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All All. Sign In. John Charles Carter. With features chiseled in stone, and renowned for playing a long list of historical figures, particularly in Biblical epics, the tall, well-built and ruggedly handsome Charlton Heston was one of Hollywood's top leading men of his prime and remained active in front of movie cameras for over sixty years.

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As a Hollywood star, he appeared in films over the course of 60 years. A supporter of Democratic politicians and civil rights in the s, Heston later became a Republican, founding a conservative political action committee and supporting Ronald Reagan. Heston's most famous role in politics came as the five-term president of the National Rifle Association, from to He had English and Scottish ancestry, with recent Canadianforebears.

Heston made his feature film debut as the lead character in a 16mm production of Peer Gynt , based on the Henrik Ibsen play. He served for two years as a radio operator and aerial gunner aboard a B Mitchell stationed in the Alaskan Aleutian Islands with the 77th Bombardment Squadron of the Eleventh Air Force.

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He reached the rank of Staff Sergeant. That same year he joined the military. Heston played 'Marc Antony' in Julius Caesar , and firmly stamped himself as genuine leading man material with his performance as circus manager 'Brad Braden' in the Cecil B. The now very popular actor remained perpetually busy during the s, both on TV and on the silver screen with audience pleasing performances in the steamy thriller The Naked Jungle , as a treasure hunter in Secret of the Incas and another barn storming performance for Cecil B.

Heston delivered further dynamic performances in the oily film noir thriller Touch of Evil , and then alongside Gregory Peck in the western The Big Country before scoring the role for which he is arguably best known, that of the wronged Jewish prince who seeks his freedom and revenge in the William Wyler directed Ben-Hur This mammoth Biblical epic running in excess of three and a half hours became the standard by which other large scale productions would be judged, and its superb cast also including Stephen Boyd as the villainous "Massala", English actor Jack Hawkins as the Roman officer "Quintus Arrius", and Australian actor Frank Thring as "Pontius Pilate", all contributed wonderful performances.