Sunday, April 06, 2008

Charlton Heston dead at 84

LOS ANGELES - Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing "Ben-Hur" and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the '50s and '60s, has died. He was 84. No details regarding teh cause of death have been released yet, but he has had Alzheimers for eyars.


More here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080406/ap_en_ot/obit_heston


Follow his career here:
http://imdb.com/name/nm0000032/

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