People
Charlton Heston
Biography:
Charlton Heston 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.
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes as Self (archive footage) | 2024-05-16 |
Planet of the Apes: A Milestone of Science Fiction as Self (archive footage) | 2024-05-03 |
Charlton Heston: Radical to Right Wing as Self (archive footage) | 2023-02-24 |
Yul Brynner, the Magnificent as Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2020-12-02 |
Todos los nombres de Sara as Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2019-12-15 |
Hail Satan? as Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2019-04-17 |
Sword-and-Sandal as Self (archive footage) | 2019-04-14 |
I Am Richard Pryor as Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2019-03-12 |
Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil" as (archive footage) | 2019-02-21 |
The Madding Crowd as Self (archive footage) | 2017-02-01 |
Bienvenido Mr. Heston as Self (archive footage) | 2016-11-25 |
The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille as Self | 2016-02-11 |
Spanish Western as Self (archive footage) | 2015-05-04 |
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles as Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2014-12-12 |
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire as Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2014-09-20 |
And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
Charlton Heston and Ben-Hur: A Personal Journey as Self (archive footage) | 2011-07-14 |
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift as (archive footage) | 2010-08-03 |
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff as Self – Interviewee | 2010-05-05 |
Greatest Heroes and Legends: The Story of Moses as Self - Host / Moses | 2008-03-31 |
Disaster!: A Major Motion Picture Ride... Starring You! as Himself | 2008-01-17 |
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition as Self (archive footage) | 2007-06-20 |
De Madrid a la Luna as Self (archive footage) | 2006-10-24 |
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema as Self (archive footage) | 2005-09-13 |
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self (archive footage) | 2004-07-25 |
Remembering Reagan at His Ranch as Host | 2004-06-22 |
Christmas in Hollywood as Self (archive footage) | 2003-11-13 |
My Father as Josef Mengele | 2003-09-01 |
Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: Daniel and the Lion's Den as Self - Host | 2003-04-01 |
Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Joshua and the Battle of Jericho as Self - Host | 2003-04-01 |
Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: The Garden of Eden as Self - Host | 2003-04-01 |
Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: David and Goliath as Self - Host | 2003-04-01 |
Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Jonah and the Whale as Self - Host | 2003-04-01 |
Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Samson and Delilah as Self - Host | 2003-04-01 |
Ben Hur as Ben Hur (voice) | 2003-02-15 |
Lasting Love | 2003-02-06 |
Edith Head: The Paramount Years as (archive footage) | 2002-11-26 |
Bowling for Columbine as Self - NRA President | 2002-10-09 |
Last Party 2000 as Self | 2001-11-02 |
The Making of Midway as Self | 2001-10-03 |
Planet of the Apes as Zaius (uncredited) | 2001-07-25 |
Cats & Dogs as The Mastiff (voice) | 2001-07-04 |
The Gun Deadlock as Self | 2001-06-18 |
The Order as Professor Finley | 2001-05-05 |
Town & Country as Mr. Clayborne | 2001-04-27 |
Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints as Self | 2000-01-01 |
Any Given Sunday as AFFA Football Commissioner | 1999-12-22 |
