentals into gross has changed
      (5) And at your suggestion….we have changed the formula for calculating UMR score…the new formula adds in more review input and less box office input.
      Pretty much had to do all 61 movies again.

      House of Wax 3D is pretty much caused the 3D craze…..it exploded at the box office…..and then a flood of 3D movies came….but none reached the heights of Charlie’s House of Wax

      I pretty much avoided Beatty….but I have always liked Newman and Redford….as well as the Magnificent Three you mentioned.

      As always….thanks for checking out my latest.

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      1. Was all that mentioned at the top? I’m sure I looked. That’s a lot of updates Bruce, good work amigo. The Great Escape is still too low though. [Bruce screams] No worries it will probably go up a step on the next update. [Bruce bites his fist]

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        1. Hey Steve….you make a valid point….I did not mention the changes anywhere…..slowly I am getting all of these pages updated….thankfully I have crossed the halfway mark. Debbie and I were on a walk….and we were talking about the update process….she was kind enough to remind me that 2017 average movie ticket cost is coming soon…..so I will probably finish the update….and then have to update 400 plus pages again…lol.

          The Great Escape is in good shape….2nd according to critics and audiences…and 4th according to UMR…..happy with those rankings. It would have gotten 1st in UMR if it had been a bigger hit…..it was a hit…..but not a monster hit. Thanks for the input….hope people find your John Sturges video.

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      2. Yes, I have seen Beatty films and there are some films of his I quite like.

        It is interesting that many of the films of his I have seen (Beatty) are those which I enjoy have a great ensemble cast.

        My favourite of his is the remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan – His version changes the sport to Football and has the same title as an unrelated Don Ameche film, although both involve the afterlife: Heaven Can Wait.

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