Charlton Heston

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AKA:
John Charles Carter
Nationality:
American
Birthdate:
10/04/1923
Birthplace:
Evanston, Illinois
Death Date:
04/05/2008
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biography
Charlton Heston's career as a commanding male lead provided a one-person Hollywood trek through the pages of world history and a forceful, conservative vision of a world in which America always wins. The Northwestern University acting student's first film appearances were in ambitious amateur 16mm productions of "Peer Gynt" (1941) and "Julius Caesar" (1949), both directed by fellow student David Bradley. After service in World War II, he and his wife Lydia Clarke worked as models in New York and ran a theater in Asheville, NC before he found success on Broadway in Katharine Cornell's Continued
Credits
Himself
2002
AFFA Football Commissioner
1999
(TV Show)
1998-1998
of Narrator
1997
Perry
1996
Spencer Trilby
1994
George Taylor
1968
General Charles Gordon
1966
Major Amos Charles Dundee
1965
Chrysagon
1965
Major Matt Lewis
1963
Judah Ben-Hur
1959
Ramon Miguel "Mike" Vargas
1958
Steve Leech
1958
Henry VIII
Jackson Harglow
Mr Claybourne--Eugenie's Father
Addison Sinclair
Togrul
Christopher Leiningen
Casey Cole
General Andrew Jackson
William Clark
Actor
Director
Captain Matt Garth
Dr Tom Owen
Richard Howland
Capt Paul MacDougall
Will Penny
Ron "Cat" Catlan
Harry Steele
Neville
Detective Thorn
Whip Hoxworth
Colt Saunders
Graff
Major Bernard Benson
Alan Murdock
Captain O'Hara
Marc Antony
Sam Burgade
Ed Bannon
Captain Pete Holly
Captain Paul Blanchard
Narration
Skeet Kelso
Bill Tyler
Ian McGee
Josef Mengele
Rodrigo Diaz--El Cid
Matthew Corbeck
Evans
screenplay adaptation
milestones
Year
Milestone
 
Grew up in St. Helen, Michigan, a small town of 100 residents
 
Family moved to Winnetka, Illinois where Heston attended high school
 
Performed on Chicago radio stations
1941 
Made acting debut in a student production of Henrik Ibsen's play, "Peer Gynt"
1943 
Served in the US Air Force during WWII; during one 18-month stint was radio operator on B-29 stationed in the Aleutians
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