Yesterday's Tomorrows as Self | 1999-08-09 |
Television: The First Fifty Years as Self | 1999-01-01 |
Forever Hollywood as Self | 1999-01-01 |
Private Screenings: Charlton Heston as Self | 1998-11-06 |
Gideon as Addison Sinclair | 1998-10-26 |
Behind the Planet of the Apes as Self - 'Taylor' | 1998-09-05 |
Alaska: Spirit of the Wild as Narrator (voice) | 1998-09-03 |
Armageddon as Narration (voice) | 1998-07-01 |
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero as Self | 1998-03-17 |
Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Genesis as Self - Host | 1997-12-01 |
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western as Self | 1997-07-27 |
Hercules as Narrator (voice) | 1997-06-13 |
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line as Self | 1997-05-12 |
Charlton Heston Presents the Bible as Self - Narrator | 1997-01-01 |
Hamlet as Player King | 1996-12-25 |
Love in Hollywood as Self | 1996-12-08 |
Alaska as Perry | 1996-08-14 |
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels as Self | 1996-05-19 |
Andersonville Diaries as Narrator | 1996-02-28 |
The Mysterious Origins of Man as Self - Host | 1996-02-25 |
The Dark Mist as Narrator (voice) | 1996-01-01 |
Texas as Narrator | 1995-04-16 |
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons as Self | 1995-03-20 |
In the Mouth of Madness as Jackson Harglow | 1995-02-03 |
The Avenging Angel as Brigham Young | 1995-01-22 |
True Lies as Spencer Trilby | 1994-07-15 |
Charlie Sheen's Stunts Spectacular as Self (archive footage) | 1994-06-30 |
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects as Self | 1994-05-22 |
The Bible According to Hollywood as Self | 1994-01-01 |
A Century of Cinema as Self | 1994-01-01 |
The Legacy of Malthus as Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage) | 1994-01-01 |
Tombstone as Henry Hooker | 1993-12-25 |
Wayne's World 2 as Good Actor | 1993-12-10 |
The Mystery of the Sphinx as Narrator | 1993-11-10 |
Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Jesus of Nazareth as Self - Host | 1993-01-01 |
Charlton Heston Presents The Bible: The Story of Moses as Self - Host | 1993-01-01 |
Noël as Narrator | 1992-12-03 |
Solar Crisis as Adm. "Skeet" Kelso | 1992-08-06 |
Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 as Captain Al Haynes | 1992-02-24 |
The Crucifer of Blood as Sherlock Holmes | 1991-11-04 |
Air Force One: The Planes and the Presidents as Host and Narrator | 1991-01-01 |
Almost an Angel as God | 1990-12-21 |
The Little Kidnappers as James MacKenzie | 1990-08-17 |
With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film as Self | 1990-02-05 |
Treasure Island as Long John Silver | 1990-01-22 |
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary as Self | 1989-09-24 |
Original Sin as Louis Mancini | 1989-02-20 |
Call from Space as Alien (voice) | 1989-01-01 |
A Man for All Seasons as Sir Thomas More | 1988-12-21 |
Proud Men as Charley MacLeod Sr. | 1987-10-01 |
Andrew Weyth, The Helga Pictures as Self - Host | 1987-09-01 |
Eclipse of Reason as Narrator | 1987-01-01 |
The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal as Self | 1986-07-31 |
Directed by William Wyler as Self | 1986-05-01 |
Nairobi Affair as Lee Cahill | 1984-01-01 |
Barry Norman in Celebrity City as Self | 1982-09-14 |
Mother Lode as Silas McGee / Ian McGee | 1982-08-06 |
Let Poland Be Poland as Self - Co-Host | 1982-01-31 |
This Is Your Life: 30th Anniversary Special as Self | 1981-02-26 |
The Awakening as Matthew Corbeck | 1980-07-09 |
The Mountain Men as Bill Tyler | 1980-06-01 |
Gray Lady Down as Captain Paul Blanchard | 1978-03-10 |
Energy: A National Issue as Narrator | 1977-11-22 |
The Prince and the Pauper as Henry VIII | 1977-06-03 |
