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 ...

Charlton Heston, whose chiseled-granite looks and commanding manner allowed him to portray some of history’s most extraordinary men from Moses and Michelangelo to John the Baptist and El Cid, has died ...