Charlton Heston
Gender: Male
Born: 4th October 1923
Died: 5th April 2008
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Colbys, F.D.R., The Colgate Comedy Hour, Cubix: Robots for Everyone, Eco-Challenge
Movies: A Man for All Seasons, Airport 1975, Ben-Hur, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Dark City, Earthquake, El Cid, Hamlet, Khartoum, Major Dundee, Midway, Planet of the Apes, Soylent Green, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Little Kidnappers, The Omega Man, The Ten Commandments, Touch of Evil, Will Penny, The Big Country, Antony and Cleopatra, The President's Lady, Diamond Head, Gray Lady Down, Julius Caesar, Secret of the Incas, The Naked Jungle, 55 Days at Peking, The Agony and the Ecstasy, The Private War of Major Benson, The Three Musketeers, The War Lord, Skyjacked, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Town & Country, Three Violent People, Number One, The Four Musketeers, Treasure Island, The Buccaneer, The Order, Two-Minute Warning, The Mountain Men, Alaska, Julius Caesar, Any Given Sunday, Planet of the Apes, Ruby Gentry, Counterpoint, The Awakening, Almost an Angel, Solar Crisis, Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: The Miracles of Jesus, Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: The Nativity, The Lord Protector, The Hawaiians, The Pigeon That Took Rome, The Far Horizons, Arrowhead, Pony Express, The Savage, Genghis Khan, The Wreck of the Mary Deare, Cats & Dogs, In the Mouth of Madness, The Call of the Wild, Ben Hur, Crossed Swords, Tombstone, Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: Joshua and the Battle of Jericho, Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: Daniel and the Lion's Den, Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: David and Goliath, Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: Jonah and the Whale, Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: Samson and Delilah, Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: The Garden of Eden, Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: The Last Supper, Crucifixion and Resurrection, Hollywood Un-Leashed, Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors, Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible:The Apostles, Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: Sodom and Gomorrah, Lucy Gallant, Mother Lode, Bad for Each Other, America: A Call to Greatness, The Last Hard Men, Symphony for the Spire, Chiefs, Mysterious Origins of Man: Rewriting Man's History, True Lies
Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter; October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor of film, theatre and television. Heston is known for heroic roles in films such as The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, El Cid, and Planet of the Apes. He also is well known for his roles in the films The Greatest Show on Earth and Touch of Evil.
Heston was also known for his political activism. In the 1950s and 1960s he was one of a handful of Hollywood actors to speak openly against racism and was an active supporter of the Civil Rights Movement. Initially a moderate Democrat, he later supported conservative Republican policies and was president of the National Rifle Association from 1998 to 2003.
Heston was born John Charles Carter, the son of Lilla (née Charlton; 1899–1994) and Russell Whitford Carter (1897–1966), a sawmill operator. Most sources state that he was born in Evanston, Illinois. Heston's autobiography, however, and some other sources place his birth in No Man's Land, Illinois, which usually refers to a then-unincorporated area now part of Wilmette, a wealthy northern suburb of Chicago. Heston said in a 1995 interview that he
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Heston was born John Charles Carter in No Man's Land, an unincorporated area between Evanston and Wilmette, Illinois, the son of Lilla (née Charlton) and Russell Whitford Carter, a mill operator. (However, the 1930 Census for Richfield, Michigan (see St. Helen, Michigan), where the family then lived, reports Russell Whitford Carter was a real estate salesman. Heston himself in his autobiography refers only to his father participating in his family's construction business.) Heston was of English and Scottish descent and a member of the Fraser clan. When he was ten, his parents divorced. Shortly thereafter, his mother married Chester Heston. The new family moved to well-off Wilmette, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago. Heston (his new surname) attended New Trier High School.
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