Charlton Heston

Acting • Born 1923-10-04 – Died 2008-04-05

Acting2Wilmette, Illinois, USA

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.

Filmography

268 credits

Planet of the Apes

Movie • 1968

George Taylor

Bowling for Columbine

Movie • 2002

Self - NRA President

Touch of Evil

Movie • 1958

Ramon Miguel Vargas

Solar Crisis

Movie • 1992

Adm. "Skeet" Kelso

Ben-Hur

Movie • 1959

Judah Ben-Hur

Will Penny

Movie • 1967

Will Penny

Beneath the Planet of the Apes

Movie • 1970

Taylor

Hamlet

Movie • 1996

Player King

The Greatest Story Ever Told

Movie • 1965

John the Baptist

In the Mouth of Madness

Movie • 1995

Jackson Harglow

The Three Musketeers

Movie • 1973

Cardinal Richelieu

Earthquake

Movie • 1974

Stewart Graff

The Buccaneer

Movie • 1958

Gen. Andrew Jackson

The Omega Man

Movie • 1971

Robert Neville

Midway

Movie • 1976

Capt. Matthew Garth

Town & Country

Movie • 2001

Mr. Clayborne

The Ten Commandments

Movie • 1956

Moses

Two-Minute Warning

Movie • 1976

Capt. Peter Holly

Gray Lady Down

Movie • 1978

Captain Paul Blanchard

Tombstone

Movie • 1993

Henry Hooker

Hercules

Movie • 1997

Narrator (voice)

Soylent Green

Movie • 1973

Detective Robert Thorn

I Am Richard Pryor

Movie • 2019

Self - Actor (archive footage)

Wayne's World 2

Movie • 1993

Good Actor

Almost an Angel

Movie • 1990

God

Treasure Island

Movie • 1990

Long John Silver

Charlton Heston: Radical to Right Wing

Movie • 2023

Self (archive footage)

Yul Brynner, the Magnificent

Movie • 2020

Self - Actor (archive footage)

The Greatest Show on Earth

Movie • 1952

Brad Braden

The Big Country

Movie • 1958

Steve Leech

55 Days at Peking

Movie • 1963

Maj. Matt Lewis

The Legacy of Malthus

Movie • 1994

Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)

Airport 1975

Movie • 1974

Alan Murdock

Alaska: Spirit of the Wild

Movie • 1998

Narrator (voice)

Secret of the Incas

Movie • 1954

Harry Steel

Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: Daniel and the Lion's Den

Movie • 2003

Self - Host

Khartoum

Movie • 1966

Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon

Major Dundee

Movie • 1965

Major Amos Charles Dundee

Dark City

Movie • 1950

Danny Haley

Julius Caesar

Movie • 1970

Marc Antony

The Agony and the Ecstasy

Movie • 1965

Michelangelo

The War Lord

Movie • 1965

Chrysagon

The Call of the Wild

Movie • 1972

John Thornton

True Lies

Movie • 1994

Spencer Trilby

Andersonville Diaries

Movie • 1996

Narrator

Pony Express

Movie • 1953

Captain William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cody

Arrowhead

Movie • 1953

Ed Bannon

The Order

Movie • 2001

Professor Finley

The Naked Jungle

Movie • 1954

Christopher Leiningen

The Last Hard Men

Movie • 1976

Sam Burgade

El Cid

Movie • 1961

El Cid Rodrigo de Vivar

The Awakening

Movie • 1980

Matthew Corbeck

Behind the Planet of the Apes

Movie • 1998

Self - 'Taylor'

Love in Hollywood

Movie • 1996

Self

Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: David and Goliath

Movie • 2003

Self - Host

Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Jonah and the Whale

Movie • 2003

Self - Host

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

Movie • 1997

Self

Ruby Gentry

Movie • 1952

Boake Tackman

The Lord Protector

Movie • 1996

Narrator (voice)

Bad for Each Other

Movie • 1953

Dr. Tom Owen

Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema

Movie • 2005

Self (archive footage)

Three Violent People

Movie • 1956

Colt Saunders

Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"

Movie • 2019

(archive footage)

