Charlton Heston RIPLegendary actor Charlton Heston has died, aged 84.

The Oscar winning actor had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. A family spokesman said he passed away Saturday night at his home in Beverley Hills, California.

During his career the actor, famed for his muscular build and booming baritone voice, won an Oscar for his role In Chariots of Fire, let rip at a bunch of monkeys for destroying the statue of liberty ‘You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!’. He raised a rod over his head as Moses in The Ten Commandments and parted the Red Sea, and was seen controversially mimicking the Moses-pose in Michael Moore’s Bowling For Colombine, this time as President of the NRA, challenging any detractors of his to pry the rifle “from my cold, dead hands”.