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    Ceremony date 02/08/1960

About
Charlton Heston
Born:
1923-10-04,
Evaston,
Illinois,
USA
Education:
New Ztrier High School; Northwestern University, IL
Ethnicity:
Caucasian
Death Date:
-0001-11-30
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Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston was an American actor of film, theatre and television.

Heston is known for having played heroic roles, such as Moses in The Ten Commandments, Colonel George Taylor in Planet of the Apes, El Cid, and Judah Ben-Hur, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. In the 1950s and 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. Initially a moderate Democrat, he later supported conservative Republican policies and was president of the National Rifle Association from 1998 to 2003.

Heston was born John Charles Carter, the only child of Lilla and Russell Whitford Carter, a mill operator. Most sources state that he was born in Evanston, Illinois. Heston’s autobiography, however, and some other sources place his birth in No Man’s Land, Illinois, which usually refers to a then-unincorporated area now part of Wilmette, Illinois, a well-off northern suburb of Chicago. The confusion stems from Heston being born in an Evanston hospital at a time when the family lived in the Wilmette area. Heston said in a 1995 interview that he was not very good at remembering addresses or his early childhood.

Heston was of English and Scottish descent and a member of the Fraser clan.

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