Charles Bronson The Spirit of Masculinity

With his grizzled moustache and chiselled features Charles Bronson is the embodiment of a slightly archaic brooding and almost reactionary virility But who is he really Often hired to play marginalised Native American or Mexican characters before he was typecast as the image of a lone killer Bronson was a major figure in the popular cinema of the 1960s and 70s and his stonyfaced physical acting and career are worthy of a second look