Charlton Heston
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Charlton Heston (October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor of film, theatre and television. Heston is known for heroic roles in films such as The Ten Commandments, Planet of the Apes and Ben-Hur, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Heston was also known for his political activism. In the 1950s and 1960s he was one of a handful of Hollywood actors to speak openly against racism and was an active supporter of the Civil Rights Movement. Initially a moderate Democrat, he later supported conservative Republican policies and was president of the National Rifle Association from 1998 to 2003.
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- Born:
- Oct 4, 1923 In Wilmette, Illinois, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 135
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Dark City 1950-10-17
- Latest Project:
- Movie Yul Brynner, the Magnificent 2020-12-02
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Yul Brynner, the Magnificent | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2020-12-02 |
| Movie | I Am Richard Pryor | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2019-03-12 |
| Movie | Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2019-04-14 |
| Movie | Hail Satan? | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2019-04-17 |
| Movie | Todos los nombres de Sara | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2019-12-15 |
| Movie | The Madding Crowd | Self (archive footage) | 2017-02-01 |
| Movie | I Am Not Your Negro | Self (archive footage) | 2017-02-03 |
| Movie | The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille | Self | 2016-02-11 |
| Movie | Bienvenido Mr. Heston | Self (archive footage) | 2016-11-25 |
| Movie | Spanish Western | Self (archive footage) | 2015-05-04 |
| Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
| Movie | Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2014-09-20 |
| Movie | Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2014-12-12 |
| Movie | Charlton Heston and Ben-Hur: A Personal Journey | Self (archive footage) | 2011-07-14 |
| Movie | Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff | Self – Interviewee | 2010-05-05 |
| Movie | 2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift | (archive footage) | 2010-08-03 |
| Movie | AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition | Self (archive footage) | 2007-06-20 |
| Movie | De Madrid a la Luna | Self (archive footage) | 2006-10-24 |
| Movie | Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema | Self (archive footage) | 2005-09-13 |
| Movie | Remembering Reagan at His Ranch | Host | 2004-06-22 |
| Movie | Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self (archive footage) | 2004-07-25 |
| Movie | My Father | Josef Mengele | 2003-09-01 |
| Movie | Christmas in Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 2003-11-13 |
| Movie | Bowling for Columbine | Self - NRA President | 2002-10-09 |
| Movie | Edith Head: The Paramount Years | (archive footage) | 2002-11-26 |
| Movie | Town & Country | Mr. Clayborne | 2001-04-27 |
| Movie | The Order | Professor Finley | 2001-05-05 |
| Movie | Planet of the Apes | Zaius (uncredited) | 2001-07-25 |
| Movie | Cats & Dogs | The Mastiff (voice) | 2001-07-04 |
| Movie | Last Party 2000 | Self | 2001-11-02 |
| Movie | Yesterday's Tomorrows | Self | 1999-08-09 |
| Movie | Forever Hollywood | Self | 1999-01-01 |
| Series | Camino de Santiago | Professor Marcelo Rinaldi | 1999-12-04 |
| Movie | Any Given Sunday | AFFA Football Commissioner | 1999-12-22 |
| Movie | Behind the Planet of the Apes | Self - 'Taylor' | 1998-09-05 |
| Movie | Armageddon | Narration (voice) | 1998-07-01 |
| Movie | Gideon | Addison Sinclair | 1998-10-26 |
| Movie | Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line | Self | 1997-05-12 |
| Movie | Hercules | Narrator (voice) | 1997-06-13 |
| Movie | Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western | Self | 1997-07-27 |
| Movie | The Dark Mist | Narrator (voice) | 1996-01-01 |
| Movie | Alaska | Perry | 1996-08-14 |
| Movie | Hamlet | Player King | 1996-12-25 |
| Movie | Love in Hollywood | Self | 1996-12-08 |
| Movie | The Avenging Angel | Brigham Young | 1995-01-22 |
| Movie | In the Mouth of Madness | Jackson Harglow | 1995-02-03 |
| Series | Eco-Challenge | 1995-04-01 | |
| Movie | Texas | Narrator | 1995-04-16 |
| Movie | Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects | Self | 1994-05-22 |
| Movie | The Legacy of Malthus | Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage) | 1994-01-01 |
| Movie | Charlie Sheen's Stunts Spectacular | Self (archive footage) | 1994-06-30 |
| Movie | True Lies | Spencer Trilby | 1994-07-15 |
| Movie | The Mystery of the Sphinx | Narrator | 1993-11-10 |
| Movie | Wayne's World 2 | Good Actor | 1993-12-10 |
| Movie | Tombstone | Henry Hooker | 1993-12-25 |
| Movie | Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 | Captain Al Haynes | 1992-02-24 |
| Movie | Noël | Narrator | 1992-12-03 |
