Charlton Heston
- BOD:
- 4 October 1924
- Birthplace:
- Evanston, Illinois, USA
- Region:
- USA
- Height:
- 191 cm
- Family:
- daughter:Holly Ann Heston (adopted in August 1961) father:Russell Whitford Carter grandson:Jack (born in 1991) mother:Lilla Carter (divorced from Russell Carter and later married to Chester Heston) son:Fraser Clarke Heston (born on February 12, 1955; at three months played the baby Moses in "The Ten Commandments"; made directorial debut with TV-movie, "Treasure Island" (1990), starring father; executive produced the A&E miniseries, "Charlton Heston Presents the Bible" (1992)) step-father:Chester Heston wife:Lydia Marie Clarke (born c. 1923; married on March 17, 1944; met while Heston was a student at Northwestern; with husband co-founded the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Theatre in Asheville, North Carolina)
- Nickname:
- John Charles Carter (birth name)Chuck (nickname)
With features chiseled in stone, who else but Charlton Heston could you picture as Michelangelo, as Ben-Hur, as Moses? Heston's movie career took off with The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) and reached light speed with Ben-Hur (1959). Although he has played a pantheon of larger-than-life roles, he usually prefers to talk about the day-to-day daily grind of the movie business, and especially credits the writers and directors he has worked for much of his success. Though aging gracefully, the v
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