Charlton Heston talks about his career, Ben Hur and El Cid.

Charlton Heston was one of the biggest movie stars of the last half of the 20th century.
To put Charlton Heston’s career in some contemporary context, he was the Arnold Schwarzenegger or, if you like, the Chris Hemsworth of the 1950’s and 60’s.
Though, it must be said, Heston’s range of characters were far greater in more than 100 films he appeared in during a career that spanned six decades.
From his Oscar winning title role of Ben Hur to playing Moses in The Ten Commandments, and from his powerful performance in The Agony and The Ecstasy to his time-travelling astronaut in the original Planet of the Apes…. Charlton Heston was truly a movie hero for the ages.
But in 1981, at the age of 59, he was approached by his son Fraser to appear in an adventure film that Fraser had written, set in the Canadian wilderness.
The film was Mother Lode and co-starred Kim Basinger. Charlton played a crazy Scottish miner in search of his fortune.
But shortly before shooting started he found himself offered a further cinematic challenge, which he accepted.
Apart from an extraordinary movie career, Charlton Heston also had an extensive television career including appearing in the famous American soaps Dallas and The Colby’s.
He was always an activist, who switched from the Democrats to the Republican Party and earned the ire of millions of his fans world-wide with a dogged pro-gun stance, including serving several terms as President of the notorious National Rifle Association.
And by the way, A bit of personal trivia, and perhaps a nice familial twist. His son Fraser had co-starred with dad as baby Moses ``in The Ten Commandments.
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