Charlton Heston was an American actor and political activist. He appeared in almost 100 films over the course of 60 years. In the 1950s and 1960s, he was one of a handful of Hollywood actors to speak openly against racism and was an active supporter of the Civil Rights Movement. Heston left the Democratic Party in 1971 to become a Republican, founding a conservative political action committee and supporting Ronald Reagan. He died of Alzheimer’s disease in 2002, after announcing he had Alzheimer’s Disease in 2002.
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Charlton Heston was an American actor and political activist. He appeared in almost 100 films over the course of 60 years. In the 1950s and 1960s, he was one of a handful of Hollywood actors to speak openly against racism and was an active supporter of the Civil Rights Movement. Heston left the Democratic Party in 1971 to become a Republican, founding a conservative political action committee and supporting Ronald Reagan. He was a five-term president of the National Rifle Association, from 1998 to 2003. He died of Alzheimer’s disease in 2002, after announcing he had Alzheimer’s Disease in 2002. His nickname was Chuck Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt. His mother, Lilla, and her sister May were adopted by their grandfather, and changed their last name to Charlton in order to distance themselves from their biological father, Mr. Baines, who was an undesirable father figure. His maternal great-grandparents and namesakes were Englishman William Charlton from Sunderland and Scotswoman Mary Drysdale Charlton. His grandmother, Marian Emily Charlton, was born in 1872. In his autobiography, Heston refers to his father participating in his family’s construction business. His mother remarried and Charlton and his younger sister Lilla and brother Alan moved to Wilmette, Illinois. He recalled living there: All kids play pretend games, but I did it more than most. Even when we moved to Chicago, I was more or less a loner.
We lived in a North Shore suburb, where I was a skinny hick from the woods, and all the other kids seemed to be rich and know about girls. : xiiContradictions on paper and in an interview surround when \”Charlton\” became Heston’s first name. The 1930 United States Census record for Richfield, Michigan, in Roscommon County, shows his name as being Charlton J. Carter at age six. Later accounts and movie studio biographies say he was born John Charles Carter. When Russell Carter died in 1966, Charlton’s brother and sister changed their legal surname to Heston the following year; Charlton was his maternal grandmother Marian’s maiden name, not his mother Lilla’s. It was thus as he appeared in his first film with younger brother Alan Carter, an adaptation of Henrik Gynt’s peer Gynt’s Peer Gyne’. Later, in high school, he enrolled in an amateur drama program, playing the lead role in a silent film adaptation of The Greatest Story Ever Told. He also starred in The Greatest Show on Earth, Secret of the Incas, Touch of Evil with Orson Welles, The Big Country, Ben-Hur, for which he won the Oscar for Best Actor, El Cid, Planet of the Apes, The Omega Man and Soylent Green. His earliest immigrant ancestors arrived in America from England in the 1600s. His maternal grandmother and his true maternal grandfather Charles Baines separated or divorced in the early 1900s.
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