His persona may seem outdated, but that's only because he seems too large for life. Charlton Heston started off as posing nude for art students to make ends meet, and is currently mocking himself in Bud Lite commercials.

He's got guts, if anything. Yet, in the 1950 's, he defined "Action Hero". We may not trust such unfathomable figures nowadays, but believe it, they did exist, and Heston is the solid iron proof.

From "The Ten Commandments" (1956), and "Touch Of Evil" (1958), to "Ben-Hur" (1959), "El Cid" (1959), and "Planet Of The Apes" (1968), Charlton Heston has portrayed characters whose personas were larger than life, with a quality that is rarely seen on the modern day silver screen. (CD)

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