TO MEXICO, DF. Loyalty. That was why Alfonso Herrera to discard the invitation of his colleague Martha Higareda, who wanted him as in his new film co. It is rather surprising decision of the actor for 25 years. A few months ago had said that the cinema was half that wanted to explore. The December release Volverte a Ver, and then in early 2009 he moved to Venezuela for the film starring historical Venezzia, which embodies an American military. The project with Martha would have been the third film in a row, but preferred to start recording the soap Chameleons, next to the blonde Belinda. He began his career as an actor in the early 1950s in small roles without proof. At this stage, bearing the name of Charles Buchinski, and one of the first papers in which he saw was in the legendary horror film the crimes of the wax museum (1953), Andre De Toth, which curiously silent towards the . Continues to make appearances and supporting roles in television series and go for the tanning getting more focus on a professional level.
Highlight his work in westerns such as secondary and Veracruz (1954), in Robert Aldrich, Jubal (1955) in Delmer Daves, or Yuma (1957), Sam Fuller. In the latter role would the Indus, a role that would make him face his peculiar interpretation on other occasions. In the late 1950s working with Roger Corman, the king called in the series B, Machine Gun Kelly, gangster movie in which he interprets his first leading role on the big screen. Chapters to participate in major television series like The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents, until he was elected in 1960 to become one of The Magnificent Seven, John Sturges, with Steve McQueen, James Coburn and Eli Wallach, which Start your popularity.
In 1961 Corman would work for a loose adaptation of Jules Verne, "The master of the world" (William Witney, and will appear in the film "Canvas Floor" (1962, Phil Karlson), carried out for the greater glory of Elvis Presley, but again be John Sturges him as a consolidated action hero when he was called to become one of the heroes of the flight The Great Escape, along with Steve McQueen and James Coburn again. After working with Robert Aldrich in the disparate comedy Four guys from west Texas, where he is the villain who does not stop harassing Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.
While working with directors such as Vincente Minnelli and Sydney Pollack, their roles in these productions are always secondary, where the movie stars who always smaller craft. Continuing to appear in series such as "The Fugitive" or "virginiana", and again in 1967 to highlight in a film by coral and polemics be regarded as an apology of violence, a dozen of the gallows, from Robert Aldrich.
In 1968, following in the footsteps of Clint Eastwood and migrate to Europe to star in a new western by Sergio Leone, until it reaches its time, alongside Henry Fonda and Claudia Cardinale. Also in Europe would work with John Sturges in the movie "Wild Horses." But what else would make western race at this point would be the apache Chato (1971), not because the movie itself, but because he began his collaboration with director Michael Winner, who will be fruitful in the following years. In the same year 1972 a successful thriller shot: coldly, without reasons, also with Michael Winner, who would be one of his most memorable films. But the most famous movies that were going to give the tandem-Winner Bronson would be the avenger of the Anonimo, film saga that Bronson would interpret Paul Kersey, and beginning in 1974 with "Justiciero the city," he continued in "I am Justice, "1982 and" The Justiciero of the Night ", 1984. Charles Bronson would resume the role of Kersey on two other films: "I am Justice II" and "The Face of Death", the first led by the veteran Jack Lee Thompson, the other by Allan A. Goldsmith. Despite their success, these tapes do not add anything to filmography of the actor, who did their best performances of the 1970s in films such as "Nevada express" (1975, Tom Gries), "The wrestler" (1975, Walter Hill) and "It happened between 12 and 3" (1976, Allan D. Goldstein), all with his wife in real life and recurrent partner in film, Jill Ireland, "The brash Ives" (1976, J. Lee Thompson) with Jacqueline Bisset and "Telephone" (1977, Don Siegel), next to Lee Remick. In 1972, with director Terence Young, head of the first Bond movie series, stars in "The Secrets of the Cosa Nostra" (also called "Valachi Papers"), resulting in a response of European cinema to fashion films on the mafia started by The Godfather (which also includes a "Lucky Luciano" (1973), for example). In 1980 he worked at Cape Blanco, a kind of remake of Casablanca, where Charles Bronson for the role hicera Humprhey Bogart in the original film, although this does not work. It was his second collaboration with director J. despised but interesting Lee Thompson, who had already worked in the White Bufalo Hunt, "and who would work on several movies that played in the same hard condition which contributed little new to his career (" Murphy's Law "" Messenger of Death "and" Banned in the West "). In 1990 work in his last major film, "strange bond of blood", which marked the debut in the direction of actor Sean Penn.