Charlton Heston
Acting
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.
Airports
Planet of the Apes: A Milestone of Science Fiction
Self (archive footage)
Charlton Heston: Radical to Right Wing
Self (archive footage)
Yul Brynner, the Magnificent
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Todos los nombres de Sara
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Hail Satan?
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
Self - Actor (archive footage)
I Am Richard Pryor
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"
(archive footage)
The Madding Crowd
Self (archive footage)
Bienvenido Mr. Heston
Self (archive footage)
The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille
Self
Spanish Western
Self (archive footage)
Children of the Civil Rights
Self (archival footage)
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
Self (archive footage)
Charlton Heston and Ben-Hur: A Personal Journey
Self (archive footage)
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
(archive footage)
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Self – Interviewee
Hollywood sul Tevere
Greatest Heroes and Legends: The Story of Moses
Self - Host / Moses
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
Self (archive footage)
De Madrid a la Luna
Self (archive footage)
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self (archive footage)
Remembering Reagan at His Ranch
Host
Christmas in Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
The Making of The Ten Commandments
Self (archive footage)
My Father
Josef Mengele
Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Joshua and the Battle of Jericho
Self - Host
Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: The Garden of Eden
Self - Host
Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Samson and Delilah
Self - Host
Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Jonah and the Whale
Self - Host
Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: David and Goliath
Self - Host
Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: Daniel and the Lion's Den
Self - Host
Ben Hur
Ben Hur (voice)
Lasting Love
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
Self (archive footage)
The Face of Evil: Reinhard Heydrich
Narrator (voice)
Bowling for Columbine
Self - NRA President
The Making of 'Tombstone'
Self
Last Party 2000
Self
The Making of Midway
Self
Planet of the Apes
Zaius (uncredited)
Cats & Dogs
The Mastiff (voice)
The Gun Deadlock
Self
The Order
Professor Finley
Town & Country
Mr. Clayborne
Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints
Self
Any Given Sunday
AFFA Football Commissioner
Yesterday's Tomorrows
Self
Forever Hollywood
Self
Television: The First Fifty Years
Self
Private Screenings: Charlton Heston
Self
Gideon
Addison Sinclair
Behind the Planet of the Apes
Self - 'Taylor'
Alaska: Spirit of the Wild
Narrator (voice)
Armageddon
Narration (voice)
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
Self
Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Genesis
Self - Host
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Self
Hercules
Narrator (voice)
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Self
Charlton Heston Presents the Bible
Self - Narrator
Hamlet
Player King
Love in Hollywood
Self
Alaska
Perry
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Self
Andersonville Diaries
Narrator
The Mysterious Origins of Man
Self - Host
The Lord Protector
Narrator (voice)
Texas
Narrator
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
Self
In the Mouth of Madness
Jackson Harglow
The Avenging Angel
Brigham Young
True Lies
Spencer Trilby
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
Self
A Century of Cinema
Self
The Bible According to Hollywood
Self
The Legacy of Malthus
Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
Tombstone
Henry Hooker
Wayne's World 2
Good Actor
The Mystery of the Sphinx
Narrator
Charlton Heston Presents The Bible: The Story of Moses
Self - Host
Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Jesus of Nazareth
Self - Host
Noël
Narrator
Solar Crisis
Adm. "Skeet" Kelso
Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232
Captain Al Haynes
Symphony for the Spire
The Crucifer of Blood
Sherlock Holmes
Cults: Saying No Under Pressure
Narrator
Air Force One: The Planes and the Presidents
Host and Narrator
Almost an Angel
God
A Night on Mount Edna
Self
The Little Kidnappers
James MacKenzie
With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film
Self
Treasure Island
Long John Silver
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
Self
Original Sin
Louis Mancini
Call from Space
Alien (voice)
A Man for All Seasons
Sir Thomas More
Proud Men
Charley MacLeod Sr.
Andrew Weyth, The Helga Pictures
Self - Host
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Self
Eclipse of Reason
Narrator
The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
Self
Directed by William Wyler
Self
The Stars Salute the U.S. Olympic Team
Self - Performer
Nairobi Affair
Lee Cahill
Barry Norman in Celebrity City
Self
Mother Lode
Silas McGee / Ian McGee
The Orson Welles Story
Self
Let Poland Be Poland
Self - Co-Host
This Is Your Life: 30th Anniversary Special
Self
The Awakening
Matthew Corbeck
The Mountain Men
Bill Tyler
Gray Lady Down
Captain Paul Blanchard
Energy: A National Issue
Narrator (voice)
The Prince and the Pauper
Henry VIII
Two-Minute Warning
Capt. Peter Holly
America at the Movies
Narrator
Midway
Capt. Matthew Garth
The Last Hard Men
Sam Burgade
Earthquake
Stewart Graff
The Four Musketeers
Cardinal Richelieu
Airport 1975
Alan Murdock
The Three Musketeers
Cardinal Richelieu
Soylent Green
Detective Robert Thorn
A Look at the World of 'Soylent Green'
Self
The Call of the Wild
John Thornton
Skyjacked
Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara
Antony and Cleopatra
Marc Antony
The Special London Bridge Special
Tennis Player
Vietnam! Vietnam!
Narrator (voice)
The Omega Man
Robert Neville
The Last Man Alive: The Omega Man
Self - Narrator
The Hawaiians
Whip Hoxworth
Julius Caesar
Marc Antony
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Taylor
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Self (archive footage)
Number One
Ron "Cat" Catlan
Planet of the Apes
George Taylor
Elizabeth the Queen
Lord Essex
Rowan & Martin at the Movies
Self
Counterpoint
Lionel Evans
Will Penny
Will Penny
While I Run This Race
Narrator
Khartoum
Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon
Planet of the Apes Test Reel
Thomas
The War Lord
Chrysagon
Night of the Dragon
Narrator
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Michelangelo
Uncertain Verification
(archive footage)
The Greatest Story Ever Told
John the Baptist
Major Dundee
Major Amos Charles Dundee
The Patriots
Thomas Jefferson
The Five Cities of June
Narrator
55 Days at Peking
Maj. Matt Lewis
Look at Life: The City's Built for Shooting
Self
The Greatest All-Star Advertial of All Time
Self
Diamond Head
Richard 'King' Howland
The Pigeon That Took Rome
Captain Paul MacDougall / Benny the Snatch / Narrator
El Cid
El Cid Rodrigo de Vivar
Ben-Hur
Judah Ben-Hur
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
John Sands
The Buccaneer
Gen. Andrew Jackson
The Big Country
Steve Leech
Touch of Evil
Ramon Miguel Vargas
Fun in the Big Country
Self
Three Violent People
Colt Saunders
The Ten Commandments
Moses
Forbidden Area
Col. Jesse Price
Stars of Cabaret
Self (archive footage)
Lucy Gallant
Casey Cole
The Private War of Major Benson
Maj. Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson
The Far Horizons
Lt. William Clark
Secret of the Incas
Harry Steel
The Naked Jungle
Christopher Leiningen
Bad for Each Other
Dr. Tom Owen
Three Lives
Self
Arrowhead
Ed Bannon
Pony Express
Captain William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
The President's Lady
Andrew Jackson
Ruby Gentry
Boake Tackman
The Savage
James 'Jim' Aherne Jr. / War Bonnet
The Greatest Show on Earth
Brad Braden
A Bolt of Lightning
James Otis
Studio One: Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff
Dark City
Danny Haley
The Taming of the Shrew
Petruchio
Julius Caesar
Mark Antony
Jane Eyre
Edward Rochester
Peer Gynt
Peer Gynt