Charlton Heston

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1923-10-04 (85 years old)

Deathday

2008-04-05

Place of Birth

Wilmette, Illinois, USA

Charlton Heston

Biography

Charlton Heston 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.

Acting

1968

Planet of the Apes

as George Taylor

2002

Bowling for Columbine

as Self - NRA President

1958

Touch of Evil

as Ramon Miguel Vargas

1992

Solar Crisis

as Adm. "Skeet" Kelso

1959

Ben-Hur

as Judah Ben-Hur

1967

Will Penny

as Will Penny

1996

Hamlet

as Player King

1965

The Greatest Story Ever Told

as John the Baptist

1995

In the Mouth of Madness

as Jackson Harglow

1973

The Three Musketeers

as Cardinal Richelieu

1974

Earthquake

as Stewart Graff

1958

The Buccaneer

as Gen. Andrew Jackson

1971

The Omega Man

as Robert Neville

1976

Midway

as Capt. Matthew Garth

2001

Town & Country

as Mr. Clayborne

1976

Two-Minute Warning

as Capt. Peter Holly

1978

Gray Lady Down

as Captain Paul Blanchard

1997

Hercules

as Narrator (voice)

1993

Tombstone

as Henry Hooker

1973

Soylent Green

as Detective Robert Thorn

2019

I Am Richard Pryor

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

1993

Wayne's World 2

as Good Actor

1990

1990

Treasure Island

as Long John Silver

2023

2020

Yul Brynner, the Magnificent

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

1952

1958

The Big Country

as Steve Leech

1963

55 Days at Peking

as Maj. Matt Lewis

1994

The Legacy of Malthus

as Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)

1974

Airport 1975

as Alan Murdock

1998

Alaska: Spirit of the Wild

as Narrator (voice)

1954

Secret of the Incas

as Harry Steel

1966

Khartoum

as Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon

1965

Major Dundee

as Major Amos Charles Dundee

1950

Dark City

as Danny Haley

1970

Julius Caesar

as Marc Antony

1965

1965

The War Lord

as Chrysagon

1972

The Call of the Wild

as John Thornton

1994

True Lies

as Spencer Trilby

1996

1953

Pony Express

as Captain William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cody

1953

Arrowhead

as Ed Bannon

2001

The Order

as Professor Finley

1954

The Naked Jungle

as Christopher Leiningen

1976

The Last Hard Men

as Sam Burgade

1961

El Cid

as El Cid Rodrigo de Vivar

1980

The Awakening

as Matthew Corbeck

1998

1952

Ruby Gentry

as Boake Tackman

1996

The Dark Mist

as Narrator (voice)

1953

Bad for Each Other

as Dr. Tom Owen

2005

Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema

as Self (archive footage)

1956

Three Violent People

as Capt. Colt Saunders

1980

The Mountain Men

as Bill Tyler

1970

The Hawaiians

as Whip Hoxworth

1955

The Far Horizons

as Lt. William Clark

1982

Mother Lode

as Silas McGee / Ian McGee

1972

Skyjacked

as Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara

1969

Number One

as Ron "Cat" Catlan

1953

The President's Lady

as Andrew Jackson

1972

Antony and Cleopatra

as Marc Antony

1991

The Crucifer of Blood

as Sherlock Holmes

1990

The Little Kidnappers

as James MacKenzie

1955

The Private War of Major Benson

as Maj. Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson

1965

Uncertain Verification

as (archive footage)

1995

The Avenging Angel

as Brigham Young

1952

The Savage

as James 'Jim' Aherne Jr. / War Bonnet

1955

Lucy Gallant

as Casey Cole

1962

Diamond Head

as Richard 'King' Howland

1988

A Man for All Seasons

as Sir Thomas More

1967

Counterpoint

as Lionel Evans

1962

The Pigeon That Took Rome

as Captain Paul MacDougall / Benny the Snatch / Narrator

1976

1984

Nairobi Affair

as Lee Cahill

1998

Gideon

as Addison Sinclair

1950

Julius Caesar

as Mark Antony

1992

Noël

as Narrator

1967

1956

Forbidden Area

as Col. Jesse Price

2001

2001

Planet of the Apes

as Zaius (uncredited)

1987

Proud Men

as Charley MacLeod Sr.

2019

Hail Satan?

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

2002

1999

Any Given Sunday

as AFFA Football Commissioner

1949

Jane Eyre

as Edward Rochester

2003

My Father

as Josef Mengele

1982

Let Poland Be Poland

as Self - Co-Host

1951

A Bolt of Lightning

as James Otis

2003

Christmas in Hollywood

as Self (archive footage)

2010

1996

Alaska

as Perry

1974

The Four Musketeers

as Cardinal Richelieu

2001

Cats & Dogs

as The Mastiff (voice)

1941

Peer Gynt

as Peer Gynt

1989

Call from Space

as Alien (voice)

2006

De Madrid a la Luna

as Self (archive footage)

1987

1977

1994

Charlie Sheen's Stunts Spectacular

as Self (archive footage)

1989

Original Sin

as Louis Mancini

1971

Vietnam! Vietnam!

as Narrator (voice)

2016

Bienvenido Mr. Heston

as Self (archive footage)

2003

Ben Hur

as Ben Hur (voice)

1995

Texas

as Narrator

2019

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

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

1956

Stars of Cabaret

as Self (archive footage)

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

2014

2019

Todos los nombres de Sara

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

2014

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

1977

Energy: A National Issue

as Narrator (voice)

2015

Spanish Western

as Self (archive footage)

2017

The Madding Crowd

as Self (archive footage)

1998

Armageddon

as Narration (voice)

1953

1963

The Patriots

as Thomas Jefferson

1971

2024

Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes

as Self (archive footage)

2001

1968

Elizabeth the Queen

as Lord Essex

2003

The Making of The Ten Commandments

as Self (archive footage)

2013

Production

1982

Mother Lode

as Director

1972

1988

1972

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