He has been married to Lydia Clarke since March 17, 1944. They have two children, Fraser and Holly.
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At the age of ten, his parents, Russell Whitford Carter and Lila Charlton, divorced.
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Soon after his mother remarried and Charlton changed his last name to Heston.
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Heston attended New Trier High School and enrolled in the school's drama program.
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With his superb acting skills he deservedly earned a scholarship to Northwestern University.
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Enlisted in the US Army Air Corps for two years after finishing college.
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Married Lydia Marie Clarke in 1944, a fellow student at Northwestern University.
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Got the role in Moses as the muscle bound 6 foot 3 inch Charlton looked like Michaelango's sculpture of Moses.
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Following radiation treatment, his prostate cancer went into remission. He was diagnosed with the cancer in 1998.
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Unfortunately, in 2003, Charlton announced he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Later the same year he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from US president George W. Bush.
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Accompanied Martin Luther King on a civil rights march and in his early years he was very much a democrat.
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Other opinions he has at the time was that racial segregation and McCarthyism helped the spread of Stalinism, that the US president (at that time) was a disaster for America (Richard Nixon) and that gun controls should be enacted.
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Gradually became more conservative as he got older and became a supporter of affirmative action and a member of the NRA.
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He use to be about 6 foot 3 inches, but has shrunk with age, which most humans do. He is closer to 6 foot 0 inches.
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He was not first choice for Moses. Burt Lancaster was approached for the role but turned it down calling it "a piece of religious crap" - a comment due to his atheism.
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He is a follower of the Christian religion.
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