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Actor, activist, and author. Heston is best known for his blockbuster film career. He most often portrayed larger-than-life, self-assured characters in close to eighty feature films, earning box-office success and critical acclaim. He also maintained a serious commitment to the acting fraternity and to the human community at large. Though his personal life remained relatively private, it was not without occasional controversy, but Heston the public figure made no apology for Heston the private citizen.

After an apprenticeship on the New York stage in the s and a modest television debut in the early days of the medium, Heston played supporting roles in films like The Greatest Show on Earth. In he won the role that guaranteed his box-office future: Moses in the Cecil B. DeMille classic The Ten Commandments. Thereafter Heston's imposing physique and resonant baritone voice led to one role after another, including such disparate personages as Andrew Jackson , Ben-Hur, and Michelangelo.

He did not limit himself to historical figures, however; he also famously immortalized the fictional astronaut George Taylor in The Planet of the Apes. Nor did he restrict his roles to men of great authority and matching ego.