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Charlton Heston
Actor
Male
Born
Oct 4, 1923
Hometown
No Man's Land, Il...
Died
Apr 5, 2008
Death Place
Beverly Hills
Nationality
American
Alma Mater
Northwestern Univ...
Other Names
Carter, John Charles
Charlton Heston 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… Read More
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Charlton Heston
d.2008
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CHILDHOOD
1923
Birth
Born on October 4, 1923.
TEENAGE
1941
17 Years Old
Heston frequently recounted that, while growing up in northern Michigan in a sparsely populated area, he often wandered in the forest, "acting" out the characters from books he had read. Later, in high school, Heston enrolled in New Trier's drama program, playing in the silent 16 mm amateur film adaptation of Peer Gynt, from the Ibsen play, by future film activist David Bradley released in 1941.
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TWENTIES
Film producer Hal B. Wallis of Casablanca spotted Heston in a 1950 television production of Wuthering Heights and offered him a contract.
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1952
28 Years Old
His breakthrough came when Cecil B. DeMille cast him as a circus manager in The Greatest Show on Earth, which was named by the Motion Picture Academy as the best picture of 1952.
1953
29 Years Old
In 1953, Heston was Billy Wilder's first choice to play Sefton in Stalag 17.
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THIRTIES
1955
31 Years Old
In 1955, he joined Jane Wyman in the film, Lucy Gallant, the story of a woman determined to maintain her dress shop in a small Texas oil-boom community.
1956
32 Years Old
Heston campaigned for Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson in 1956 and John F. Kennedy in 1960.
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1958
34 Years Old
In 1958, Heston played a Mexican police officer named Ramon Miguel Vargas in Orson Welles's widely acclaimed film noir Touch of Evil.
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FORTIES
1965
41 Years Old
In 1965, Heston became president of the Screen Actors Guild.
In 1968, Heston starred in Planet of the Apes and in 1970, he was in a smaller supporting role in the sequel, Beneath the Planet of the Apes.
1970
46 Years Old
Also in 1970, Heston portrayed Mark Antony again in another film version of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
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He remained in the position until 1971, the second longest tenure to date in that office.
1972
48 Years Old
In 1972, Heston made his directorial debut, and starred, as Mark Antony in an adaptation of the William Shakespeare play he performed earlier in his theater career, Antony and Cleopatra.
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1973
49 Years Old
Beginning with playing Cardinal Richelieu in 1973's The Three Musketeers, Heston was seen in an increasing number of supporting roles, cameos and theater.
LATE ADULTHOOD
In a 1997 Fighting the Culture War in America speech, Heston rhetorically deplored a culture war he said was being conducted by a generation of media, educators, entertainers and politicians against:
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Initially a moderate Democrat, he later supported conservative Republican policies and was president of the National Rifle Association from 1998 to 2003.
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2000
76 Years Old
At the 2000 NRA convention, he raised a rifle over his head and declared that a potential Al Gore administration would take away his Second Amendment rights "from my cold, dead hands".
2002
78 Years Old
In the 2002 film Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore interviewed Heston in his home, asking him about an April 1999 NRA meeting held shortly after the Columbine high school massacre, in Denver, Colorado.
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In announcing his resignation in 2003, he again raised a rifle over his head, repeating the five famous words of his 2000 speech.
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2005
81 Years Old
In March 2005, various newspapers reported that family and friends were shocked by the progression of his illness, and that he was sometimes unable to get out of bed.
Heston's funeral was held a week later on April 12, 2008, in a ceremony which was attended by 250 people including Nancy Reagan and Hollywood stars such as California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Olivia de Havilland, Keith Carradine, Pat Boone, Tom Selleck, Oliver Stone (who had cast Heston in his 1999 movie Any Given Sunday), Rob Reiner, and Christian Bale.
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