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Charlton Heston’s son says ‘Ten Commandments’ deepened the actor’s faith

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Fraser Heston can’t even remember his first — and only — acting role, but that’s because he was only 3 months old at the time.

Fraser, now 65, portrayed the baby Moses — who, in the Bible, escapes death when he is set afloat down the Nile River in a basket — in the 1956 movie “The Ten Commandments,” which starred his father, Charlton Heston, as the adult prophet.

Fraser credits the film’s legendary director, Cecil B. DeMille, with casting him while he was still in utero. “He heard my mom was pregnant and said, ‘Well, if it’s a baby boy, he can play the part of Moses,’” Fraser tells The Post. “When I was born, the first telegram she got said, ‘Congratulations, he’s got the part.

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