The world loses another one

[Topaz]

I hope everyone is OK I put this here. Another great actor has died, Charlton Heston had passed, age 84 from Alzheimer's. He was born John Charles Carter in Evanston, Illinois and spent 3 years in the US Air Force before becoming an actor. There's not too many of the great actress and actors left and I don't see too many present day actors coming up to their standards. Will surely miss this one but we do have him on film anytime we want to see him.

[Argus]

I hope everyone is OK I put this here. Another great actor has died, Charlton Heston had passed, age 84 from Alzheimer's. He was born John Charles Carter in Evanston, Illinois and spent 3 years in the US Air Force before becoming an actor. There's not too many of the great actress and actors left and I don't see too many present day actors coming up to their standards. Will surely miss this one but we do have him on film anytime we want to see him.

I wonder if they'll bury him with his gun.

[M.Dancer]

I would have never considered him a great actor, his range of emotions that he could project went all the way from from constipated to enraged...

On the other hand he did have a great square jaw

[DogOnPorch]

lol...true...but some of his flicks are indeed timeless classics (The Hawaiians, 55 Days At Peking, etc) . Others (Soylent Green et al) are less so, but, still very 'campy'. I'll watch Ape movies all Sunday given half the chance to avoid chores.

A good man, though. He was about freedom of speech and human rights as much as he was about guns. I believe he even marched with MLK on Washington so many years ago...along with his chums Belafonte, Brando and Poitier.

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It's been quite a ride. I loved every minute of it.

---Charlton Heston

[jazzer]

I wonder if they'll bury him with his gun.

Yeah, still holding it in his cold dead fingers.

[AngusThermopyle]

I don't see too many present day actors coming up to their standards.

I think we do still have some great actors left. Sir Anthony Hopkins comes to mind, also DeNiro, Hoffman, Nicholson, Streep, Paccino, and quite a few more. Heston had charisma and that great deep voice, he wasn't in the same league as the others I just mentioned though.