In just one decade, Charles Bronson starred in multiple western and war movie masterpieces, perfecting both genres within a few years of each other.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Charles Bronson was a master of many genres, and he perfected the two genres that defined his career – westerns and war movies – within a single decade. Bronson is one of the most iconic “tough guy” actors in Hollywood history, and he starred in a wide range of different genre films throughout his storied career.
But the two genres that Bronson is most closely associated with are westerns and war movies. Bronson’s badass charisma and intimidating screen presence made him perfect for roles as gunslingers on the frontier or soldiers on the battlefield. Bronson appeared in such westerns as Chato’s Land, Vera Cruz, and The White Buffalo, and such war movies as Never So Few and Battle of the Bulge.
But Bronson wasn’t done revolutionizing the genre as he ended the ‘60s with a different timeless western masterpiece: 1968’s Once Upon a Time in the West. Bronson plays “Harmonica,” a mysterious gunfighter who always plays his harmonica before a duel. Harmonica seeks vengeance against Henry Fonda’s sadistic villain, Frank, and will stop at nothing to kill him.
Charles Bronson Was Also In Two All-Time Great War Movies In The 1960s In between his two ‘60s western classics, Bronson also starred in two of the greatest war movies ever made: The Great Escape in 1963 and The Dirty Dozen in 1967. In The Great Escape, Charles Bronson plays the “Tunnel King,” a tunnel digger with severe claustrophobia, and in The Dirty Dozen, he plays German-speaking convict Joseph Wladislaw. Both of these movies defined a subgenre of the war film.
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