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Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter) was 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

Aliases
  • Charlton Easton
English
Filmography

Hercules

1997
as Narrator (voice)

Planet of the Apes

2001
as Zaius

Planet of the Apes

1968
as George Taylor

Armageddon

1998
as Narrator

Cats & Dogs

2001
as Mastiff(voice)

True Lies

1994
as Spencer Trilby

Ben-Hur

1959
as Judah Ben-Hur

Beneath the Planet of the Apes

1970
as Taylor

Diamond Head

1963
as Richard 'King' Howland

Chiefs

1983
as Hugh Holmes

Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema

2005
as Himself (2001 Interview) (archive footage)

The Call of the Wild

1972
as John Thornton

The War Lord

1965
as Chrysagon

The Ten Commandments

1956
as Moses

The Little Kidnappers

1990
as James MacKenzie

Number One

1969
as Ron Catlan

While I Run This Race

1967
as Narrator

Secrets Of War: The Price of War

1998
as Narrator

Will Penny

1967
as Will Penny

Charlton Heston and Ben-Hur: A Personal Journey

2011
as Charlton Heston

The Bible According to Hollywood

1994
as Charlton Heston

The Crucifer of Blood

1991
as Sherlock Holmes

Julius Caesar

1950
as Mark Antony

The Awakening

1980
as Matthew Corbeck

Dark City

1950
as Danny Haley / Richard Branton

The Omega Man

1971
as Robert Neville

Vietnam! Vietnam!

1971
as Narrator (voice)

Skyjacked

1972
as Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara

Orson Welles: Shadows & Light

2015
as Self (archive footage)

Forever Hollywood

1999
as Charlton Heston

Nairobi Affair

1984
as Lee Cahill

Texas

1995
as Narrator

Major Dundee

1965
as Major Amos Charles Dundee

Town & Country

2001
as Mr. Clayborne

Touch of Evil

1958
as Ramon Miguel Vargas

The Hawaiians

1970
as Whip Hoxworth

America 2Night

1978

Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen

2013
as Charlton Heston

The President's Lady

1953
as Andrew Jackson

Studio One: Wuthering Heights

1950
as Heathcliff

Bowling for Columbine

2002
as Himself - NRA President

Call from Space

1989
as Alien

Forbidden Area

1956
as Col. Jesse Price

Ruby Gentry

1952
as Boake Tackman

The Savage

1952
as James 'Jim' Aherne Jr. / War Bonnet

Proud Men

1987
as Charley MacLeod Sr.

The Best of Film Noir

1999
as Charlton Heston

The Mountain Men

1980
as Bill Tyler

Gray Lady Down

1978
as Captain Paul Blanchard

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

2000
as Charlton Heston

Earthquake

1974
as Stewart Graff

In the Mouth of Madness

1994
as Jackson Harglow

The Five Cities of June

1963
as Narrator

55 Days at Peking

1963
as Maj. Matt Lewis

Bienvenido Mr. Heston

2015
as Charlton Heston

The Wreck of the Mary Deare

1959
as John Sands

The Big Country

1958
as Steve Leech

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

2010
as Himself - Interviewee

The Colbys

1985
as Jason Colby

Treasure Island

1990
as Long John Silver

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

1970

A Century of Science Fiction

1996
as Charlton Heston

Verifica incerta - Disperse Exclamatory Phase

1965
as (archive footage)

The Naked Jungle

1954
as Christopher Leiningen

The Far Horizons

1955
as Lt. William Clark

Counterpoint

1968
as Lionel Evans

Airport 1975

1974
as Alan Murdock

Mother Earth

as Narrator (voice)

Camino de Santiago

1999
as Profesor Marcelo Rinaldi

Khartoum

1966
as Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon

Charlton Heston Presents the Bible

1992
as Charlton Heston

The Private War of Major Benson

1955
as Maj. Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson

Rowan & Martin At the Movies

1968
as Himself

The Buccaneer

1958
as Gen. Andrew Jackson

The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille

2016
as Charlton Heston

Bob Hope: Memories of World War II

1995
as Charlton Heston

Alaska: Spirit of the Wild

1998
as Narrator (voice)

