Charlton Heston
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1923-10-04
Day of Death
2008-04-05 (84 years old)
Place of Birth
Wilmette, Illinois, USA
Charlton Heston
Biography
Charlton Heston (October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor of film, theater, and television. He 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.
Known For
Acting
"Studio One" Wuthering Heights
as Heathcliff
(2025)
(2024)
Planet of the Apes: A Milestone of Science Fiction
as Self (archive footage)
(2023)
Charlton Heston: Radical to Right Wing
as Self (archive footage)
(2020)
Yul Brynner, the Magnificent
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
(2019)
Todos los nombres de Sara
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
(2019)
Hail Satan?
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
(2019)
I Am Richard Pryor
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
(2019)
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
(2019)
Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"
as (archive footage)
(2017)
The Madding Crowd
as Self (archive footage)
(2016)
Bienvenido Mr. Heston
as Self (archive footage)
(2016)
(2015)
Spanish Western
as Self (archive footage)
(2014)
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
(2014)
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
(2013)
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
as Self (archive footage)
(2011)
Charlton Heston and Ben-Hur: A Personal Journey
as Self (archive footage)
(2010)
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
as (archive footage)
(2010)
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
as Self – Interviewee
(2008)
Greatest Heroes and Legends: The Story of Moses
as Self - Host / Moses
(2007)
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
as Self (archive footage)
(2006)
De Madrid a la Luna
as Self (archive footage)
(2005)
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
(2004)
(2004)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)
(2003)
(2003)
My Father
as Josef Mengele
(2003)
Ben Hur
as Ben Hur (voice)
(2003)
(2003)
Christmas in Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
(2003)
The Making of The Ten Commandments
as Self (archive footage)
(2003)
(2003)
(2003)
(2003)
(2003)
(2002)
Bowling for Columbine
as Self - NRA President
(2002)
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
as (archive footage)
(2002)
The Face of Evil: Reinhard Heydrich
as Narrator (voice)
(2001)
Planet of the Apes
as Zaius (uncredited)
(2001)
The Gun Deadlock
as Self
(2001)
Cats & Dogs
as The Mastiff (voice)
(2001)
The Order
as Professor Finley
(2001)
Town & Country
as Mr. Clayborne
(2001)
The Making of Midway
as Self
(2001)
Last Party 2000
as Self
(2000)
(1999)
Any Given Sunday
as AFFA Football Commissioner
(1999)
Yesterday's Tomorrows
as Self
(1999)
Forever Hollywood
as Self
(1999)
(1998)
Armageddon
as Narration (voice)
(1998)
Gideon
as Addison Sinclair
(1998)
Behind the Planet of the Apes
as Self - 'Taylor'
(1998)
(1998)
Alaska: Spirit of the Wild
as Narrator (voice)
(1998)
(1997)
Hercules
as Narrator (voice)
(1997)
(1997)
(1997)
Charlton Heston Presents the Bible
as Self - Narrator
(1997)
Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Genesis
as Self - Host
(1996)
Alaska
as Perry
(1996)
Hamlet
as Player King
(1996)
The Dark Mist
as Narrator (voice)
(1996)
(1996)
Love in Hollywood
as Self
(1996)
Andersonville Diaries
as Narrator
(1996)
The Mysterious Origins of Man
as Self - Host
(1995)
The Avenging Angel
as Brigham Young
(1995)
In the Mouth of Madness
as Jackson Harglow
(1995)
(1995)
Texas
as Narrator
(1994)
True Lies
as Spencer Trilby
(1994)
The Legacy of Malthus
as Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
(1994)
(1994)
A Century of Cinema
as Self
(1994)
(1993)
Wayne's World 2
as Good Actor
(1993)
Tombstone
as Henry Hooker
(1993)
Charlton Heston Presents The Bible: The Story of Moses
as Self - Host
(1993)
The Mystery of the Sphinx
as Narrator
(1993)
Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Jesus of Nazareth
as Self - Host
(1992)
Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232
as Captain Al Haynes
(1992)
Solar Crisis
as Adm. "Skeet" Kelso
(1992)
Noël
as Narrator
(1991)
The Crucifer of Blood
as Sherlock Holmes
(1991)
Air Force One: The Planes and the Presidents
as Host and Narrator
(1991)
Cults: Saying No Under Pressure
as Narrator
(1990)
The Little Kidnappers
as James MacKenzie
(1990)
Almost an Angel
as God
(1990)
(1990)
Treasure Island
as Long John Silver
(1989)
Original Sin
as Louis Mancini
(1989)
Call from Space
as Alien (voice)
(1989)
(1988)
A Man for All Seasons
as Sir Thomas More
(1987)
Proud Men
as Charley MacLeod Sr.
