The archetypal screen tough guy with weatherbeaten features - one film critic described his rugged looks as a Clark Gable who had been left out in the sun too long - Charles Bronson was born Charles Buchinski, one of 14 children of struggling Polish immigrant parents in Pennsylvania (his father was a coal miner). He completed high school and joined his father in the mines (an experience that resulted in a lifetime fear of being in enclosed spaces) and then served in WW II. After his return f ...[Read Story]