ABOUT CHARLTON HESTON (1924 - April 5th 2008)
Charleton Heston was born in Evanston, Illinois. He is known for playing a host of biblical and real life characters, from Moses to Michelangelo. He won two Oscars and was nominated for 3 Emmys.
Heston first came to notice, in the GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (1952), he plays circus manager Brad Braden.
In THE NAKED JUNGLE (1954), he played Christopher Leiningen, a South American chocolate plantation owner whose troubles begin when imports a mail order bride from new Orleans and decides he doesn't want her.
In Cecil B. DeMille's THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956), Heston played Moses and also the voice of God.
Charleton Heston played Steve Leech, a ranch foreman, with Gregory Peck as a retired ship captain in THE BIG COUNTRY (1958). The following year, Heston played the title role in William Wyler's BEN-HUR (1959), the story of a Jewish prince sold into slavery, who seeks freedom and revenge. He won an Academy Award for his portrayal.
For Orson Welles' TOUCH OF EVIL (1958), Charleton Heston played a Mexican police detective engaged in a game of cat and mouse with a corrupt American detective on the other side of the border, played by Orson Welles.
Heston played the title role of Rodrigo Diaz in EL CID (1961), the movie version of the Spanish classic tale of driving the Moors out of Spain. Charleton Heston played John the Baptist in THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD (1965).
Pope Julius II in THE AGONY AND THE ECSTACY (1965) the story of Michaelangelo and the painting of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling
Astronaut George Taylor in the 1968 original PLANET OF THE APES, who visits a planet in the distant future ruled by apes who enslave humans.
Married Lydia Marie Clark in 1944. They had two children. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2002 and stopped working the following year. A proponent of the NRA, he was elected its president in 1998 and served until his diagnosis of Alzheimer's. He was known for his right wing politics and his endorsement of the right to arm. He was also president of the Screen Actors Guild, from 1966 - 1971.
"If you need a ceiling painted, a chariot race run, a city besieged, or the Red Sea parted, you think of me."
American leading actor, with radio and stage experience,
Heston's real name was John Charlton Carter. He was born
in Evanston, Illinois. Charlton died at his home in Beverly Hills.
In 1971 Charlton Heston starred and directed: ANTHONY
AND CLEOPATRA.
Heston's other credits include:
JULIUS CAESAR (1950)
DARK CITY
THE
GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
THE SAVAGE
RUBY GENTRY
THREE LIVES
THE PRESIDENT'S LADY
PONY EXPRESS
ARROWHEAD
BAD FOR EACH OTHER
THE NAKED JUNGLE
SECRET OF THE INCAS
THE FAR HORIZONS
THE PRIVATE WAR OF MAJOR BENSON
LUCY GALLANT
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
THREE VIOLENT PEOPLE
TOUCH OF EVIL
THE BIG COUNTRY
THE BUCCANEER
THE WRECK OF THE MARY DEARE
EL CID
THE PIGEON THAT TOOK ROME
DIAMOND HEAD
55
DAYS AT PEKING
THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD
MAJOR DUNDEE
THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
THE WAR LORD
KHARTOUM
ALL ABOUT PEOPLE
COUNTERPOINT
PLANET
OF THE APES
WILL PENNY
NUMBER ONE
BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES
JULIUS CAESAR (1970)
THE HAWAIIANS
THE OMEGA MAN
THE SPECIAL LONDON BRIDGE SPECIAL
CALL OF THE WILD
SOYLENT GREEN
THE THREE
MUSKETEERS
AIRPORT 1975
THE
FOUR MUSKETEERS
EARTHQUAKE
THE FUN OF YOUR LIFE
THE LAST HARD MAN
MIDWAY
TWO MINUTE WARNING
CROSSED SWORDS
GRAY LADY DOWN
THE MOUNTAIN MEN
THE AWAKENING
MOTHERLODE
CALL FROM SPACE
SOLAR CRISIS
GENGIS KHAN
WAYNE'S WORLD 2
TOMBSTONE
TRUE
LIES
IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS
THE DARK MIST
ALASKA
HAMLET
HERCULES
ARMAGEDDON
GIDEON
ANY GIVEN SUNDAY
TOWN & COUNTRY
CATS & DOGS
PLANET OF THE APES (2001)
THE ORDER
RUA ALGUEM 5555
Charlton Heston's television credits include:
CHIEFS
THE COLBYS (series 1985-86)
TREASURE ISLAND (cable)
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