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Charlton Heston

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Wilmette, Illinois, USA, 1923-10-04

Died: 2008-04-05

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1941	Peer Gynt	Peer Gynt	70
2	1949	Jane Eyre	Edward Rochester	0
3	1950	Julius Caesar	Mark Antony	58
4	1950	Dark City	Danny Haley	65
5	1951	A Bolt of Lightning	James Otis	0
6	1952	The Greatest Show on Earth	Brad Braden	63
7	1952	The Savage	James 'Jim' Aherne Jr. / War Bonnet	61
8	1952	Ruby Gentry	Boake Tackman	65
9	1953	The President's Lady	Andrew Jackson	69
10	1953	Pony Express	Captain William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cody	56
11	1953	Arrowhead	Ed Bannon	59
12	1953	Three Lives	Self	0
13	1953	Bad for Each Other	Dr. Tom Owen	57
14	1954	The Naked Jungle	Christopher Leiningen	64
15	1954	Secret of the Incas	Harry Steel	58
16	1955	The Far Horizons	Lt. William Clark	62
17	1955	The Private War of Major Benson	Maj. Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson	67
18	1955	Lucy Gallant	Casey Cole	70
19	1956	Stars of Cabaret	Self (archive footage)	0
20	1956	Forbidden Area	Col. Jesse Price	75
21	1956	The Ten Commandments	Moses	78
22	1956	Three Violent People	Capt. Colt Saunders	61
23	1958	Fun in the Big Country	Self	0
24	1958	Touch of Evil	Ramon Miguel Vargas	78
25	1958	The Big Country	Steve Leech	76
26	1958	The Buccaneer	Gen. Andrew Jackson	64
27	1959	The Wreck of the Mary Deare	John Sands	63
28	1959	Ben-Hur	Judah Ben-Hur	79
29	1961	El Cid	El Cid Rodrigo de Vivar	68
30	1962	The Pigeon That Took Rome	Captain Paul MacDougall / Benny the Snatch / Narrator	53
31	1962	Diamond Head	Richard 'King' Howland	54
32	1963	The Greatest All-Star Advertial of All Time	Self	0
33	1963	55 Days at Peking	Maj. Matt Lewis	70
34	1963	The Five Cities of June	Narrator	63
35	1963	The Patriots	Thomas Jefferson	0
36	1965	Major Dundee	Major Amos Charles Dundee	67
37	1965	The Greatest Story Ever Told	John the Baptist	64
38	1965	Uncertain Verification	(archive footage)	66
39	1965	The Agony and the Ecstasy	Michelangelo	71
40	1965	The War Lord	Chrysagon	63
41	1966	Planet of the Apes Test Reel	Thomas	0
42	1966	Khartoum	Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon	63
43	1967	While I Run This Race	Narrator	50
44	1967	Will Penny	Will Penny	66
45	1967	Counterpoint	Lionel Evans	62
46	1968	Rowan & Martin at the Movies	Self	0
47	1968	Elizabeth the Queen	Lord Essex	0
48	1968	Planet of the Apes	George Taylor	76
49	1969	Number One	Ron "Cat" Catlan	51
50	1970	King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis	Self (archive footage)	71
51	1970	Beneath the Planet of the Apes	Taylor	61
52	1970	Julius Caesar	Marc Antony	57
53	1970	The Hawaiians	Whip Hoxworth	54
54	1971	The Last Man Alive: The Omega Man	Self - Narrator	0
55	1971	The Omega Man	Robert Neville	62
56	1971	Vietnam! Vietnam!	Narrator (voice)	53
57	1972	The Special London Bridge Special	Tennis Player	0
58	1972	Antony and Cleopatra	Marc Antony	56
59	1972	Skyjacked	Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara	62
60	1972	The Call of the Wild	John Thornton	60
61	1973	A Look at the World of 'Soylent Green'	Self	0
62	1973	Soylent Green	Detective Robert Thorn	69
63	1973	The Three Musketeers	Cardinal Richelieu	68
64	1974	Airport 1975	Alan Murdock	57
65	1974	The Four Musketeers	Cardinal Richelieu	64
66	1974	Earthquake	Stewart Graff	61
67	1976	The Last Hard Men	Sam Burgade	62
68	1976	Midway	Capt. Matthew Garth	66
69	1976	America at the Movies	Narrator	53
70	1976	Two-Minute Warning	Capt. Peter Holly	62
71	1977	The Prince and the Pauper	Henry VIII	60
72	1977	Energy: A National Issue	Narrator (voice)	50
73	1978	Gray Lady Down	Captain Paul Blanchard	64
74	1980	The Mountain Men	Bill Tyler	59
75	1980	The Awakening	Matthew Corbeck	54
76	1981	This Is Your Life: 30th Anniversary Special	Self	0
77	1982	Let Poland Be Poland	Self - Co-Host	0
78	1982	Mother Lode	Silas McGee / Ian McGee	56
79	1982	Barry Norman in Celebrity City	Self	0
80	1984	Nairobi Affair	Lee Cahill	48
81	1984	The Stars Salute the U.S. Olympic Team		0
82	1986	Directed by William Wyler	Self	0
83	1986	The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal	Self	75
84	1987	Eclipse of Reason	Narrator	0
85	1987	Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood	Self	57
86	1987	Andrew Weyth, The Helga Pictures	Self - Host	0
87	1987	Proud Men	Charley MacLeod Sr.	70
88	1988	A Man for All Seasons	Sir Thomas More	68
89	1989	Call from Space	Alien (voice)	100
90	1989	Original Sin	Louis Mancini	33
91	1989	Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary	Self	75
