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10 unusual facts about Charlton Heston


Alabama gubernatorial election, 2002

During the campaign, actor and National Rifle Association president Charlton Heston came to Alabama to campaign for Republican congressional candidates.

Creation Evidence Museum

The "Burdick track" and "fossilized finger" were featured on the controversial NBC program The Mysterious Origins of Man, aired in 1996 and hosted by Charlton Heston.

Dathan

After the Exodus, he leads the Israelites in their worship of the golden calf, and is one of those swallowed up in the crevice that opens up when Moses (Charlton Heston) smashes the tablets of the Ten Commandments in a rage, after discovering the Israelites' idolatry.

El Cid

The 1961 epic film, El Cid, was a romanticized story of the life of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar where El Cid was portrayed by Charlton Heston.

Joe Wendryhoski

Wendryhoski, along with several of his Saints teammates, appeared in the film Number One, which starred Charlton Heston as a fading New Orleans quarterback.

John Twiggs Myers

In the historical epic 55 Days at Peking, Charlton Heston portrayed Marine Major Matt Lewis, commanding the American Legation Guard in Peking during the Boxer Rebellion.

Music for a Slaughtering Tribe

All samples to Soylent Green taken from the movie "2022 — Die Überleben Wollen", the german dubbed version of Soylent Green (Richard Fleischer, 1973), with Charlton Heston.

Neal Knox

In 1997 a narrowly divided NRA Board voted Knox out of the succession line for President of the NRA replacing him with Charlton Heston, who was subsequently elected president of the organization.

Q clearance

Actor Charlton Heston once held a "Q" Clearance for six years when he served as a nuclear armament topics training film narrator for the military during his post-World War II military service years.

Villa Agnelli and Villa Pesenti, Forte dei Marmi

Many important artists, actors, sportsmen and prominent cultural figures have spent their vacation in the villas of the Augustus Hotel&Resort: Jimi Hendrix, Charlton Heston, Oriana Fallaci, Eugenio Montale, Francesco Messina, Mario Monicelli, Paul Anka, Vittorio Gassman and many others.


Alfio Bruno Tempera

Started in the early sixties with films such as It Started in Naples by Melville Shavelson with Clark Gable, and The Agony and the Ecstasy by Carol Reed, with Charlton Heston.

Barry Feinstein

He subsequently became a sought-after photographer in Hollywood, where he worked with Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Charlton Heston, Jayne Mansfield, and Steve McQueen.

Bullet the Blue Sky

On the Zoo TV Tour, it was about Nazism; on the Elevation Tour, it became an indictment against handgun violence, illustrated by references to John Lennon's assassination and an ironic intro video clip featuring Charlton Heston, who was at that time the president of the National Rifle Association.

Ernesto Cortázar II

Ernesto's performances were requested and enjoyed by many of Hollywood's biggest celebrities including Charlton Heston, Danny DeVito, Michael Bolton, Octavio Paz, and The Rolling Stones.

Family Theater

In its ten-year run, well-known actors and actresses, including James Stewart, Gregory Peck, Irene Dunne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Shirley Temple, Barbara Whiting Smith, Raymond Burr, Jane Wyatt, Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Gene Kelly, Kate Smith, William Shatner and Chuck Connors, appeared as announcers, narrators or stars.

Jack Cardiff

As well as many interviews with Cardiff himself, it included tributes from Martin Scorsese, Thelma Schoonmaker, Kathleen Byron, Kim Hunter, Moira Shearer, John Mills, Lauren Bacall, Charlton Heston and Kirk Douglas.

Jerry Berger

He was also a press agent and publicist with such personalities as Joan Crawford, Rock Hudson, Leonard Bernstein, Liza Minnelli, Arthur Rubinstein, Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Betty Grable, Vincent Price, Charlton Heston, and Rudolf Nureyev, among others.

Jerry London

He has also directed ten other miniseries, including the acclaimed The Scarlet and The Black with Gregory Peck, Ellis Island with Richard Burton, and Chiefs with Charlton Heston.

Joan Woodbury

In addition to managing their company, she continued to act on occasion, with her biggest role after 1946 being a minor credited part in the 1956 epic The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner and Anne Baxter.

Mackenzie Rosman

In addition to her role on 7th Heaven, Rosman appeared in the independent film Gideon, starring Christopher Lambert, Charlton Heston and Shelley Winters.

Murray Bernthal

For many years, he welcomed a variety of stars to Central New York such as: Gloria Swanson, Charlton Heston, Tom Jones, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Bela Lugosi, Beverly Sills, Luciano Pavarotti and Arthur Rubinstein.

Rosalind Cash

Her best known film role is as Charlton Heston's character's love interest Lisa, in the 1971 science fiction cult classic, The Omega Man.

Six Bridges to Cross

Mineo had also successfully auditioned for a part in The Private War of Major Benson as a cadet colonel opposite Charlton Heston.

Stephen Morehouse Avery

Among other stars, Phyllis Avery was cast opposite Charlton Heston, George Gobel, Richard Egan, Chuck Connors, Lew Ayres, and Ray Milland.

The Naked Jungle

In 1901, mail order bride Joanna (Eleanor Parker) arrives from New Orleans at a South American cocoa plantation to meet her new husband, plantation owner Christopher Leiningen (Charlton Heston), whom she has married by proxy.

Wellington Webb

Webb was mentioned in the documentary Bowling for Columbine during a speech by National Rifle Association president Charlton Heston.