Charlton Heston Dead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VsgHf7SGII

His obit on youtube

Edgar
Heston's flaw was that he believed that he was the men he protrayed in films. No way could he live up to them but he managed to convince himself that he was a great man.

BBB

Hey, he was a marvelous actor. Why get into all the other stuff? May he R.I.P.

Some of my favorite films are,
Ben Hur
El Cid
parts of The Ten Commandments

I thought he did okay in The Agony and the Ecstacy, but, Irving Stone's story is not that interesting, in my view.

He was good in Planet of the Apes.

"Get your stinkin' paws off me you damn dirty Ape" will ring down through the ages, as the upcoming Nuclear Holocaust changes the Man-Ape relationship.

"Moses, Moses, Moses..."

"You've gotta tell them! Soylent Green is people"

I forgot Soylent Green. I liked that one.

as an over actor, second only to William Shatner. RIP.

Oh, I dunno.


I think acting tastes have changed over the years, and Shatner was raised when he should have known better.


Also, Heston was cursed (or blessed) with a face like a chiselled rock, perfect for epics.


I'm not sure ANYONE can act in epics, can they?


Exists there a well-acted epic?

"You take a helluva long time to say goodbye"-My favorite western THE BIG COUNTRY, maybe cuz I was a little kid the first time I saw it and that set the clock for me.

Will they bury him with a gun in his cold dead fingers?


I agree with Bear, in that he mostly did overact. I like the Shatner comparison, with the exception that SHatner always had fun with his own image.

I watched The Big Country last year. I thought Heston fit well with the rest of the cast.

Do you think Heston, perhaps, also had a hoot over his own image? Did he have a great sense of humour?


Does anyone know anything about him as a person? His gun stuff appears to have overshadowed all else in his latter years.

I was impressed with his demeanour when Michael Moore snuck that interview.


Given that his death will likely spark a spate of Heston movies on TV, I'd be interested in knowing about good non-epics he made.

no. I believe, and I'm not trying to denigrate Heston... he accomplished many things... that he believed himself to be much like the characters portrayed and took his image seriously.

shatner gets away with murder because he is clearly having such a good time and doesn't take himself seeriously...IMO...

Bowling for Columbine (2002) Himself
Cats & Dogs (2001) Voice of The Mastiff
Town & Country (2001) Mr Claybourne--Eugenie's Father
Any Given Sunday (1999) AFFA Football Commissioner
Forever Hollywood (1999) Himself
Gideon (1999) Addison Sinclair
Armageddon (1998) Narrator
Behind the Planet of the Apes (1998)
Gengis Khan (1998)
Hercules (1997) Voice of of Narrator
Alaska (1996) Perry
Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy On the Right (1996) Himself
Hamlet (1996) Player King
The Lord Protector (1996) Narrator
In the Mouth of Madness (1995) Jackson Harglow
True Lies (1994) Spencer Trilby
Tombstone (1993) Henry Hooker
Wayne's World 2 (1993) Good Actor
Solar Crisis (1992) Skeet Kelso
Almost an Angel (1990) God
Call From Space (1989) Voice of of Alien
Treasure Island (1989) Directed By William Wyler (1988) Himself
A Man for All Seasons (1988)
Proud Men (1987)
Nairobi Affair (1986)
The Fantasy Film World of George Pal (1986) Himself
Chiefs (1983)
Mother Lode (1982) Ian McGee/ Silas McGee
The Awakening (1980) Matthew Corbeck
The Mountain Men (1980) Bill Tyler
Crossed Swords (1978) Henry VIII
Gray Lady Down (1978) Captain Paul Blanchard
Midway (1976) Captain Matt Garth
Two-Minute Warning (1976) Captain Pete Holly
The Last Hard Men (1976) Sam Burgade
Airport 1975 (1975) Alan Murdock
The Call of the Wild (1975)
The Four Musketeers (1975) Cardinal Richelieu
Earthquake (1974) Graff
Soylent Green (1973) Detective Thorn
The Three Musketeers (1973) Richelieu
Skyjacked (1972) Captain O'Hara
Julius Caesar (1971) Marc Antony
Vietnam! Vietnam! (1971)
The Omega Man (1971) Neville
Antony and Cleopatra (1970) Antony
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) Taylor
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970) Himself
The Hawaiians (1970) Whip Hoxworth
Number One (1969) Ron "Cat" Catlan
Planet of the Apes (1968) George Taylor
Will Penny (1968) Will Penny
Counterpoint (1967)
EvansKhartoum (1966) General Charles Gordon
Major Dundee (1965) Major Amos Charles Dundee
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) Michelangelo
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) John the Baptist
The War Lord (1965) Chrysagon
55 Days at Peking (1963) Major Matt Lewis
Diamond Head (1962) Richard Howland
The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962) Capt Paul MacDougall
El Cid (1961) Rodrigo Diaz--El Cid
Ben-Hur (1959) Judah Ben-Hur
The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959) John Sands
Touch of Evil (1958) Ramon Miguel "Mike" Vargas
The Big Country (1958) Steve Leech
The Buccaneer (1958) General Andrew Jackson
Three Violent People (1957) Colt Saunders
The Ten Commandments (1956) Moses
Lucy Gallant (1955) Casey Cole
The Far Horizons (1955) William Clark
The Private War of Major Benson (1955) Major Bernard Benson
Bad For Each Other (1954) Dr Tom Owen
Secret of the Incas (1954) Harry Steele
The Naked Jungle (1954) Christopher Leiningen
Arrowhead (1953) Ed Bannon
Pony Express (1953)
The Greatest Show on Earth (1953) Brad
Ruby Gentry (1952)
The Battle of Midway (1942)

I remember seing The "NAked Jungle" just last year for the first time. It was a tale of Army ants and there was a great deal of biological leverage taken. Dispensing with all reality, it was a chilling movie and done in a time without advanced special effects capabilities.

Thanks EB.

I remember him mostly from his war movies, and Midway was one of my Favorites...

RIP