- Born
- Birth nameFraser Clarke Heston
- Nickname
- Fray
- Height6′ 4″ (1.93 m)
- Fraser C. Heston was born on February 12, 1955 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a producer and director, known for The Ten Commandments (1956), Needful Things (1993) and Mother Lode (1982). He has been married to Marilyn Heston since May 31, 1980. They have one child.
- SpouseMarilyn Heston(May 31, 1980 - present) (1 child)
- Parents
- Born around the time of production of his father's breakthrough film The Ten Commandments (1956), he was used to portray the infant "Moses" while his father, star Charlton Heston, portrayed the adult "Moses".
- Son of actor Charlton Heston and Lydia Clarke.
- Moved his family to a remote island in Canada, but after discovering business-travel was a nuisance, he moved back to Los Angeles.
- Got his break as a writer when Martin Shafer offered him $500.00 to write a first draft of The Mountain Men (1980).
- Cast his father, Charlton Heston, in Treasure Island (1990). Also appearing in that film was Pete Postlethwaite. The elder Heston and Postlethwaite have both played "The Player King" from Hamlet.
- What I liked most about my dad's era (Charlton Heston) was the club atmosphere in Hollywood during that time. Dialogue in the filmmaking process back then sounded like this: "I'll produce this picture, you direct it, then I'll direct the next one and you produce..." I was fortunate to have caught a glimpse of that old business.
- I think tastes change as you mature. A picture I made twenty years ago would be different than a picture I'd make now.
- Good work - by definition - is almost impossible to spot on its own.
- I think the 1970s and part of the '80s was a story-driven time for filmmaking. Now it seems we've all gone back sixty years in how we make pictures. Studio film of the 1940s and '50s had this spectacle quality; thousands of extras in the background, huge choreographed dance numbers, memorable stunts and the audience would see this and go "wow"! ...These last ten years of special effects movies feels like it's repeating that; maybe next we'll get a story-driven era again.
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