Lydia Clarke
Lydia Clarke | |
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.jpg) Clarke in 1956 | |
| Born | Lydia Marie Clarke April 14, 1923 Two Rivers, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Died | September 3, 2018 (aged 95) Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1950–2001 |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2, including Fraser Clarke Heston |
Lydia Marie Clarke Heston (April 14, 1923 – September 3, 2018) was an American actress and photographer. She was the wife of actor Charlton Heston.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Clarke attended high school in Lexington, Kentucky, and graduated from Northwestern University.[1]
A comment by Carl Sandburg after he saw her perform with the Asheville Little Theatre led her to change her career plans from practicing law to acting.[1]
On Broadway, Clarke portrayed Mary McLeod in Detective Story (1949).[2] She appeared on Studio One on television. Her film debut came in The Greatest Show on Earth (1952).[1]
Clarke took photographs "all over the world, recording everything from Afghan refugees in the Khyber Pass to the fellahin in their Nile villages."[3] Time and Fortune were among the magazines that published her work. She also exhibited her photographs in museums and galleries and had her work published in two books.[3]
She married actor Charlton Heston on March 17, 1944, at Grace Methodist Church in Greensboro, North Carolina, and their marriage lasted for 64 years until his death on April 5, 2008. They had two children: Fraser Clarke Heston and Holly Heston Rochell.[citation needed]
Clarke and Heston were co-directors[3] and acted at the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Theatre in Asheville, North Carolina.[1]
Clarke died from complications due to pneumonia on September 3, 2018, at UCLA Medical Center, in Santa Monica, California, at the age of 95.[4][5] She was a breast cancer survivor and had undergone a mastectomy.
Filmography
[edit | edit source]Film
[edit | edit source]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1952 | The Greatest Show on Earth | Circus girl | Uncredited |
| The Atomic City | Martha Addison | ||
| 1952 | Bad for Each Other | Rita Thornburg | |
| 1968 | Will Penny | Mrs. Fraker | |
| 1971 | The Omega Man | — | Still photographer |
| 1982 | Mother Lode | — |
Television
[edit | edit source]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950–1952 | Studio One | Various characters | 2 episodes |
| 1953 | The Philco Television Playhouse | — | Episode: "Elegy" |
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External links
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- Lydia Clarke at IMDb
- Lydia Clarke at the Internet Broadway DatabaseLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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- 1923 births
- 2018 deaths
- 20th-century American actresses
- 20th-century American photographers
- Actresses from Wisconsin
- American film actresses
- American stage actresses
- American television actresses
- American women photographers
- Deaths from pneumonia in California
- People from Two Rivers, Wisconsin
- Photographers from Wisconsin
- 21st-century American women