Sam Walters unearths five famous figures who - incomprehensibly - found something better to do than drive a truck.
5 Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson, star of such films as the Sergio Leone classic Once Upon A Time In The West and Michael Winner's Death Wish, is not to be confused with Charlie Bronson. The British 'hard bastard' and prisoner currently kept in solitary confinement and subject of the recent film Bronson actually changed his name to Charles Bronson to be more like the Hollywood tough-guy.
The child of Lithuanian parents, the real Charles Bronson started working in a coal mine at the age of 10, following his father's death. Rumour has it his family were so poor that he once had to wear his sister's dress to school.
During the Second World War, Bronson started driving trucks for the US military. He proceeded to become an aerial gunner and received a Purple Heart, the American medal awarded to those wounded or killed during service.
Following his real-life heroism, he gradually worked his way into the film industry and brought his heroics to the silver screen.
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