Classic TV Channel's video: Charles Bronson TV Rise to Fame 1950s 9 episode compilation

Charles Bronson, the archetypal screen tough guy with weatherbeaten features, played dozens of TV parts in the 1950s and 60s, finally achieving super stardom in action movies like The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Great Escape (1963), The Dirty Dozen (1967), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and Death Wish (1974). His charisma is on display in these early television roles. 00:00. Roy Rogers Show - The Knockout (1952) Charles Bronson in one of his earliest screen roles, billed as Chas. Buchinski, plays a boxer who is under the control of a gang. 26:05. Four Star Playhouse - The Witness (1953) Dick Powell, Charles Bronson. A defense attorney idles in a swank restaurant while his client's on trial for murder. The attorney's PIs search for a female witness who can get the defendant off, so the attorney avoids court to keep delaying the trial. 55:44. Federal Men - The Case of the Escaped Convict (1954) Aaron Spelling (famous future Producer) and Charles Bronson (as Ollie) are convicts on the run doing basically OF MICE AND MEN riffs, with Bronson oddly in the George role. 1:18:13. Stage 7 - Time of Day (1955) The coddled daughter (Peggy Ann Garner) of a judge befriends a broke young man (Charles Bronson) with a reform school past. She gives him an expensive watch as a token of her friendship, but a detective thinks he stole it. 1:44:00 Cavalcade of America - Chain of Hearts (1955) Bronson plays a Polish seaman who seeks citizenship in the United States after WW-2. 2:13:31 Federal Men - The Case of the Deadly Dilemma (1955) While attempting to infiltrate a counterfeiting ring, an undercover secret service agent (Bronson) is ordered to kill a man by the gang's leader. 2:39:40. Joe Palooka - Two Rings for Eddie (1957) Eddie Crane (Bronson), one of Joe's proteges, has a problem - his fiancée has given him a choice - give up boxing or she'll return his engagement ring. 3:05:46 Sheriff of Cochise -- Pursuit (1959) An army recruit (Charles Bronson) goes beserk at a military base, wounding two soldiers. He takes as hostages a young woman and her soldier boyfriend and escapes in the girl's car with Marshal Frank Morgan and his men in pursuit. 3:31:51. Man with a Camera - Second Avenue Assassin (1958) In his first TV series, Charles Bronson plays former combat cameraman Mike Kovac, who is now a freelance photographer in New York City specializing in difficult and dangerous assignments. In this first episode, Kovac prepares to film a champion boxing match, then learns a crooked fight promoter is involved.