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Charlton Heston
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 Charlton Heston at the 1963 Civil Rights March | |||||||||||||||||||
| Born | John Charles Carter October 4, 1923 No Man's Land (now Evanston), Illinois, USA | ||||||||||||||||||
| Died | April 5, 2008 (aged 84) Beverly Hills, California, USA | ||||||||||||||||||
| Years active | 1941-2003 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Lydia Clarke (1944-2008) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter; October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor of film, theater and television. Heston is known for having played heroic roles, such as Moses in The Ten Commandments, Colonel George Taylor in Planet of the Apes and Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur, the role for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. In the 1950s and 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. Initially a liberal Democrat, he later supported conservative politics and was president of the National Rifle Association from 1998 to 2003.
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Date of Birth 4 October 1924 , Evanston, Illinois, USA Birth Name John Charles Carter Nickname Chuck Height 6' 3" (1.91 m) Mini Biography. With features chiseled in stone, who else ...
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