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:
- 142
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Taming of the Shrew 1950-06-05
- Latest Project:
- Movie Charlton Heston: Radical to Right Wing 2023-02-24
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Charlton Heston: Radical to Right Wing | Self (archive footage) | 2023-02-24 |
| 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 | Todos los nombres de Sara | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2019-12-15 |
| Movie | Hail Satan? | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2019-04-17 |
| Movie | The Madding Crowd | Self (archive footage) | 2017-02-01 |
| Movie | I Am Not Your Negro | Self | 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 | Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia | Self (archive footage) | 2013-08-04 |
| Movie | Charlton Heston and Ben-Hur: A Personal Journey | Self (archive footage) | 2011-07-14 |
| Movie | 2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift | (archive footage) | 2010-08-03 |
| Movie | Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff | Self – Interviewee | 2010-05-05 |
| 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 | Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self (archive footage) | 2004-07-25 |
| Movie | Remembering Reagan at His Ranch | Host | 2004-06-22 |
| Movie | Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Joshua and the Battle of Jericho | Self - Host | 2003-04-01 |
| Movie | Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: The Garden of Eden | Self - Host | 2003-04-01 |
| Movie | Christmas in Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 2003-11-13 |
| Movie | Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: Daniel and the Lion's Den | Self - Host | 2003-04-01 |
| Movie | My Father | Josef Mengele | 2003-09-01 |
| Movie | Bowling for Columbine | Self - NRA President | 2002-10-09 |
| Movie | Edith Head: The Paramount Years | (archive footage) | 2002-11-26 |
| Movie | The Order | Professor Finley | 2001-05-05 |
| Movie | Cats & Dogs | The Mastiff (voice) | 2001-06-23 |
| Movie | Town & Country | Mr. Clayborne | 2001-04-27 |
| Movie | Planet of the Apes | Zaius (uncredited) | 2001-07-26 |
| Movie | Last Party 2000 | Self | 2001-11-02 |
| Movie | Forever Hollywood | Self | 1999-01-01 |
| Movie | Yesterday's Tomorrows | Self | 1999-08-09 |
| 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 Lord Protector | 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 | Symphony for the Spire | 1992-01-01 | |
| 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 | With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film | Self | 1990-02-05 |
| Movie | Treasure Island | Long John Silver | 1990-01-22 |
| Movie | The Little Kidnappers | James MacKenzie | 1990-08-17 |
| Movie | Almost an Angel | God | 1990-12-21 |
| 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 | Nairobi Affair | Lee Cahill | 1984-01-01 |
| Movie | The Stars Salute the U.S. Olympic Team | Self - Performer | 1984-01-29 |
| 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 | The Four Musketeers | Cardinal Richelieu | 1974-10-31 |
| Movie | Airport 1975 | Alan Murdock | 1974-10-18 |
| Movie | Earthquake | Stewart Graff | 1974-11-15 |
| Movie | Soylent Green | Detective Robert Thorn | 1973-04-18 |
| Movie | The Three Musketeers | Cardinal Richelieu | 1973-12-11 |
| Movie | The Special London Bridge Special | Tennis Player | 1972-01-01 |
| Movie | Antony and Cleopatra | Marc Antony | 1972-03-18 |
| Movie | The Call of the Wild | John Thornton | 1972-11-30 |
| Movie | Skyjacked | Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara | 1972-05-24 |
| 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 |
| Movie | The Greatest Story Ever Told | John the Baptist | 1965-04-09 |
| Series | F.D.R. | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 1965-01-08 |
| Movie | Major Dundee | Major Amos Charles Dundee | 1965-03-15 |
| Movie | Uncertain Verification | (archive footage) | 1965-04-30 |
| Movie | The War Lord | Chrysagon | 1965-11-17 |
| Movie | The Agony and the Ecstasy | Michelangelo | 1965-09-16 |
| 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 Big Country | Steve Leech | 1958-09-30 |
| Movie | The Buccaneer | Gen. Andrew Jackson | 1958-12-11 |
| 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 | The Private War of Major Benson | Maj. Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson | 1955-08-02 |
| Movie | Lucy Gallant | Casey Cole | 1955-10-20 |
| Movie | The Naked Jungle | Christopher Leiningen | 1954-03-03 |
| Movie | Secret of the Incas | Harry Steel | 1954-06-06 |
| Movie | The President's Lady | Andrew Jackson | 1953-05-21 |
| Movie | Pony Express | Captain William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cody | 1953-06-15 |
| Movie | Bad for Each Other | Dr. Tom Owen | 1953-12-24 |
| Movie | Arrowhead | Ed Bannon | 1953-08-03 |
| Movie | The Greatest Show on Earth | Brad Braden | 1952-02-16 |
| Movie | The Savage | James 'Jim' Aherne Jr. / War Bonnet | 1952-09-01 |
| Movie | Ruby Gentry | Boake Tackman | 1952-12-25 |
| Movie | The Taming of the Shrew | Petruchio | 1950-06-05 |
| Movie | Dark City | Danny Haley | 1950-10-17 |