Charles Bronson on Jumping Onto Freights In His Youth | The Dick Cavett Show
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- American film actor Charles Bronson discusses the wounds he endured after riding freight trains in his youth and the distribution of his new movie, The Valachi Papers. Featuring British filmmaker, Richard Attenborough.
Date aired - October 3rd 1972 - Charles Bronson and Richard Attenborough
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Bronson was a B-29 gunner and got a Purple Heart during WWII. The dude was a real life hard ass. He grew up rough.
@D Legionnaire take your SCAMMING and go away.
I guess He was just being Himself in some of His Movies!!
Been to his birthplace town in the PA coal country and to the Charles Bronson museum.
I always liked what I saw of him.
I did not know that info about him ,thank you.
I now have more to like😎
@@frankfarago2825 where/what is the bronson museum? couldn't find anything about it online
He was known as a tough guy, but it's readily apparent that he was also a very smart man. Most actors aren't that articulate without a script.
Agreed. Most can’t carry on a conversation.
@Ry G Yeah, what was I thinking? Actors like Robert DeNiro and Alec Baldwin are the true intellectuals of our time! #LMAO
Seriously - 1) They film one scene at a time. 2) You only see the scene they got right. You have no idea how many attempts it took to get that one good take.
And besides, actors are only speaking what other people have written. Just look at Barack Obama as one example. He's as good as anybody at giving a scripted speech, but he stutters and his speech pattern is totally different when he has to think for himself. He's like a totally different person.
Charles Bronson was an intelligent, articulate person. Many actors aren't.
@@watchman1178 Dialogue has little to do with acting but I do agree that Chuck Bronson appeared to be sharper than most.
@@watchman1178 No one thinks of Alec Baldwin as a great actor. That's a weird comparison. DeNiro's a fantastic actor (moreso in the old days than now) with a temperament not that different from Bronson really. Politicians have to walk on eggshells not to say anything that gets them in trouble, so it's not fair to compare them with the greats. Dan Quayle or George W Bush couldn't finish a sentence, and Obama is charming but super reserved in impromptu speech (which can be frustrating).. but it has nothing to do with their skill as politicians - W and Obama were both two-termers.
@@linusp9316I wasn't talking about temperament. I was talking about intelligence. There's no comparison in that area between Bronson and DeNiro.
Always had a deep respect for Charles Bronson, an actor who loved the art in himself and not himself in the art.
Well said!
❤
“The bullet just fell right out” I think it got scared.
Real Superman
In those days there were many ppl with bullets in their body baby face Nelson was one of them.
Best that chuck norris
This is who chuck norris looks up to😂😂
... My grandfather was one of the "other boys" on that boxcar. He told me about that incident when i was a high school student back in the eighties... Their stories line up, but Charlie left a couple points out in this interview. One of the boys worked at the company store, so, they had a key.. They were running away, so, they went heavy helping themselves to food for the trip... As for Charlie getting shot, when that guard cornered the boys, he only had two of them cornered, on the ground from what i understand.. The third boy, Charlie, was on top of the train and had a huge chunk of coal over his head.. He was about to hurl it down on that guard...my pap was trying to shake his head " no" to Charlie, the guard picked up on it, swung around, and saw Charlie up there with the boulder about to be rained down on him, and drew his gun. After all this.. Charlie, who was 18, went to jail for a little while, my pap, who was 17, went to juvie, can't recall anything about the other kid.
He was an actor that was an authentic human being...And, a VERY GOOD actor!!
i thought he was terrible
@@NC-ck5oj there was some films he was i think terrible in but there are ones i think he was very good in too it really depends on i think on who was directing it and if he really gave a damn about the project. he wasn't always good i agree but he could be and sometimes was but not nearly as often as i would have liked.
Tremendous screen presence even when silent.