(1987)
(1987)
Andrew Weyth, The Helga Pictures
as Self - Host
(1987)
Eclipse of Reason
as Narrator
(1986)
Directed by William Wyler
as Self
(1986)
(1984)
(1984)
Nairobi Affair
as Lee Cahill
(1982)
(1982)
Mother Lode
as Silas McGee / Ian McGee
(1982)
Let Poland Be Poland
as Self - Co-Host
(1981)
(1980)
The Mountain Men
as Bill Tyler
(1980)
The Awakening
as Matthew Corbeck
(1978)
Gray Lady Down
as Captain Paul Blanchard
(1977)
The Prince and the Pauper
as Henry VIII
(1977)
Energy: A National Issue
as Narrator (voice)
(1976)
Midway
as Capt. Matthew Garth
(1976)
Two-Minute Warning
as Capt. Peter Holly
(1976)
The Last Hard Men
as Sam Burgade
(1976)
America at the Movies
as Narrator
(1974)
Earthquake
as Stewart Graff
(1974)
Airport 1975
as Alan Murdock
(1974)
The Four Musketeers
as Cardinal Richelieu
(1973)
The Three Musketeers
as Cardinal Richelieu
(1973)
Soylent Green
as Detective Robert Thorn
(1973)
(1972)
The Call of the Wild
as John Thornton
(1972)
Antony and Cleopatra
as Marc Antony
(1972)
Skyjacked
as Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara
(1972)
The Special London Bridge Special
as Tennis Player
(1971)
The Omega Man
as Robert Neville
(1971)
The Last Man Alive: The Omega Man
as Self - Narrator
(1971)
Vietnam! Vietnam!
as Narrator (voice)
(1970)
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
as Taylor
(1970)
The Hawaiians
as Whip Hoxworth
(1970)
Julius Caesar
as Marc Antony
(1970)
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
(1969)
Number One
as Ron "Cat" Catlan
(1968)
Planet of the Apes
as George Taylor
(1968)
Elizabeth the Queen
as Lord Essex
(1968)
Rowan & Martin at the Movies
as Self
(1967)
Will Penny
as Will Penny
(1967)
While I Run This Race
as Narrator
(1967)
Counterpoint
as Lionel Evans
(1966)
Khartoum
as Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon
(1966)
Planet of the Apes Test Reel
as Thomas
(1965)
Major Dundee
as Major Amos Charles Dundee
(1965)
The Greatest Story Ever Told
as John the Baptist
(1965)
The War Lord
as Chrysagon
(1965)
The Agony and the Ecstasy
as Michelangelo
(1965)
Uncertain Verification
as (archive footage)
(1963)
55 Days at Peking
as Maj. Matt Lewis
(1963)
The Patriots
as Thomas Jefferson
(1963)
(1963)
The Five Cities of June
as Narrator
(1962)
The Pigeon That Took Rome
as Captain Paul MacDougall / Benny the Snatch / Narrator
(1962)
Diamond Head
as Richard 'King' Howland
(1961)
El Cid
as El Cid Rodrigo de Vivar
(1959)
Ben-Hur
as Judah Ben-Hur
(1959)
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
as John Sands
(1958)
The Big Country
as Steve Leech
(1958)
Touch of Evil
as Ramon Miguel Vargas
(1958)
The Buccaneer
as Gen. Andrew Jackson
(1958)
Fun in the Big Country
as Self
(1956)
The Ten Commandments
as Moses
(1956)
Three Violent People
as Colt Saunders
(1956)
Stars of Cabaret
as Self (archive footage)
(1956)
Forbidden Area
as Col. Jesse Price
(1955)
The Far Horizons
as Lt. William Clark
(1955)
Lucy Gallant
as Casey Cole
(1955)
The Private War of Major Benson
as Maj. Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson
(1954)
Secret of the Incas
as Harry Steel
(1954)
The Naked Jungle
as Christopher Leiningen
(1953)
The President's Lady
as Andrew Jackson
(1953)
Arrowhead
as Ed Bannon
(1953)
Pony Express
as Captain William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
(1953)
Bad for Each Other
as Dr. Tom Owen
(1953)
Three Lives
as Self
(1952)
Ruby Gentry
as Boake Tackman
(1952)
The Greatest Show on Earth
as Brad Braden
(1952)
The Savage
as James 'Jim' Aherne Jr. / War Bonnet
(1951)
A Bolt of Lightning
as James Otis
(1950)
Dark City
as Danny Haley
(1950)
Julius Caesar
as Mark Antony
(1949)
Jane Eyre
as Edward Rochester
(1941)
Peer Gynt
as Peer Gynt
Crew
(1988)
A Man for All Seasons
Director
(1982)
Mother Lode
Director
(1972)
Antony and Cleopatra
Director, Screenplay