Charlton Heston

BirthDate BirthPlace	10/03/1924 Evanston, IL

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Made his Broadway debut in Katharine Cornell's 1947 production of Anthony and Cleopatra; he later made his silver screen directorial debut with 1971's Anthony and Cleopatra.
In high school, he performed with a local theater company which subsequently gave him a drama scholarship to Northwestern.
Served in the Air Force during World War II before moving to New York to pursue an acting career.
In the 1960s, he supported Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the campaign for passage of the Civil Rights Act.
In 1997, he received the Kennedy Center Honors.
His autobiography In the Arena was published in 1995.
President Reagan selected him to co-chair the White House Task Force on the Arts and Humanities in 1981.
Spent his early years in a small rural Michigan town where he was educated in a one-room schoolhouse.
Big break came when Cecil B. DeMille cast him as Moses in the 1956 classic epic The Ten Commandments (his months-old son joined him on-screen as baby Moses).