10 to Midnight" is a movie i like because its kinda relevant today. But he had good movies like Death Wish and such. So i have huge appreciation for his movies
Bronson is one of the FEW actors, that could actually kick someone's ass. And the interviewers treaded very lightly, because they knew this too. LOL!
yeah he was so direct and honest and very pragmatic.
An interviewer commenting on his acting role in "The Dirty Dozen" asked Jim Brown about the attitude a tough professional athlete would have toward working with actors portraying tough guys in movies. Brown answered in words to the effect that some of the actors he worked with in that picture were much tougher than athletes generally are. I think he made specific mention of Bronson and Telly Savalas.
And you're not kidding either. What a man he was 😅
He’s the man all round! He’s quiet intensity is rare and far superior than a loud mouths today.
“Quiet intensity” is a really good way of putting it.
I never watch any movies made in these times i only watch movies made in the 30s n 40s but i do watch movies that bronson and eastwood were in back yrs ago. These hack actors n actresses cant act what so ever. Bronson and eastwood n wayne were 3 of the greatest actors that has ever lived.
@@dwightherrington7793Nah that's not true
What I like about actors like Bronson is that before making movies he actually lived a rough life that he later brought to the characters he played.
He quite literally lifted himself by the bootstraps to become an actor. The definition of self made he had no shot at becoming anything turned his skill into a legendary career and is still beloved and memorized.
He was very underestimated. He was very intelligent.
just who is underestimating him...and how do you know he was very intelligent?..not by this clip i hope
There are far too many UA-cam comments in which people, places, artistic creations etc are labelled underrated and underestimated. You know who is underrated? The people whose names you don't know.
@@jadezee6316 Where do they grow people like you. Always something negative to say even to simple comments. I guess what I am asking is, does being a negative troll to every positive get your rocks off. Is this all you have in your pathetic little life?
@@NxDoyle:
And maybe too many judgemental trolls telling others that their comments lack validity or relevance simply because they say so.
@Kim Greene my 21 y.o. son knows who Charles Bronson is.🙄
Great interview for Bronson, a man who didn't like interviews.
Oh what do you mean he doesn't like interviews? Everybody likes interviews.
Had Charles Bronson not turned down the lead role in 1964's A Fistful of Dollars, the world likely would never have heard of Clint Eastwood.
Bronson was a virtually fatherless, dirt poor, great depression-era coal miner, a world war 2 B-29 Aerial Gunner, and actor who scrapped by in Hollywood for more than 20 Years before emerging in the early 1970s as the #1 Highest Paid Actor on the Planet; and as you can see in this clip, not a braggart. Not your typical Hollywood Personality, then or now.
*Eastwood was destined for 'Stardom' no matter what role he played*
*The fact that he became the 'virtual lead' in 'Rawhide' was a decision from the viewers who
liked his 'screen presence' over that of Eric Fleming*
___________
*'Steve McQueen' was a synonym of Eastwood in the late 1950's...both of them did anything they could to advance their careers into movies which was very difficult to do then because 'TV' was seen as a 'death sentence' for any aspiring actor because of over-exposure*
___________
*McQueen even staged a 'car wreck' to mark his face in order to get released to work in 'The Magnificent 7' and even that was a trick involving steroid-injections to force his cheeks and nose to look 'swollen & bruised'*
*Eastwood was more fortunate in that he wasn't 'Violating' his 'Exclusive Performance Rights' clause in his contract because it was a foreign market with no intents for a U.S. release...but the movie was wildly popular in Europe it decided to release 'Fistful' as a 'B'-movie for the 'Drive-in' market and it so popular that within 2-weeks it was released into the 'real theaters' and was the 'Smash Hit' of 1964 along with the 'Bond' follow-up 'Goldfinger'*
( *I saw them both at the 'Dearborn Theater' in Detroit that year* )
i agree he is amazing but you're way off, he was successful for a long time before the 70's. certainly not scraping by if you're a significant role in the magnificent 7 and the great escape both in the early 60s. also he was the main lead in a detective show for a couple years before that.
