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:
- 141
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Jane Eyre 1949-12-12
- Latest Project:
- Movie Yul Brynner, the Magnificent 2020-12-02
Known For
Filmography
| 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 | Self (archive footage) | 2019-04-14 |
| Movie | Hail Satan? | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2019-04-17 |
| Movie | Todos los nombres de Sara | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2019-12-15 |
| Movie | The Madding Crowd | Self (archive footage) | 2017-02-01 |
| 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 | Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2014-09-20 |
| Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
| Movie | Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2014-12-12 |
| Movie | Charlton Heston and Ben-Hur: A Personal Journey | Self (archive footage) | 2011-07-14 |
| 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: Daniel and the Lion's Den | Self - Host | 2003-04-01 |
| Movie | Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: The Garden of Eden | Self - Host | 2003-04-01 |
| Movie | My Father | Josef Mengele | 2003-09-01 |
| Movie | Christmas in Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 2003-11-13 |
| Movie | Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Joshua and the Battle of Jericho | Self - Host | 2003-04-01 |
| Movie | Bowling for Columbine | Self - NRA President | 2002-10-09 |
| Movie | Edith Head: The Paramount Years | (archive footage) | 2002-11-26 |
| Movie | Town & Country | Mr. Clayborne | 2001-04-27 |
| Movie | Cats & Dogs | The Mastiff (voice) | 2001-07-04 |
| Movie | The Order | Professor Finley | 2001-05-05 |
| Movie | Last Party 2000 | Self | 2001-11-02 |
| Movie | Planet of the Apes | Zaius (uncredited) | 2001-07-25 |
| Movie | Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints | Self | 2000-01-01 |
| Movie | Television: The First Fifty Years | Self | 1999-01-01 |
| Movie | Forever Hollywood | Self | 1999-01-01 |
| Movie | Yesterday's Tomorrows | Self | 1999-08-09 |
| Movie | Any Given Sunday | AFFA Football Commissioner | 1999-12-22 |
| Series | Camino de Santiago | Professor Marcelo Rinaldi | 1999-12-04 |
| Movie | Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero | Self | 1998-03-17 |
| Movie | Armageddon | Narration (voice) | 1998-07-01 |
| Movie | Behind the Planet of the Apes | Self - 'Taylor' | 1998-09-05 |
| Movie | Gideon | Addison Sinclair | 1998-10-26 |
| Movie | Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line | Self | 1997-05-12 |
| Movie | Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western | Self | 1997-07-27 |
| Movie | Hercules | Narrator (voice) | 1997-06-13 |
| Movie | The Dark Mist | Narrator (voice) | 1996-01-01 |
| Movie | Alaska | Perry | 1996-08-14 |
| Movie | Love in Hollywood | Self | 1996-12-08 |
| Movie | Hamlet | Player King | 1996-12-25 |
| Movie | In the Mouth of Madness | Jackson Harglow | 1995-02-03 |
| Movie | The Avenging Angel | Brigham Young | 1995-01-22 |
| Series | Eco-Challenge | 1995-04-01 | |
| Movie | Texas | Narrator | 1995-04-16 |
| Movie | A Century of Cinema | Self | 1994-01-01 |
| Movie | The Legacy of Malthus | Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage) | 1994-01-01 |
| Movie | The Bible According to Hollywood | Self | 1994-01-01 |
| Movie | Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects | Self | 1994-05-22 |
| 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 | Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 | Captain Al Haynes | 1992-02-24 |
| Movie | Solar Crisis | Adm. "Skeet" Kelso | 1992-08-06 |
| Movie | The Crucifer of Blood | Sherlock Holmes | 1991-11-04 |
| Movie | Treasure Island | Long John Silver | 1990-01-22 |
| Movie | With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film | Self | 1990-02-05 |
| Movie | Almost an Angel | God | 1990-12-21 |
| Movie | The Little Kidnappers | James MacKenzie | 1990-08-17 |
| Movie | Original Sin | Louis Mancini | 1989-02-20 |
| Movie | Call from Space | Alien (voice) | 1989-01-01 |
| Movie | Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary | Self | 1989-09-24 |
| Movie | A Man for All Seasons | Sir Thomas More | 1988-12-21 |
| 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 |
| Series | Chiefs | Hugh Holmes | 1983-11-13 |
| Movie | Mother Lode | Silas McGee / Ian McGee | 1982-08-06 |
| Movie | The Awakening | Matthew Corbeck | 1980-07-09 |
| Movie | The Mountain Men | Bill Tyler | 1980-06-01 |
| 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 | Airport 1975 | Alan Murdock | 1974-10-18 |
| Movie | The Four Musketeers | Cardinal Richelieu | 1974-10-31 |
| 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 | The Last Man Alive: The Omega Man | Self - Narrator | 1971-01-01 |
| 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 | Beneath the Planet of the Apes | Taylor | 1970-04-23 |
| Movie | King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | Self (archive footage) | 1970-03-24 |
| 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 | Planet of the Apes | George Taylor | 1968-02-07 |
| Movie | Rowan & Martin at the Movies | Self | 1968-01-01 |
| Movie | Will Penny | Will Penny | 1967-12-19 |
| Movie | Counterpoint | Lionel Evans | 1967-12-22 |
| Movie | Khartoum | Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon | 1966-06-09 |
| Series | F.D.R. | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 1965-01-08 |
| Movie | Major Dundee | Major Amos Charles Dundee | 1965-04-07 |
| Movie | The Greatest Story Ever Told | John the Baptist | 1965-04-09 |
| Movie | The War Lord | Chrysagon | 1965-11-17 |
| Movie | The Agony and the Ecstasy | Michelangelo | 1965-09-16 |
| Movie | Uncertain Verification | (archive footage) | 1965-04-30 |
| 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 Buccaneer | Gen. Andrew Jackson | 1958-12-11 |
| Movie | The Big Country | Steve Leech | 1958-09-30 |
| Movie | Stars of Cabaret | Self (archive footage) | 1956-01-01 |
| Movie | Three Violent People | Capt. Colt Saunders | 1956-12-01 |
| Movie | The Ten Commandments | Moses | 1956-10-05 |
| Movie | The Far Horizons | Lt. William Clark | 1955-07-04 |
| Series | The $64,000 Question | Substitute Host | 1955-06-07 |
| 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 | Dark City | Danny Haley | 1950-10-17 |
| Movie | Jane Eyre | Edward Rochester | 1949-12-12 |