*** FILE *** Charlton Heston, actor and president of the Screen Actors Guild, talks to the press after a meeting with Richard Walsh, left, president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), and Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty on February 10, 1970, in Los Angeles, California. Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing "Ben-Hur" and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the '50s and '60s, has died. He was 84. (AP Photo, FILE)