Solar Crisis

1990
as Adm. Skeet Kelso

Wayne's World 2

1993
as Good Actor

Rex Harrison: The Man Who Would Be King

1998
as Self - Actor

De Madrid a la Lluna

2006
as Charlton Heston

Ben Hur

2003
as Ben Hur (voice)

Arrowhead

1953
as Ed Bannon

Peer Gynt

1941
as Peer Gynt

Three Violent People

1956
as Capt. Colt Saunders

My Father, Rua Alguem 5555

2003
as The Father (Josef Mengele)

Secrets Of War: On All Fronts

1998
as Narrator

Tombstone

1993
as Henry Hooker

Arena: The Orson Welles Story

1982
as Charlton Heston

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

2007

Christmas from Hollywood

2003

The Mystery of the Sphinx

1993
as Narrator

Mother Lode

1982
as Silas McGee / Ian McGee

Charlie Sheen's Stunts Spectacular

1994
as Himself - (archive footage)

El Cid

1961
as El Cid

Gideon

1998
as Addison Sinclair

The Greatest Show on Earth

1952
as Brad Braden

Bad for Each Other

1953
as Dr. Tom Owen

Pony Express

1953
as Captain William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cody

Secrets Of War: Modern War

1998
as Narrator

The Greatest Story Ever Told

1965
as John the Baptist

Julius Caesar

1970
as Marc Antony

Hollywood Aliens & Monsters

1997
as Charlton Heston

Todos los nombres de Sara

2019
as Self - Actor (archive footage)

Secret of the Incas

1954
as Harry Steel

The Pigeon That Took Rome

1962
as Captain Paul MacDougall / Benny the Snatch / Narrator

Eclipse of Reason

1987
as Charlton Heston

The Agony and the Ecstasy

1965
as Michelangelo

Lucy Gallant

1955
as Casey Cole

The Avenging Angel

1995
as Brigham Young

Hamlet

1996
as Player King

The Three Musketeers

1973
as Cardinal Richelieu

Soylent Green

1973
as Detective Robert Thorn

Secrets of War: Declassified

as Narrator

Alaska

1996

Any Given Sunday

1999
as Commissioner

Almost an Angel

1990
as God

The Prince and the Pauper

1977
as Henry VIII

Two-Minute Warning

1976
as Capt. Peter Holly

The Dark Mist

1996
as Narrator (voice)

Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232

1992
as Captain Al Haynes

The Order

2001
as Prof. Walter Finley

The Four Musketeers

1974
as Cardinal Richelieu

A Man for All Seasons

1988
as Sir Thomas More

Secrets of War

1998
as Narrator

The Last Hard Men

1976
as Sam Burgade

Behind the Planet of the Apes

1998
as Himself - 'Taylor' (also archive footage)

Secrets of War: Shadows of The Reich

1998

Secrets of War: Espionage

1998
as Host

Antony and Cleopatra

1972
as Marc Antony

Symphony for the Spire

1992
as Westmoreland

Midway

1976
as Capt. Matthew Garth

Director

Movie Antony and Cleopatra 1972
Movie Mother Lode 1982
Movie A Man for All Seasons 1988

