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Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston was an American actor and political activist. He gained stardom for his leading man roles in numerous Hollywood films including biblical epics, historical drama films, science-fiction films, and action films. He won an Academy Award, a David di Donatello Award, a Laurel Award, a Photoplay Award, a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards. He receiv…
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entertainment · American actor (1923–2008) · television actor · film actor · film director · autobiographer · stage actor · actor · screenwriter · political activist · social activist · activist · also Charlton Heston, Charlton John Carter, John Carter, Charlton Carter, John Heston, Heston
Born 4 October 1923 · Died 5 April 2008 · Q80739
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2026· 7 entries
“we have probably more mixed ethnicity”
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“was that there are a lot of skillful and talented people out there, far more than the industry can absorb, so that it takes luck, at least one good break, to rise above the crowd. However, if you haven”
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“Political correctness is tyranny with manners”
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“If Americans believed in political correctness, we”
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“You are the best and the brightest. You, here in this fertile cradle of American academia, here in the castle of learning on the Charles River. You are the cream. But I submit that you and your counterparts across the land are the most socially conformed and politically silenced generation since Concord Bridge. And as long as you validate that and abide it, you are, by your grandfathers”
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“I feel I am the only one who came out with a profit. ... I got out of it precisely what I went in for—a chance to work with Olivier. I learned from him in six weeks things I never would have learned otherwise. I think I”
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2016· 1 entry
The Guardian: Charlton Heston's rare Shakespeare collection to go up for auction
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2013· 1 entry
The Guardian: From the archive, 16 November 1961: The character of the epic: Charlton Heston talks to WJ Weatherby
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2010· 1 entry
Heston was inducted into the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum's Hall of Great Western Performers
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2008· 8 entries
In a ceremony which was attended by 250 people including Nancy Reagan and Hollywood stars such as California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Olivia de Havilland, Keith Carradine, Pat Boone, Tom Selleck, Oliver Stone (who
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Died 2008-04-05.
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“Now, I doubt any of you would prefer a rolled up newspaper as a weapon against a dictator or a criminal intruder. Yet in essence, that is what you have asked our loved ones to do, through an ill-contrived and totally naive campaign against the Second Amendment.”
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“Let me make a short, opening, blanket comment. There are no "good guns". There are no "bad guns". Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people.”
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“A los cinco años me dieron una barba postiza y un disfraz para que hiciera de Santa Claus en una fiesta infantil. Desde entonces, mi destino está ligado a esos trajes. Denme un casco, un caballo y una espada, y en cinco minutos habré compuesto a un héroe de esos con los que el público se emociona.”
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“Political correctness is tyranny with manners.”
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“You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the "assault weapons" of the First Amendment. They're ugly, a lot of people don't like them, but they're protected by the First Amendment — just as "assault weapons" are protected by the Second Amendment.”
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“I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those who either can't understand it, don't like the sound of it, or find themselves too philosophically squeamish to see why it remains the first among equals: Because it is the right we turn to when all else fails. That's why the Second Amendment is America's first freedom.”
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2003· 2 entries
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by George W. Bush (2003).
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Again raised a rifle over his head, repeating the words of his 2000 speech
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2002· 2 entries
Publicly announced (via a taped message) that he had been diagnosed with symptoms which are consistent with Alzheimer's disease
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Retired from acting and the NRA presidency
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2001· 3 entries
Made a cameo appearance as an elderly dying simian in Tim Burton's remake of Planet of the Apes
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“s diagnosis, but the film was released afterward, causing some to say that Moore should have cut the interview from the final film. Iraq war In April 2003, he sent a message of support to the American forces in the Iraq War, attacking opponents of the war as”
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Before Heston publicly announced his Alzheimer's diagnosis, but the film was released afterward, causing some to say that Moore should have cut the interview from the final film
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2000· 2 entries
Publicly disclosed that he had been treated for alcoholism at a Utah clinic in May–June of that year
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Played Chief Justice Haden Wainwright in The Outer Limits episode "Final Appeal"
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1998· 1 entry
Heston had a cameo role playing himself in the American television series Friends in the episode "The One with Joey's Dirty Day"
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1997· 4 entries
Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (1997).