@@Scottishrugbyguy 'Man with a Camera'. Some excellent writing using a pretty limited premise
@@martinarcher1503 100%
@@martinarcher1503 First one I thought of. My mother liked it.
Before Big Arnie, Sly, Segal, Van Damme, Dolph, Statham, there was McQueen, Marvin, Eastwood, Coburn, and Bronson.
Absolutely Goddamn right
Says it all.
and Wayne
@@EltonBrasilTV
What about Wayne?
He talked the talk but didn't walk the walk!
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Love Charles Bronson, one of my favorite actors of all time!!! He did a great job in the best Western motion picture of all time, “Once Upon A Time In the West”
A very cool actor with a great presence. So glad he appeared in some classic films.
he was never is a classic film
@@jadezee6316 ooga da booga?
Once Upon A Time In The West, the finest opening sequence in the history of cinema.
STOIC.....SAYING ALOT BY SAYING LITTLE...
@@jadezee6316 The Dirty Dozen, Hard Times, Death Wish, Once Upon a Time in the West, Rider on the Rain, Great Escape, Magnificent Seven, Red Sun, The Mechanic.....
Charles was ripped back in the day. This man was tough.
I watched Chatos Land last night - he plays an Apache indian. He was definitely ripped.
Especially in HARD TIMES love that movie fkn badazz
Yeah, Bronson was 50+ years old when he played in Chato's Land. He stayed fit his whole life
I saw an interview once where they asked him why he became an actor, and he said, “because you can make a lot of money real fast” very honest!
The ironic thing was that Bronson didn't get his big break until he was almost 40. And he felt very resentful at how long it took to make it.
He had an incredible physique,carved out is stone...Bronson was a very talented artist/ painter too! RIP
When I lived on Balboa Island, Newport Beach, Ca back in the day, I happened to see Charles Bronson and his dear wife, Jill Ireland, exit their car. Although Death Wish continues to be my all time favorite (especially in today's societal woes!) I knew they'd rather not be approached and let them have their privacy. That was a favorite day of mine. I've always admired the humility of this fine man. A real man's man. Greetings, today, from Utah.
What a charming story. Thanks for sharing it with us❤
Charles Bronson is the reason the man who owned the company I worked for hired a bodyguard. He also learned not to make inappropriate comments about mr. Bronson’s date even if it was his house the party was being held at. I always liked Bronson as an actor and because of his integrity and quality of character.
I recall my Mother having a huge crush on this great artist. She was always puzzled at how attractive he was despite not being "handsome"
My late Mum, was to it was the rugged look i think.
He's the "bad boy" that's why...
He has charm, when he speaks he sounds innocent/vunreble because of his lisp but he's hard as nails, I can watch him all day
Yeah it's like Jason Statham in modern times, similar sort of thing
@@jagtarsinghmattu1212 Bronson had a lisp?
I met Mr Bronson as an extra while filming "Indian Runner". He was a very quiet man, but a nice man.
My dad was born the same year 1921 as Charles Bronson and is from Clearfield County just north of Cambria County were Charles Bronson is from. My dad told me of how he used to "ride the rails" as barley a teenager and hobo around the country during the Great Depression just to survive. After doing this for years he got drafted and fought in the Army in Europe during WW2. That generation of men were as tough as nails and I'm proud to have been raised by one...
Respect. Just that: respect ❤
Dick so out of his element. He cannot relate to someone who came from poverty and had to struggle. I jumped trains as a teenager. No way to describe it. Just a thrill that Dick can not imagine.
Charles Bronson and Alan delon were great together and complimented each others differences in a unique way or fashion
I loved them in Red Sun.
One of the coolest guys that ever walked the earth.
I always liked Bronson. He was the very definition of strong masculinity, straightforward and told it like it is, no BS, but there was a heart there. There are no real men in movies like him today. Loved him in Once Upon a Time in the West. RIP
Real
Actors like he and Eastwood are long gone and never to be seen again. Real men from a different era.
