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Charlton Heston

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

04/10/1923

Day of Death

05/04/2008
(85) 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 a... Read More

Known For

Airports

Planet of the Apes: A Milestone of Science Fiction

Charlton Heston: Radical to Right Wing

Yul Brynner, the Magnificent

Todos los nombres de Sara

Hail Satan?

Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic

I Am Richard Pryor

Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"

The Madding Crowd

Filmography

Cast

2025

Airports

2024

Planet of the Apes: A Milestone of Scien...

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

Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Perio...

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

2019

I Am Richard Pryor

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

The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille

as Self

2015

Spanish Western

as Self (archive footage)

2014

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work ...

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 ...

as Self (archive footage)

2010

2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift

as (archive footage)

2010

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Car...

as Self – Interviewee

2008

Greatest Heroes and Legends: The Story o...

as Self - Host / Moses

2007

AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Ann...

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 Hollyw...

as Self (archive footage)

2004

Remembering Reagan at His Ranch

as Host

2003

Christmas in Hollywood

as Self (archive footage)

2003

The Making of The Ten Commandments

as Self (archive footage)

2003

My Father

as Josef Mengele

2003

Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible...

as Self - Host

2003

Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible...

as Self - Host

2003

Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible...

as Self - Host

2003

Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible...

as Self - Host

2003

Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible...

as Self - Host

2003

Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible...

as Self - Host

2003

Ben Hur

as Ben Hur (voice)

2003

Lasting Love

2002

Edith Head: The Paramount Years

as (archive footage)

2002

The Face of Evil: Reinhard Heydrich

as Narrator (voice)

2002

Bowling for Columbine

as Self - NRA President

2001

Last Party 2000

as Self

2001

The Making of Midway

as Self

2001

Planet of the Apes

as Zaius (uncredited)

2001

Cats & Dogs

as The Mastiff (voice)

2001

The Gun Deadlock

as Self

2001

The Order

as Professor Finley

2001

Town & Country

as Mr. Clayborne

2000

Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the...

as Self

1999

Any Given Sunday

as AFFA Football Commissioner

1999

Yesterday's Tomorrows

as Self

1999

Television: The First Fifty Years

as Self

1999

Forever Hollywood

as Self

1998

Private Screenings: Charlton Heston

as Self

1998

Gideon

as Addison Sinclair

1998

Behind the Planet of the Apes

as Self - 'Taylor'

1998

Alaska: Spirit of the Wild

as Narrator (voice)

1998

Armageddon

as Narration (voice)

1998

Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero

as Self

1997

Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Gene...

as Self - Host

1997

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

as Self

1997

Hercules

as Narrator (voice)

1997

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

as Self

1997

Charlton Heston Presents the Bible

as Self - Narrator

1996

Hamlet

as Player King

1996

Love in Hollywood

as Self

1996

Alaska

as Perry

1996

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

as Self

1996

Andersonville Diaries

as Narrator

1996

The Mysterious Origins of Man

as Self - Host

1996

The Dark Mist

as Narrator (voice)

1995

Texas

as Narrator

1995

Charlton Heston: For All Seasons

as Self

1995

In the Mouth of Madness

as Jackson Harglow

1995

The Avenging Angel

as Brigham Young

1994

True Lies

as Spencer Trilby

1994

Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Spec...

as Self

1994

The Legacy of Malthus

as Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archi...

1994

The Bible According to Hollywood

as Self

1994

A Century of Cinema

as Self

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: Jesu...

as Self - Host

1993

Charlton Heston Presents The Bible: The ...

as Self - Host

1992

Noël

as Narrator

1992

Solar Crisis

as Adm. "Skeet" Kelso

1992

Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232

as Captain Al Haynes

1991

The Crucifer of Blood

as Sherlock Holmes

1991

Cults: Saying No Under Pressure

as Narrator

1991

Air Force One: The Planes and the Presid...

as Host and Narrator

1990

Almost an Angel

as God

1990

The Little Kidnappers

as James MacKenzie

1990

With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life i...

as Self

1990

Treasure Island

as Long John Silver

1989

Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary

as Self

1989

Original Sin

as Louis Mancini

1989

Call from Space

as Alien (voice)

1988

A Man for All Seasons

as Sir Thomas More

1987

Proud Men

as Charley MacLeod Sr.

