LOS ANGELES ” Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing “Ben-Hur” and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the ’50s and ’60s, ...

Charlton Heston, whose chiseled-granite looks and commanding manner allowed him to portray some of history’s most extraordinary men from Moses and Michelangelo to John the Baptist and El Cid, has died ...

Nobody wanted to see Charlton Heston in the business suit or polo shirt that other stars of the ’50s and ’60s wore. The present was too puny a place to confine him. But put him in a toga or a military ...

God is dead. Charlton Heston, the man-deity of movies, passed away yesterday in Los Angeles at 83. Heston didn’t just play great roles, he imposingly, thrillingly embodied them. Moses (in The Ten ...

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Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing "Ben-Hur" and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the '50s and '60s, has died. He ...