# Charles Bronson Dead at 81

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-bronson-dead-at-81/198905>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 1, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-bronson-dead-at-81/198905 "2003-09-01T02:58:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-bronson-dead-at-81/198905/21 "2003-09-01T22:23:57Z")

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I am another who didn’t really realize just how long he had been around. In the 1952 Tracy & Hepburn picture _Pat & Mike_ he and Lionel Standish played a couple of mob toughs. That’s getting on to be a damned long time ago…

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**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-bronson-dead-at-81/198905/22 "2003-09-01T22:41:49Z")

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Hollywood has lost the greatest crime fighter since Cecil B. DeMille. dammit

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