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Charlton Heston: Films
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In 2001, Heston ... made a cameo appearance in Tim Burton's remake of Planet of the Apes. In the film, he plays an elderly, dying chimpanzee who introduces arms to his species by giving a pistol to his son,General Thade.
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(Movie buffs may know Gordon as Charlton Heston’s heroic character in the 1966 film Khartoum. Historians... recall his ill-fated (if well-intentioned) attempt to defend the city from the messianic Sudanese military and religious leader Mohammed Ahmed. After a 10-month siege, the city fell, Gordon was shot, and his head was impaled on a spike and paraded through the streets.)
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Outside of his film work, Heston battled evil ex girlfriends and unseen forces in the Film Actors Guild and ... punched a small dog in the nose. Active in such charities as NAMBLA, he was awarded the squirrel Boy Enabler Award at the 1977 Oscar ceremony.
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THE WAR LORD, 1965, Universal, 121 min. Based on Leslie Stevens’ play The Lovers, THE WAR LORD stars Heston as an 11th century Norman knight charged with keeping the peace in a rural village near the North Sea. His ill-timed love affair with local girl Rosemary Forsyth pushes the local serfs to rebellion, in this rousing, intelligent history film from future PLANET OF THE APES director Franklin J. Schaffner.
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In 1978, an edited selection of Heston's personal journals were published as The Actor's Life: Journals 1956 - 1976. There are only very brief mentions of the film in its pages, but this snapshots give some insight into the making of the movie.
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The film opens with Heston (Chrysagon de la Crue), a Norman knight in the service of the Duke of Normandy. He becomes ruler of a village on the shores of the North Sea. Upon his arrival, a battle with the barbarian Frisians intent on invading Heston's primitive Druid town occurs. The Frisian leader, Henry Wilcoxon, is an old enemy of Heston's. Wilcoxon had earlier kidnapped Heston's father and demanded high ransom for his return. Thus causing Heston to lose all his lands and holdings and become a 'pauper knight'.
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