Charlton Heston
Biography
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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1923-10-04
Place of birth
Wilmette, Illinois, USA
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Cast
Planet of the Apes
1968
7.64
Bowling for Columbine
2002
7.52
Touch of Evil
1958
7.76
Solar Crisis
1992
4.22
Ben-Hur
1959
7.90
Will Penny
1967
6.60
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
1970
6.14
Hamlet
1996
7.34
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
6.40
In the Mouth of Madness
1995
7.21
The Three Musketeers
1973
6.75
Earthquake
1974
6.10
The Buccaneer
1958
6.40
The Omega Man
1971
6.17
Midway
1976
6.60
Town & Country
2001
4.38
The Ten Commandments
1956
7.77
Two-Minute Warning
1976
6.20
Gray Lady Down
1978
6.36
Tombstone
1993
7.58
Hercules
1997
7.49
Soylent Green
1973
6.93
I Am Richard Pryor
2019
6.88
Wayne's World 2
1993
6.10
Almost an Angel
1990
5.75
Treasure Island
1990
6.60
Yul Brynner, the Magnificent
2020
7.50
The Greatest Show on Earth
1952
6.31
The Big Country
1958
7.59
55 Days at Peking
1963
7.00
The Legacy of Malthus
1994
0.00
Airport 1975
1974
5.70
Alaska: Spirit of the Wild
1998
6.90
Secret of the Incas
1954
5.80
Khartoum
1966
6.30
Major Dundee
1965
6.64
Dark City
1950
6.50
Julius Caesar
1970
5.79
The Agony and the Ecstasy
1965
7.10
The War Lord
1965
6.20
The Call of the Wild
1972
6.00
True Lies
1994
7.08
Andersonville Diaries
1996
0.00
Pony Express
1953
5.60
Arrowhead
1953
5.90
The Order
2001
5.10
The Naked Jungle
1954
6.40
The Last Hard Men
1976
6.07
El Cid
1961
6.83
The Awakening
1980
5.50
Behind the Planet of the Apes
1998
7.10
Love in Hollywood
1996
0.00
Ruby Gentry
1952
6.30
The Lord Protector
1996
3.50
Bad for Each Other
1953
5.70
Three Violent People
1956
5.90
The Mountain Men
1980
5.90
The Hawaiians
1970
5.40
The Far Horizons
1955
6.20
Mother Lode
1982
5.56
Skyjacked
1972
6.15
The Mystery of the Sphinx
1993
8.00
Number One
1969
4.73
Yesterday's Tomorrows
1999
10.00
The President's Lady
1953
6.80
Antony and Cleopatra
1972
5.50
Fun in the Big Country
1958
0.00
The Crucifer of Blood
1991
6.50
Barry Norman in Celebrity City
1982
0.00
The Little Kidnappers
1990
5.10
The Private War of Major Benson
1955
6.60
Uncertain Verification
1965
6.60
The Avenging Angel
1995
4.70
The Savage
1952
6.10
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
1959
6.20
Lucy Gallant
1955
7.00
Remembering Reagan at His Ranch
2004
0.00
Diamond Head
1962
5.40
A Man for All Seasons
1988
6.80
Counterpoint
1967
6.00
The Pigeon That Took Rome
1962
5.30
America at the Movies
1976
5.30
Nairobi Affair
1984
4.80
Gideon
1998
5.80
Julius Caesar
1950
5.80
Andrew Weyth, The Helga Pictures
1987
0.00
Noël
1992
4.20
The Five Cities of June
1963
6.30
While I Run This Race
1967
5.00
Lasting Love
2003
0.00
Forbidden Area
1956
7.50
The Gun Deadlock
2001
0.00
Planet of the Apes
2001
5.76
Proud Men
1987
7.00
Hail Satan?
2019
6.99
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
1995
5.00
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002
7.50
Any Given Sunday
1999
6.82
Jane Eyre
1949
0.00
My Father
2003
6.00
Let Poland Be Poland
1982
0.00
A Bolt of Lightning
1951
0.00
Christmas in Hollywood
2003
0.00
Planet of the Apes Test Reel
1966
0.00
Alaska
1996
5.80
The Four Musketeers
1974
6.40
Rowan & Martin at the Movies
1968
2.00
The Making of Midway
2001
0.00
Cats & Dogs
2001
5.38
Peer Gynt
1941
7.00
Call from Space
1989
10.00
De Madrid a la Luna
2006
6.00
Eclipse of Reason
1987
0.00
The Prince and the Pauper
1977
6.00
Original Sin
1989
3.30
Vietnam! Vietnam!
1971
5.30
Bienvenido Mr. Heston
2016
0.00
Ben Hur
2003
5.70
Texas
1995
4.50
Forever Hollywood
1999
8.00
The Bible According to Hollywood
1994
6.00
Stars of Cabaret
1956
0.00
Directed by William Wyler
1986
0.00
A Century of Cinema
1994
8.00
Charlton Heston Presents the Bible
1997
10.00
Todos los nombres de Sara
2019
4.00
Energy: A National Issue
1977
5.00
Spanish Western
2015
6.20
The Madding Crowd
2017
0.00
Armageddon
1998
6.83
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
1998
7.00
The Mysterious Origins of Man
1996
6.00
Three Lives
1953
0.00
The Patriots
1963
0.00
Last Party 2000
2001
6.10
Elizabeth the Queen
1968
0.00
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
5.70
Airports
2025
0.00
Cults: Saying No Under Pressure
1991
0.00
The Orson Welles Story
1982
9.00
A Night on Mount Edna
1990
0.00
Symphony for the Spire
1992
7.00
The Making of 'Tombstone'
2002
0.00