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He once said: "If you need a ceiling painted, a chariot race run, a city besieged or the Red Sea parted, you think of me." Despite the angry political moments and lesser roles that dogged him for the rest of his career, that's how I find I remember him now: old-school, straight-backed, a gentleman. Charlton Heston starred in the title role of William Wyler's 1959 film Charlton Heston starred in the title role of William Wyler's 1959 film It's likely no other actor has been more identified with larger-than-life heroic and historical characters than Charlton Heston. And if I tell you a funny story for the second time, please laugh anyway. He was 72 years old at that time, and that is when he had to have a hip replacement. In 1990, Heston talked with NPR's Terry Gross about the most famous scene from the film — the parting of the Red Sea. Two years later, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He mostly looked grim in interchangeable disaster epics in the 1970s. Charlton Heston was age 84 when he died. Heston was involved in politics, both in and out of Hollywood. Together they raised two children. If he's not careful, he'll get actors a good name." "You need the stick. "Those wise old dead white guys that invented this country knew what they were talking about," he said.But the line that would become more famous perhaps than any of his dramatic scripted ones was first delivered at a packed NRA convention, with a rifle raised high above his head: "From my cold, dead hands ..." In 2002, Heston was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He began a decline into dementia in 2002 when he announced he was suffering symptoms consistent with Alzheimer's. Born John Charles Carter in Evanston, Illinois, the 6ft 3in actor's professional name came from a combination of his mother's maiden name, Lila Charlton, and his stepfather Chester Heston's surname. He would also star in such disaster epics as Airport 1975, Earthquake and Skyjacked, in 1972, after which he wore a hairpiece in every role. "In the 1959 film Ben-Hur Heston won a Best Actor Oscar for playing a Roman chariot racer. Heston portrayed John the Baptist in The Greatest Story Ever Told and Michelangelo in The Agony and the Ecstasy. He loved deeply, and he was deeply loved," they said. If you stand in front of 8,000 people in the Egyptian desert and lift up a stick and say 'Bear us out of Egypt, O Lord, as an eagle bears its young upon its wings,' you don't need to act that. The Charlton Heston you remember stands atop a mountain, or a chariot, or in Pharaoh's palace, declaiming.Not for nothing do people talk of Heston's "chiseled" jaw, "craggy" features and "steely" gaze.
