He was obviously bright and always good with children. His aunt, Eileen Parry, is quoted as saying: 'As a boy, he was a lovely lad.

His uncle and aunt each served as mayor of Luton in the 1960s and 1970s. His father later ran the Conservative club in Aberystwyth.

Luton, Bedfordshire, which Bronson considers his home townīorn Michael Gordon Peterson in Luton, Bedfordshire, he was one of three sons of Eira and Joe Peterson. The Charles Salvador Art Foundation was founded to promote his artwork and 'help those in positions even less fortunate than his own' to participate in art. In 2014, he changed his name again, this time to Charles Salvador, in a mark of respect to Salvador Dalí, one of his favourite artists.

He is an outsider artist Bronson's paintings and illustrations of prison and psychiatric hospital life have been publicly exhibited and won him multiple awards. A self-declared fitness fanatic who has spent many years in segregation ( solitary confinement), Bronson dedicated a book to exercising in confined spaces. That doesn't make me evil, just confused.' He was the subject of the 2008 film Bronson starring Tom Hardy, a biopic based loosely on his life.īronson has written many books about his experiences and the famous prisoners he has met throughout his incarceration. He has said: 'I'm a nice guy, but sometimes I lose all my senses and become nasty. He has been featured in books, interviews, and studies in prison reform and treatment. He has been held at times in each of England's three special psychiatric hospitals.ĭue to his record of violent anger and mental illness in prison, Bronson is one of the highest-profile criminals in Britain. He is known as a violent inmate, and has taken numerous hostages in the course of confrontations with guards, resulting in his sentence later being changed to life imprisonment. He was returned to prison in 1988 after being convicted of planning another robbery. His promoter thought he needed a more suitable name and suggested he change it to Charles Bronson in 1987, after the American actor. Upon his release in 1987, he began a bare-knuckle boxing career in the East End of London. Additional time was added because of attacks on prisoners and guards. He has spent periods detained in the Rampton, Broadmoor and Ashworth high-security psychiatric hospitals.įirst arrested as a petty criminal, he was convicted and sentenced in 1974 to seven years' imprisonment for armed robbery. Michael Jonathan Peterson, George Bamby Īrmed robbery wounding (2) wounding with intent criminal damage grievous bodily harm false imprisonment (3) blackmail threatening to kill Ĭharles Arthur Salvador (formerly Charles Ali Ahmed born Michael Gordon Peterson on 6 December 1952), better known as Charles Bronson, is a British criminal who has been referred to in the British press as the 'most violent prisoner in Britain' and 'Britain's most notorious prisoner'.

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