Look at the ten statements for this part. You will hear a brief introduction to Charlton Heston, a famous American actor.

Look at the ten statements for this part.
    You will hear a brief introduction to Charlton Heston, a famous American actor.
    Decide whether you think each statement about Charlton Heston is right(R), wrong(W)or not mentioned(NM).
    Mark your answers on your Answer Sheet.
    Charlton Heston was born John Carter in 1923, in Evanston, Illinois. He spent his early childhood in St. Helen, Michigan. His parents were divorced when he was ten, and he was raised by his mother. Later, he decided to change his name. He took the last name of his mother’s second husband, Heston, and for his first name he used his mother’s former last name, Charlton.
    Charlton Heston discovered his interest in acting while performing in plays at his high school. He later spent two years studying acting theatre at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. But he left college to join the Army airforces during World War II. In 1944, he married a college classmate, Lydia Clark. The young couple moved to New York City after the war. They tried to find acting jobs. Heston found small roles in the theatre as well as in television shows. His performance in the television version of the book fane Eyre caught the attention of the Hollywoood producer. Hale B, Wallace.
    Wallace gave Heston a role in the movie Dark City, which came out in 1950. The actor soon found other roles in movies, including The Greatest Show on Earth, directed by Cecil B.DeMille. DeMille later asked Heston to play the roll of Moses in his movie The Ten Commandments, which came out in 1956. This role made Heston famous and defined his career as a hero and leader. Heston then got roles in a series of epics, including Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil in 1958, Ben-Hur in 1959, which won him an Oscar. El Cid in 1961 and the under-rated Khartoum in 1966.
    Off screen, Heston was active in the Civil Rights movement and marched on Washington D.C. with Martin Luther King in 1963. Later in life he served as President of the National Riffle Association from 1998 to 2002. In july 2003, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House from President George W Bush.
    On August the 9th, 2002, Heston publicly announced that he was diagnosed with symptoms consistent with Alzheimer’s disease. On April the 5th. 2008. Heston died at his home in Beverly Hills, California, with Lydia, his wife of 64 years by his side. The cause of death was not disclosed by the family.
That is the end of Part 3. You now have 20 seconds to copy your answers onto your Answer Sheet.