I am here watching my second Charlton Heston film in as many weeks. Every Sunday, the museum screens a film as part of its ...

To paraphrase Charlton Heston, “You’ll pry this skateboard from my cold, dead hands.” I distinctly remember the first time I tried riding a skateboard in 1975.

Image from the documentary 'From My Cold Dead Hands,' by Javier Horcajada. The film centers on the famous speech given by actor Charlton Heston in May 2000, when he was president of the National Rifle ...

Heston, one of Hollywood’s biggest movie stars of the 1950s, informed Democrats in 2000 that they wouldn’t be able to strip him of his gun unless they took it from his “cold, dead hands.” ...

In the music video for “Cold Dead Hand,” Carrey is portraying Heston appearing in an episode of the late-’60s to early 1980s variety show Hee Haw.

Charlton Heston was a veteran and an Oscar-winning Hollywood icon best known as a commanding presence in biblical and historical epics such as "The Ten Commandments" and "Ben-Hur." ...

Actor Charlton Heston, NRA president from 1998 to 2003, infamously stood before NRA members at the group’s 2000 convention, raised a rifle over his head, and said, “ From my cold dead hands.” ...

The late actor Charlton Heston - a former NRA president - famously held a rifle over his head following the 1999 Columbine High School mass shooting, telling gun control advocates they would have ...

As president of the NRA at the time, Heston chose to wave a replica Sharps rifle as he intoned, "From my cold, dead hands!" The Sharps rifle was a replica of a weapon used in the US Civil War.

His early goal was just to do well as an actor. Hollywood discovered Charlton on Broadway, where he started building his reputation after a stint in the army. After six years of labor in small ...