Charlton Heston signed still "Skyjacked

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Charlton Heston 10x8 still from "Skyjacked" with bold signature. One small crease bottom right corner, would frame out, otherwise excellent condition.Heston is known for having played heroic roles, such as Moses in The Ten Commandments , Colonel George Taylor in Planet of the Apes , Rodrigo Díaz de Vivarin El Cid , and Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur , for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor . In the 1950s and 1960s he was one of a handful of Hollywood actors to speak openly against racism and was an active supporter of the Civil Rights Movement . Initially a moderate Democrat , he later supported conservative Republican policies and was president of the National Rifle Association from 1998 to 2003.Heston earned recognition for his appearance in his first professional movie, Dark City , a 1950 film noir . His breakthrough came when Cecil B. DeMille cast him as a circus manager in The Greatest Show on Earth , which was named by the Motion Picture Academy as the best picture of 1952. In 1953, Heston was Billy Wilder 's first choice to play Sefton in Stalag 17 . However, the role was given to William Holden , who won an Oscar for it. Heston became an icon for portraying Moses in the hugely successful film The Ten Commandments , reportedly being chosen by director Cecil B. DeMille because he thought the muscular, 6 ft 3 in, square jawed Heston bore an uncanny resemblance to Michelangelo 's statue of Moses .After Marlon Brando , Burt Lancaster and Rock Hudson turned down the title role of Ben-Hur (1959), Heston accepted the role, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor , one of the unprecedented eleven Oscars the film earned. In 1995, Heston denied a claim by Ben-Hur screenwriter Gore Vidal that there is a gay subtext to the film. Vidal said he wrote the script with such an implication, but never mentioned the subtext to Heston - though he did so to Stephen Boyd , who played Ben-Hur's friend Messala, and director William Wyler . Heston stated that after writing one scene, Vidal was dismissed from the project and the homosexuality story is a reworking by Vidal of a well-known and possibly apocryphal story involving Laurence Olivier 's portrayal of Iago to an unwitting Ralph Richardson as Othello . Vidal responded by citing extracts from Heston's 1978 memoir An Actor's Life , in which he admitted that Vidal had authored most of the shooting screenplay. After Moses and Ben-Hur, Heston was identified with Biblical epics more than any other actor. He voiced the role of a cartoon version of the Lew Wallace novel in 2003. Heston played leading roles in a number of fictional and historical epics: El Cid (1961), 55 Days at Peking (1963), as Michelangelo in The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965), and Khartoum (1966). Heston also played a leading role in the western movie, Will Penny (1968). In 1965, Heston became president of the Screen Actors Guild . He remained in the position until 1971, the second longest tenure to date in that office. In 1968, Heston starred in Planet of the Apes and in 1970, he was in a smaller supporting role in the sequel, Beneath the Planet of the Apes . Also in 1970, Heston portrayed Mark Antony again in another film version of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar . His co-stars included Jason Robards as Brutus, Richard Chamberlain as Octavius, Robert Vaughn as Casca, and English actors Richard Johnson as Cassius, John Gielgud as Caesar, and Diana Rigg as Portia. In 1971 he starred in the science fiction film, The Omega Man . Although critically panned, the film is now considered a classic of apocalyptic horror. In 1972 Heston made his directorial debut, and starred, as Mark Antony in an adaptation of the William Shakespeare play he performed earlier in his theater career, Antony and Cleopatra . Hildegarde Neil was Cleopatra, and English actor Eric Porter was Enobarbus. After receiving scathing reviews, the film never went to theaters, and rarely turns up on television. It has not been released on DVD. He subsequently starred in successful films such as Soylent G... read more

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