Birth Name:
Charles Dennis Buchinsky
Birth Place:
Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, USA
Ethnicity:
Lithuanian Tatar and Lithuanian
The legendary Hollywood actor was famous for playing tough guy roles in the 1970s and 1980s. He was born to a Lithuanian Tatar father and a Lithuanian American mother.
Lithuanian Tatars followed the Sunni Islamic religion and their ancestry traces back to the Mongol empire of Genghis Khan.
Source:
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/31/bronson.obit/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bronson
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