Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston at the 1963 Civil Rights March.

Charlton Heston (October 4, 1924 - April 5, 2008) was a Hollywood actor and former president of the National Rifle Association. A strapping man with chiseled features, he is best remembered for his portrayals of Moses in The Ten Commandments, Taylor in the 1968 version of Planet of the Apes, and Rodrigo in El Cid. His movie Ben Hur is also a classic. He is a very passionate man, and rigorously defends the Second Amendment right to bear arms and was the president of the National Rifle Association from 1998 to 2001. An early supporter of the civil rights movement, he walked with Martin Luther King. Married to one wife for his entire adult life, he has two children. His autobiography In the Arena was written in the 1990's.

Filmography

• The Ten Commandments (1956)
• Touch of Evil (1958)
• Ben-Hur (1959)
• El Cid (1961)
• The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
• Planet of the Apes (1968)
• Beneath the Planet of the Apes
• The Omega Man (1971)
• Antony and Cleopatra (1972)
• Soylent Green (1973)
• Tombstone (1993)
• Armageddon (1998)
• Any Given Sunday (1999)
• Cats & Dogs (2001)
• Planet of the Apes (2001)
• Bowling for Columbine (2002)

External Links

• Internet Movie Database