Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston was an American actor of film, theatre and television. Heston 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.

Geburtstag: 04.10.1923

Todestag: 05.04.2008

Geburtsort: Wilmette, Illinois, USA

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Anzahl der Filme, die wir schon mit Charlton Heston gesehen haben: 1

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Anzahl aller Filme, in denen Charlton Heston mitgespielt hat: 171

2023
  • Charlton Heston: Radical to Right Wing
    Rolle: Self (archive footage)
2020
  • Yul Brynner, the Magnificent
    Rolle: Self - Actor (archive footage)
2019
  • Todos los nombres de Sara
    Rolle: Self - Actor (archive footage)
  • Hail Satan?
    Rolle: Self - Actor (archive footage)
  • Sword-and-Sandal
    Rolle: Self (archive footage)
  • I Am Richard Pryor
    Rolle: Self - Actor (archive footage)
  • Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"
    Rolle: (archive footage)
2017
  • The Madding Crowd
    Rolle: Self (archive footage)
2016
  • Bienvenido Mr. Heston
    Rolle: Self (archive footage)
  • The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille
    Rolle: Self
2015
  • Spanish Western
    Rolle: Self (archive footage)
2014
  • Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
    Rolle: Self - Actor (archive footage)
  • Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
    Rolle: Self - Actor (archive footage)
  • And the Oscar Goes To...
    Rolle: Self (archive footage)
2011
  • Charlton Heston and Ben-Hur: A Personal Journey
    Rolle: Self (archive footage)
2010
  • Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
    Rolle: Self – Interviewee
2008
  • Greatest Heroes and Legends: The Story of Moses
    Rolle: Self - Host / Moses
2007
  • AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
    Rolle: Self (archive footage)
2006
  • De Madrid a la Luna
    Rolle: Self (archive footage)
2005
  • Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
    Rolle: Self (archive footage)
2004
  • Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
    Rolle: Self (archive footage)
  • Remembering Reagan at His Ranch
    Rolle: Host
2003
  • Christmas in Hollywood
    Rolle: Self (archive footage)
  • My Father
    Rolle: Josef Mengele
  • Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Jonah and the Whale
    Rolle: Self - Host
  • Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Joshua and the Battle of Jericho
    Rolle: Self - Host
  • Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: David and Goliath
    Rolle: Self - Host
  • Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Samson and Delilah
    Rolle: Self - Host
  • Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: Daniel and the Lion's Den
    Rolle: Self - Host
  • Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: The Garden of Eden
    Rolle: Self - Host
  • Ben Hur
    Rolle: Ben Hur (voice)
  • Lasting Love
    Rolle:
2002
  • Edith Head: The Paramount Years
    Rolle: (archive footage)
  • Bowling for Columbine
    Rolle: Self - NRA President
2001
  • Planet of the Apes
    Rolle: Zaius
  • Cats & Dogs
    Rolle: The Mastiff (voice)
  • The Gun Deadlock
    Rolle: Self
  • The Order
    Rolle: Professor Finley
  • Town & Country
    Rolle: Mr. Clayborne
2000
  • Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints
    Rolle: Self
1999
  • Any Given Sunday
    Rolle: Commissioner
  • Yesterday's Tomorrows
    Rolle: Self
  • Television: The First Fifty Years
    Rolle: Self
  • Forever Hollywood
    Rolle: Self
1998
  • Private Screenings: Charlton Heston
    Rolle: Self
  • Gideon
    Rolle: Addison Sinclair
  • Behind the Planet of the Apes
    Rolle: Self - 'Taylor' (also archive footage)
  • Alaska: Spirit of the Wild
    Rolle: Narrator (voice)
  • Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
    Rolle: Self
  • Armageddon
    Rolle: Narration (voice)
1997
  • Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Genesis
    Rolle: Self - Host
  • Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
    Rolle: Self
  • Hercules
    Rolle: Narrator (voice)
  • Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
    Rolle: Self
  • Charlton Heston Presents the Bible
    Rolle: Self - Narrator
1996
  • Hamlet
    Rolle: Player King
  • Love in Hollywood
    Rolle: Self
  • Alaska
    Rolle: Perry
  • Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
    Rolle: Self
  • Andersonville Diaries
    Rolle: Narrator
  • The Mysterious Origins of Man
    Rolle: Self - Host
  • The Dark Mist
    Rolle: Narrator (voice)
1995
  • Texas
    Rolle: Narrator
  • Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
    Rolle: Self
  • In the Mouth of Madness
    Rolle: Jackson Harglow
  • The Avenging Angel
    Rolle: Brigham Young
1994
  • True Lies
    Rolle: Spencer Trilby
  • Charlie Sheen's Stunts Spectacular
    Rolle: Self (archive footage)
  • The Legacy of Malthus
    Rolle: Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
  • The Bible According to Hollywood
    Rolle: Self
  • A Century of Cinema
    Rolle: Self
1993
  • Tombstone
    Rolle: Henry Hooker
  • Wayne's World 2
    Rolle: Good Actor
  • The Mystery of the Sphinx
    Rolle: Narrator
  • Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Jesus of Nazareth
    Rolle: Self - Host
  • Charlton Heston Presents The Bible: The Story of Moses
    Rolle: Self - Host
1992
  • Noël
    Rolle: Narrator
  • Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232
    Rolle: Captain Al Haynes
1991
  • The Crucifer of Blood
    Rolle: Sherlock Holmes
  • Air Force One: The Planes and the Presidents
    Rolle: Host and Narrator
1990
  • Almost an Angel
    Rolle: God
  • The Little Kidnappers
    Rolle: James MacKenzie
  • Solar Crisis
    Rolle: Adm. "Skeet" Kelso
  • With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film
    Rolle: Self
  • Treasure Island
    Rolle: Long John Silver
1989
  • Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
    Rolle: Self
  • Original Sin
    Rolle: Louis Mancini
  • Call from Space
    Rolle: Alien (voice)
1988
  • A Man for All Seasons
    Rolle: Sir Thomas More
1987
  • Proud Men
    Rolle: Charley MacLeod Sr.
  • Andrew Weyth, The Helga Pictures
    Rolle: Self - Host
  • Eclipse of Reason
    Rolle: Narrator
1986
  • The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
    Rolle: Self
  • Directed by William Wyler
    Rolle: Self
1984
  • Nairobi Affair
    Rolle: Lee Cahill
1982
  • Barry Norman in Celebrity City
    Rolle: Self
  • Mother Lode
    Rolle: Silas McGee / Ian McGee
  • Let Poland Be Poland
    Rolle: Self - Co-Host
1981
  • This Is Your Life: 30th Anniversary Special
    Rolle: Self
1980
  • The Awakening
    Rolle: Matthew Corbeck
  • The Mountain Men
    Rolle: Bill Tyler
1978
  • Gray Lady Down
    Rolle: Captain Paul Blanchard
1977
  • Energy: A National Issue
    Rolle: Narrator
  • The Prince and the Pauper
    Rolle: Henry VIII
1976
  • Two-Minute Warning
    Rolle: Capt. Peter Holly
  • America at the Movies
    Rolle: Narrator
  • Midway
    Rolle: Capt. Matthew Garth
  • The Last Hard Men
    Rolle: Sam Burgade
1974
  • Earthquake
    Rolle: Stewart Graff
  • The Four Musketeers
    Rolle: Cardinal Richelieu
  • Airport 1975
    Rolle: Alan Murdock
1973
  • The Three Musketeers
    Rolle: Cardinal Richelieu
  • Soylent Green
    Rolle: Detective Robert Thorn
  • A Look at the World of 'Soylent Green'
    Rolle: Self
1972
  • The Call of the Wild
    Rolle: John Thornton
  • Skyjacked
    Rolle: Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara
  • Antony and Cleopatra
    Rolle: Marc Antony
  • The Special London Bridge Special
    Rolle: Tennis Player
1971
  • Vietnam! Vietnam!
    Rolle: Narrator (voice)
  • The Omega Man
    Rolle: Robert Neville
  • The Last Man Alive: The Omega Man
    Rolle: Self - Narrator
1970
  • The Hawaiians
    Rolle: Whip Hoxworth
  • Julius Caesar
    Rolle: Marc Antony
  • Beneath the Planet of the Apes
    Rolle: Taylor
  • King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
    Rolle: Self (archive footage)
1969
  • Number One
    Rolle: Ron "Cat" Catlan
1968
  • Planet of the Apes
    Rolle: George Taylor
  • Rowan & Martin At the Movies
    Rolle: Self
1967
  • Counterpoint
    Rolle: Lionel Evans
  • Will Penny
    Rolle: Will Penny
  • While I Run This Race
    Rolle: Narrator
1966
  • Khartoum
    Rolle: Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon
1965
  • The War Lord
    Rolle: Chrysagon
  • The Agony and the Ecstasy
    Rolle: Michelangelo
  • Uncertain Verification
    Rolle: (archive footage)
  • The Greatest Story Ever Told
    Rolle: John the Baptist
  • Major Dundee
    Rolle: Major Amos Charles Dundee
1963
  • The Patriots
    Rolle: Thomas Jefferson
  • The Five Cities of June
    Rolle: Narrator
  • 55 Days at Peking
    Rolle: Maj. Matt Lewis
1962
  • Diamond Head
    Rolle: Richard 'King' Howland
  • The Pigeon That Took Rome
    Rolle: Captain Paul MacDougall / Benny the Snatch / Narrator
1961
  • El Cid
    Rolle: El Cid Rodrigo de Vivar
1959
  • Ben-Hur
    Rolle: Judah Ben-Hur
  • The Wreck of the Mary Deare
    Rolle: John Sands
1958
  • The Buccaneer
    Rolle: Gen. Andrew Jackson
  • The Big Country
    Rolle: Steve Leech
  • Touch of Evil
    Rolle: Ramon Miguel Vargas
  • Fun in the Big Country
    Rolle: Self
1956
  • Three Violent People
    Rolle: Capt. Colt Saunders
  • The Ten Commandments
    Rolle: Moses
  • Forbidden Area
    Rolle: Col. Jesse Price
  • Stars of Cabaret
    Rolle: Self (archive footage)
1955
  • Lucy Gallant
    Rolle: Casey Cole
  • The Private War of Major Benson
    Rolle: Maj. Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson
  • The Far Horizons
    Rolle: Lt. William Clark
1954
  • Secret of the Incas
    Rolle: Harry Steel
  • The Naked Jungle
    Rolle: Christopher Leiningen
1953
  • Bad for Each Other
    Rolle: Dr. Tom Owen
  • Three Lives
    Rolle: Self
  • Arrowhead
    Rolle: Ed Bannon
  • Pony Express
    Rolle: Captain William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
  • The President's Lady
    Rolle: Andrew Jackson
1952
  • Ruby Gentry
    Rolle: Boake Tackman
  • The Savage
    Rolle: James 'Jim' Aherne Jr. / War Bonnet
  • The Greatest Show on Earth
    Rolle: Brad Braden
1951
  • A Bolt of Lightning
    Rolle: James Otis
1950
  • Dark City
    Rolle: Danny Haley
  • Julius Caesar
    Rolle: Mark Antony
1949
  • Jane Eyre
    Rolle: Edward Rochester
1941
  • Peer Gynt
    Rolle: Peer Gynt