Brando statham and The Rock would kill everyone
Eastwood: not gone. 🙏🏻
@@selfiekroos1777 Statham and Rock are stuntmen with lines. Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood, they were more than tough guys. They were also charismatic and intelligent actors.
Eastwood is alive and literally still acting
Today's pretty-boy actors don't have the same real world experiences to call on.
Humble and bold.
Wonderful description
Bronson was far from humble. He had a gigantic ego.
Charles Bronson such poise and what a hard edged REAL man.
My favorite actor
Bronson is one of my favorite actors along with Clint Eastwood. A quiet toughness. Not braggarts. This is why I like them both.
The man.
YESS SUR.....!....CHARLIE ROCK....!
I can imagine he was a tough interview. Charles Bronson never struck me as the chatty type.
Money makes squeaking pretenses, go round .... and round ... and round
He did not like the press or interviews and was very private
@@radioflyer9959 apparently money unmakes ''privacy very'' public
@@radioflyer9959 right too. And the press still are
@@radioflyer9959 A wise position.
I grew up about 40 miles from Bronson's hometown of Ehrenfeld. The company towns were rough. Still are, especially after the coal left. I have always felt a connection with this man for some reason. I named my son after him (profile picture). You can tell he was nervous and would rather be somewhere else.
He was introverted, even he himself said so. He did not like to talk and would deal with his own thoughts.
He didn t play the hard Men...he was the Hard Men...my favorite Hard Men of all...
Shot off of a boxcar sounds like his art imitated his life!
Bronson one of my favorite actors
Handsomely Sculptured tough rough actor! A Screen Gem Legend! Semper fidelis Veteran Bronson!
The only man to walk out of the Magnificent 7, the Great Escape and the Dirty Dozen UNSCATHED!! Hardass.
He died in the Magnificent Seven. Remember the little Mexican kids who followed him around so there'd be someone to mourn him? Eventually they got their chance.
@@daveconleyportfolio5192 I'm sure he rode out with Yul Brynner? Maybe I'm confusing that scene with Lee Marvin..
@@darganx that was steve McQueen Lee Marvin wasn't in the magnificent seven
@@garryprice1761 I know he wasn't, it's just how I phrased the post.
Well Bronson kicked ass in all 3 films and that's enough for me 😀
Charles Bronson was always my favorite actor. I really liked him in Hard times, me being an ex boxer really enjoyed that movie. He was the real deal!
i think he was also a boxer at one time as well if i'm not mistaken it's hard to believe he didn't get fame until he was 53 years old
Bronson was the epitome of what a man should be
Too bad we never got to see a picture with Bronson and Eastwood in it.
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Bronson's role as harmonica in One Upon A Time In The West is effectively an Eastwood part. All tight close ups & sparse dialogue...
@@philiphalpenny3783 Kind of it
They were together in one episode of Rawhide I believe as opponents.
@@jamessuffecool8762 Indeed, see
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I always thought Bronson was great when I was growing up. I didn’t realise he was of Lithuanian descent at the time . I actually went by chance a few years ago to Druskininskai where his father was born when I was on a summer road trip from Germany to Russia. It’s an interesting place. Hard to imagine what it might have been like over 100 years ago. The Great Escape. Epic.
bronson could describe something very serious with such irony that it made you laugh. like the thing about the friend whose leg got destroyed by the train. great presence
Bronson wasn’t acting….he just showed up! 😂
Taciturn. That's Bronson. Taciturn - doesn't seem to like to say much, but you know there's a deep intelligence beneath that surface.
Nice word. And I agree.
For an insanely tough guy he is remarkably intelligent. He's not a goon.
Hearing stories like Bronson's and Johnny Paycheck's used to fascinate me as a kid. Guys who ran away or got kicked out of their homes as kids and forced to fend for themselves by riding the rails to wherever. But their stories didnt have a tragic end like so many runaways do. They got it together as adults and became sucessful.
