Charlton Heston [Charles John Carter] (1923-2008) - $100.00

Charlton Heston
Academy Award Winning Actor
Signed Publicity Photograph
from Ben-Hur

CHARLTON HESTON [Charles John Carter] (1923-2008). American Academy Award Winning Actor, NRA advocate. Heston played leading roles in a number of fictional and historical epics— Ben-Hur, El Cid, 55 Days at Peking, The Agony and the Ecstasy (as Michelangelo), and Khartoum. After Burt Lancaster turned down the role of Ben-Hur, Heston accepted the role, WINNING the Academy Award for Best Actor, one of eleven Oscars the film earned. Heston would be identified with the Biblical epic more than any other actor and voiced the role of Judah Ben-Hur for a cartoon version of the Lew Wallace novel in 2003. Mr. Heston was president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1966 to 1971. He was the president of the NRA, a rather UNUSUAL accomplishment for a Hollywood Actor! (Also switching from a Democrat to a Republican , along with his buddy, Ronald Reagan in the mid 20th century). Between 1968 and 1974, Heston starred in a number of science fiction films: Planet of the Apes (1968), Soylent Green (1971), The Omega Man (1973), and Earthquake (1974), all of which were hugely successful and have since become classic or cult films. In 1970, Heston portrayed Mark Antony again in a Technicolor film version of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. His co-stars in the nearly all-star cast included Jason Robards as Brutus, Richard Johnson as Cassius, John Gielgud as Caesar, Diana Rigg as Portia, Robert Vaughn as Casca, and Richard Chamberlain as Octavius. In 1971, Heston made his directorial debut with Antony and Cleopatra, an adaptation of the William Shakespeare play he performed during his earlier theater career, and portrayed Mark Antony. Hildegarde Neil was Cleopatra, and Eric Porter was Enobarbus. After receiving scathing reviews, the film never made it to theaters.

8″x10″ color signed publicity photo of Charlton Heston as Ben Hur. The photo shows a bloody Heston being interrogated by Roman soldiers. The photo from METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER, Copyright 1959, Loew’s Inc. printed in Great Britain, is hand signed BOLDLY in black felt pen by Charlton Heston on the upper right corner.

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