Charlton Heston

<html> <head> <title>Charlton Heston</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style></head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr><map name=fool><area coords="102,0,240,14" href="/people/961/000022895/bibliography/" alt="bibliography"></map><tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 0px 15px 15px 15px;"><img src="/red-profile-2.gif" align="right" height=15 width=240 border=0 usemap=#fool> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0>Charlton Heston<img src="another-charlton-heston.jpg" height=294 width=234 align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 alt="Charlton Heston">AKA John Charlton CarterBorn: <a href="/lists/795/000106477/" class=proflink>4-Oct</a>-<a href="/lists/922/000105607/" class=proflink>1923</a> <a href="#FN1">[1]</a> Birthplace: <a href="/geo/499/000069292/" class=proflink>Evanston, IL</a> Died: <a href="/lists/979/000106661/" class=proflink>5-Apr</a>-<a href="/lists/297/000166796/" class=proflink>2008</a> Location of death: <a href="/geo/425/000069218/" class=proflink>Beverly Hills, CA</a> Cause of death: Natural Causes Remains: Cremated Gender: Male Religion: Protestant Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Actor Party Affiliation: RepublicanNationality: United States Executive summary: The Ten CommandmentsMilitary service: US Army Air Corps (WWII, Sgt.)Charlton Heston's parents were divorced when he was ten, and he was raised by his mother and, later, stepfather. He studied drama at Northwestern University, where he first stepped before the camera at age 16 in a student-filmed silent production of the Henrik Ibsen play, Peer Gynt. As an actor, Heston is most famous for larger-than-life roles in a series of epics, including <a href="/people/461/000032365/">Orson Welles</a>' Touch of Evil (1958), Ben-Hur (1959), which won him an Oscar, El Cid (1961), and the underrated Khartoum (1966). And then there's Planet of the Apes (1968), Soylent Green (1973), the disaster flicks Airport (1974) and Earthquake (1975), and TV's The Colbys (1985-87), an uninspired spin-off of Dynasty. Off screen, Heston was active in the civil rights movement, and marched on Washington DC with <a href="/people/085/000028998/">Martin Luther King</a> in 1963. Later in life he served as president of the National Rifle Association from 1998 to 2002. As NRA chief, Heston once held a 1776-era musket and uttered his most famous line: "I have only five words for you: From my cold, dead hands."<hr width=25% size=1 align=left><a name="FN1">[1] Heston's original New York Times obituary gave 1924 as his year of birth, the newspaper later issuing a correction to 1923 without explanation. This would make him 84 at the time of his death. Heston's obituary in The Chicago Tribune gave 1924 as his birth year. Current Biography first profile on Heston (1957) gave 1924 but this was amended by his second profile in 1986 with a question mark, suggesting 1922, 1923, or 1924 as possible years, and October 4 or October 6 as possible days. Father: Russell Whitford Carter Mother: Lilla Charlton Carter Father: Chester Heston (stepfather) Wife: Lydia Marie Clarke (m. 17-Mar-1944) Son: Fraser Clarke Heston (screenwriter and actor, b. 12-Feb-1955) Daughter: Holly Ann Heston (adopted, b. 1961)     High School: <a href="/edu/843/000068639/">New Trier High School, Winnetka, IL (1941)</a>     University: <a href="/edu/521/000068317/">Northwestern University</a>     <a href="/org/809/000041686/">National Rifle Association</a> President (1998-2003)     <a href="/org/650/000051497/">Screen Actors Guild</a> President (1966-71)     <a href="/honors/511/000032415/">Oscar for Best Actor</a> 1960 for Ben-Hur     <a href="/honors/109/000048962/">Kennedy Center Honor</a> 1997     <a href="/honors/482/000045347/">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> 23-Jul-2003     <a href="/honors/312/000044180/">Hollywood Walk of Fame</a> 1620 Vine St.     <a href="/honors/048/000111712/">National Cowboy Hall of Fame</a> 2010     <a href="/org/765/000051612/">Accuracy in Media</a> National Advisory Board     <a href="/org/760/000111427/">Kennedy Center</a> Trustee Emeritus     <a href="/org/403/000052247/">Nicaraguan Freedom Fund</a> Board of Directors     <a href="/org/209/000213567/">Reagan-Bush '84</a>     <a href="/org/174/000052018/">US English</a> Advisory Board     <a href="/event/713/000365615/">Visited Disneyland on Opening Day</a>     <a href="/event/450/000363358/">Visited Disneyland</a> Candlelight Procession (Dec-1970)     <a href="/event/307/000111971/">Hip Replacement Surgery</a>     Risk Factors: <a href="/lists/776/000064584/">Alzheimer's</a>, <a href="/lists/446/000066248/">Prostate Cancer</a>     TELEVISION     <a href="/tv/305/000051152/">The Colbys</a> Jason Colby (1985-87)     FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR     <a href="/films/605/000134203/">A Man for All Seasons (1988)</a>     <a href="/films/248/000039131/">Mother Lode (15-Oct-1982)</a>     <a href="/films/958/000134556/">Antony and Cleopatra (2-Mar-1972)</a>     FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR     <a href="/films/412/000404197/">Hail Satan? 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