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(258)
Self
1962
Self
1962
Cashel Bryon
1950
Peter Handley
1950
Melody Jones
1950
Self - Guest
1993
Charlton Heston
1994
Self - Guest
1968
Self
1948
Self
1961
Self - Mystery Guest
1950
Self - Guest Performer
1950
Self - Guest Host
1950
Self
1948
Self
1944
Self - Presenter
1944
Self - Winner
1944
Self
1974
Self
1950
Self - Host
1950
Self
1975
Self - Actor
1956
Self - Guest
1956
Star guest
1991
1948
Col. / Dr. Michael Knowle
1948
Philip Carey
1948
Petruchio
1948
Heathcliff
1948
Edward Rochester
1948
Mitch Henderson
1948
James Otis
1948
Macbeth
1948
Merton Densher
1948
Commander Schneider
1948
1948
Jason Colby
1981
Charlton Heston
2000
Self - Host
1975
Self - Presenter
1952
1949
Lt. Paul Peterson
1954
Chipman
1954
Abalon
1993
Self
1978
Self
1953
Chief Justice Haden Wainwright
1995
Col. Jesse Price
1956
Self
1991
Jason Colby
1985
Beast
1958
Self
1994
Paul Malone (archive footage)
1961
Self
1982
Self
1987
Thomas Jefferson
1951
Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex
1951
Self (archive footage)
2013
Self
1973
Substitute Host
1955
Narrator (voice)
1997
Self
1974
Narration (voice)
1998
Moses
1956
Self - Narrator (voice)
1998
Spencer Trilby
1994
Henry Hooker
1993
George Taylor
1968
Self - Narrator (voice)
1998
Judah Ben-Hur
1959
Zaius (uncredited)
2001
1995
Capt. Matthew Garth
1976
Self
1995
Taylor
1970
Tim
1953
Self
1971
John the Baptist
1965
The Mastiff (voice)
2001
1951
Jackson Harglow
1995
AFFA Football Commissioner
1999
John Thornton
1972
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1965
Player King
1996
Stewart Graff
1974
Detective Robert Thorn
1973
Steve Leech
1958
Ramon Miguel Vargas
1958
Good Actor
1993
El Cid Rodrigo de Vivar
1961
Cardinal Richelieu
1973
Brad Braden
1952
Hugh Holmes
1983
General Douglas MacArthur (voice)
1988
Cardinal Richelieu
1974
Robert Neville
1971
Maj. Matt Lewis
1963
Alan Murdock
1974
Professor Finley
2001
Major Amos Charles Dundee
1965
Self - NRA President
2002
Himself
Capt. Colt Saunders
1956
Perry
1996
Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon
1966
Henry VIII
1977
Michelangelo
1965
Will Penny
1967
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2014
Bill Tyler
1980
Long John Silver
1990
Sherlock Holmes
1991
Ed Bannon
1953
God
1990
Self (archive footage)
2014
Self
1987
Matthew Corbeck
1980
Gen. Andrew Jackson
1958
Marc Antony
1970
Marc Antony
1972
Christopher Leiningen
1954
Lt. William Clark
1955
Adm. "Skeet" Kelso
1992
Harry Steel
1954
Self
1996
Self (archive footage)
2024
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2019
Whip Hoxworth
1970
Chrysagon
1965
Captain William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
1953
Professor Marcelo Rinaldi
1999
Captain Paul Blanchard
1978
Capt. Peter Holly
1976
John Sands
1959
Self
1999
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2019
Charley MacLeod Sr.
1987
Richard 'King' Howland
1962
Self - 'Taylor'
1998
Mr. Clayborne
2001
Lionel Evans
1967
Ron "Cat" Catlan
1969
Sam Burgade
1976
Danny Haley
1950
Captain Al Haynes
1992
Lee Cahill
1984
Boake Tackman
1952
Dr. Tom Owen
1953
Addison Sinclair
1998
James 'Jim' Aherne Jr. / War Bonnet
1952
(archive footage)
2010
Narrator (voice)
1996
Self (archive footage)
2013
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2014
Silas McGee / Ian McGee
1982
Ben Hur (voice)
2003
Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara
1972
Self
1997
Self (archive footage)
1970
Self (archive footage)
2007
Narrator
1995
Self - Host
2003
Self
1973
Self (archive footage)
2004
Self (archive footage)
2015
Captain Paul MacDougall / Benny the Snatch / Narrator
1962
Brigham Young
1995
Self - Co-Host
1982
Self (archive footage)
2003
Sir Thomas More
1988
Narrator
1993
Maj. Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson
1955
Self (archive footage)
2024
Self (archive footage)
2023
Self
1986
Tennis Player
1972
Col. Jesse Price
1956
Self
1989
James MacKenzie
1990
(archive footage)
2002
Self - Host
1996
Andrew Jackson
1953
Self
1994
Self
1999
1984
Self
2000
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2019
Self (archive footage)
2005
Narrator (voice)
1998
Self
1994
(archive footage)
2019
Self
1953
Self
1998
Louis Mancini
1989
Self
1986
Josef Mengele
2003
Self – Interviewee
2010
Narrator
1963
Self
1968
Casey Cole
1955
(archive footage)
1965
Self
2016
Thomas Jefferson
1963
Self (archive footage)
1994
Self
1994
Alien (voice)
1989
Self
1997
Self
2001
Self - Host
1997
Self
1990
Self (archive footage)
2003
Self - Host
2003
Self - Host
2003
Edward Rochester
1949
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2019
Narrator
1992
Self (archive footage)
2016
Peer Gynt
1941
Thomas
1966
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2020
Self (archive footage)
2011
Self
1999
Lord Essex
1968
Self - Host
2003
Self
1982
Self - Host
1993
Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
1994
Narrator (voice)
1977
Self
1995
Self
1996
Narrator
1976
Host
2004
Self - Host
2003
Mark Antony
1950
Self
2001
Self - Host
2003
Narrator
1996
Self (archive footage)
2017
Host and Narrator
1991
Self - Host
1993
Self - Narrator
1971
Self
1958
Narrator (voice)
1971
Self (archive footage)
2006
James Otis
1951
2003
Self
1981
Self - Narrator
1997
Self (archive footage)
1956
Narrator
1967
Self
1998
Self - Host / Moses
2008
Self
2001
Self - Host
1987
Self
1963
Narrator (voice)
2002
Narrator
1987