LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charles Bronson, the Pennsylvania coal miner who drifted into films as a villain and became a hard-faced action star, notably in the popular Death Wish vengeance movies, has died.

The controversial 1974 cult classic Death Wish was a milestone film in the vigilante justice genre that lives on everywhere today, from Batman films to John Wick, feeding audiences’ insatiable ...

It’s a running joke among Death Wish appreciators and detractors alike as to when Paul Kersey—the mustachioed vengeance machine played by Charles Bronson—lost his mind. A fine argument could be made ...