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Charlton Heston: El Cid
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Charlton Heston is one of the best-known actors in the second half of the twentieth century, having appeared on screen over 100 times since 1950. He has played such famous characters as Andrew Jackson, Moses, Buffalo Bill Cody, El Cid, FDR, John the Baptist, Marc Antony, British hero General Charles Gordon, Henry VII and Brigham Young. Of course, he was ... the nemesis of ape-kind, Col. George Taylor.
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Charlton Heston was re-elected to a 3-year position on the NRA Board of Directors in 2001. In 2003, at the completion of an unprecedented 3rd term as President of NRA, Mr. Heston was elected for a lifetime position to the NRA Executive Council as he turned the gavel over to Kayne Robinson.
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Charlton Heston essays the title role as the famed warrior who led his men in driving the Moors out of medieval Spain. After being accused of treason, the disgraced Castilian knight Rodrigo Diaz would come to be known as El Cid as he struggled to keep his country together in order to fight the North African invaders. Lavish in detail and mammoth in scope, director Anthony Mann's epic tale ... stars Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Herbert Lom. 188 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English (SDH), Spanish; audio commentary; featurettes; interviews; theatrical trailers; photo gallery; filmographies. Packaged in a collectible box, this special edition includes reproductions of a 1961 souvenir program and a 1961 comic book, plus six production stills. Two-disc set.
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In the past, Heston has been criticized by a faction led by former NRA Board Member Neal Knox, who has questioned the actor's pro-gun credentials. In making these charges, Knox has pointed to pro-gun control statements made by Heston during the 1960s following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy that were obtained from The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library & Museum in Austin, Texas. Knox ... has criticized Heston for remarks he made soon after his election questioning the need for citizens to own AK-47s. Click here for more information.
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Since then, Heston has starred in more than 70 motion pictures, nearly as many theatre productions, and innumerable television shows and appearances. Among his many achievements, Heston won an Academy Award for Best Actor in BEN HUR, a second Oscar for the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, as well as similar international citations, was elected six times as president of the Screen Actors Guild, served as the first Chairman and President of the American Film Institute and authored five books.
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In 1944, Heston left college and enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces. He served for two years as a B-25 radio operator/gunner stationed in the Alaskan Aleutian Islands with the Eleventh Air Force, rising to the rank of Staff Sergeant.
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