Charlton Heston will reprise his role of “Ben Hur” for an upcoming remake of the movie. But instead of the months of work he put in on the first one in 1959, his role this time required only a couple ...

Vidal explains in the 1995 documentary The Celluloid Closet, which is now part of the Sony Pictures Classics 30th Anniversary 4K UHD Collection. It turns out Judah Ben-Hur had a lover the actor never ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing "Ben-Hur" and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the '50s and ...

The chariot race scene from the 1959 Oscar winner, Ben-Hur, is one of the most iconic moments in modern cinematic history, so when producers Mark Burnett and Roma Downey decided to re-imagine the ...

This 1959 version of Lew Wallace's best-selling novel, which had already seen screen versions in 1907 and 1926, went on to win 11 Academy Awards. Adapted by Karl Tunberg and a raft of uncredited ...

My colleagues are returning. Slowly. In the meantime, our office remains a ghostly work space. By David Vecsey Mr. Heston acted in some 100 films, but he is remembered chiefly for his roles as Moses, ...

Charlton Heston, the square-jawed actor whose roles have ranged from Moses to Ben-Hur to NRA spokesman, disclosed yesterday that he has symptoms consistent with the early stages of Alzheimer's disease ...