Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston was an American actor and political activist. As a Hollywood star, he appeared in almost 100 films over the course of 60 years. He played Moses in the epic film The Ten Commandments (1956), for which he received his first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. He also starred in The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), Secret of the Incas (1954), Touch of Evil (1958) with Orson Welles, The Big Country (1958), Ben-Hur (1959), for which he won the Oscar for Best Actor, El Cid (1961), The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), Planet of the Apes (1968), The Omega Man (1971) and Soylent Green (1973).
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General Info
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Male
Birth Place
United States of America, Illinois
Date of Death
April 5th, 2008
Died Aged
38
Height
189 cm | 6'2
Occupation
Actor
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Roles
Judah Ben-Hur in
Ben-Hur
George Taylor in
Planet of the apes
Mike Vargas in
Touch of Evil
Moses in
The Ten Commandments
Detective Thorn in
Soylent Green
Neville in
The Omega Man
Capt. Matt Garth in
Midway
El Cid Rodrigo de Vivar in
El Cid
Steve Leech in
The Big Country
Graff in
Earthquake
Brad Braden in
The Greatest Show on Earth
Alan Murdock in
Airport 1975
John the Baptist in
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Maj. Amos Charles Dundee in
Major Dundee
Michelangelo in
The Agony and the Ecstasy
General Charles 'Chinese' Gordon in
Khartoum
Maj. Matt Lewis in
55 Days at Peking
Professor Finley in
The Order
Christopher Leiningen in
The Naked Jungle
Capt. Peter Holly in
Two-Minute Warning
Capt. Paul Blanchard in
Gray Lady Down
John Thornton in
The Call of the Wild
Buffalo Bill Cody in
Pony Express
Whip Hoxworth in
The Hawaiians
Jason Colby in
The Colbys
Captain Paul MacDougall, Benny the Snatch, Narrator in
The Pigeon That Took Rome
Col., Commander Schneider, Dermot Francis O'Flingsley in
Westinghouse Studio One
Peer Gynt in
Peer Gynt
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