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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1923-10-04 (101 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 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.

Known For

Acting

2024

Planet of the Apes: A Milestone of Science Fiction as Self (archive footage)

Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes 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

I Am Richard Pryor as Self - Actor (archive footage)

Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil" as (archive footage)

Hail Satan? as Self - Actor (archive footage)

Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic as Self - Actor (archive footage)

Todos los nombres de Sara as Self - Actor (archive footage)

2017

The Madding Crowd as Self (archive footage)

2016

The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille as Self

Bienvenido Mr. Heston as Self (archive footage)

2015

Spanish Western as Self (archive footage)

2014

And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles as Self - Actor (archive footage)

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire as Self - Actor (archive footage)

2013

Talking Pictures as Self (archive footage)

2011

Charlton Heston and Ben-Hur: A Personal Journey as Self (archive footage)

2010

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff as Self – Interviewee

2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift as (archive footage)

2008

Greatest Heroes and Legends: The Story of Moses as Self - Host / Moses

Disaster!: A Major Motion Picture Ride... Starring You! as Himself

2007

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

Remembering Reagan at His Ranch as Host

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self (archive footage)

2003

Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: Daniel and the Lion's Den as Self - Host

Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: David and Goliath as Self - Host

Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Jonah and the Whale as Self - Host

Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Samson and Delilah as Self - Host

My Father as Josef Mengele

Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: The Garden of Eden as Self - Host

Christmas in Hollywood as Self (archive footage)

Ben Hur as Ben Hur (voice)

Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Joshua and the Battle of Jericho as Self - Host

The Making of The Ten Commandments as Self (archive footage)

2002

Bowling for Columbine as Self - NRA President

Edith Head: The Paramount Years as (archive footage)

The Face of Evil: Reinhard Heydrich as Narrator (voice)

2001

Town & Country as Mr. Clayborne

The Order as Professor Finley

The Gun Deadlock as Self

Planet of the Apes as Zaius (uncredited)

The Making of Midway as Self

Cats & Dogs as The Mastiff (voice)

Last Party 2000 as Self

2000

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

The Weber Show as Charlton Heston

1999

Yesterday's Tomorrows as Self

Any Given Sunday as AFFA Football Commissioner

Television: The First Fifty Years as Self

Forever Hollywood as Self

Camino de Santiago as Professor Marcelo Rinaldi

1998

Alaska: Spirit of the Wild as Narrator (voice)

Behind the Planet of the Apes as Self - 'Taylor'

Gideon as Addison Sinclair

Armageddon as Narration (voice)

Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero as Self

Private Screenings: Charlton Heston as Self

Sworn to Secrecy: Secrets of War as Self - Narrator (voice)

Secrets of War: Shadows of The Reich as Self - Narrator (voice)

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies as Self

1997

Hercules as Narrator (voice)

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western as Self

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line as Self

Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Genesis as Self - Host

Charlton Heston Presents the Bible as Self - Narrator

1996

Hamlet as Player King

Andersonville Diaries as Narrator

Love in Hollywood as Self

The Dark Mist as Narrator (voice)

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels as Self

Alaska as Perry

The Mysterious Origins of Man as Self - Host

1995

In the Mouth of Madness as Jackson Harglow

The Avenging Angel as Brigham Young

Charlton Heston: For All Seasons as Self

Texas as Narrator

MADtv as Self

The Outer Limits as Chief Justice Haden Wainwright

1994

The Legacy of Malthus as Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)

True Lies as Spencer Trilby

Charlie Sheen's Stunts Spectacular as Self (archive footage)

The Bible According to Hollywood as Self

A Century of Cinema as Self

Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects as Self

Friends as Charlton Heston

Space Ghost Coast to Coast as Self

1993

Tombstone as Henry Hooker

Wayne's World 2 as Good Actor

The Mystery of the Sphinx as Narrator

Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Jesus of Nazareth as Self - Host

Charlton Heston Presents The Bible: The Story of Moses as Self - Host

seaQuest DSV as Abalon

Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest

1992

Solar Crisis as Adm. "Skeet" Kelso

Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 as Captain Al Haynes

Noël as Narrator

1991

The Crucifer of Blood as Sherlock Holmes

Air Force One: The Planes and the Presidents as Host and Narrator

Noel's House Party as Star guest

Pebble Mill as Self

1990

Almost an Angel as God

Treasure Island as Long John Silver

The Little Kidnappers as James MacKenzie

With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film as Self

1989

Call from Space as Alien (voice)

Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary as Self

Original Sin as Louis Mancini

1988

A Man for All Seasons as Sir Thomas More

Korea: The Unknown War as General Douglas MacArthur (voice)

1987

Andrew Weyth, The Helga Pictures as Self - Host

Proud Men as Charley MacLeod Sr.

