Charleton Heston Westerns

Charlton Heston (October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008)was an American actor of film, theater and television.

Heston is known for having played heroic roles, such as Moses in The Ten Commandments, Colonel George Taylor in Planet of the Apes, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar in El Cid, and Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. In the 1950s and 1960s he was one of a handful of Hollywood actors to speak openly against racism and was an active supporter of the Civil Rights Movement. Initially a moderate Democrat, he later supported conservative politics and was president of the National Rifle Association from 1998 to 2003

He appeared in 127 films, not counting PEER GYNT, an amateur film he did in high school in 1941. Out of this 50+ years of career he appeared in 12 westerns, many of them in the 1950's. Long and lanky, he rode a horse well, and used firearms with proficency. His Westerns were:

THE SAVAGE (1952)
PONY EXPRESS (1953)
ARROWHEAD (1953)
THE FAR HORIZONS (1955)
THREE VIOLENT PEOPLE (1956)
THE BIG COUNTRY (1958)
MAJOR DUNDEE (1965)
WILL PENNY (1968) My personal favorite.
THE LAST HARD MEN (1976)
THE MOUNTAIN MEN (1980)
TOMBSTONE (1993)
THE AVENGING ANGEL (TNT TVM) (1996)