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Post by arthurbishop on Jul 10, 2010 8:01:16 GMT -5
I still stick by those movies being his best physique, I found that in the 50's he looked more lean and fit rather than the imposing Bronson in the later movies.
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Post by arthurbishop on Jul 2, 2010 6:54:41 GMT -5
The other day I was watching Farewell Friend which I thought had Bronson's best physique as well as Cold Sweat. With Chato's Land as a runner up. I was wondering at what time in his career do you think Bronson had his best physique?
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Post by arthurbishop on Jun 3, 2010 1:36:21 GMT -5
I'm not sure, but I think it's St Ives.
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Post by arthurbishop on May 31, 2010 2:19:39 GMT -5
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Post by arthurbishop on May 30, 2010 4:45:44 GMT -5
I agree that Bronson most probably saw it as a job. He seemed to be a very straight laced kind of guy, who most probably didn't enjoy Hollywood, the ego's and a lot of the personality's involved.
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Post by arthurbishop on May 28, 2010 15:53:51 GMT -5
I've really gotta get some of this guy's movies. He sounds like a great tough guy actor, the only problem is that these movies are so hard to find.
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Post by arthurbishop on May 28, 2010 15:49:48 GMT -5
Ahk, I guess that shows how big a star he was that they made a movie out of these episodes. That would be have been pretty cool to meet a star like that.
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Post by arthurbishop on May 6, 2010 4:20:31 GMT -5
I found this while looking around the internet:
Q. How come you haven't done an article on the passing of Charles Bronson?
Matthew Anderson, Hicksville, N.Y.
A. I was out of town and by the time I learned of his death, the paper's deadline had passed. Bronson was a straight-ahead kind of guy, with genuine screen presence that contributed to his good movies and helped him get through the bad ones. I liked him. He said exactly what he thought and had little patience for the movie publicity machine.
I spent some time with him on the set of "Death Wish" for an Esquire magazine profile, and quoted him saying he was capable, like his character, of killing anyone who harmed his family. When Johnny Carson asked him why they ran quotes like that, he said, "Because that's what I said."
I have a favorite Bronson story. Both Bronson and the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman had the same agent, Paul Kohner, and the same publicist, the legendary Ernie Anderson. When Bergman left Sweden in a well-publicized dispute with the tax authorities, he visited Los Angeles for the first time, and asked Kohner to arrange a visit to a studio.
Bronson was making an action picture at the time, and Kohner assigned Anderson to arrange a meeting between the two clients. Anderson was hesitant, because Bronson sometimes kidded him: "I know this isn't a Bergman picture, but it may make a few bucks."
After he introduced the two men, Bergman asked him to explain the scene he was doing. "This is the scene where I get shot," Bronson said. "I have these little squibs that explode to make it look like bullets are hitting."
"Fascinating," said Bergman. "I never knew how they did that."
"You mean," asked Bronson, "you don't use machine guns in your movies?"
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Post by arthurbishop on May 6, 2010 4:12:14 GMT -5
I watched this film the other day, despite being cheap it had a good performance from Bronson and also co-starred George Kennedy. I've read it is a TV movie which is quite evident by the DVD. It's about Bronson playing a rancher Ben Justin, trying to start his own ranch and get rich. It is deeper than a lot of Bronson's early westerns and has good performances all round. Has anyone else seen this film?
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Post by arthurbishop on May 6, 2010 4:08:10 GMT -5
This guys sounds awesome, being an Australian you'd think I'd have heard of him but I hadn't till this site. The Darker Than Amber fight scene was great. Also this site has helped me find a lot of other tough guy actors. Is there any other good movies, TV shows etc with Rod Taylor in them?
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Post by arthurbishop on Apr 14, 2010 3:27:28 GMT -5
It just came out in Australia as well, at first I was apprehensive about buying it, but now after I've watched it, it's one of my favorite Bronson movies.
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Post by arthurbishop on Apr 14, 2010 3:22:59 GMT -5
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Post by arthurbishop on Mar 10, 2010 5:34:51 GMT -5
We've all heard a lot of stories of who Bronson disliked and had fights with. I was wondering who did Bronson actually like? I'm sure this list would be shorter than who he disliked but I'd find this interesting.
The only mention I've heard was on the set of Magnificent Seven that he and Steve Mcqueen were friends. So I was wondering if anyone else has any stories?
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Post by arthurbishop on Feb 12, 2010 17:13:35 GMT -5
Speaking of his physique I found an impressive story from Woody Strode:
I picked up twenty pounds by doing one thousand pushups a day. The school wouldn't alllow us to lift weights. The coaches thought weights would slow you down. So I developed natural strength from working out with my own bodyweight. I got where I could do a thousand pushups, a thousand situps, and a thousand knee-squats every day. With the pushups I'd have to rest after every hundred....
When I became a professional wrestler, they used to announce me at 230 pounds, even though I weighed 210. That's because my upper body was so well-developed. I got this whole look a weight lifter would get, only without the bulk. I was as strong as a guy who weighed 250...
As big as I was, I could do an iron cross on the rings because of all those pushups. That went on until I was forty years old, then I began to taper off and cut down. But, I still do pushups to this day. I don't have to do as many; I just maintain by keeping myself lean and wiry. And I owe this whole look to Johnny Weismuller, who played Tarzan in the movies. I wanted to be Tarzan; I saw every movie. I'd look at him and I'd want to be out in the jungle swinging from the trees and fighting alongside Tarzan.
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Post by arthurbishop on Jan 28, 2010 0:37:42 GMT -5
I was always wondering why that guy looked familiar. Maphillips3 and chaney you guys are encyclopedia's on movie tough guys.
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