Charlton Heston made a career in film at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Charlton Heston as American actor (1923–2008).
Charlton Heston was born at Evanston in 1923. His recorded nationality is the United States. He was educated at Northwestern University and Northwestern University School of Communication.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
Charlton Heston is described as television actor, film actor and film director.
Cinema keeps its people visible long after the industry that produced them has changed shape.
Formal recognition came in the shape of the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2003) and Academy Award for Best Actor (1960).
Working from the United States shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Death came in 2008, at 85. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Presidential Medal of Freedom — 2003
- Academy Award for Best Actor — 1960
- Educated at Northwestern University and Northwestern University School of Communication
- Worked as television actor, film actor and film director