92	1990	Treasure Island	Long John Silver	66
93	1990	With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film	Self	0
94	1990	The Little Kidnappers	James MacKenzie	51
95	1990	Almost an Angel	God	57
96	1991	Air Force One: The Planes and the Presidents	Host and Narrator	0
97	1991	The Crucifer of Blood	Sherlock Holmes	65
98	1992	Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232	Captain Al Haynes	58
99	1992	Solar Crisis	Adm. "Skeet" Kelso	43
100	1992	Noël	Narrator	42
101	1993	Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Jesus of Nazareth	Self - Host	0
102	1993	Charlton Heston Presents The Bible: The Story of Moses	Self - Host	0
103	1993	The Mystery of the Sphinx	Narrator	80
104	1993	Wayne's World 2	Good Actor	61
105	1993	Tombstone	Henry Hooker	76
106	1994	The Legacy of Malthus	Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)	0
107	1994	The Bible According to Hollywood	Self	60
108	1994	A Century of Cinema	Self	80
109	1994	Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects	Self	0
110	1994	Charlie Sheen's Stunts Spectacular	Self (archive footage)	95
111	1994	True Lies	Spencer Trilby	71
112	1995	The Avenging Angel	Brigham Young	50
113	1995	In the Mouth of Madness	Jackson Harglow	72
114	1995	Charlton Heston: For All Seasons	Self	50
115	1995	Texas	Narrator	50
116	1996	The Dark Mist	Narrator (voice)	35
117	1996	The Mysterious Origins of Man	Self - Host	60
118	1996	Andersonville Diaries	Narrator	0
119	1996	Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels	Self	64
120	1996	Alaska	Perry	58
121	1996	Love in Hollywood	Self	0
122	1996	Hamlet	Player King	73
123	1997	Charlton Heston Presents the Bible	Self - Narrator	100
124	1997	Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line	Self	70
125	1997	Hercules	Narrator (voice)	75
126	1997	Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western	Self	0
127	1997	Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Genesis	Self - Host	80
128	1998	Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero	Self	70
129	1998	Armageddon	Narration (voice)	68
130	1998	Alaska: Spirit of the Wild	Narrator (voice)	69
131	1998	Behind the Planet of the Apes	Self - 'Taylor'	72
132	1998	Gideon	Addison Sinclair	58
133	1998	Private Screenings: Charlton Heston	Self	0
134	1999	Television: The First Fifty Years	Self	0
135	1999	Forever Hollywood	Self	80
136	1999	Yesterday's Tomorrows	Self	100
137	1999	Any Given Sunday	AFFA Football Commissioner	68
138	2000	Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints	Self	0
139	2001	Town & Country	Mr. Clayborne	44
140	2001	The Order	Professor Finley	51
141	2001	The Gun Deadlock	Self	0
142	2001	Cats & Dogs	The Mastiff (voice)	54
143	2001	Planet of the Apes	Zaius (uncredited)	58
144	2001	The Making of Midway	Self	0
145	2001	Last Party 2000	Self	61
146	2002	Bowling for Columbine	Self - NRA President	75
147	2002	The Face of Evil: Reinhard Heydrich	Narrator (voice)	0
148	2002	Edith Head: The Paramount Years	(archive footage)	75
149	2003	Lasting Love		0
150	2003	Ben Hur	Ben Hur (voice)	57
151	2003	Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: Daniel and the Lion's Den	Self - Host	60
152	2003	Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: David and Goliath	Self - Host	0
153	2003	Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Jonah and the Whale	Self - Host	0
154	2003	Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Samson and Delilah	Self - Host	0
155	2003	Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: The Garden of Eden	Self - Host	50
156	2003	Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Joshua and the Battle of Jericho	Self - Host	0
157	2003	My Father	Josef Mengele	60
158	2003	The Making of The Ten Commandments	Self (archive footage)	80
159	2003	Christmas in Hollywood	Self (archive footage)	0
160	2004	Remembering Reagan at His Ranch	Host	0
161	2004	Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade	Self (archive footage)	74
162	2005	Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema	Self (archive footage)	66
163	2006	De Madrid a la Luna	Self (archive footage)	60
164	2007	AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition	Self (archive footage)	67
165	2008	Greatest Heroes and Legends: The Story of Moses	Self - Host / Moses	0
166	2010	Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff	Self – Interviewee	67
167	2010	2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift	(archive footage)	64
168	2011	Charlton Heston and Ben-Hur: A Personal Journey	Self (archive footage)	76
169	2013	Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia	Self (archive footage)	78
