Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

258

Gender

Male

Birthday

1923-10-04

Deathday

2008-04-05 (84 years old)

Place of Birth

Wilmette, Illinois, USA

Also Known As

찰톤 헤스톤
John Charles Carter
چارلتون هستون

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.

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Acting

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Science Fiction Film Awards as Himself

2024		Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes as Self (archive footage)
2024		Planet of the Apes: A Milestone of Science Fiction 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 Period Epic 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 of Orson Welles as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2014		Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2014		And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)

2013

Talking Pictures as Self (archive footage)

2011

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

2010		2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift as (archive footage)
2010		Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff as Self – Interviewee

2008		Greatest Heroes and Legends: The Story of Moses as Self - Host / Moses
2008		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		Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade 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: Daniel and the Lion's Den as Self - Host
2003		Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: The Garden of Eden as Self - Host
2003		Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: David and Goliath as Self - Host
2003		Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Jonah and the Whale as Self - Host
2003		Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Samson and Delilah as Self - Host
2003		Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Joshua and the Battle of Jericho 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		The Weber Show as Charlton Heston
2000		Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints as Self

1999		Any Given Sunday as AFFA Football Commissioner
1999		Camino de Santiago as Professor Marcelo Rinaldi
1999		Yesterday's Tomorrows as Self
1999		Forever Hollywood as Self
1999		Television: The First Fifty Years as Self

1998		Secrets of War: Shadows of The Reich as Self - Narrator (voice)
1998		Private Screenings: Charlton Heston as Self
1998		Gideon as Addison Sinclair
1998		Sworn to Secrecy: Secrets of War as Self - Narrator (voice)
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		AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies as Self
1998		Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero as Self

1997		Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Genesis 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		MADtv as Self
1995		Texas as Narrator
1995		Eco-Challenge
1995		The Outer Limits as Chief Justice Haden Wainwright
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		Friends as Charlton Heston
1994		True Lies as Spencer Trilby
1994		Charlie Sheen's Stunts Spectacular as Self (archive footage)
1994		Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects as Self
1994		Space Ghost Coast to Coast as Self
1994		A Century of Cinema as Self
1994		The Bible According to Hollywood as Self
1994		The Legacy of Malthus as Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)

1993		Tombstone as Henry Hooker
1993		Wayne's World 2 as Good Actor
1993		The Mystery of the Sphinx as Narrator
1993		Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
1993		seaQuest DSV as Abalon
1993		Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Jesus of Nazareth as Self - Host
1993		Charlton Heston Presents The Bible: The Story of Moses 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		Noel's House Party as Star guest
1991		The Crucifer of Blood as Sherlock Holmes
1991		Pebble Mill as Self
1991		Air Force One: The Planes and the Presidents 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 in Film 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
1988		Korea: The Unknown War as General Douglas MacArthur (voice)

1987		Proud Men as Charley MacLeod Sr.
1987		The Dame Edna Experience as Self
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

1985

The Colbys as Jason Colby

1984

Nairobi Affair as Lee Cahill

1983

Chiefs as Hugh Holmes

1982		Barry Norman in Celebrity City as Self
1982		Mother Lode as Silas McGee / Ian McGee
1982		Wogan as Self
1982		Let Poland Be Poland as Self - Co-Host

1981		This Is Your Life: 30th Anniversary Special as Self
1981		Dynasty as Jason Colby

1980		The Awakening as Matthew Corbeck
1980		The Mountain Men as Bill Tyler

1978		The Kennedy Center Honors as Self
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

1975		Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1975		Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self

1974		Earthquake as Stewart Graff
1974		The Four Musketeers as Cardinal Richelieu
1974		Dinah! as Self
1974		Airport 1975 as Alan Murdock
1974		Spécial cinéma as Self

1973		The Three Musketeers as Cardinal Richelieu
1973		Soylent Green as Detective Robert Thorn
1973		The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
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		V.I.P. Schaukel as Self
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 Memphis as Self (archive footage)

1969

Number One as Ron "Cat" Catlan

1968		The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
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
1965		F.D.R. as Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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 Time as Self

1962		Diamond Head as Richard 'King' Howland
1962		The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1962		The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1962		The Pigeon That Took Rome as Captain Paul MacDougall / Benny the Snatch / Narrator

1961		The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1961		El Cid as El Cid Rodrigo de Vivar
1961		Kraft Mystery Theatre as Paul Malone (archive footage)

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		Shirley Temple's Storybook as Beast
1958		Fun in the Big Country as Self

1956		Three Violent People as Capt. Colt Saunders
1956		The Ten Commandments as Moses
1956		Playhouse 90 as Col. Jesse Price
1956		Forbidden Area as Col. Jesse Price
1956		The Steve Allen Show as Self - Actor
1956		The Steve Allen Show as Self - Guest
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
1955		The $64,000 Question as Substitute Host

1954		Climax! as Lt. Paul Peterson
1954		Climax! as Chipman
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' Cody
1953		The President's Lady as Andrew Jackson
1953		The Oscars as Self
1953		General Electric Theater as Tim

1952		Ruby Gentry as Boake Tackman
1952		Omnibus as Self - Presenter
1952		The Savage as James 'Jim' Aherne Jr. / War Bonnet
1952		The Greatest Show on Earth as Brad Braden

1951		Hallmark Hall of Fame as Thomas Jefferson
1951		Hallmark Hall of Fame as Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex
1951		A Bolt of Lightning as James Otis
1951		Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1950		Dark City as Danny Haley
1950		The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
1950		The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self - Host
1950		Julius Caesar as Mark Antony
1950		Your Show of Shows as Self - Guest Performer
1950		Your Show of Shows as Self - Guest Host
1950		What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
1950		Robert Montgomery Presents as Cashel Bryon
1950		Robert Montgomery Presents as Peter Handley
1950		Robert Montgomery Presents as Melody Jones

1949		Jane Eyre as Edward Rochester
1949		Suspense

1948		Studio One
1948		Studio One as Col. / Dr. Michael Knowle
1948		Studio One as Philip Carey
1948		Studio One as Petruchio
1948		Studio One as Heathcliff
1948		Studio One as Edward Rochester
1948		Studio One as Mitch Henderson
1948		Studio One as James Otis
1948		Studio One as Macbeth
1948		Studio One as Merton Densher
1948		Studio One as Commander Schneider
1948		The Philco Television Playhouse
1948		The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1948		BAMBI Awards as Self

1944		Golden Globe Awards as Self - Host
1944		Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
1944		Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner

1941

Peer Gynt as Peer Gynt

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