Writer

Movie Antony and Cleopatra 1972
Episode Hollywood History
Epic 		1970

Guest Star

Episode The Academy Awards
The 45th Academy Awards 1973 		1973
Episode Shirley Temple's Storybook
Beauty and the Beast 		1958
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Charlton Heston, Billy Crystal, Michael Landon 		1976
Episode Tuesday Documentary
Barry Norman In Celebrity City 		1982
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
8th Anniversary Show 		1970
Episode Playhouse 90
Forbidden Area 		1956
Episode Carson on TCM
Doris Day, Charlton Heston, Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, Tony Curtis 		2013
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Jay Leno (guest host), Charlton Heston, Michael Johnson 		1989
Episode Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Dam 		1997
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Charlton Heston, Johnny Yune, Jack Douglas, Blair Brown 		1979
Episode seaQuest DSV
Abalon 		1994
Episode Discovering Film
Discovering Charlton Heston 		2014
Episode The Outer Limits (1995)
Final Appeal (1) 		2000
Episode Secrets Of War: Modern War
The Gulf War - Steel Rain 		1998
Episode Secrets Of War: Modern War
The Gulf War - Secrets in the Sand 		1998
Episode Secrets Of War: Modern War
The Gulf War - Architects of Desert Storm 		1999
Episode Secrets Of War: Modern War
The Gulf War - Iraq's Secrets 		1999
Episode Ruby Wax meets...
Goldie Hawn 		1996
Episode Secrets Of War: Deadly Intelligence
Mao's Secrets 		1998
Episode Secrets Of War: Modern War
The Invasion of Panama 		1998
Episode Suspense
Suspicion 		1949
Episode Secrets Of War: Deadly Intelligence
Shadows of the Six-Day War 		1999
Episode Secrets Of War: Deadly Intelligence
Israeli Intelligence 		1998
Episode The Outer Limits (1995)
Final Appeal (2) 		2000
Episode Secrets Of War: Deadly Intelligence
Korea - Behind the Bamboo Curtain 		1998
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Charlton Heston, Pat McCormick, Steve Stoliar, Larry Gelbart, David Lloyd 		1986
Episode Secrets Of War: Deadly Intelligence
Spies in the Sky 		1998
Episode General Electric Theater
The Seeds of Hate 		1955
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Charlton Heston 		1971
Episode Secrets of War: Shadows of The Reich
Hitler's Secrets 		1998
Episode Secrets of War: Shadows of The Reich
Secret Weapons of the Third Reich 		1998
Episode Secrets of War: Shadows of The Reich
Nazi Propaganda 		1998
Episode Secrets of War: Shadows of The Reich
Nazi Gold 		1998
Episode Dennis Miller Live
Gun Control 		1997
Episode Secrets of War: Shadows of The Reich
Rommel's Enigma 		1998
Episode Secrets of War: Shadows of The Reich
The Holocaust Secret 		1998
Episode Secrets of War: Shadows of The Reich
The Ultra Enigma 		1998
Episode Secrets of War: Shadows of The Reich
The Battle of the Atlantic 		1998
Episode Secrets of War: Shadows of The Reich
Sitzkrieg - The Phony War 		1998
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Charlton Heston, Norman Mailer, David Brenner 		1974
Episode Secrets of War: Shadows of The Reich
Hitler's Last Days 		1998
Episode Secrets Of War: The Price of War
Prisoners of War - The Barbed Wire Front 		1998
Episode Secrets Of War: The Price of War
Prisoners of War - Part Two 		1998
Episode Secrets Of War: The Price of War
Prisoners of War - Part Three 		1998
Episode Secrets Of War: The Price of War
The Balkans Tinderbox 		1998
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, Joe Canutt, Yakima Canutt 		1972
Episode Secrets Of War: The Price of War
WWI - Germany's Secret Gambles 		1999
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Charlton Heston, Sarah Vaughan, Jim Bouton, Michael Crichton 		1970
Episode Wogan
Charlton Heston, Roy Kinnear, Boy George and Roger Cook 		1987
Episode Your Show of Shows
A Rich Man's Joke 		1951
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Charlton Heston, Jim Brown, Bob and Ray, Ramsey Clark 		1972
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Jay Leno (guest host), Angie Dickinson, Charlton Heston, Penelope Ann Miller 		1989
Episode Saturday Night Live
Charlton Heston/Paul Westerberg 		1993
Episode Friends
The One with Joey's Dirty Day 		1998
Episode Secrets Of War: On All Fronts
The French Resistance 		1998
Episode Secrets Of War: On All Fronts
Japan: the Invasion That Never Was 		1998
Episode Secrets Of War: On All Fronts
The Battle of Britain 		1998
Episode Secrets Of War: On All Fronts
Hirohito's War 		1999
Episode Secrets Of War: On All Fronts
Mussolini's Henchmen 		1999
Episode Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Charlton Heston, Chuck Sklar, Marc Wright 		1993
Episode Suspense
Journey to Nowhere (aka. Santa Fe Flight) 		1951
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Charlton Heston, Meadowlark Lemon, Joseph Papp, Jonelle Allen, Alan Weeks, Jeff Goldblum 		1971
Episode The Dame Edna Experience
Jerry Hall, Charlton Heston, Patrick Lichfield 		1987
Episode Hollywood Goes to War
Unknown 		1970
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Jay Leno (guest host), Charlton Heston, Roy Blount, Jr. 		1990