The Mountain Men

Movie • 1980

Bill Tyler

The Hawaiians

Movie • 1970

Whip Hoxworth

The Far Horizons

Movie • 1955

Lt. William Clark

Mother Lode

Movie • 1982

Silas McGee / Ian McGee

Skyjacked

Movie • 1972

Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara

The Mystery of the Sphinx

Movie • 1993

Narrator

Number One

Movie • 1969

Ron "Cat" Catlan

Yesterday's Tomorrows

Movie • 1999

Self

The President's Lady

Movie • 1953

Andrew Jackson

Antony and Cleopatra

Movie • 1972

Marc Antony

Fun in the Big Country

Movie • 1958

Self

The Crucifer of Blood

Movie • 1991

Sherlock Holmes

Barry Norman in Celebrity City

Movie • 1982

Self

The Little Kidnappers

Movie • 1990

James MacKenzie

The Private War of Major Benson

Movie • 1955

Maj. Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson

Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232

Movie • 1992

Captain Al Haynes

Uncertain Verification

Movie • 1965

(archive footage)

The Avenging Angel

Movie • 1995

Brigham Young

The Savage

Movie • 1952

James 'Jim' Aherne Jr. / War Bonnet

The Wreck of the Mary Deare

Movie • 1959

John Sands

Lucy Gallant

Movie • 1955

Casey Cole

Remembering Reagan at His Ranch

Movie • 2004

Host

Diamond Head

Movie • 1962

Richard 'King' Howland

A Man for All Seasons

Movie • 1988

Sir Thomas More

Counterpoint

Movie • 1967

Lionel Evans

Charlton Heston and Ben-Hur: A Personal Journey

Movie • 2011

Self (archive footage)

The Pigeon That Took Rome

Movie • 1962

Captain Paul MacDougall / Benny the Snatch / Narrator

A Look at the World of 'Soylent Green'

Movie • 1973

Self

America at the Movies

Movie • 1976

Narrator

Nairobi Affair

Movie • 1984

Lee Cahill

Gideon

Movie • 1998

Addison Sinclair

Julius Caesar

Movie • 1950

Mark Antony

Andrew Weyth, The Helga Pictures

Movie • 1987

Self - Host

Noël

Movie • 1992

Narrator

The Five Cities of June

Movie • 1963

Narrator

While I Run This Race

Movie • 1967

Narrator

Lasting Love

Movie • 2003

Forbidden Area

Movie • 1956

Col. Jesse Price

The Gun Deadlock

Movie • 2001

Self

Planet of the Apes

Movie • 2001

Zaius (uncredited)

Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Samson and Delilah

Movie • 2003

Self - Host

Proud Men

Movie • 1987

Charley MacLeod Sr.

Hail Satan?

Movie • 2019

Self - Actor (archive footage)

Charlton Heston: For All Seasons

Movie • 1995

Self

Edith Head: The Paramount Years

Movie • 2002

(archive footage)

Any Given Sunday

Movie • 1999

AFFA Football Commissioner

The Special London Bridge Special

Movie • 1972

Tennis Player

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Movie • 2010

Self – Interviewee

Jane Eyre

Movie • 1949

Edward Rochester

My Father

Movie • 2003

Josef Mengele

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

Movie • 1996

Self

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line

Movie • 1997

Self

Let Poland Be Poland

Movie • 1982

Self - Co-Host

The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal

Movie • 1986

Self

Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: The Garden of Eden

Movie • 2003

Self - Host

AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition

Movie • 2007

Self (archive footage)

A Bolt of Lightning

Movie • 1951

James Otis

Christmas in Hollywood

Self

With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film

Movie • 1990

Self

Eclipse of Reason

Movie • 1987

Narrator

The Prince and the Pauper

Movie • 1977

Henry VIII

Original Sin

Movie • 1989

Louis Mancini

Vietnam! Vietnam!

Movie • 1971

Narrator (voice)

Bienvenido Mr. Heston

Movie • 2016

Self (archive footage)

Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Jesus of Nazareth

Movie • 1993

Self - Host

Ben Hur

Movie • 2003

Ben Hur (voice)

Texas

Movie • 1995

Narrator

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

Movie • 2019

Self - Actor (archive footage)

Forever Hollywood

Movie • 1999

Self

The Bible According to Hollywood

Movie • 1994

Self

Stars of Cabaret

Movie • 1956

Self (archive footage)

Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Genesis

Movie • 1997

Self - Host

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

Movie • 2014

Self - Actor (archive footage)

Greatest Heroes and Legends: The Story of Moses

Movie • 2008

Self - Host / Moses

Directed by William Wyler

Movie • 1986

Self

A Century of Cinema

Movie • 1994

Self

Charlton Heston Presents the Bible

Movie • 1997

Self - Narrator

Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Joshua and the Battle of Jericho

