Charlton Heston
Acting
🎂 1923-10-04
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.
Cast credits(256)
Charlton Heston
1994
Self
1962
Self - Host
1975
Jason Colby
1981
Self
1961
Self
1982
Lt. Paul Peterson
1954
Chipman
1954
Cashel Bryon
1950
Peter Handley
1950
Melody Jones
1950
Self
1944
Self - Presenter
1944
Self - Nominee
1944
1948
Philip Carey
1948
Edward Rochester
1948
Col. / Dr. Michael Knowle
1948
Petruchio
1948
Heathcliff
1948
Mitch Henderson
1948
Macbeth
1948
James Otis
1948
Merton Densher
1948
Commander Schneider
1948
1948
Self
1975
Chief Justice Haden Wainwright
1995
Self - Presenter
1952
Self
1994
Abalon
1993
Narrator (voice)
1997
Self - Guest
1993
Narration (voice)
1998
1949
Moses
1956
Self
1950
Self - Host
1950
Self
1948
Self
1953
Col. Jesse Price
1956
Self - Mystery Guest
1950
Self
1948
Self
1974
Self
1974
George Taylor
1968
Henry Hooker
1993
Self - Guest
1968
Spencer Trilby
1994
Judah Ben-Hur
1959
Self
1978
Zaius (uncredited)
2001
Self - Actor
1956
Self - Guest
1956
Capt. Matthew Garth
1976
Beast
1958
AFFA Football Commissioner
1999
Taylor
1970
Self
1991
Good Actor
1993
Jason Colby
1985
Self (archive footage)
2013
The Mastiff (voice)
2001
Self
1971
Jackson Harglow
1995
John the Baptist
1965
Ramon Miguel Vargas
1958
Self
1973
Detective Robert Thorn
1973
Self (archive footage)
2014
Self - Narrator (voice)
1998
Player King
1996
Steve Leech
1958
1995
Stewart Graff
1974
Self - Guest Performer
1950
Self - Guest Host
1950
El Cid Rodrigo de Vivar
1961
Cardinal Richelieu
1973
James Otis
1951
Michelangelo
1965
Self (archive footage)
2013
Alan Murdock
1974
Colt Saunders
1956
Cardinal Richelieu
1974
Star guest
1991
Perry
1996
Christopher Leiningen
1954
Maj. Matt Lewis
1963
Long John Silver
1990
Marc Antony
1970
Major Amos Charles Dundee
1965
Henry VIII
1977
Self
1999
Robert Neville
1971
Professor Finley
2001
Adm. "Skeet" Kelso
1992
Self
1987
Self
1997
Self - NRA President
2002
Will Penny
1967
Lt. William Clark
1955
Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon
1966
Thomas Jefferson
1951
Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex
1951
John Sands
1959
Self
1986
Captain Paul Blanchard
1978
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2014
(archive footage)
2010
Gen. Andrew Jackson
1958
Bill Tyler
1980
Charley MacLeod Sr.
1987
Self (archive footage)
2007
Marc Antony
1972
Self
1986
(archive footage)
2002
Self (archive footage)
2023
Self
2001
Narrator (voice)
1996
1984
Self – Interviewee
2010
Captain William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
1953
Whip Hoxworth
1970
Self - 'Taylor'
1998
Matthew Corbeck
1980
James 'Jim' Aherne Jr. / War Bonnet
1952
God
1990
Self (archive footage)
2006
Self
1994
Tim
1953
Ben Hur (voice)
2003
Self
1968
Hugh Holmes
1983
Self (archive footage)
2003
Lionel Evans
1967
Chrysagon
1965
Capt. Peter Holly
1976
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2014
Self
1987
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2019
Self
1996
Self
1958
Addison Sinclair
1998
Self
1996
1951
Maj. Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson
1955
Harry Steel
1954
Self
1999
Self (archive footage)
2011
James MacKenzie
1990
Edward Rochester
1949
Sam Burgade
1976
Self
1995
Self
1989
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2019
Self (archive footage)
1970
(archive footage)
1965
Brad Braden
1952
Narrator (voice)
1977
Charlton Heston
2000
Paul Malone (archive footage)
1961
Col. Jesse Price
1956
Danny Haley
1950
Josef Mengele
2003
Andrew Jackson
1953
Self - Host
2003
Thomas Jefferson
1963
Ed Bannon
1953
Ron "Cat" Catlan
1969
Self - Host
2003
Self (archive footage)
2004
Mr. Clayborne
2001
Self
1998
Sir Thomas More
1988
Dr. Tom Owen
1953
Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara
1972
John Thornton
1972
Self (archive footage)
1994
Self (archive footage)
2005
Self
1995
Casey Cole
1955
Brigham Young
1995
Self
1999
Self
1997
Self - Host
2003
Self
2000
Sherlock Holmes
1991
Boake Tackman
1952
Self (archive footage)
1956
Self - Co-Host
1982
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2019
Self (archive footage)
2017
Self
1982
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2020
Narrator
1995
Louis Mancini
1989
Narrator (voice)
1998
Self
1953
Professor Marcelo Rinaldi
1999
Self
2001
Host and Narrator
1991
Self (archive footage)
2015
Himself
Substitute Host
1955
Captain Al Haynes
1992
Self - Host
2003
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1965
Captain Paul MacDougall / Benny the Snatch / Narrator
1962
Self - Narrator (voice)
1998
Peer Gynt
1941
General Douglas MacArthur (voice)
1988
Silas McGee / Ian McGee
1982
Self
1994
Self - Host / Moses
2008
Richard 'King' Howland
1962
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2019
Self - Host
2003
Self
1973
Narrator
1993
Tennis Player
1972
Lord Essex
1968
Self
1990
Alien (voice)
1989
Narrator
1992
Thomas
1966
Self - Host
2003
Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
1994
Self
2001
Self - Narrator
1971
Self (archive footage)
2016
Self
1998
Narrator (voice)
2002
Mark Antony
1950
Self (archive footage)
2024
Lee Cahill
1984
Self
1994
Self
2016
Narrator
1976
Self - Host
1993
(archive footage)
2019
Self - Host
1993
Narrator
1963
Self - Host
1987
Self - Narrator
1997
2003
Self - Host
1996
Host
2004
Narrator (voice)
1971
Self (archive footage)
2003
Narrator
1987
Self - Host
1997
Narrator
1967
Self
1981
Narrator
1996
Self
1963