Is the actor Charleston Heston still alive?

Answer 1

Yes. 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 venerated Heston has lately been more interested in promoting right-wing political issues than acting.

Answer 2

Is Charlton Heston Still Alive

Answer 3

Charlton Heston
AKA John Charlton Carter

Born: 4-Oct-1924
Birthplace: Evanston, IL


Gender: Male
Religion: Protestant
Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Heston is the NRA

Military service: US Army Air Corps (WWII, Sgt.)

Charlton Heston's parents were divorced when he was ten, and he lived with his mother and, later, stepfather. He studied drama at Northwestern University, where he first stepped before the camera at age 16 in a student-filmed silent production of the Henrik Ibsen play, Peer Gynt.

As an actor, Heston is most famous for larger-than-life roles in a series of epics, including Orson Welles' Touch of Evil (1958), Ben-Hur (1959), which won him an Oscar, El Cid (1961), and the underrated Khartoum (1966). And then there's Planet of the Apes (1968), Soylent Green (1973), the disaster flicks Airport (1974) and Earthquake (1975), and TV's The Colbys (1985-87), a lame spin-off of Dynasty.

Off screen, Heston was loudly liberal, active in the civil rights movement, and marched on Washington DC with Martin Luther King in 1963. He was president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1966 to 1971, then evolved into an arch-conservative, serving as president of the National Rifle Association from 1998-2002. As NRA chief, Heston once held a 1776-era musket and uttered his most famous line: "I have only five words for you: From my cold, dead hands." He's written three autobiographies, and probably won't write a fourth, as he's been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

Father: Russell Whitford Carter
Mother: Lilla Charlton Carter
Father: Chester Heston (stepfather)
Wife: Lydia Marie Clarke (m. 17-Mar-1944)
Son: Fraser Clarke Heston (screenwriter and actor, b. 12-Feb-1955)
Daughter: Holly Ann Heston (adopted, b. 1961)


High School: New Trier High School, Winnetka, IL (1941)
University: Northwestern University


Oscar for Best Actor 1960 for Ben-Hur
Kennedy Center Honor 1997
Presidential Medal of Freedom 23-Jul-2003
Hollywood Walk of Fame 1620 Vine St.
Accuracy in Media National Advisory Board
Nicaraguan Freedom Fund Board of Directors
National Rifle Association
US English Advisory Board
Hip Replacement Surgery
Risk Factors: Alzheimer's, Prostate Cancer


TELEVISION
The Colbys Jason Colby


FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
Mother Lode (15-Oct-1982)


FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Bowling for Columbine (15-May-2002) Himself
The Order (27-Dec-2001)
Cats & Dogs (23-Jun-2001) [VOICE]
Town & Country (27-Apr-2001)
Any Given Sunday (16-Dec-1999)
Gideon (10-Oct-1999)
Armageddon (1-Jul-1998) [VOICE]
Hercules (14-Jun-1997) [VOICE]
Alaska: Spirit of the Wild (1997) Himself [VOICE]
Hamlet (25-Dec-1996)
Alaska (14-Aug-1996)
In the Mouth of Madness (03-Feb-1995)
The Avenging Angel (22-Jan-1995)
True Lies (15-Jul-1994)
Tombstone (25-Dec-1993)
Wayne's World 2 (10-Dec-1993)
Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 (24-Feb-1992)
Solar Crisis (14-Jul-1990)
Treasure Island (22-Jan-1990)
Chiefs (13-Nov-1983)
Mother Lode (15-Oct-1982)
The Awakening (17-Jan-1981)
The Mountain Men (1-Jun-1980)
Gray Lady Down (Apr-1978)
Crossed Swords (17-Mar-1978)
Two Minute Warning (12-Nov-1976)
The Last Hard Men (1-Jun-1976)
Midway (1976)
The Four Musketeers (25-Dec-1974)
Earthquake (15-Nov-1974)
Airport 1975 (18-Oct-1974)
The Three Musketeers (11-Dec-1973)
Soylent Green (19-Apr-1973)
Call of the Wild (29-Dec-1972)
Skyjacked (24-May-1972)
The Omega Man (1-Aug-1971)
The Hawaiians (17-Jun-1970)
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (01-May-1970)
Julius Caesar (1970)
Will Penny (10-Apr-1968)
Planet of the Apes (8-Feb-1968)
Counterpoint (19-Jan-1968)
Khartoum (9-Jun-1966)
The War Lord (17-Nov-1965)
The Agony and the Ecstasy (24-Sep-1965)
Major Dundee (15-Mar-1965)
The Greatest Story Ever Told (15-Feb-1965)
55 Days at Peking (29-May-1963)
Diamond Head (30-Jan-1963)
El Cid (14-Dec-1961)
Ben-Hur (18-Nov-1959)
The Wreck of the Mary Deare (6-Nov-1959)
The Buccaneer (1-Dec-1958)
The Big Country (1-Oct-1958)
Touch of Evil (21-May-1958)
The Ten Commandments (5-Oct-1956)
The Private War of Major Benson (2-Aug-1955)
The Far Horizons (20-May-1955)
The Naked Jungle (03-Mar-1954)
Arrowhead (3-Aug-1953)
Pony Express (5-Jun-1953)
The President's Lady (21-May-1953)
Ruby Gentry (25-Dec-1952)
The Greatest Show on Earth (10-Jan-1952)
Dark City (17-Oct-1950)

Answer 4

Yes, and the last I heard about him, he had symptoms of alzheimer's disease.


(From a taped announcement concerning his having symptoms of Alzheimer's disease): "For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience. I can part the Red Sea, but I can't part with you, which is why I won't exclude you from this stage in my life. ... For now, I'm not changing anything. I'll insist on work when I can; the doctors will insist on rest when I must. If you see a little less spring to my step, if your name fails to leap to my lips, you'll know why. And if I tell you a funny story for the second time, please laugh anyway."

Answer 5

Charlton Heston the actor is still alive. I'm not sure if that's who you meant.

Answer 6

Yes

Answer 7

Yes...he is Vice President of the National Rifle Association. Very vocal about it too!

Answer 8

He is alive and made a movie last year. Genghis Khan

Answer 9

Yes, he is. At last report, he is suffering from Alzheimer's Disease, and so could probably use some kind thoughts or prayers.

Answer 10

Yes. But he's not in the public eye much due to illness.