- CHARLTON HESTON PLANET OF THE APES FULL MOVIE MOVIE
- CHARLTON HESTON PLANET OF THE APES FULL MOVIE TV
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 it's 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. Heston delivered further dynamic performances in the oily film noir thriller Touch of Evil (1958), and then alongside Gregory Peck in the western The Big Country (1958) 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 (1959). DeMille as "Moses" in the blockbuster The Ten Commandments (1956).
CHARLTON HESTON PLANET OF THE APES FULL MOVIE TV
The now very popular actor remained perpetually busy during the 1950s, both on TV and on the silver screen with audience pleasing performances in the steamy thriller The Naked Jungle (1954), as a treasure hunter in Secret of the Incas (1954) and another barn storming performance for Cecil B.
DeMille spectacular The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), also starring James Stewart and Cornel Wilde. Heston played 'Marc Antony' in Julius Caesar (1950), and firmly stamped himself as genuine leading man material with his performance as circus manager 'Brad Braden' in the Cecil B. Heston married Northwestern University student Lydia Marie Clarke, who was six months his senior. He served for two years as a radio operator and aerial gunner aboard a B-25 Mitchell stationed in the Alaskan Aleutian Islands with the 77th Bombardment Squadron of the Eleventh Air Force.
In 1944, Heston enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces. Heston made his feature film debut as the lead character in a 16mm production of Peer Gynt (1941), based on the Henrik Ibsen play. He had English and Scottish ancestry, with recent Canadian forebears. Heston was born John Charles Carter on October 4, 1923, in No Man's Land, Illinois, to Lila (Charlton) and Russell Whitford Carter, who operated a sawmill. Heston's most famous role in politics came as the five-term president of the National Rifle Association, from 1998 to 2003. A supporter of Democratic politicians and civil rights in the 1960s, Heston later became a Republican, founding a conservative political action committee and supporting Ronald Reagan. He also starred in the films The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) Secret of the Incas (1954) The Big Country (1958) and The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965). He also starred in Touch of Evil (1958) with Orson Welles Ben-Hur, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor (1959) El Cid (1961) and Planet of the Apes (1968).
He played Moses in the epic film, The Ten Commandments (1956), for which he received his first Golden Globe Award nomination. As a Hollywood star, he appeared in 100 films over the course of 60 years.
CHARLTON HESTON PLANET OF THE APES FULL MOVIE MOVIE
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 greatest leading men and remained active in front of movie cameras for over sixty years.
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