One of the finest movie and theater actors, who later became a prominent member of the NRA, has passed away at 84….

Seriously, how many Hollywood actors have you seen during our GWOT give up their careers to enlist to serve a higher purpose…that’s an easy answer…the answer is NONE!

Also (and this is the honest truth) just last Wednesday I was having a conversation with a co-worker about some of great actors of our time and of course Mr. Heston came up and I mentioned that I had not heard anything about him for some time which usually means he’s on his way out so when I saw on the news yesterday he had passed on Saturday you can bet my jaw hit the floor.

Mr. Heston will be sorely missed as we need many more of his caliber in this day and age. Someone that knows how very fortunate they are to be an American citizen and that America is the greatest most free and prosperous nation on earth and is something we should give thanks for each and every day, something the ingrate America haters that think America is responsible for all that is evil in the world would never do!

Another hero is gone in a time when we need more heroes…RIP Mr. Heston and I thank you for being a true American and a real man!

Only one is left.
Sigh.
You can almost see the decline of America by looking at her actors. Compare what we had, with what we have.

Winebabe on April 7, 2008 at 10:56 AM

This is a paraphrase, and I may be remembering it wrong too, but in his autobiography he wrote about how he campaigned hard for the role of the 82nd Airborne C.O. in The Longest Day. He thought he had it, and was preparing to go to Europe to start shooting, when Zanuck found out that he could get John Wayne. Heston wrote of losing the part, “I really wanted it but couldn’t blame them. I’d have hired John Wayne too.”

A man who stuck to his guns, in every sense of the phrase, is dead at age 84….

Question to you all: Is there ANYONE in the current roster of actors that can even compare to Mr. Heston? Can we name even one?

I believe it was the movie “Midway” not “Pearl Harbor”. He played a Navy Captain and Henry Fonda played Adm. Nimitz.

May He rest in Peace.

He married his college sweetheart and they stayed together throughout their long life.

He was one of the leading men whose presence upstaged others on screen.

He presided over the Screen Writers Guild imbued with a sense of responsibility for decency, prior to the guild’s subsequent demise into hell resulting without the leadership Heston and Reagan contributed for American culture.

Even when the times changed, Heston kept his cool dignity. Without him, Planet of the Apes would never have seen its success. It was Heston that the script portrayed witnessing the old guard Hollywood/America long dead and gone at the hands of the new Hollywood/American breed, retrograde evolution.

Heston had true grit.
RIP

Here’s Heston’s big scene parting the Red Sea:
Del Dolemonte on April 6, 2008 at 5:39 PM

WoW – perhaps the most iconic scene in Hollywood history. I love how it was larger than life special effects, yet by the visual style clearly shows DeMille’s silent era roots. Terrific stuff!!

In fact I still can’t believe that the thirty or so great movies from that era, the Shane’s, High Noons etc aren’t almost mandatory viewing for young children to imprint their young minds with heroism, morals, courage and all the great virtues we aspire to.

Yeah, I know it’s all cornball by today’s standards………

Even more impressive to me than his acting – and that is an achievement in and of itself – is that he was married to the same woman his whole adult life and managed to raise two children who are normal and who loved their father deeply.

That, my friends, is a Man.

Mommynator on April 6, 2008 at 11:04 AM

I agree wholeheartedly.

A couple of other facts I saw at Wiki and checked out:

He was on the National Advisory Board of Accuracy in Media.

He was pro-life, providing the introduction for Bernard Nathanson’s film Eclipse of Reason.

A great man.

Rest in peace.