# Charlton Heston

> He parted the Red Sea, won the chariot race, and discovered what Soylent Green was really made of — then spent his final act as the NRA's most recognizable face, clutching a musket and daring anyone to take it.

*American actor (1923–2008)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/charlton-heston

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Actor ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999))
- **Category:** Actors
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1923-10-04
- **Died:** 2008-04-05
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born John Charles Carter in 1923, Heston became Hollywood's go-to man for sweeping historical scale: Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956), then the title role in Ben-Hur (1959), which won him the Oscar. Through the '60s and '70s he toggled between biblical epics like El Cid and The Greatest Story Ever Told and dystopian landmarks — Planet of the Apes, The Omega Man, Soylent Green — that have outlasted most of his sandal-and-sword work. In the '50s and early '60s he openly opposed racism and supported civil rights; by 1987 he'd left the Democrats, founded a conservative PAC, and backed Reagan. From 1998 to 2003 he served five terms as NRA president, a role that redefined his public image in his final years. He announced his Alzheimer's diagnosis in 2002 and retired from both acting and the gun lobby, dying in 2008.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 68.4 / 100
- **Momentum:** 5.5 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 28.6 / 100
- **Now attention:** 16.5 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000032/ (@nm0000032)

## Topics
#Actors, #Actor, #Television, #Movies, #Stand Up, #Theatre, #Screenwriting, #Film Directing

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