As a youth who spent time growing up in public housing with train tracks just behind (yep, wrong side of), it was recreation for us to play "chicken" with speeding commuter trains and also hop freights. One of my childhood acquaintances didn't mount it just right and his toes were severed, that kinda took some of the romance out of it for me and so I left that recreational sport behind.
" he slowed us down" what a boss
Wouldn't leave their wounded buddy behind. Honor among the thieves right there.
@@LandersWorkshop I didn't say he left him ....he's just the reason they got caight
@@brendancronin3796 I know that, I was just restating it for people that might get the wrong impression, Celtic brother.
My favorite Charles Bronson movie is Hard Times.
Bronson was a true tough guy .
Charles Bronson……My favorite actor of all time. Love all his movies.
Hard Times is my favorite.
My favorite movie was From Noon Till Three. 👍
Charles demostrated true guts in the movie The Great Escape as Danny the claustrophobic tunnel digger. Fighting the feeling you are about to die helping others makes a man a true BADASS!
Legendary, great actor... Saw him once in 1999 in New York upper west side in front of the paparazzi... Again great actor 👍🌹
He's gorgeous
Find a real man's man nowadays like Bronson.
Me , I Always have been
No one fits the bill, not now.
It's the age of girlie men now days
Statham??
@@bendover9663 He tries to he but he puts to much effort when men like Bronson, Marvin are just naturales at it.
Hopping a freight is not easy. My cousins and I tried several times and were unsuccessful. One of my cousins finally made it and couldn’t get off; he was stuck on the freighter for 200 miles.
Did they bring him back.
@@tub19 Nope! Someone had to go grab him. I seem to recall we all got punished for that one. Good times.
@@MarcoPolo-zc6zo 😆😆😆
Bronson.
WOW.
Fkn love Bronson!! Caught a ride back from hopping a train from a dirtbiker when I was like 10 or 11. The guy went way out of his way to get me back to my town , I wasnt able to jump off the train for miles after my friends did cause it got going so fast. Still one of the coolest rides of my entire life getting stuck on that smooth speeding gravel car then the bouncy ride home on the back of that dudes bike. Been riding motorcycles ever since, trains are dangerous, hahaha!!
Bronson was a real man.
WHAT AN ACTOR, AND, WHAT A MAN!! 🤗❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥
I agree!
He had a very very hard life growing up and I can testify to that.
It stays with you and talking seems I don't know, point being I understand Bronsons silence not much talking from him.
What an incredible man's man's
If my memory of reading a bunch of modern American classics is correct, getting caught jumping boxcars would invariably result in copping a severe beating from the 'railroad bulls'.
Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson: We're the toughest guys ever in movies!
Mr. Charles Bronson: Ha ha, that's a funny joke.
In all seriousness, Mr. Bronson is probably the toughest looking actor to ever hit the movie screens and playing the toughest characters. Not to mention he grew up tough, so he's basically playing himself! A smart dude and a good storyteller. I could listen to him talk about anything. Rest in peace to such an amazing actor.
So thankful for this channel, amazing interview after amazing interview!
old skool = better
Yes indeed
old school = people who fought hard so that their grandkids didn't have to die of black lung in a coal mine or get shot off a train. Tough people, but you wouldn't want to trade places with them.
Great guy & one of my favourite actors. The mechanic was one of my favourites.
dude walked the talk
a time when talk shows were very interesting
Thanks for posting! Bronson was the REAL TOUGH GUY as you can see or tell by his voice, answers and or mannerism's! A real hero in WWII as a gunner IMO, tough as nails.
This is one guy I would not want to fuk with in real life if he were alive today (at the age he is in this interview) AND he still is one of my favorites to watch in just about any movie!
First time I saw an interview with him. He does seem to be an edgy taciturn person, his conversation is exchanging information. I don't think we see his real personality here, he keeps alot inside, I guess prefers it that way. He's a generous man, raised one or more of a friend's kids when something happened to the parents.
