Tony Brown ‘germed’ bully bruiser Charles Bronson and lived to tell about it

Seventy-two-year-old Charles Bronson’s final appearance on a cowboy set was not in the 1977 cult classic “White Buffalo” but decades later in the two-hour, all-star “100 Years of the Hollywood Western,” an overlooked NBC documentary broadcast on August 10, 1994. “Le Sacre Monstre” — the Holy Monster — intentionally favored an indelible fringe jacket in both projects. Image Credit: PictureLux / The Hollywood Archive / Alamy

Short in stature but overflowing with intellect and determination, Elvis Presley sideman Tony Brown was bullied in school. Even as the third son of a fire and brimstone preacher advanced up the ladder into a MCA Nashville record label kingpin, his childhood tormentors were not forgotten. Vicarious revenge was attained through repeated screenings of Charles…