# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charlton-heston
# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:28:16.351Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.