Murderabilia: Charles Bronson Original Drawing. The Birdman's signed to front drawing of HMP Gym session size 25.7 x 22.4cm Charles Arthur Salvador, formerly Charles Ali Ahmed, born Michael Gordon Peterson on 6 December 1952, better known by his professional name of Charles Bronson, is a British criminal, with a violent and notorious life as a prisoner. He has spent periods detained in the Rampton, Broadmoor, and Ashworth high-security psychiatric hospitals.