Movie • 2003

Self - Host

Todos los nombres de Sara

Movie • 2019

Self - Actor (archive footage)

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

Movie • 2014

Self - Actor (archive footage)

Energy: A National Issue

Movie • 1977

Narrator (voice)

Air Force One: The Planes and the Presidents

Movie • 1991

Host and Narrator

Spanish Western

Movie • 2015

Self (archive footage)

The Madding Crowd

Movie • 2017

Self (archive footage)

Charlton Heston Presents The Bible: The Story of Moses

Movie • 1993

Self - Host

Armageddon

Movie • 1998

Narration (voice)

Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero

Movie • 1998

Self

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Movie • 2004

Self (archive footage)

The Mysterious Origins of Man

Movie • 1996

Self - Host

Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints

Movie • 2000

Self

Three Lives

Movie • 1953

Self

The Patriots

Movie • 1963

Thomas Jefferson

Private Screenings: Charlton Heston

Studio One: Wuthering Heights

Movie • 1950

Heathcliff

Cults: Saying No Under Pressure

Hollywood sul Tevere

Movie • 2009

Children of the Civil Rights

Movie • 2015

Self (archival footage)

The Colgate Comedy Hour

TV • 1950

Self

seaQuest DSV

TV • 1993

Abalon

Noel's House Party

TV • 1991

Star guest

Omnibus

TV • 1952

Self - Presenter

Playhouse 90

TV • 1956

Col. Jesse Price

Studio One

TV • 1948

MADtv

TV • 1995

Self

General Electric Theater

TV • 1953

Tim

The Colbys

TV • 1985

Jason Colby

Hallmark Hall of Fame

TV • 1951

Thomas Jefferson

Eco-Challenge

TV • 1995

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

TV • 1951

Your Show of Shows

TV • 1950

Self - Guest Performer

Climax!

TV • 1954

Lt. Paul Peterson

The Philco Television Playhouse

TV • 1948

Suspense

TV • 1949

Robert Montgomery Presents

TV • 1950

Cashel Bryon

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

TV • 1973

Self

The Steve Allen Show

TV • 1956

Self - Actor

Pebble Mill

TV • 1991

Self

F.D.R.

TV • 1965

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The Outer Limits

TV • 1995

Chief Justice Haden Wainwright

The Oscars

TV • 1953

Self

The Kennedy Center Honors

TV • 1978

Self

Kraft Mystery Theatre

TV • 1961

Paul Malone (archive footage)

Chiefs

TV • 1983

Hugh Holmes

Friends

TV • 1994

Charlton Heston

The Colgate Comedy Hour

TV • 1950

Self - Host

Talking Pictures

TV • 2013

Self (archive footage)

Your Show of Shows

TV • 1950

Self - Guest Host

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

TV • 1962

Self

The Dame Edna Experience

TV • 1987

Self

Saturday Night Live

TV • 1975

Self - Host

Camino de Santiago

TV • 1999

Professor Marcelo Rinaldi

Korea: The Unknown War

TV • 1988

General Douglas MacArthur (voice)

Sworn to Secrecy: Secrets of War

TV • 1998

Self - Narrator (voice)

The $64,000 Question

TV • 1955

Substitute Host

Robert Montgomery Presents

TV • 1950

Peter Handley

Robert Montgomery Presents

TV • 1950

Melody Jones

The Ed Sullivan Show

TV • 1948

Self

Wogan

TV • 1982

Self

The Mike Douglas Show

TV • 1961

TV • 1948

James Otis

Studio One

TV • 1948

Merton Densher

Secrets of War: Shadows of The Reich

TV • 1998

Self - Narrator (voice)

Hallmark Hall of Fame

TV • 1951

TV • 1975

Self

Dynasty

TV • 1981

Jason Colby

The Dick Cavett Show

TV • 1968

Self - Guest

Golden Globe Awards

TV • 1944

Self

What's My Line?

TV • 1950

Self - Mystery Guest

The Weber Show

TV • 2000

Charlton Heston

Golden Globe Awards

TV • 1944

Self - Presenter

Dinah!

TV • 1974

Self

Golden Globe Awards

TV • 1944

Self - Nominee

Studio One

TV • 1948

Commander Schneider

Shirley Temple's Storybook

TV • 1958

Beast

Science Fiction Film Awards

Himself

The Merv Griffin Show

TV • 1962

Self

Film '72

TV • 1971

Self