Actress Lydia Clarke Heston, who was married to late Oscar winnerCharlton Hestonfor 64 years, died Monday. She was 95.
Clarke Heston was known for her roles in Sidney Kingsley’sDetective Storyon Broadway, which opened in 1949; her first feature,Atomic City, opposite Gene Barry; andThe Greatest Show on Earth,which premiered in 1952 and also starred her husband.
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Hailing from Wisconsin, Clarke Heston met Charlton in an acting class at Northwestern University. They married in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1944, before he went overseas to serve in World War II.
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In the mid-50s, the mother of two left acting to pursue another artistic medium: photography.According toThe Hollywood Reporter, her work was placed in galleries worldwide and published in multiple books.
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“She lived an amazing life,” the couple’s son, Fraser,told Fox News. “At 95 years old she knew a lot of famous people from John F. Kennedy to Nancy and Ronald Reagan.”
Fraser also shared that his mother “sailed every sea in the world” despite being “prone to sea-sickness” and that her personality was “active” and “vibrant.”
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She died at UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica, California,according toThe Hollywood Reporter.
Charlton Heston was famous for playing Moses in 1956’sThe Ten Commandments, as well asBen-Hur(1959) andPlanet of the Apes (1968).He died on April 5, 2008, at 84.
source: people.com
