Lydia Marie Clarke is an American

United States

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 actress and the widow of Academy Award-winning actor Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston was an American actor of film, theatre and television. Heston is known for heroic roles in films such as The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, El Cid, and Planet of the Apes...

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She was born in Two Rivers, Wisconsin

Two Rivers, Wisconsin

Two Rivers is a city in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 11,712 at the 2010 census. It is the birthplace of the ice cream sundae...

. She married Charlton Heston on March 17, 1944, and their marriage lasted for 64 years until his death on April 5, 2008. They had two children: Fraser Clarke Heston

Fraser Clarke Heston

Fraser Clarke Heston is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and actor. The son of actors Charlton Heston and Lydia Clarke, Fraser Clarke Heston was born in Los Angeles, California....

 and Holly Heston Rochell. She is also a breast cancer

Breast cancer

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 survivor having undergone a mastectomy

Mastectomy

Mastectomy is the medical term for the surgical removal of one or both breasts, partially or completely. Mastectomy is usually done to treat breast cancer; in some cases, women and some men believed to be at high risk of breast cancer have the operation prophylactically, that is, to prevent cancer...

 in 1991.

Filmography

• The Greatest Show on Earth
  The Greatest Show on Earth
  The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 drama film set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The film was produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille, and won the Academy Award for Best Picture...
  
  (1952) .... Circus girl
• The Atomic City
  The Atomic City
  The Atomic City is a 1952 drama film directed by Jerry Hopper, starring Gene Barry, Lydia Clarke. At Los Alamos, New Mexico, a nuclear physicist lives and works. Terrorists kidnap Barry's son and demand that the physicist turn over the H-bomb formula...
  
  (1952) .... Martha Addison
• Bad for Each Other
  Bad for Each Other
  Bad for Each Other is a 1953 film directed by Irving Rapper. It stars Charlton Heston and Lizabeth Scott.-Cast:*Charlton Heston as Dr. Tom Owen*Lizabeth Scott as Helen Curtis*Dianne Foster as Joan Lasher*Mildred Dunnock as Mrs. Mary Owen...
  
  (1953) .... Rita Thornburg
• Will Penny
  Will Penny
  Will Penny is a 1968 western film directed by Tom Gries starring Charlton Heston and Donald Pleasence. It was based upon an episode of the 1960 Sam Peckinpah television series The Westerner called "Line Camp," which was also written and directed by Tom Gries...
  
  (1968) .... Mrs. Fraker

Television

• Studio One (2 episodes, 1950–1952)
• The Road to Jericho (1950) TV episode
• Captain-General of the Armies (1952) TV episode
• This Is Your Life: 30th Anniversary Special (1981)
• 20/20 .... Herself (1 episode, 2002)
• Lasting Love (2003) (TV)

Camera and Electrical Department:

• The Omega Man
  The Omega Man
  The Omega Man is a 1971 American science fiction film directed by Boris Sagal and starring Charlton Heston. It is based on the novel I Am Legend by American writer Richard Matheson...
  
  (1971) (still photographer) (as Lydia Heston)

Thanks:

• The Making of 'Midway' (2001) (V) (special thanks) (as Lydia Clarke Heston)

Sources