People
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.
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: The Story of the Period Epic as Self - Actor (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: Joshua and the Battle of Jericho 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: Samson and Delilah as Self - Host | 2003-04-01 |
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: Jonah and the Whale as Self - Host | 2003-04-01 |
Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: The Garden of Eden 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 |
The Face of Evil: Reinhard Heydrich as Narrator (voice) | 2002-10-10 |
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 Legacy of Malthus as Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage) | 1994-01-01 |
A Century of Cinema as Self | 1994-01-01 |
The Bible According to Hollywood as Self | 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: The Story of Moses as Self - Host | 1993-01-01 |
Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Jesus of Nazareth 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 |
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood as Self | 1987-05-18 |
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 (voice) | 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 |
Elizabeth the Queen as Lord Essex | 1968-01-31 |
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 | 1965-03-15 |
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 |
The Greatest All-Star Advertial of All Time as Self | 1963-01-01 |
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 |