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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

55 Days at Peking

1963
as Maj. Matt Lewis

A Century of Science Fiction

1996
as Charlton Heston

A Man for All Seasons

1988
as Sir Thomas More

AFI Lifetime Achievement Award: A Tribute to Fred Astaire

1999

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

2007

Airport 1975

1974
as Alan Murdock

Alaska

1996

Alaska: Spirit of the Wild

1998
as Narrator (voice)

Almost an Angel

1990
as God

America 2Night

1978

Antony and Cleopatra

1972
as Marc Antony

Any Given Sunday

1999
as Commissioner

Arena: The Orson Welles Story

1982
as Charlton Heston

Armageddon

1998
as Narrator

Arrowhead

1953
as Ed Bannon

Bad for Each Other

1953
as Dr. Tom Owen

Behind the Planet of the Apes

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

Ben Hur

2003
as Ben Hur (voice)

Ben-Hur

1959
as Judah Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema

2005
as Himself (2001 Interview) (archive footage)

Beneath the Planet of the Apes

1970
as Taylor

Bienvenido Mr. Heston

2015
as Charlton Heston

Bob Hope: Memories of World War II

1995
as Charlton Heston

Bowling for Columbine

2002
as Himself - NRA President

Call from Space

1989
as Alien

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

2010
as Himself - Interviewee

Camino de Santiago

1999
as Profesor Marcelo Rinaldi

Cats & Dogs

2001
as Mastiff(voice)

Charlie Sheen's Stunts Spectacular

1994
as Himself - (archive footage)

Charlton Heston Presents the Bible

1992
as Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston and Ben-Hur: A Personal Journey

2011
as Charlton Heston

Chiefs

1983
as Hugh Holmes

Christmas from Hollywood

2003

Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen

2013
as Charlton Heston

Counterpoint

1968
as Lionel Evans

Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232

1992
as Captain Al Haynes

Dark City

1950
as Danny Haley / Richard Branton

De Madrid a la Lluna

2006
as Charlton Heston

Diamond Head

1963
as Richard 'King' Howland

Earthquake

1974
as Stewart Graff

Eclipse of Reason

1987
as Charlton Heston

El Cid

1961
as El Cid

Forbidden Area

1956
as Col. Jesse Price

Forever Hollywood

1999
as Charlton Heston

Gideon

1998
as Addison Sinclair

Gray Lady Down

1978
as Captain Paul Blanchard

Hamlet

1996
as Player King

Hercules

1997
as Narrator (voice)

Hollywood Aliens & Monsters

1997
as Charlton Heston

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

2000
as Charlton Heston

In the Mouth of Madness

1994
as Jackson Harglow

Julius Caesar

1950
as Mark Antony

Julius Caesar

1970
as Marc Antony

Khartoum

1966
as Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

1970

Lucy Gallant

1955
as Casey Cole

Major Dundee

1965
as Major Amos Charles Dundee

Midway

1976
as Capt. Matthew Garth

Mother Earth

as Narrator (voice)

Mother Lode

1982
as Silas McGee / Ian McGee

My Father, Rua Alguem 5555

2003
as The Father (Josef Mengele)

Nairobi Affair

1984
as Lee Cahill

Number One

1969
as Ron Catlan

Orson Welles: Shadows & Light

2015
as Self (archive footage)

Peer Gynt

1941
as Peer Gynt

Planet of the Apes

2001
as Zaius

Planet of the Apes

1968
as George Taylor

Pony Express

1953
as Captain William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cody

Proud Men

1987
as Charley MacLeod Sr.

Rex Harrison: The Man Who Would Be King

1998
as Self - Actor

Rowan & Martin At the Movies

1968
as Himself

Ruby Gentry

1952
as Boake Tackman

Secret of the Incas

1954
as Harry Steel

Secrets Of War: Modern War

1998
as Narrator

Secrets Of War: On All Fronts

1998
as Narrator

Secrets Of War: The Price of War

1998
as Narrator

Secrets of War

1998
as Narrator

Secrets of War: Declassified

as Narrator

Secrets of War: Espionage

1998
as Host

Secrets of War: Shadows of The Reich

1998

Skyjacked

1972
as Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara

Solar Crisis

1990
as Adm. Skeet Kelso

Soylent Green

1973
as Detective Robert Thorn

Studio One: Wuthering Heights

1950
as Heathcliff

Symphony for the Spire

1992
as Westmoreland

Texas

1995
as Narrator

The Agony and the Ecstasy

1965
as Michelangelo

The Avenging Angel

1995
as Brigham Young

The Awakening

1980
as Matthew Corbeck

The Best of Film Noir

1999
as Charlton Heston

The Bible According to Hollywood

1994
as Charlton Heston

The Big Country

1958
as Steve Leech

The Buccaneer

1958
as Gen. Andrew Jackson

The Call of the Wild

1972
as John Thornton

The Colbys

1985
as Jason Colby

The Crucifer of Blood

1991
as Sherlock Holmes

The Dark Mist

1996
as Narrator (voice)

The Far Horizons

1955
as Lt. William Clark

The Five Cities of June

1963
as Narrator

The Four Musketeers

1974
as Cardinal Richelieu

The Greatest Show on Earth

1952
as Brad Braden

The Greatest Story Ever Told

1965
as John the Baptist

The Hawaiians

1970
as Whip Hoxworth

The Last Hard Men

1976
as Sam Burgade

The Little Kidnappers

1990
as James MacKenzie

The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille

2016
as Charlton Heston

The Mountain Men

1980
as Bill Tyler

The Mystery of the Sphinx

1993
as Narrator

The Naked Jungle

1954
as Christopher Leiningen

The Omega Man

1971
as Robert Neville

The Order

2001
as Prof. Walter Finley

The Pigeon That Took Rome

1962
as Captain Paul MacDougall / Benny the Snatch / Narrator

The President's Lady

1953
as Andrew Jackson

The Prince and the Pauper

1977
as Henry VIII

The Private War of Major Benson

1955
as Maj. Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson

The Savage

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

The Ten Commandments

1956
as Moses

The Three Musketeers

1973
as Cardinal Richelieu

The War Lord

1965
as Chrysagon

The Wreck of the Mary Deare

1959
as John Sands

Three Violent People

1956
as Capt. Colt Saunders

Todos los nombres de Sara

2019
as Self - Actor (archive footage)

Tombstone

1993
as Henry Hooker

Touch of Evil

1958
as Ramon Miguel Vargas

Town & Country

2001
as Mr. Clayborne

Treasure Island

1990
as Long John Silver

True Lies

1994
as Spencer Trilby

Two-Minute Warning

1976
as Capt. Peter Holly

Verifica incerta - Disperse Exclamatory Phase

1965
as (archive footage)

Vietnam! Vietnam!

1971
as Narrator (voice)

Wayne's World 2

1993
as Good Actor

While I Run This Race

1967
as Narrator

Will Penny

1967
as Will Penny

Director

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

Writer

Movie Antony and Cleopatra 1972
Episode Hollywood History
Epic 		1970

Guest Star

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