Did your father have a favorite actor or director to work with? Actress Lydia Clarke Heston, who was married to late Oscar winner Charlton Heston for 64 years, died Monday. Fraser, now 65, portrayed the baby Moses — who, in the Bible, escapes death when he is set afloat down the Nile River in a basket — in the 1956 movie “The Ten Commandments,” which starred his father, Charlton Heston, as the adult prophet. And he worked on the National Council of the Arts. As a consequence, I think it deepened his faith. Fraser Heston can’t even remember his first — and only — acting role, but that’s because he was only 3 months old at the time. Love, C.B.’ I still have that telegram somewhere.”, “The Ten Commandments,” a perennial Easter classic, is available via streaming and as a new Blu-ray release from Paramount Home Entertainment that includes a behind-the-scenes commemorative “digibook.”, The senior Heston, who won an Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role for the 1959 film “Ben-Hur,” starred in more than 100 television shows and movies, including the film “Planet of the Apes” (1968) and its 1970 sequel, “Beneath the Planet of the Apes,” the 1967 drama “Will Penny” and the 1985 primetime soap opera “The Colbys.” (He also did a cameo as himself in a 1998 episode of the NBC sitcom “Friends.”). It didn’t come from hearing a sermon, which is how most of us get it. He was not happy with Sophia Loren for arriving on the set late almost on a regular basis [during the filming of 1961’s “El Cid”], but he loved her work. 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Do Not Sell My Personal Information, Your California Privacy Rights The only forum on the internet dedicated to Charlton Heston. He lost none of his eye colour like some people do when they reach advanced age. According to The Hollywood Reporter, her work was placed in galleries worldwide and published in multiple books. He was a kind-hearted, humorous soul. He lost none of his eye colour like some people do when they reach advanced age. Obviously, my memory is a little sketchy, but I do remember my dad telling me that when they put me in the basket on the backlot of Paramount — the tank set is still there — the basket began to leak. Hailing from Wisconsin, Clarke Heston met Charlton in an acting class at Northwestern University. Fraser lives in Los Angeles with his wife, public relations and communications executive Marilyn Heston, and their filmmaker son Jack, 28, and is a longtime director and producer. I’d say his faith came from within. But there was so much more to my father than falls between those two images that happened 50 years apart. My information is that these are from the Annual Thanksgiving Meal for the Poor in L.A., in 2002: Charlton Heston's eyes are very blue in the left picture. So many. Just found another photofrom the same occasion. Charlton Heston was famous for playing Moses in 1956’s The Ten Commandments, as well as Ben-Hur (1959) and Planet of the Apes (1968). He recently spoke with The Post by phone about his dad’s faith, legacy and the least-favorite film he did. He was a great supporter of civil rights, Fraser recalled, before adding that Heston often went out of his way to show gratitude to U.S soldiers in war-ravaged areas and kept in touch with their families afterward. And so on and so on. (laughs) He didn’t like “Call of the Wild” very much. He’d say, “Son, do you want to go home? He was always very circumspect about that because he said if he named an actor or actress, he would make one friend and a dozen enemies. And the social worker who is by mandate on the set for all children grabbed me and said, “No, Mr. Heston, I’m the only one who can attend to this child during the filming.” He looked at her and said, with the voice he used on the pharaoh [Yul Brynner, in the film], “Give me that child!” And not surprisingly, she did. Being president of the Screen Guild, helping to found the American Film Institute, leading the arts contingent in the [1963] March on Washington of the civil rights movement, going to Viet Nam three times with the USO when that wasn’t such a popular thing to do.