He was born in Illinois in 1923, and soon he knew he wanted to be an actor. “Stone Face”, as his Hollywood partners used to call him, acted in more than one hundred films, theatre plays and TV series, and in proportion he must be considered one of the most important Golden Age Hollywood stars…
His great performances in films like Dark City (Ciudad en sombras/1950) – his debut on screen -, The Greatest Show on Earth (El mayor espectàculo del mundo/1952), The Naked Jungle (Cuando ruge la marabunta/1954), The Ten Commandments (Los 10 Mandamientos/1956), Touch of Evil (Sed de mal/1958), The Big Country (Horizontes de grandeza/1958), Ben-Hur (1959)-Oscar winner for his main role-, El Cid (1961), 55 Days at Peking (55 dìas en Pekìn/1963), Major Dundee (1965), The Agony and the Ecstasy (El tormento y el èxtasis/1965), Planet of the Apes (El planeta de los simios/1968), The Omega Man (El ùltimo hombre vivo/1971), Soylent Green (Cuando el destino nos alcance/1973), The Three Musketeers (Los 3 Mosqueteros/1973), Earthquake (Terremoto/1974), Midway (La batalla de Midway/1976), Mother Lode (Duelo en las profundidades/1982)- directed by himself -, Tombstone (1993), True Lies (Mentiras arriesgadas/1994), Hamlet (1996) or Any Given Sunday (Un domingo cualquiera/1999) make him a really versatile actor, capable of performing heroic or historical roles.
By Nickelodeon
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