| Movie | Solar Crisis | Adm. "Skeet" Kelso | 1992-08-06 |
| Movie | The Crucifer of Blood | Sherlock Holmes | 1991-11-04 |
| Movie | Treasure Island | Long John Silver | 1990-01-22 |
| Movie | With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film | Self | 1990-02-05 |
| Movie | Almost an Angel | God | 1990-12-21 |
| Movie | The Little Kidnappers | James MacKenzie | 1990-08-17 |
| Movie | Call from Space | Alien (voice) | 1989-01-01 |
| Movie | Original Sin | Louis Mancini | 1989-02-20 |
| Movie | Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary | Self | 1989-09-24 |
| Movie | A Man for All Seasons | Sir Thomas More | 1988-12-21 |
| Movie | Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood | Self | 1987-05-18 |
| Movie | Proud Men | Charley MacLeod Sr. | 1987-10-01 |
| Movie | Directed by William Wyler | Self | 1986-05-01 |
| Movie | The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal | Self | 1986-07-31 |
| Series | The Colbys | Jason Colby | 1985-11-20 |
| Movie | The Stars Salute the U.S. Olympic Team | 1984-01-29 | |
| Movie | Nairobi Affair | Lee Cahill | 1984-01-01 |
| Series | Chiefs | Hugh Holmes | 1983-11-13 |
| Movie | Mother Lode | Silas McGee / Ian McGee | 1982-08-06 |
| Movie | Barry Norman in Celebrity City | Self | 1982-09-14 |
| Movie | The Mountain Men | Bill Tyler | 1980-06-01 |
| Movie | The Awakening | Matthew Corbeck | 1980-07-09 |
| Movie | Gray Lady Down | Captain Paul Blanchard | 1978-03-10 |
| Movie | The Prince and the Pauper | Henry VIII | 1977-06-03 |
| Movie | The Last Hard Men | Sam Burgade | 1976-04-22 |
| Movie | Midway | Capt. Matthew Garth | 1976-06-18 |
| Movie | Two-Minute Warning | Capt. Peter Holly | 1976-11-12 |
| Movie | Airport 1975 | Alan Murdock | 1974-10-18 |
| Movie | Earthquake | Stewart Graff | 1974-11-15 |
| Movie | The Four Musketeers | Cardinal Richelieu | 1974-10-31 |
| Movie | Soylent Green | Detective Robert Thorn | 1973-04-18 |
| Movie | The Three Musketeers | Cardinal Richelieu | 1973-12-11 |
| Movie | Antony and Cleopatra | Marc Antony | 1972-03-18 |
| Movie | The Special London Bridge Special | Tennis Player | 1972-01-01 |
| Movie | Skyjacked | Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara | 1972-05-24 |
| Movie | The Call of the Wild | John Thornton | 1972-11-30 |
| Movie | Escape from the Planet of the Apes | George Taylor (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1971-05-20 |
| Movie | The Omega Man | Robert Neville | 1971-08-01 |
| Movie | King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | Self (archive footage) | 1970-03-24 |
| Movie | Beneath the Planet of the Apes | Taylor | 1970-04-23 |
| Movie | The Hawaiians | Whip Hoxworth | 1970-06-17 |
| Movie | Julius Caesar | Marc Antony | 1970-06-04 |
| Movie | Number One | Ron "Cat" Catlan | 1969-08-21 |
| Movie | Rowan & Martin at the Movies | Self | 1968-01-01 |
| Movie | Planet of the Apes | George Taylor | 1968-02-07 |
| Movie | Will Penny | Will Penny | 1967-12-19 |
| Movie | Counterpoint | Lionel Evans | 1967-12-22 |
| Movie | Khartoum | Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon | 1966-06-09 |
| Series | F.D.R. | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 1965-01-08 |
| Movie | The Greatest Story Ever Told | John the Baptist | 1965-04-09 |
| Movie | Major Dundee | Major Amos Charles Dundee | 1965-03-15 |
| Movie | Uncertain Verification | (archive footage) | 1965-04-30 |
| Movie | The Agony and the Ecstasy | Michelangelo | 1965-09-16 |
| Movie | The War Lord | Chrysagon | 1965-11-17 |
| Movie | 55 Days at Peking | Maj. Matt Lewis | 1963-05-06 |
| Movie | The Pigeon That Took Rome | Captain Paul MacDougall / Benny the Snatch / Narrator | 1962-06-19 |
| Movie | Diamond Head | Richard 'King' Howland | 1962-12-27 |
| Movie | El Cid | El Cid Rodrigo de Vivar | 1961-10-24 |
| Movie | The Wreck of the Mary Deare | John Sands | 1959-11-17 |
| Movie | Ben-Hur | Judah Ben-Hur | 1959-11-18 |
| Movie | Touch of Evil | Ramon Miguel Vargas | 1958-03-30 |
| Movie | The Buccaneer | Gen. Andrew Jackson | 1958-12-11 |
| Movie | The Big Country | Steve Leech | 1958-09-30 |
| Movie | The Ten Commandments | Moses | 1956-10-05 |
| Movie | Three Violent People | Colt Saunders | 1956-12-01 |
| Movie | The Far Horizons | Lt. William Clark | 1955-07-04 |
| Movie | Lucy Gallant | Casey Cole | 1955-10-20 |
| Movie | The Private War of Major Benson | Maj. Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson | 1955-08-02 |
| Movie | The Naked Jungle | Christopher Leiningen | 1954-03-03 |
| Movie | Secret of the Incas | Harry Steel | 1954-06-06 |
| Movie | Pony Express | Captain William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cody | 1953-06-15 |
| Movie | The President's Lady | Andrew Jackson | 1953-05-21 |
| Movie | Arrowhead | Ed Bannon | 1953-08-03 |
| Movie | Bad for Each Other | Dr. Tom Owen | 1953-12-24 |
| Movie | The Greatest Show on Earth | Brad Braden | 1952-02-16 |
| Movie | Ruby Gentry | Boake Tackman | 1952-12-25 |
| Movie | The Savage | James 'Jim' Aherne Jr. / War Bonnet | 1952-09-01 |
| Movie | Dark City | Danny Haley | 1950-10-17 |