Let us enjoy a few of his greatest moments.
Soylent Green…
…Planet of the Apes…
…and, of course, 10 Things I Hate About Commandments:
R.I.P. Mr. Heston.
Now, as Mark Evanier has already suggested, let’s go pry the gun from his hands!
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Kind of sad that the best laugh I’ve had in days was sort of at Mr. Heston’s expense — both the last vid and Mark Evanier quote (Mark’s a funny guy) but there you go. In fact, I have done my usual RIP post because I haven’t really decided what kind of attitude to take.
Every now and then, however, he could actually be good. I think my favorite roles of his were as Cardinal Richelieu in Richard Lester “Three Musketeers” and “Four Musketeers,” Moses, and as the Player King in the Kenneth Branagh Hamlet. He was also surprisingly good playing a morally ambiguous cowboy in William Wyler’s “The Big Country.”
He wasn’t the greatest actor ever, but he was a pretty good ham.