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.
Planet of the Apes
George Taylor
Bowling for Columbine
Self - NRA President
Touch of Evil
Ramon Miguel Vargas
Solar Crisis
Adm. "Skeet" Kelso
Ben-Hur
Judah Ben-Hur
Will Penny
Will Penny
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Taylor
Hamlet
Player King
The Greatest Story Ever Told
John the Baptist
In the Mouth of Madness
Jackson Harglow
The Three Musketeers
Cardinal Richelieu
Earthquake
Stewart Graff
The Buccaneer
Gen. Andrew Jackson
The Omega Man
Robert Neville
Midway
Capt. Matthew Garth
Town & Country
Mr. Clayborne
The Ten Commandments
Moses
Two-Minute Warning
Capt. Peter Holly
Gray Lady Down
Captain Paul Blanchard
Tombstone
Henry Hooker
Hercules
Narrator (voice)
Soylent Green
Detective Robert Thorn
I Am Richard Pryor
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Wayne's World 2
Good Actor
Almost an Angel
God
Treasure Island
Long John Silver
Charlton Heston: Radical to Right Wing
Self (archive footage)
Yul Brynner, the Magnificent
Self - Actor (archive footage)
The Big Country
Steve Leech
The Greatest Show on Earth
Brad Braden
55 Days at Peking
Maj. Matt Lewis
The Legacy of Malthus
Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
Airport 1975
Alan Murdock
Alaska: Spirit of the Wild
Narrator (voice)
Secret of the Incas
Harry Steel
Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: Daniel and the Lion's Den
Self - Host
Khartoum
Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon
Major Dundee
Major Amos Charles Dundee
Dark City
Danny Haley
Julius Caesar
Marc Antony
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Michelangelo
The War Lord
Chrysagon
The Call of the Wild
John Thornton
True Lies
Spencer Trilby
Pony Express
Captain William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
Arrowhead
Ed Bannon
The Order
Professor Finley
The Naked Jungle
Christopher Leiningen
The Last Hard Men
Sam Burgade
El Cid
El Cid Rodrigo de Vivar
The Awakening
Matthew Corbeck
Behind the Planet of the Apes
Self - 'Taylor'
Love in Hollywood
Self
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
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Self
Ruby Gentry
Boake Tackman
The Lord Protector
Narrator (voice)
Bad for Each Other
Dr. Tom Owen
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Three Violent People
Colt Saunders
Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"
(archive footage)
The Mountain Men
Bill Tyler
The Hawaiians
Whip Hoxworth
The Far Horizons
Lt. William Clark
Mother Lode
Silas McGee / Ian McGee
Skyjacked
Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara
The Mystery of the Sphinx
Narrator
Number One
Ron "Cat" Catlan
Yesterday's Tomorrows
Self
The President's Lady
Andrew Jackson
Antony and Cleopatra
Marc Antony
Fun in the Big Country
Self
The Crucifer of Blood
Sherlock Holmes
Barry Norman in Celebrity City
Self
The Little Kidnappers
James MacKenzie
The Private War of Major Benson
Maj. Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson
Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232
Captain Al Haynes
Uncertain Verification
(archive footage)
The Avenging Angel
Brigham Young
The Savage
James 'Jim' Aherne Jr. / War Bonnet
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
John Sands
Lucy Gallant
Casey Cole
Remembering Reagan at His Ranch
Host
Diamond Head
Richard 'King' Howland
A Man for All Seasons
Sir Thomas More
Counterpoint
Lionel Evans
Charlton Heston and Ben-Hur: A Personal Journey
Self (archive footage)
The Pigeon That Took Rome
Captain Paul MacDougall / Benny the Snatch / Narrator
A Look at the World of 'Soylent Green'
Self
America at the Movies
Narrator
Nairobi Affair
Lee Cahill
Gideon
Addison Sinclair
Julius Caesar
Mark Antony
Noël
Narrator
The Five Cities of June
Narrator
While I Run This Race
Narrator
Lasting Love
Planet of the Apes
Zaius (uncredited)
Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Samson and Delilah
Self - Host
Proud Men
Charley MacLeod Sr.
Hail Satan?
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
Self
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
(archive footage)
Any Given Sunday
AFFA Football Commissioner
The Special London Bridge Special
Tennis Player
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Self – Interviewee
Jane Eyre
Edward Rochester
My Father
Josef Mengele
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Self
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Self
Let Poland Be Poland
Self - Co-Host
The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
Self
Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: The Garden of Eden
Self - Host
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
Self (archive footage)
A Bolt of Lightning
James Otis
Christmas in Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Planet of the Apes: A Milestone of Science Fiction
Self (archive footage)
Planet of the Apes Test Reel
Thomas
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
(archive footage)
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Self (archive footage)
Alaska
Perry
The Four Musketeers
Cardinal Richelieu
Rowan & Martin at the Movies
Self
The Making of Midway
Self
Cats & Dogs
The Mastiff (voice)
Peer Gynt
Peer Gynt
Call from Space
Alien (voice)
De Madrid a la Luna
Self (archive footage)
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
Self
The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille
Self
Eclipse of Reason
Narrator
The Prince and the Pauper
Henry VIII
Original Sin
Louis Mancini
Vietnam! Vietnam!
Narrator (voice)
Bienvenido Mr. Heston
Self (archive footage)
Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Jesus of Nazareth
Self - Host
Ben Hur
Ben Hur (voice)
Texas
Narrator
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Forever Hollywood
Self
The Bible According to Hollywood
Self
Stars of Cabaret
Self (archive footage)
Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Genesis
Self - Host
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Greatest Heroes and Legends: The Story of Moses
Self - Host / Moses
Directed by William Wyler
Self
A Century of Cinema
Self
Charlton Heston Presents the Bible
Self - Narrator
Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Joshua and the Battle of Jericho
Self - Host
Todos los nombres de Sara
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Energy: A National Issue
Narrator (voice)
Air Force One: The Planes and the Presidents
Host and Narrator
Spanish Western
Self (archive footage)
The Madding Crowd
Self (archive footage)
Charlton Heston Presents The Bible: The Story of Moses
Self - Host
Armageddon
Narration (voice)
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
Self
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self (archive footage)
The Mysterious Origins of Man
Self - Host
Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints
Self
The Last Man Alive: The Omega Man
Self - Narrator
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
Self
Last Party 2000
Self
Elizabeth the Queen
Lord Essex
The Face of Evil: Reinhard Heydrich
Narrator (voice)
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Self
The Greatest All-Star Advertial of All Time
Self
The Making of The Ten Commandments
Self (archive footage)
The Stars Salute the U.S. Olympic Team
Self - Performer
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
Self (archive footage)
Airports
The Orson Welles Story
Self
A Night on Mount Edna
Self
Symphony for the Spire
The Making of 'Tombstone'
Self
The Taming of the Shrew
Petruchio
Hollywood sul Tevere