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Jake Rosen and Mental_Floss<\/a> present 9 Hardened Facts About Charles Bronson<\/a>. \u00a0Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n 2. HE EARNED HIS FIRST ACTING ROLE BY BURPING.<\/strong><\/p>\n Bronson had always been interested in the arts. After serving in the Army during World War II, he found himself in Atlantic City doing odd jobs. One acting troupe invited him to paint scenery for them; Bronson found he enjoyed performing more. His first film role, in 1951\u2019s You\u2019re in the Navy Now, was landed, he said, because he was the only actor who could burp on demand.<\/p>\n 3. COMMUNISM (AND STEVE MCQUEEN) FORCED A NAME CHANGE.<\/strong><\/p>\n When Bronson (n\u00e9 Buchinsky) was starting out, Senator Joseph McCarthy was preoccupied with rooting out Communists in Hollywood. Fearing his Lithuanian name would provide ammunition for accusations, he took on the name Bronson after driving with friend Steve McQueen, who pointed to a \u201cBronson\u201d street sign and shouted to him that it would be perfect.<\/p>\n 8. HE WAS HUGE IN ITALY.<\/strong><\/p>\n While Bronson was a bona fide movie star in the States for a portion of his career, he was a megastar in other countries. Italian moviegoers called him \u201cIl Brutto\u201d (The Ugly One) and in France he was one of cinema’s \u201cmonstres sacr\u00e9s\u201d His movies would often earn more in other territories than they would in North America. In Japan, a publicist once said, his name appeared on a sign over a block long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jake Rosen and Mental_Floss present 9 Hardened Facts About Charles Bronson. \u00a0Here are three of my favorites… 2. HE EARNED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17249,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17248\/revisions\/17249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}