Charlton Heston Net Worth

Charlton Heston's Quotes

• [from a taped announcement concerning his having symptoms of Alzheimer's disease] For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience. I can part the Red Sea, but I can't part with you, which is why I won't exclude you from this stage in my life . . . For now, I'm not changing anything. I'll insist on work when I can; the doctors will insist on rest when I must. If you see a little less spring to my step, if your name fails to leap to my lips, you'll know why. And if I tell you a funny story for the second time, please laugh anyway.
• [on Sam Peckinpah] Sam is the only person I've ever physically threatened on a set.
• If you need a ceiling painted, a chariot race run, a city besieged, or the Red Sea parted, you think of me.
• You can take my rifle ... when you pry it from my cold dead hands!
• [after hearing an unkind remark made about his condition by George Clooney, nephew of Rosemary Clooney] It's funny how class can skip a generation, isn't it?

Interesting Facts about Charlton Heston

1. Went to British Columbia to promote guns, arguing it is man's "God-given right" to own guns.
2. Alumnus of New Trier Township High School East, Winnetka, Illinois, where tennis was among his extracurricular activities. Other New Trier graduates include Ralph Bellamy, Rock Hudson, Hugh B. O'Brien, Ann-Margret, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford, Virginia Madsen and Liz Phair.
3. Ranked #28 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
4. Originally a Democrat who campaigned for Presidential candidates Adlai Stevenson and John F. Kennedy, he gradually switched to becoming a conservative Republican during the 1960s.
5. Father of director Fraser C. Heston and Holly Heston Rochell.
6. Elected first vice-president of the National Rifle Association of America (1997).
7. Co-chairman of the American Air Museum in Britain.
8. Elected president of the National Rifle Association of America. [June 1998]
9. Was president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1966-1971.
10. Has stated that he sees no contradiction with his work as a Civil Rights activist in the 1960s and his advocacy for gun ownership rights in the 1990s, insisting that he is simply promoting "freedom in the truest sense."
11. Volunteered his time and effort to the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, and even marched alongside the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on a number of occasions, including the 1963 March on Washington. In the original (uncut) version of King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970), he was narrator.
12. He and his wife, Lydia Clarke, both battled cancer. He survived prostate cancer and she, breast cancer.
13. He was considered, along with English actor Ronnie Barker, for the role of Claudius in the British series I, Claudius (1976), but the role went to the less famous Derek Jacobi instead.
14. On August 9, 2002, he issued a statement in which he advised his physicians have recently told him he may have a neurological disorder whose symptoms are consistent with Alzheimer's disease.
15. Elected as the president of the National Rifle Association, he was re-elected to an unprecedented 4th 3-year term in 2001.
16. After his starring role in the 1968 version of Apenplaneet (1968), he had an uncredited cameo in the 2001 remake, Planet of the Apes (2001), as Gen. Thade's dying father.
17. His professional name of Charlton Heston came from a combination of his mother's maiden name (Lila Charlton) and his stepfather's last name (Chester Heston).
18. Prior to starring in The Omega Man (1971), a remake of Vincent Price's film The Last Man on Earth (1964), Heston and Price appeared together in Cecil B. DeMille's De Tien Geboden (1956).
19. Said that Apenplaneet (1968) was the most physically demanding film he had ever done.
20. Along with Linda Harrison, he is one of only two actors to appear in both Apenplaneet (1968) and Planet of the Apes (2001).