Fraser Clarke Heston
Fraser Clarke Heston is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and actor.
Early life
Heston was born in 1955 to actors Charlton Heston and Lydia Clarke. He has a sister.As a baby, Heston made his film debut as the infant Moses in the Cecil B. DeMille epic The Ten Commandments.
Work with his father
While in the process of writing Wind River, a romantic adventure novel about 19th-century fur trappers, Heston was convinced by producer Martin Shafer to turn the story into a film script. Discovering that film-writing came naturally for him, 22-year-old Heston wrote his first screenplay, The Mountain Men, for Columbia Pictures, which became the feature film.Fraser Heston produced his father's TV adaptation of A Man For All Seasons. He directed his father as Long John Silver in a 1990 adaptation of Treasure Island for TNT and helmed The Crucifer of Blood starring his father as Sherlock Holmes the following year.
Other work
After directing 2nd unit work on City Slickers in Spain, Heston directed Needful Things and Alaska.Credits
Acting credit
- The Ten Commandments - The Infant Moses
- The Search for Michael Rockefeller - Narrator
Director credits
- Mother Lode
- Treasure Island
- The Crucifer of Blood
- City Slickers
- Needful Things
- Alaska
- ''The Search for Michael Rockefeller''
Producer credits
- Mother Lode
- A Man for All Seasons
- Treasure Island
- The Crucifer of Blood
- Charlton Heston Presents the Bible
- Ben Hur
- ''The Search for Michael Rockefeller''
Screenplay credits
- The Mountain Men
- Mother Lode
- Treasure Island
- The Crucifer of Blood
- ''The Search for Michael Rockefeller''