Movies
Charles Bronson, the taciturn actor who became an international action star in Europe in the late 1960s and achieved major box office success in America in the mid-’70s as the vengeance-seeking vigilante in “Death Wish,” has died.
Sept. 1, 2003
Obituaries
Travel & Experiences
An old Griffith Park rock quarry has been a favorite movie and TV backdrop for 80 years.
May 8, 2003
Eleven years ago, in the movie “Death Wish,” Charles Bronson sat on a New York subway and waited for a bunch of street punks to bother him.
Feb. 12, 1985
Television
Movie makers have long been captivated by Jack London’s novel “The Sea Wolf,” and the version premiering with Charles Bronson and Christopher Reeve on TNT at 8 p.m.
April 17, 1993
Lilian Bronson, an actress with more than 80 movie and television credits and the subject of a giant Hollywood Freeway mural, died in San Clemente on Tuesday at the age of 92.
Aug. 4, 1995
From one angle, “Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects” (citywide) is just another Charles Bronson action thriller--a bit sleazier and more repellent than most--in which Bronson is put through his patented paces and car chases by director J.
Feb. 3, 1989
The character “arc” of every “Death Wish” film is the same: Charles Bronson, as Paul Kersey, starts each installment as a peace-loving architect with a good, doomed woman by his side, and ends up having added so many baddies to his cumulative body count you’d think he was competing against Ho Chi Minh’s all-time league record for kills-batted-in.
Jan. 17, 1994
Step aside, Charles Bronson.
Sept. 1, 1988
In the new Charles Bronson cop thriller, “Murphy’s Law” (citywide), there’s a double edge to the title.
April 18, 1986