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Review: Biography on larger-than-life Charlton Heston

Talk about your movie miracles: As a struggling stage actor Charlton Heston was down to posing nude for art classes to pay his rent in New York. Thirteen years later, he was posing with an Academy Award for “Ben-Hur” (1959), in which he played a man twice saved by Christ.

Heston had felt God’s grace in real life, too. A casual wave to director Cecil B. DeMille led to his third movie, the Oscar-winning circus drama “The Greatest Show on Earth” (1952). His signature role of Moses in DeMille’s 1956 blockbuster “The Ten Commandments” came after Marlon Brando and Rock Hudson had turned it down.

Those epics and a slew of others in the 1960s would have secured Heston’s place as a movie star for the ages. Then came “Planet of the Apes” (1968), the cultish science-fiction thrillers “The Omega Man” (1971) and “Soylent Green” (1973), and disaster films like “Earthquake” (1974). He was a star all over again with a new generation.

Marc Eliot’s insightful biography, “Charlton Heston: Hollywood’s Last Icon” (Dey Street), by Marc Eliot, pr

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Charlton Heston Biography

Date of Birth:
Oct 4, 1923Birth Place:
Evanston, Illinois, USA

Biography

One of the most commanding stars of his era, actor Charlton Heston was a man whose presence allowed him to play larger than life characters on screen. With his imposing stature and sonorous voice, it did not take long before the stage actor was landing roles on early television and headlining in feature films like "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952). As impressive as these early roles were, Heston's performances in the biblical blockbusters "The Ten Commandments" (1956) and "Ben-Hur" (1959) cemented his stature as a leading man in Hollywood. He continued with a steady output of historical epics and, as the 1960s drew to a close, took part in several science fiction classics, beginning with "Planet of the Apes" (1968). There was no denying that Charlton Heston was one of the most influential and prolific actors of 20th Century cinema, providing generations of audiences with some of the most memorable big screen performances of all time.

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Charlton Heston - biography

(Evanston, Illinois, USA, October 4, 1924 - Beverly Hills, California, USA, April 5, 2008)

Charlton Heston, a legend of American epic film spectacles, was born as John Charles Carter. He first began acting at the Northwestern University in 1941 when he starred in the university’s film production Peter Gynt. He also worked as a radio actor. During WW II, Heston spent three years in the Air Force. After the war, he worked as a model in New York. There he met his future wife Lydia Clarke. Together they ran a theater in Asheville, North Carolina but in 1948 returned to New York, where Heston made his Broadway debut in the play Anthony and Cleopatra. He first became popular thanks to classical hero roles on CBS’s TV program Studio One. He made his debut in Hollywood with the film Dark City (1950). Afterwards he starred in The Savage (1952), Ruby Gentry (1952), The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), Pony Express (1953), The President's Lady (1953) and The Ten Commandments (1956) starring Moses, in which he played his first role in a serie