Charleton Heston dead at 83

[Julia Thompson]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleton_Heston

I'd link to an obit, but aside from the New York Times, the more reputable 
papers got the age wrong - sure, he was born in 1924 and died in 2008, but 
he died before his birthday in 2008, so simple mindless subtraction is not 
going to result in an accurate age at death.  :P

NYT obit requires registration:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/movies/06heston.html?_r=1&bl&ex=1207627200&en=68723c5e35a1af24&ei=5087%0A&oref=login

And the URL is too long, so http://tinyurl.com/5wom85

(Let me know if you get to it without logging in.)

He did some acting in science fiction stuff; his filmography is at 
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000032/ .

I think my favorite role of his was as the airplane captain in A Thousand 
Heros (listed on IMDB as "Crash Landing:  The Rescue of Flight 232").

 	Julia