Charlton Heston
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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). |
