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Charlton Heston
Age: 84 (passed away Apr. 5th, 2008)
Height: 6' 2"
Birth Place: Evanston, Illinois, USA
Born: Oct. 4th, 1923
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Charlton Heston's Main TV Roles
NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at
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BIOGRAPHY: With features chiseled in stone, who else but Charlton Heston could you picture as Michelangelo, as Ben-Hur, as Moses? Heston's movie career took off with The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) and reached light speed with Ben-Hur (1959). Although he has played a pantheon of larger-than-life roles, he usually prefers to talk about the day-to-day daily grind of the movie business, and especially credits the writers and directors he has worked for much of his success.
TRIVIA:
- He defended some of his less successful films in the mid-1960s, arguing that he had already made several million dollars and therefore wanted to concentrate on projects which interested him personally.
- Volunteered his time and effort to the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, and even marched alongside the Rev. Dr. 'Martin Luther King' (qv) Jr. on a number of occasions, including the 1963 March on Washington. In the original (uncut) version of _King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970)_ (qv), he was narrator.
- Turned down the lead in _The Omen (1976)_ (qv). The role then went to 'Gregory Peck' (qv).
- Father of director 'Fraser Clarke Heston' (qv) and Holly Heston Rochell.
- In his youth he used an iron bar attached to a wall to do pull ups and chin ups in order to develop his biceps and triceps.
- Heston is a popular actor in Greece, where his name is written as "Charlton Easton" due to "Heston" having scatological connotations in the Greek language.
- Initially turned down the role of Steve Leech in _The Big Country (1958)_ (qv) because he didn't think the role was big enough after the success he had with _The Ten Commandments (1956)_ (qv), but his agent convinced him to take the part on the grounds that it would be worth it for his career to work with both 'Gregory Peck' (qv), who was still a bigger star than Heston at the time, and director 'William Wyler' (qv). This association led to Heston being cast in Wyler's next film, as the title character in _Ben-Hur (1959)_ (qv), for which he won the Oscar for Best Actor.
- Alumnus of New Trier Township High School East, Winnetka, Illinois, where tennis was among his extracurricular activities. Other New Trier graduates include 'Ralph Bellamy' (qv), 'Rock Hudson' (qv), 'Hugh O'Brien (I)' (qv), 'Ann-Margret' (qv), 'Bruce Dern' (qv), 'Penelope Milford' (qv), 'Virginia Madsen' (qv) and 'Liz Phair' (qv).
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