1987

Andrew Weyth, The Helga Pictures

as Self - Host

1987

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

as Self

1987

Eclipse of Reason

as Narrator

1986

The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal

as Self

1986

Directed by William Wyler

as Self

1984

The Stars Salute the U.S. Olympic Team

1984

Nairobi Affair

as Lee Cahill

1982

Barry Norman in Celebrity City

as Self

1982

Mother Lode

as Silas McGee / Ian McGee

1982

The Orson Welles Story

as Self

1982

Let Poland Be Poland

as Self - Co-Host

1981

This Is Your Life: 30th Anniversary Spec...

as Self

1980

The Awakening

as Matthew Corbeck

1980

The Mountain Men

as Bill Tyler

1978

Gray Lady Down

as Captain Paul Blanchard

1977

Energy: A National Issue

as Narrator (voice)

1977

The Prince and the Pauper

as Henry VIII

1976

Two-Minute Warning

as Capt. Peter Holly

1976

America at the Movies

as Narrator

1976

Midway

as Capt. Matthew Garth

1976

The Last Hard Men

as Sam Burgade

1974

Earthquake

as Stewart Graff

1974

The Four Musketeers

as Cardinal Richelieu

1974

Airport 1975

as Alan Murdock

1973

The Three Musketeers

as Cardinal Richelieu

1973

Soylent Green

as Detective Robert Thorn

1973

A Look at the World of 'Soylent Green'

as Self

1972

The Call of the Wild

as John Thornton

1972

Skyjacked

as Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara

1972

Antony and Cleopatra

as Marc Antony

1972

The Special London Bridge Special

as Tennis Player

1971

Vietnam! Vietnam!

as Narrator (voice)

1971

The Omega Man

as Robert Neville

1971

The Last Man Alive: The Omega Man

as Self - Narrator

1970

The Hawaiians

as Whip Hoxworth

1970

Julius Caesar

as Marc Antony

1970

Beneath the Planet of the Apes

as Taylor

1970

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to M...

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

Counterpoint

as Lionel Evans

1967

Will Penny

as Will Penny

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 War Lord

as Chrysagon

1965

The Agony and the Ecstasy

as Michelangelo

1965

Uncertain Verification

as (archive footage)

1965

The Greatest Story Ever Told

as John the Baptist

1965

Major Dundee

as Major Amos Charles Dundee

1963

The Patriots

as Thomas Jefferson

1963

The Five Cities of June

as Narrator

1963

55 Days at Peking

as Maj. Matt Lewis

1963

The Greatest All-Star Advertial of All T...

as Self

1962

Diamond Head

as Richard 'King' Howland

1962

The Pigeon That Took Rome

as Captain Paul MacDougall / Benny the Snat...

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 Buccaneer

as Gen. Andrew Jackson

1958

The Big Country

as Steve Leech

1958

Touch of Evil

as Ramon Miguel Vargas

1958

Fun in the Big Country

as Self

1956

Three Violent People

as Colt Saunders

1956

The Ten Commandments

as Moses

1956

Forbidden Area

as Col. Jesse Price

1956

Stars of Cabaret

as Self (archive footage)

1955

Lucy Gallant

as Casey Cole

1955

The Private War of Major Benson

as Maj. Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson

1955

The Far Horizons

as Lt. William Clark

1954

Secret of the Incas

as Harry Steel

1954

The Naked Jungle

as Christopher Leiningen

1953

Bad for Each Other

as Dr. Tom Owen

1953

Three Lives

as Self

1953

Arrowhead

as Ed Bannon

1953

Pony Express

as Captain William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cod...

1953

The President's Lady

as Andrew Jackson

1952

Ruby Gentry

as Boake Tackman

1952

The Savage

as James 'Jim' Aherne Jr. / War Bonnet

1952

The Greatest Show on Earth

as Brad Braden

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

as Director

1982

Mother Lode

as Director

1972

Antony and Cleopatra

as Director

1972

Antony and Cleopatra

as Screenplay