ken123 wrote:Charles Bronson ?
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Hoorah!! You are correct, Ken.
According to Wikipedia, Charles Buchinsky changed his name to Bronson, taking that name from the Bronson Street gate of Paramount Studios.
I threw in the part about getting the acting bug in high school from personal hearsay: the father of a man I met several years ago was an English teacher, whose first job was in a small high school in western Pennsylvania where Charlie Buchinsky was a student. Said father also ran the school drama club, of which Charlie was an enthusiastic member. And so a star was born.
I hope all of you, who never have done, will get to see episodes of Cloris Leachman's MTM spinoff "Phyllis," just to see the great and venerable Judith Lowry salivating at the thought of going to the movies and maybe seeing "Charles Bronson, with his shirt off!" That was a hoot.