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And the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2003
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Heston said, "Now, I doubt any of you would prefer a rolled up newspaper as a weapon against a dictator or a criminal intruder
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“Now, I doubt any of you would prefer a rolled up newspaper as a weapon against a dictator or a criminal intruder.”
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1996· 1 entry
Heston received a hip replacement
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1995· 2 entries
Heston entered his fourth stage by establishing his own political action fund-raising committee and jumped into the internal politics of the National Rifle Association
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Heston said in a 1995 interview that he was not very good at remembering addresses or his early childhood.
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1993· 2 entries
In a cameo role in Wayne's World 2 in a scene where Wayne Campbell (Mike Myers) requests casting a better actor for a small role
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Heston teamed with John Anthony West and Robert M
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1992· 1 entry
Heston appeared on the A&E cable network in a short series of videos, Charlton Heston Presents the Bible, reading passages from the King James version
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1987· 1 entry
Heston left the Democratic Party and became a Republican, founding a conservative political action committee and supporting Ronald Reagan
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1978· 1 entry
Awarded Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (1978).
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1972· 2 entries
Heston made his directorial debut and starred as Mark Antony in an adaptation of the William Shakespeare play he had performed earlier in his theater career, Antony and Cleopatra
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Though Nixon is not mentioned in his autobiography
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1971· 1 entry
Starred in the post-apocalyptic science-fiction film The Omega Man, which has received mixed critical reviews, but was popular, and has become a cult film in the years since release
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1970· 1 entry
Portrayed Mark Antony again in another film version of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
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1969· 1 entry
Was approached by the Democratic Party to run for the U
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1968· 3 entries
Helped publicize gun control measures when he joined fellow Hollywood stars in support of the Gun Control Act of 1968
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Heston, Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas, and James Stewart issued a statement in support of President Johnson's Gun Control Act of 1968
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Starred in Planet of the Apes, directed by Schaffner, which was hugely popular
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1967· 1 entry
The Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1971, an honorary Saturn Award in 1975, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Academy Award in 1978, the ShoWest Convention Lifetime Achievement Award in 1984, the Kennedy Cente
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1966· 3 entries
Won Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (1966).
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When Russell Carter died in 1966, Charlton's brother and sister changed their surname from Carter to Heston the following year; Charlton did not.
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Charlton's brother and sister changed their surname from Carter to Heston the following year; Charlton did not
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1965· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of SAG (1965–1971).
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1964· 2 entries
“Barry Goldwater for President”
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Saw a "Barry Goldwater for President" billboard with his campaign slogan "In Your Heart You Know He's Right" and thought to himself, "Son of a bitch, he is right
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1963· 2 entries
“long before Hollywood found it fashionable”
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In support of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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1961· 1 entry
Joined a picket line outside the movie theater
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1960· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for Ben-Hur (1960).
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1956· 1 entry
Although he was unable to campaign for John F
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1954· 1 entry
Made two adventure films for Paramount Pictures
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1953· 1 entry
Heston was Billy Wilder's first choice to play Sefton in Stalag 17
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1950· 1 entry
Awarded Theatre World Award (1950).
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1949· 1 entry
Heston played Mark Antony in an independent film adaptation of Julius Caesar (1950)
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1948· 1 entry
Returned to New York, where Heston was offered a supporting role in a Broadway revival of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, starring Katharine Cornell
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1947· 1 entry
Making $100 a week (roughly equivalent to $1,400 in 2025)
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1941· 1 entry
It was thus as Charlton Heston that he appeared in his first film with younger brother Alan Carter (small role), an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt (1941).
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1933· 3 entries
The Carters divorced in 1933 and Lilla Carter married Chester Heston.
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For the benefit of actors, who had different interests from the producers and directors who controlled the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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And Lilla Carter married Chester Heston
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1930· 1 entry
His birth certificate lists his name as Charlton Carter, and the 1930 United States census record for Richfield, Michigan, in Roscommon County, shows his name as being Charlton J.
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1923· 2 entries
Born 1923-10-04.
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In Cook County, Illinois, to Lilla (née Baines; 1899–1994) and Russell Whitford Carter (1897–1966), a sawmill operator
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1907· 1 entry
“s maternal grandmother and his biological maternal grandfather Charles Baines separated or divorced in the early 1900s, Marian (née Charlton) Baines married William Henry Lawton in 1907. Charlton Heston”
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