Charlton Heston

...and a penchant for framing them. Reversing the racial makeup of two key characters, Welles turned the putative hero (Heston) into Mexican supernarc Vargas and his new wife (Leigh) into a spunky Anglo. The result was a disreputable...

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...the film, claimed never to have read the book). Originally only hired as an actor, Welles was promoted to director by Universal Studios at the suggestion (and insistence) of Charlton Heston. Reuniting many actors and technicians with whom...

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...and Lee. J. Cobb. At the end of the '60s, Mr. Berg produced a few motion pictures, including "House of Cards,'' with George Peppard and Orson Welles, and "Counterpoint,'' starring Charlton Heston and Maximilian Schell. But television was...

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...his artistic vision. After Welles filmed "Touch of Evil," a film noir crime drama starring Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh, he left halfway through the post-production process to try to secure financing for his next film. As Heston recalls on...

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...John Wayne, William Holden, Errol Flynn, Rita Hayworth, Mae West, Bette Davis, Jane Russell, Mario Lanza, Charlton Heston, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Orson Welles, Tyrone Power, Alan Ladd and Anthony Quinn. Joseph Calleia was born at...

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...Welles' "Touch of Evil," followed by more epics. Heston earned a Best Actor Academy Award for the title role of "Ben Hur" (1959), in which he did many of his own chariot race stunts. Less successful were his portrayal of John the...

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...in flowing robes or tattered loincloths. He followed Commandments by playing a Mexican cop opposite Orson Welles in the classic Touch of Evil, but in 1959 he was back to a Biblical epic in Ben-Hur. The story of an enslaved Jewish prince who...

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Heston plays Vargas, a newlywed Mexican g-man who investigates a bombing in a U.S. boarder town; he quickly runs up against the corrupt lawman Hank Quinlan (Welles), who appears to be railroading several Mexicans for the crime. Noirs...

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...that is as close as we'll ever get to a definitive director's edition of the movie. Welles was brought onto Touch of Evil by actor Charlton Heston, who already had signed to star in Universal Pictures' adaptation of the pulpy crime novel...

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