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Actor Charlton Heston, born October 4, 1924, was one of some performing artists who received the Kennedy Center honors on December 6, 1997. Mr. Heston remained in Washington D.C. and addressed the 20th Anniversary of the Free Congress Foundation and the 4th Birthday of the NET TV network. The following are excerpts from his Insightful remarks. Mr. Heston and Mrs. Heston celebrated 50 years of marriage in 1994.
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Directed by 21-year-old David Bradley ("Julius Caesar") and starring a 17-year-old Charlton Heston in his film debut, this amateur 16mm silent adaptation of the Henrik Ibsen play is a fascinating curiosity. Spotlighting Heston's onscreen presence at an early age, the production explores the existential dilemma of young Peer Gynt (Heston), who must overcome himself in order to define himself. Betty Hanisee, Francis X. Bushman co-star. 100 min. Standard; Soundtrack: music score; biographies; photo gallery; trailers. Silent with music score.
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Charlton Heston has, for years, been an honest, courteous advocate for the rights guaranteed to gun owners under the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. If Norman Lear or Alec Baldwin were diagnosed with a brain-wasting disease, would Slate be running ironic commentary about them? Has Slate poked fun at former editor Michael Kinsley's sad affliction Parkinson's disease? Of course not; that would be inhuman.
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Academy Award-winner Charlton Heston has starred in more than 80 films and as many theater productions. After appearing in a school play, the Evanston, Illinois native decided to become an actor, going on to major in theater at Northwestern University. After serving in the Army Air Corps in World War II, he relocated to New York and then to Ashville, North Carolina, where he and his wife, Lydia, became co-directors and performers in the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Theater. In 1948 Heston made his Broadway debut in Anthony and Cleopatra and simultaneously became one of the first actors to achieve success in the new medium of the time, television, with leads in Studio One and other dramatic programs. His starring role in David Bradley's widely acclaimed Julius Caesar caught the attention of Hollywood producer Hal Wallis who cast him as the lead in Dark City. Immediately after, Cecil B. DeMille signed him for The Greatest Show on Earth, which won the Oscar for Best Picture.
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Charlton Heston's career as a commanding male lead has provided a one-person Hollywood trek through the pages of world history and a forceful, conservative vision of a world in which America always wins. The Northwestern University acting student's first film appearances were in ambitious amateur 16mm productions of "Peer Gynt" (1941) and "Julius Caesar" (1949), both directed by fellow student David Bradley. After WWII service, he and his wife Lydia Clarke worked as models in New York and ran a theater in Asheville, North Carolina before Heston found success on Broadway in Katharine Cornell's production of "Antony and Cleopatra" (1947). He ... made a vivid impression on early TV, especially in a flurry of dashing romantic leads (Heathcliff, Rochester, Petruchio) on the famous drama anthology "Studio One". By the time he went to Hollywood to act in William Dieterle's moody film noir "Dark City" (1950), Heston was already a star, listed in the credits ahead of the more established Lizabeth Scott. Over the next four decades he rarely had less than top billing.
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Charlton Heston was born in Evanston, Illinois on October 4, 1924. He attended Northwestern from 1941-1943. After the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps, but his call-up was delayed until 1943. While studying at Northwestern, Heston met his future wife, Lydia Marie Clarke, a student of the School of Speech’s renowned Alvina Krause. While at Northwestern he played Judge Black in the University Theatre production of "Hedda Gabler" (see photograph). Heston’s early professional appearances were on the stage.
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