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Birthday
04 October
Location
Illinois, United States
Edit pageCharlton Heston
Biography
Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter; October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor and political activist. He received his first Golden Globe Award nomination for playing Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956) and won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the title role of Ben-Hur (1959). Heston would go on to receive a second Academy Award statuette in 1978, but this time in the form of a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for his considerable charitable work.
He also starred in The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), Secret of the Incas (1954), Touch of Evil (1958), The Big Country (1958), El Cid (1961), The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), Khartoum (1966), Planet of the Apes (1968), Julius Caesar (1970), The Omega Man (1971), Antony and Cleopatra (1972), Soylent Green (1973), The Three Musketeers (1974), Airport 1975 (1974), Earthquake (1974), Crossed Swords (1978), Mother Lode (1982), and Alaska (1996).
In the 1950s and early 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. Heston left the Democratic Party in 1987 to become a Republican, founding a conservative political action committee and supporting Ronald Reagan.
Heston was a five-term president of the National Rifle Association of America (NRA), from 1998 to 2003. After announcing he had Alzheimer's disease in 2002, he retired from both acting and the NRA presidency.
Actor
Beneath the Planet of the Apes as Colonel George Taylor
Planet of the Apes as George Taylor