Biography
Charlton Heston 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.
Filmography
all 249
Movies 195
self 115
TV Shows 54
Narrator 11
Voice 4
Director 2
Self (archive footage)

Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes (2024)
Movie
Self (archive footage)

Planet of the Apes: A Milestone of Science Fiction (2024)
Movie
Self - Portrait Subject & Interviewee

Charlton Heston: Radical to Right Wing (2023)
Movie
Self - Actor (archive footage)

Yul Brynner, the Magnificent (2020)
Movie
Self - Actor (archive footage)

Todos los nombres de Sara (2019)
Movie
Self - Actor (archive footage)

Hail Satan? (2019)
Movie
Self (archive footage)

Sword-and-Sandal (2019)
Movie
Self - Actor (archive footage)

I Am Richard Pryor (2019)
Movie
(archive footage)

Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil" (2019)
Movie
Self (archive footage)

The Madding Crowd (2017)
Movie
Self (archive footage)

Spanish Western (2015)
Movie
Self - Actor (archive footage)

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014)
Movie
Self - Actor (archive footage)

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire (2014)
Movie
Self (archive footage)

And the Oscar Goes To... (2014)
Movie
Self (archive footage)

Talking Pictures (2013)
TV
(archive footage)

2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift (2010)
Movie
Self - Interviewee

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010)
Movie
Self - Host / Moses

Greatest Heroes and Legends: The Story of Moses (2008)
Movie
Self (archive footage)

AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition (2007)
Movie
Self (archive footage)

De Madrid a la Luna (2006)
Movie
ArchiveFootage

Hollywood Burn (2006)
Movie
Self (2001 Interview)

Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema (2005)
Movie
Self (archive footage)

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004)
Movie
Self (archive footage)

Christmas in Hollywood (2003)
Movie
The Father (Josef Mengele)

My Father (2003)
Movie
Ben Hur

Ben Hur (2003)
Movie
(archive footage)

Edith Head: The Paramount Years (2002)
Movie
Self - NRA President

Bowling for Columbine (2002)
Movie
6.2
Zaius (uncredited)

Planet of the Apes (2001)
Movie
6.18
The Mastiff (voice)

Cats & Dogs (2001)
Movie
5.5
Professor Finley

The Order (2001)
Movie
Mr. Clayborne

Town & Country (2001)
Movie
Charlton Heston

The Weber Show (2000)
TV
AFFA Football Commissioner

Any Given Sunday (1999)
Movie
Professor Marcelo Rinaldi

Camino de Santiago (1999)
TV
Self - Narrator (voice)

Secrets of War: Shadows of The Reich (1998)
TV
Addison Sinclair

Gideon (1998)
Movie
Self - Narrator

Sworn to Secrecy: Secrets of War (1998)
TV
Self - 'Taylor'

Behind the Planet of the Apes (1998)
Movie
Narration (voice)

Armageddon (1998)
Movie
7.1
Narrator (voice)

Hercules (1997)
Movie
6.82
Player King

Hamlet (1996)
Movie
Perry

Alaska (1996)
Movie
Self - Host

The Mysterious Origins of Man (1996)
Movie
Narrator

The Dark Mist (1996)
Movie
Self

MADtv (1995)
TV
1
Narrator

Texas (1995)
Movie
Chief Justice Haden Wainwright

The Outer Limits (1995)
TV
6
Jackson Harglow

In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
Movie
4.33
Brigham Young

The Avenging Angel (1995)
Movie
Charlton Heston

Friends (1994)
TV
7.53
Spencer Trilby

True Lies (1994)
Movie
6.07
Self - Former SAG President

Charlie Sheen's Stunts Spectacular (1994)
Movie
Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)

The Legacy of Malthus (1994)
Movie
Henry Hooker

Tombstone (1993)
Movie
3.2
Good Actor

Wayne's World 2 (1993)
Movie
5.79
Self - Guest

Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993)
TV
6
Abalon

seaQuest DSV (1993)
TV
6
Narrator

Noël (1992)
Movie
Adm. 'Skeet' Kelso

Solar Crisis (1992)
Movie
Captain Al Haynes

Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 (1992)
Movie
Westmoreland

Symphony for the Spire (1992)
Movie
Star guest

Noel's House Party (1991)
TV
Sherlock Holmes

The Crucifer of Blood (1991)
Movie
James MacKenzie

The Little Kidnappers (1990)
Movie
Long John Silver

Treasure Island (1990)
Movie
Louis Mancini

Original Sin (1989)
Movie
Sir Thomas More

A Man for All Seasons (1988)
Movie
General Douglas MacArthur (voice)

Korea: The Unknown War (1988)
TV
Charley MacLeod Sr.

Proud Men (1987)
Movie
Self - Host

Andrew Weyth, The Helga Pictures (1987)
Movie
Jason Colby

The Colbys (1985)
TV
8
Lee Cahill

Nairobi Affair (1984)
Movie
Hugh Holmes

Chiefs (1983)
TV
6
Silas McGee / Ian McGee / Director

Mother Lode (1982)
Movie
Self

Wogan (1982)
TV
Self - Co-Host

Let Poland Be Poland (1982)
Movie
Jason Colby

Dynasty (1981)
TV
3
Matthew Corbeck

The Awakening (1980)
Movie
Bill Tyler

The Mountain Men (1980)
Movie
Capt. Paul Blanchard

Gray Lady Down (1978)
Movie
5.5
Henry VIII

The Prince and the Pauper (1977)
Movie
Capt. Peter Holly

Two-Minute Warning (1976)
Movie
Capt. Matthew Garth

Midway (1976)
Movie
1
Sam Burgade

The Last Hard Men (1976)
Movie
Self - Host

Saturday Night Live (1975)
TV
6.36
Cardinal Richelieu

The Four Musketeers (1974)
Movie
3.2
Self

Dinah! (1974)
TV
Alan Murdock

Airport 1975 (1974)
Movie
5.13
Cardinal Richelieu

The Three Musketeers (1973)
Movie
4
Detective Robert Thorn

Soylent Green (1973)
Movie
5.74
John Thornton

The Call of the Wild (1972)
Movie
Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara

Skyjacked (1972)
Movie
Marc Antony / Director / Screenplay

Antony and Cleopatra (1972)
Movie
Tennis Player

The Special London Bridge Special (1972)
Movie
Narrator

Vietnam! Vietnam! (1971)
Movie
Robert Neville

The Omega Man (1971)
Movie
7.33
Self - Narrator

The Last Man Alive: The Omega Man (1971)
Movie
Whip Hoxworth

The Hawaiians (1970)
Movie
Marc Antony

Julius Caesar (1970)
Movie
Ron 'Cat' Catlan

Number One (1969)
Movie
Self - Guest

The Dick Cavett Show (1968)
TV
George Taylor

Planet of the Apes (1968)
Movie
6.43
Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex

Elizabeth the Queen (1968)
Movie
Lionel Evans

Counterpoint (1967)
Movie
Will Penny

Will Penny (1967)
Movie
Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon

Khartoum (1966)
Movie
Chrysagon

The War Lord (1965)
Movie
Michelangelo

The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
Movie
ArchiveFootage

Uncertain Verification (1965)
Movie
John the Baptist

The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
Movie
Major Amos Charles Dundee

Major Dundee (1965)
Movie
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

F.D.R. (1965)
TV
Thomas Jefferson

The Patriots (1963)
Movie
Maj. Matt Lewis

55 Days at Peking (1963)
Movie
Richard 'King' Howland

Diamond Head (1962)
Movie
Captain Paul MacDougall

The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962)
Movie
El Cid Rodrigo de Vivar

El Cid (1961)
Movie
2
Paul Malone (archive footage)

Kraft Mystery Theatre (1961)
TV
Judah Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur (1959)
Movie
5.95
John Sands

The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)
Movie
Gen. Andrew Jackson

The Buccaneer (1958)
Movie
Steve Leech

The Big Country (1958)
Movie
6
Ramon Miguel Vargas

Touch of Evil (1958)
Movie
5.24
Capt. Colt Saunders

Three Violent People (1956)
Movie
Col. Jesse Price

Forbidden Area (1956)
Movie
Col. Jesse Price

Playhouse 90 (1956)
TV
Self - Guest / Self - Actor

The Steve Allen Show (1956)
TV
Self (archive footage)

Stars of Cabaret (1956)
Movie
Casey Cole

Lucy Gallant (1955)
Movie
Major Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson

The Private War of Major Benson (1955)
Movie
Lt. William Clark

The Far Horizons (1955)
Movie
Substitute Host

The $64,000 Question (1955)
TV
Lt. Paul Peterson / Chipman

Climax! (1954)
TV
Harry Steel

Secret of the Incas (1954)
Movie
Christopher Leiningen

The Naked Jungle (1954)
Movie
Col. Tom Owen M.D.

Bad for Each Other (1953)
Movie
Ed Bannon

Arrowhead (1953)
Movie
Captain William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cody

Pony Express (1953)
Movie
President Andrew Jackson

The President's Lady (1953)
Movie
Boake Tackman

Ruby Gentry (1952)
Movie
Self - Presenter

Omnibus (1952)
TV
James 'Jim' Aherne Jr.

The Savage (1952)
Movie
Brad Braden

The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
Movie
Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex / Thomas Jefferson

Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
TV
8.33
James Otis

A Bolt of Lightning (1951)
Movie
Danny Haley

Dark City (1950)
Movie
Self / Self - Host

The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950)
TV
Self - Guest Performer / Self - Guest Host

Your Show of Shows (1950)
TV
Self - Mystery Guest

What's My Line? (1950)
TV
Peter Handley / Cashel Bryon / Melody Jones

Robert Montgomery Presents (1950)
TV
Edward Rochester

Jane Eyre (1949)
Movie
Philip Carey / Heathcliff / Col. / Dr. Michael Knowle / Macbeth / Commander Schneider / Merton Densher / Mitch Henderson / James Otis / Petruchio / Edward Rochester

Studio One (1948)
TV
Self / Self (archive footage) / Self - Dramatic Reading / Dramatic Reader / Actor - Dramatic Reading

The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)
TV
6
Self - Presenter / Self - Winner / Self - Host

Golden Globe Awards (1944)
TV
Peer Gynt

Peer Gynt (1941)
Movie
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Information
Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1923-10-04
Deathday2008-04-05 (84 years old)
Birth NameJohn Charles Carter
Birth PlaceEvanston, United States
ReligionEpiscopal Church
Height189-centimeter
RelationshipsLydia Clarke (1944 - 2008)
ChildrenFraser Clarke Heston
FatherRussel Whitford Carter
MotherLila Charlton
CitizenshipsUnited States
Also Known As찰톤 헤스톤, John Charles Carter
AwardsScreen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, Theatre World Award, Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Kennedy Center Honors, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Academy Award for Best Actor, Presidential Medal of Freedom
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