I love Dick Cavett but maybe someone other could’ve done better interview .
you all don't realize the deep loyalty and absolute commitment to friendship that was in that one statement he said as a joke.
They could have gotten away but had to stay and help their injured friend.
These days your "friend" would be halfway across town by the time that detective got to his injured colleague.
"The Valachi Papers" (1973). One of the best organized crime movies, and one of the most under-appreciated. I saw it in New York the day it came out. Is it out on Blu-Ray?
Great Interveiw 🙂 🎉
Bronson is underrated as an actor...check out Man with a Camera, the tv series he did for two seasons in the late 50s...he's fantastic and the show is kind of ahead of its time...
It's like he accepts just enough interviews to display his bluntness in order to discourage potential requests for future ones, which I very much imagine didn't sit too well with the heads of studios trying to promote
his films.
i did not want to see the movie the valachi papers when i saw the billboard for it,,,,,,,,,anyway, went in, loved it , saw it 11 more times,,,,,,, charles bronson, amazing
Probably the most badass man EVER.
"The Dirty Dozen", "The Vallaci Papers", "Once upon a Time in the West", "Telefon". Damn! He did a lotta great movies.
He was a real man not like these fruit cakes that you see now days in Hollywood
EXACTLY 💯
I love the full version of this interview where Dick Cavett has to hold up and promote a brand of mascara while Bronson just sits there silently judging him.
Good stuff. Seems like a likeable guy. I have to admit, some of the bad stories I've read about him really started to turn me off, but seeing him here sparks my hope that he was a decent guy who just had a hard life when he was younger. Always been a fan since the 80's.
Charles Bronson didn't take any crap from anyone.
At one point not that long ago (maybe a year ago) the full interview with Bronson & Jill Ireland was on UA-cam but I can't find it now. I suppose this channel (The Dick Cavett Show) had it removed for copywrite reasons. Hopefully this channel will put up the full interview for us.
Good on him (Charles Bronson), unlike today's actors, if he didn't agree with the interviewer he would call them out on it... a very honest man, that didn't take crap or settle for fools... he didn't like the BS side of hollyweird, and the moment they tried it on him, he'd call them out on it straight away... gotta love integrity like that...
He had a rough life. Shows you why hes so stoic.
Unfortunately Hollywood doesn't have stars like Bronson anymore.
When Chuck Norris goes to sleep he checks under his bed for Charles Bronson
🤣🤣🤣
A few months ago they've posted here the full interview!
I loved his part in The Dirty Dozen and tried to mimick his walk and talk as a kid. The coolest guy I ever saw on film.
Love that Charles Bronson.🙂
Very cool guy . The first movie I saw , was Chatos Land ( Title in Germany) that was in 1972 , when I was 12 years young. Than onc we upon time in the West ... and all the others. Thanks to him , and his movies, I was always a straight guy. He was a real Idol for young guys of my generation .
When I was a kid in Fairbanks, AK, we used to jump the train coming out of Wainwright Army base after it crossed the Chena River. It would slow down for the bridge and as it sped back up we would wait for the locomotive to go by and jump on the cars. It was a way to get across town fairly fast. A good fight for a film with some street cred authenticity would have been Bronson and Sean Connery. They both came up in some tough situations and knew how to handle themselves in real life before becoming actors.
Charles Bronson such a wonderful great actor....
I loved all his Movies! A Great Actor!
Charles Bronson, the man
Bronson is amazing.
Charles Bronson was my hero!! This is true when i was in high school we had a kid that not only looked identical with face and hair, but he was built muscular and carried himself just like Charles. Still to today every time i see this guy on Facebook i think he must be Charles kid some how lol.....who knows!! 👀🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️ I would love to see what Charles would have had to say about all the stuff going on in the US with the election and virus and the changing of our society in 20/21. 👀🤔🤔
I love charles bronson one of very few greatest actors