Working at the coal mine as a kid, Charles Bronson was convinced he was ‘the lowliest of all forms of a man’

Hollywood stars are often surrounded by glamor, giving the impression that every celebrity is a born star.

However, this is undoubtedly not always the case, and Charles Bronson, a great Hollywood actor, was not one of them.Charles Dennis Buchinsky, Bronson’s birth name, had a terrible life overall and a particularly difficult childhood growing up in a coal mining community in Croyle Township, about 60 miles from Pittsburgh.

He grew up with another 14 siblings, ranking ninth out of a total of 15. Even though the cost of raising a single child is well known, consider the strain on a family who is extremely low income. For Bronson, this was precisely the situation.

The modest, company-built cabin where Bronson and the large family resided was only a few yards from the coal car tracks. They had to alternate taking turns sleeping because the house was too small to accommodate such a large family.

“There was no love in my house,” he said. “The only physical contact I had with my mother was when she took me between her knees to pull the lice out of my hair.”

The town as a whole was a fairly dreary and forlorn place, serving solely business officials who sought to facilitate the coal mining and maximize profits. However, it wasn’t just the Bronson family who had it rough.

There wasn’t much natural beauty, the water quality wasn’t great, and the future looked bleak. The fact that Bronson has portrayed his childhood as being lonely and unpleasant is not surprising.

Around the time Bronson was a teenager and his father passed away, things became more and more challenging. He was accustomed to bartering for pennies, but he suddenly had to drop out of school to help his family. Getting a job as a coal miner is the only logical conclusion to be drawn from this.