170	2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self (archive footage)	70
171	2014	Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire	Self - Actor (archive footage)	73
172	2014	Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles	Self - Actor (archive footage)	67
173	2015	Spanish Western	Self (archive footage)	62
174	2016	The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille	Self	62
175	2016	Bienvenido Mr. Heston	Self (archive footage)	0
176	2017	The Madding Crowd	Self (archive footage)	0
177	2019	Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"	(archive footage)	0
178	2019	I Am Richard Pryor	Self - Actor (archive footage)	69
179	2019	Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic	Self - Actor (archive footage)	70
180	2019	Hail Satan?	Self - Actor (archive footage)	70
181	2019	Todos los nombres de Sara	Self - Actor (archive footage)	40
182	2020	Yul Brynner, the Magnificent	Self - Actor (archive footage)	75
183	2023	Charlton Heston: Radical to Right Wing	Self (archive footage)	85
184	2024	Planet of the Apes: A Milestone of Science Fiction	Self (archive footage)	78
185	2024	Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes	Self (archive footage)	69

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self	72
2	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter	72
3	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Winner	72
4	1948	Bambi-Verleihung	Self	90
5	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
6	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse		63
7	1948	Studio One		50
8	1948	Studio One	Philip Carey	50
9	1948	Studio One	Edward Rochester	50
10	1948	Studio One	Col. / Dr. Michael Knowle	50
11	1948	Studio One	Petruchio	50
12	1948	Studio One	Mitch Henderson	50
13	1948	Studio One	Heathcliff	50
14	1948	Studio One	Macbeth	50
15	1948	Studio One	James Otis	50
16	1948	Studio One	Merton Densher	50
17	1948	Studio One	Commander Schneider	50
18	1949	Suspense		49
19	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents	Cashel Bryon	56
20	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents	Peter Handley	56
21	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents	Melody Jones	56
22	1950	What's My Line?	Self - Mystery Guest	69
23	1950	Your Show of Shows	Self - Guest Performer	63
24	1950	Your Show of Shows	Self - Guest Host	63
25	1950	The Colgate Comedy Hour	Self	68
26	1950	The Colgate Comedy Hour	Self - Host	68
27	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars		73
28	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Thomas Jefferson	86
29	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex	86
30	1952	Omnibus	Self - Presenter	60
31	1953	General Electric Theater	Tim	63
32	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
33	1954	Climax!	Lt. Paul Peterson	33
34	1954	Climax!	Chipman	33
35	1955	The $64,000 Question	Substitute Host	0
36	1956	The Steve Allen Show	Self - Actor	56
37	1956	The Steve Allen Show	Self - Guest	56
38	1956	Playhouse 90	Col. Jesse Price	76
39	1958	Shirley Temple's Storybook	Beast	62
40	1961	Kraft Mystery Theatre	Paul Malone (archive footage)	60
41	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
42	1962	The Merv Griffin Show	Self	58
43	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
44	1965	F.D.R.	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	0
45	1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest	67
46	1971	V.I.P. Schaukel	Self	60
47	1973	The American Film Institute Salute to ...	Self	63
48	1974	Spécial cinéma	Self	0
49	1974	Dinah!	Self	67
50	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
51	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	70
52	1978	The Kennedy Center Honors	Self	74
53	1981	Dynasty	Jason Colby	65
54	1982	Wogan	Self	45
55	1983	Chiefs	Hugh Holmes	79
56	1985	The Colbys	Jason Colby	61
57	1987	The Dame Edna Experience	Self	50
58	1988	Korea: The Unknown War	General Douglas MacArthur (voice)	0
59	1991	Pebble Mill	Self	31
60	1991	Noel's House Party	Star guest	72
61	1993	seaQuest DSV	Abalon	70
62	1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Self - Guest	72
63	1994	Space Ghost Coast to Coast	Self	78
64	1994	Friends	Charlton Heston	84
65	1995	The Outer Limits	Chief Justice Haden Wainwright	77
66	1995	Eco-Challenge		80
67	1995	MADtv	Self	69
68	1998	Sworn to Secrecy: Secrets of War	Self - Narrator (voice)	60
69	1998	Secrets of War: Shadows of The Reich	Self - Narrator (voice)	0
70	1999	Camino de Santiago	Professor Marcelo Rinaldi	60
71	2000	The Weber Show	Charlton Heston	78
72	2013	Talking Pictures	Self (archive footage)	50
73		Science Fiction Film Awards	Himself	0