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| | Charlton Heston |
 | | Charlton Heston's parents were divorced when he was ten, and he lived with his mother and, later, stepfather. |
 | | As an actor, Heston is most famous for larger-than-life roles in a series of epics, including Orson Welles' Touch of Evil (1958), Ben-Hur (1959), which won him an Oscar, El Cid (1961), and the underrated Khartoum (1966). |
 | | Off screen, Heston was loudly liberal, active in the civil rights movement, and marched on Washington DC with Martin Luther King in 1963. |
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