Two-Minute Warning as Capt. Peter Holly | 1976-11-12 |
America at the Movies as Narrator | 1976-09-22 |
Midway as Capt. Matthew Garth | 1976-06-18 |
The Last Hard Men as Sam Burgade | 1976-04-22 |
Earthquake as Stewart Graff | 1974-11-15 |
The Four Musketeers as Cardinal Richelieu | 1974-10-31 |
Airport 1975 as Alan Murdock | 1974-10-18 |
The Three Musketeers as Cardinal Richelieu | 1973-12-11 |
Soylent Green as Detective Robert Thorn | 1973-04-18 |
A Look at the World of 'Soylent Green' as Self | 1973-01-01 |
The Call of the Wild as John Thornton | 1972-11-30 |
Skyjacked as Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara | 1972-05-24 |
Antony and Cleopatra as Marc Antony | 1972-03-18 |
The Special London Bridge Special as Tennis Player | 1972-01-01 |
Vietnam! Vietnam! as Narrator (voice) | 1971-09-01 |
The Omega Man as Robert Neville | 1971-08-01 |
The Last Man Alive: The Omega Man as Self - Narrator | 1971-01-01 |
The Hawaiians as Whip Hoxworth | 1970-06-17 |
Julius Caesar as Marc Antony | 1970-06-04 |
Beneath the Planet of the Apes as Taylor | 1970-04-23 |
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis as Self (archive footage) | 1970-03-24 |
Number One as Ron "Cat" Catlan | 1969-08-21 |
Planet of the Apes as George Taylor | 1968-02-07 |
Rowan & Martin at the Movies as Self | 1968-01-01 |
Counterpoint as Lionel Evans | 1967-12-22 |
Will Penny as Will Penny | 1967-12-19 |
While I Run This Race as Narrator | 1967-01-01 |
Khartoum as Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon | 1966-06-09 |
Planet of the Apes Test Reel as Thomas | 1966-03-01 |
The War Lord as Chrysagon | 1965-11-17 |
The Agony and the Ecstasy as Michelangelo | 1965-09-16 |
Uncertain Verification as (archive footage) | 1965-04-30 |
The Greatest Story Ever Told as John the Baptist | 1965-04-09 |
Major Dundee as Major Amos Charles Dundee | 1965-04-07 |
The Patriots as Thomas Jefferson | 1963-11-15 |
The Five Cities of June as Narrator | 1963-06-30 |
55 Days at Peking as Maj. Matt Lewis | 1963-05-06 |
Diamond Head as Richard 'King' Howland | 1962-12-27 |
The Pigeon That Took Rome as Captain Paul MacDougall / Benny the Snatch / Narrator | 1962-06-19 |
El Cid as El Cid Rodrigo de Vivar | 1961-10-24 |
Ben-Hur as Judah Ben-Hur | 1959-11-18 |
The Wreck of the Mary Deare as John Sands | 1959-11-17 |
The Buccaneer as Gen. Andrew Jackson | 1958-12-11 |
The Big Country as Steve Leech | 1958-09-30 |
Touch of Evil as Ramon Miguel Vargas | 1958-03-30 |
Fun in the Big Country as Self | 1958-01-01 |
Three Violent People as Capt. Colt Saunders | 1956-12-01 |
The Ten Commandments as Moses | 1956-10-05 |
Forbidden Area as Col. Jesse Price | 1956-10-04 |
Stars of Cabaret as Self (archive footage) | 1956-01-01 |
Lucy Gallant as Casey Cole | 1955-10-20 |
The Private War of Major Benson as Maj. Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson | 1955-08-02 |
The Far Horizons as Lt. William Clark | 1955-07-04 |
Secret of the Incas as Harry Steel | 1954-06-06 |
The Naked Jungle as Christopher Leiningen | 1954-03-03 |
Bad for Each Other as Dr. Tom Owen | 1953-12-24 |
Three Lives as Self | 1953-09-17 |
Arrowhead as Ed Bannon | 1953-08-03 |
Pony Express as Captain William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cody | 1953-06-15 |
The President's Lady as Andrew Jackson | 1953-05-21 |
Ruby Gentry as Boake Tackman | 1952-12-25 |
The Savage as James 'Jim' Aherne Jr. / War Bonnet | 1952-09-01 |
The Greatest Show on Earth as Brad Braden | 1952-02-16 |
A Bolt of Lightning as James Otis | 1951-11-12 |
Dark City as Danny Haley | 1950-10-17 |
Julius Caesar as Mark Antony | 1950-03-08 |
Jane Eyre as Edward Rochester | 1949-12-12 |
Peer Gynt as Peer Gynt | 1941-08-24 |