Eclipse of Reason as Narrator

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood as Self

The Dame Edna Experience as Self

1986

The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal as Self

Directed by William Wyler as Self

1985

The Colbys as Jason Colby

1984

Nairobi Affair as Lee Cahill

1983

Chiefs as Hugh Holmes

1982

Mother Lode as Silas McGee / Ian McGee

Barry Norman in Celebrity City as Self

Let Poland Be Poland as Self - Co-Host

Wogan as Self

1981

This Is Your Life: 30th Anniversary Special as Self

Dynasty as Jason Colby

1980

The Awakening as Matthew Corbeck

The Mountain Men as Bill Tyler

1978

Gray Lady Down as Captain Paul Blanchard

The Kennedy Center Honors as Self

1977

The Prince and the Pauper as Henry VIII

Energy: A National Issue as Narrator (voice)

1976

Midway as Capt. Matthew Garth

Two-Minute Warning as Capt. Peter Holly

The Last Hard Men as Sam Burgade

America at the Movies as Narrator

1975

Saturday Night Live as Self - Host

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self

1974

Earthquake as Stewart Graff

Airport 1975 as Alan Murdock

The Four Musketeers as Cardinal Richelieu

Spécial cinéma as Self

Dinah! as Self

1973

The Three Musketeers as Cardinal Richelieu

Soylent Green as Detective Robert Thorn

A Look at the World of 'Soylent Green' as Self

The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self

1972

The Call of the Wild as John Thornton

Skyjacked as Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara

Antony and Cleopatra as Marc Antony

The Special London Bridge Special as Tennis Player

1971

The Omega Man as Robert Neville

Vietnam! Vietnam! as Narrator (voice)

The Last Man Alive: The Omega Man as Self - Narrator

V.I.P. Schaukel as Self

1970

Beneath the Planet of the Apes as Taylor

Julius Caesar as Marc Antony

The Hawaiians as Whip Hoxworth

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis as Self (archive footage)

1969

Number One as Ron "Cat" Catlan

1968

Planet of the Apes as George Taylor

Rowan & Martin at the Movies as Self

Elizabeth the Queen as Lord Essex

The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest

1967

Will Penny as Will Penny

Counterpoint as Lionel Evans

While I Run This Race as Narrator

1966

Khartoum as Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon

Planet of the Apes Test Reel as Thomas

1965

The Greatest Story Ever Told as John the Baptist

Major Dundee as Major Amos Charles Dundee

The Agony and the Ecstasy as Michelangelo

The War Lord as Chrysagon

Uncertain Verification as (archive footage)

F.D.R. as Franklin Delano Roosevelt

1963

55 Days at Peking as Maj. Matt Lewis

The Five Cities of June as Narrator

The Patriots as Thomas Jefferson

The Greatest All-Star Advertial of All Time as Self

1962

Diamond Head as Richard 'King' Howland

The Pigeon That Took Rome as Captain Paul MacDougall / Benny the Snatch / Narrator

The Merv Griffin Show as Self

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self

1961

El Cid as El Cid Rodrigo de Vivar

Kraft Mystery Theatre as Paul Malone (archive footage)

The Mike Douglas Show as Self

1959

Ben-Hur as Judah Ben-Hur

The Wreck of the Mary Deare as John Sands

1958

Touch of Evil as Ramon Miguel Vargas

The Buccaneer as Gen. Andrew Jackson

The Big Country as Steve Leech

Fun in the Big Country as Self

Shirley Temple's Storybook as Beast

1956

The Ten Commandments as Moses

Three Violent People as Capt. Colt Saunders

Forbidden Area as Col. Jesse Price

Stars of Cabaret as Self (archive footage)

Playhouse 90 as Col. Jesse Price

The Steve Allen Show as Self - Actor

The Steve Allen Show as Self - Guest

1955

The Far Horizons as Lt. William Clark

The Private War of Major Benson as Maj. Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson

Lucy Gallant as Casey Cole

The $64,000 Question as Substitute Host

1954

Secret of the Incas as Harry Steel

The Naked Jungle as Christopher Leiningen

Climax! as Lt. Paul Peterson

Climax! as Chipman

1953

Pony Express as Captain William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cody

Arrowhead as Ed Bannon

Bad for Each Other as Dr. Tom Owen

The President's Lady as Andrew Jackson

Three Lives as Self

General Electric Theater as Tim

The Oscars as Self

1952

The Greatest Show on Earth as Brad Braden

Ruby Gentry as Boake Tackman

The Savage as James 'Jim' Aherne Jr. / War Bonnet

Omnibus as Self - Presenter

1951

A Bolt of Lightning as James Otis

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Thomas Jefferson

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex

1950

Dark City as Danny Haley

Julius Caesar as Mark Antony

The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self

Your Show of Shows as Self - Guest Performer

Robert Montgomery Presents as Cashel Bryon

The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self - Host

Your Show of Shows as Self - Guest Host

Robert Montgomery Presents as Peter Handley

Robert Montgomery Presents as Melody Jones

What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest

1949

Jane Eyre as Edward Rochester

1948

The Philco Television Playhouse

The Ed Sullivan Show as Self

Studio One as Col. / Dr. Michael Knowle

Studio One as Philip Carey

Studio One as Petruchio

Studio One as Heathcliff

Studio One as Edward Rochester

Studio One as Mitch Henderson

Studio One as James Otis

Studio One as Macbeth

Studio One as Merton Densher

BAMBI Awards as Self

Studio One as Commander Schneider

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Host

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner

1941

Peer Gynt as Peer Gynt

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Science Fiction Film Awards as Himself

Directing

1988

A Man for All Seasons as Director

1982

Mother Lode as Director

1972

Antony and Cleopatra as Director

Writing

1972

Antony and Cleopatra as Screenplay