print email comment close Charlton Heston URL: http://www.variety.com/profiles/people/main/30136/Charlton%20Heston.html?dataSet=1 Description: Basic background for screen actor Charlton Heston, who died in April 2008. Includes screen credits (for movies such as "The Ten Commandments" and "The Agony and the Ecstasy"), list of awards (such as the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1959 for "Ben-Hur"), and brief biography for this "Northwestern University acting student ... [whose] first film appearances were in ambitious amateur 16mm productions ... directed by fellow student David Bradley." From Variety magazine. Publisher: Reed Business Information LII Database Information: Record 25865 created by Maria Brandt on 04/08/2008 Last modification on 04/08/2008 Published: 04/17/2008   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/25865