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.

But Charlton Heston was an extraordinarily genial and ... Charles Gordon in the unusually intelligent historical epic, “Khartoum.” Indeed, his subtlety presented a marked contrast to Laurence ...

Charlton Heston, one of Hollywood’s most visible ... Five Days at Peking,” “The Agony and the Ecstasy” and “Khartoum.” “Khartoum” brought him his finest reviews, and critics ...

Charlton Heston, the Oscar-winning actor who achieved ... Charles “Chinese” Gordon in “Khartoum.” But none of them were as successful critically as “Ben-Hur.” Then, in 1968, he ...

But for those who aren’t already history buffs (or who aren’t interested in doing a little homework), the full significance of the Siege of Khartoum may be difficult to get a handle on.

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Over the course of his long career, Charlton Heston played more than a dozen Biblical and historical figures, some more than once. One of the biggest action heroes of the 1950s, Charlton Heston ...

Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar ... Michelangelo (“The Agony and the Ecstasy”), General Gordon (“Khartoum”), Marc Antony (“Julius Caesar,” “Antony and Cleopatra ...

but they have a commitment to protect the Egyptians in Khartoum. They decide to ask General Charles "Chinese" Gordon (Charlton Heston), something of a folk hero in the Sudan, as he had cleared the ...