I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.

Heston (his new surname) attended New Trier High School in a rich Chicago suburb. In 1948 they returned to New York where Heston was offered a supporting role in a Broadway revival of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra starring Katharine Cornell. Bush.

He also is well known for his roles in the films The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) and Touch of Evil (1958). Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter; October 4 1923 – April 5 2008) was an American actor in film theatre and television and a political activist. He implied he would die for his Second Amendment rights rousing his audiences with his signature line holding a rifle above his head and pledging that he would never surrender it — they would have to pry it from "my cold dead hands.