Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter; October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor and political activist. He gained stardom for his leading man roles in numerous Hollywood films including biblical epics, science-fiction films and action films. He won the Academy Award as well as nominations for three Golden Globe Awards, and three Primetime Emmy Awards. He won numerous honorary accolades including the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1978, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1967, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1971, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1997, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2003.Heston gained stardom for his leading roles as Moses in ''The Ten Commandments'' (1956), and as the title role of ''Ben-Hur'' (1959), the later of which earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor. His other notable credits include ''The Greatest Show on Earth'' (1952), ''Secret of the Incas'' (1954), ''Touch of Evil'' (1958), ''The Big Country'' (1958), ''El Cid'' (1961), ''The Greatest Story Ever Told'' (1965), ''Khartoum'' (1966), ''Planet of the Apes'' (1968), ''Julius Caesar'' (1970), ''The Omega Man'' (1971), ''Antony and Cleopatra'' (1972), ''Soylent Green'' (1973), ''The Three Musketeers'' (1974), ''Airport 1975'' (1974), ''Earthquake'' (1974), and ''Crossed Swords'' (1978). He later acted in ''Mother Lode'' (1982), ''Tombstone'' (1993), ''True Lies'' (1994), ''Alaska'' (1996), and ''Hamlet'' (1996).
In the 1950s and early 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. Heston left the Democratic Party in 1987 to become a Republican, founding a conservative political action committee and supporting Ronald Reagan. Heston was a five-term president of the National Rifle Association (NRA), from 1998 to 2003. After announcing he had Alzheimer's disease in 2002, he retired from both acting and the NRA presidency. Provided by Wikipedia
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