CHARLTON HESTON couldn't bear to even look at Sophia Loren while they were filming El Cid. But it was the fiery Italian screen siren who sued the producers when the film was released.

Sophia Loren drove Charlton Heston so crazy he demanded body double 'Wouldn't look at her' The Ben-Hur and El Cid tough guy refused to make eye contact with Sophia Loren during their love scenes.

Heston is just wooden as El Cid. Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar – known as “El Cid” among the Moors, a corruption of the Arabic for “The Lord” – was born in Vivar, a town near the city of ...

El Cid Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren Weinstein Co. "El Cid" has all the ingredients for a grand, glorious epic. The 1961 film, which makes its DVD debut Tuesday, has sword fights, battle scenes ...

`El Cid,” made in Europe in 1961 with Charlton Heston starring as the Spanish hero of the 11th Century, has risen from the graveyard of Hollywood epics courtesy of director Martin Scorsese, who ...

Charlton 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 ...

He appeared in biblical stories like The Ten Commandmentsand Ben Hur, and splashy historical features like El Cid. Heston's turn in Planet of the Apes was a career first (that being sci-fi), but ...

The new book “El Cid: ... from the Arabic word “sayyid,” meaning chief — was nothing like the saintly crusader and loyal vassal played by Charlton Heston in the 1961 film “El Cid.” In ...

Charlton 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.

El Cid: The Legend An engaging, if unadventurous, ... Helmer-writer Jose Pozo seems to have drawn freely on the classic 1961 Samuel Bronston production, starring Charlton Heston, ...