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.
Acting
(2024)
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
as Self (archive footage)
(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)
Hail Satan?
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
(2019)
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
(2019)
I Am Richard Pryor
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
(2019)
Todos los nombres de Sara
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)
(2016)
Bienvenido Mr. Heston
as Self (archive footage)
(2015)
Spanish Western
as Self (archive footage)
(2014)
And the Oscar Goes To...
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)
(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
(2008)
(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)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)
(2004)
(2003)
Ben Hur
as Ben Hur (voice)
(2003)
The Making of The Ten Commandments
as Self (archive footage)
(2003)
(2003)
Christmas in Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
(2003)
(2003)
My Father
as Josef Mengele
(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)
Cats & Dogs
as The Mastiff (voice)
(2001)
The Order
as Professor Finley
(2001)
Town & Country
as Mr. Clayborne
(2001)
Last Party 2000
as Self
(2001)
The Making of Midway
as Self
(2001)
The Gun Deadlock
as Self
(2000)
(1999)
Any Given Sunday
as AFFA Football Commissioner
(1999)
(1999)
Forever Hollywood
as Self
(1999)
Yesterday's Tomorrows
as Self
(1998)
Armageddon
as Narration (voice)
(1998)
Behind the Planet of the Apes
as Self - 'Taylor'
(1998)
Gideon
as Addison Sinclair
(1998)
Alaska: Spirit of the Wild
as Narrator (voice)
(1998)
(1998)
(1997)
Hercules
as Narrator (voice)
(1997)
(1997)
(1997)
Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Genesis
as Self - Host
(1997)
Charlton Heston Presents the Bible
as Self - Narrator
(1996)
Hamlet
as Player King
(1996)
Alaska
as Perry
(1996)
The Dark Mist
as Narrator (voice)
(1996)
(1996)
Love in Hollywood
as Self
(1996)
The Mysterious Origins of Man
as Self - Host
(1996)
Andersonville Diaries
as Narrator
(1995)
In the Mouth of Madness
as Jackson Harglow
(1995)
The Avenging Angel
as Brigham Young
(1995)
Texas
as Narrator
(1995)
(1994)
True Lies
as Spencer Trilby
(1994)
A Century of Cinema
as Self
(1994)
Charlie Sheen's Stunts Spectacular
as Self (archive footage)
(1994)
(1994)
(1994)
The Legacy of Malthus
as Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
(1993)
Tombstone
as Henry Hooker
(1993)
Wayne's World 2
as Good Actor
(1993)
The Mystery of the Sphinx
as Narrator
(1993)
Charlton Heston Presents The Bible: The Story of Moses
as Self - Host
(1993)
Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Jesus of Nazareth
as Self - Host
(1992)
Solar Crisis
as Adm. "Skeet" Kelso
(1992)
Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232
as Captain Al Haynes
(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
(1990)
Treasure Island
as Long John Silver
(1990)
Almost an Angel
as God
(1990)
The Little Kidnappers
as James MacKenzie
(1990)
(1989)
Original Sin
as Louis Mancini
(1989)
(1989)
Call from Space
as Alien (voice)
(1988)
A Man for All Seasons
as Sir Thomas More
(1987)
(1987)
Proud Men
as Charley MacLeod Sr.
(1987)
Eclipse of Reason
as Narrator
(1987)
Andrew Weyth, The Helga Pictures
as Self - Host
(1986)
Directed by William Wyler
as Self
(1986)
(1984)
Nairobi Affair
as Lee Cahill
(1984)
(1982)
Mother Lode
as Silas McGee / Ian McGee
(1982)
(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)
The Last Hard Men
as Sam Burgade
(1976)
Two-Minute Warning
as Capt. Peter Holly
(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)
Soylent Green
as Detective Robert Thorn
(1973)
The Three Musketeers
as Cardinal Richelieu
(1973)
(1972)
Antony and Cleopatra
as Marc Antony
(1972)
The Call of the Wild
as John Thornton
(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)
Vietnam! Vietnam!
as Narrator (voice)
(1971)
The Last Man Alive: The Omega Man
as Self - Narrator
(1970)
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
as Taylor
(1970)
Julius Caesar
as Marc Antony
(1970)
The Hawaiians
as Whip Hoxworth
(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)
Counterpoint
as Lionel Evans
(1967)
While I Run This Race
as Narrator
(1966)
Khartoum
as Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon
(1966)
Planet of the Apes Test Reel
as Thomas
(1965)
The Greatest Story Ever Told
as John the Baptist
(1965)
The Agony and the Ecstasy
as Michelangelo
(1965)
Major Dundee
as Major Amos Charles Dundee
(1965)
The War Lord
as Chrysagon
(1965)
Uncertain Verification
as (archive footage)
(1963)
55 Days at Peking
as Maj. Matt Lewis
(1963)
The Five Cities of June
as Narrator
(1963)
The Patriots
as Thomas Jefferson
(1963)
(1962)
Diamond Head
as Richard 'King' Howland
(1962)
The Pigeon That Took Rome
as Captain Paul MacDougall / Benny the Snatch / Narrator
(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 Capt. Colt Saunders
(1956)
Forbidden Area
as Col. Jesse Price
(1956)
Stars of Cabaret
as Self (archive footage)
(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)
The Naked Jungle
as Christopher Leiningen
(1954)
Secret of the Incas
as Harry Steel
(1953)
Arrowhead
as Ed Bannon
(1953)
Pony Express
as Captain William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
(1953)
The President's Lady
as Andrew Jackson
(1953)
Bad for Each Other
as Dr. Tom Owen
(1953)
Three Lives
as Self
(1952)
The Greatest Show on Earth
as Brad Braden
(1952)
Ruby Gentry
as Boake Tackman
(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