Charlton Heston

DOB: 1923-10-04

DOD: 2008-04-05

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.

Starred In

1968
Movie

Planet of the Apes

1958
Movie

Touch of Evil

1992
Movie

Solar Crisis

1959
Movie

Ben-Hur

1967
Movie

Will Penny

1996
Movie

Hamlet

1974
Movie

Earthquake

1958
Movie

The Buccaneer

1971
Movie

The Omega Man

1976
Movie

Midway

2001
Movie

Town & Country

1976
Movie

Two-Minute Warning

1978
Movie

Gray Lady Down

1997
Movie

Hercules

1993
Movie

Tombstone

1973
Movie

Soylent Green

2019
Movie

I Am Richard Pryor

1993
Movie

Wayne's World 2

1990
Movie

Almost an Angel

1990
Movie

Treasure Island

1958
Movie

The Big Country

1963
Movie

55 Days at Peking

1974
Movie

Airport 1975

1966
Movie

Khartoum

1965
Movie

Major Dundee

1950
Movie

Dark City

1970
Movie

Julius Caesar

1965
Movie

The War Lord

1994
Movie

True Lies

1953
Movie

Pony Express

1953
Movie

Arrowhead

2001
Movie

The Order

1954
Movie

The Naked Jungle

1976
Movie

The Last Hard Men

1961
Movie

El Cid

1980
Movie

The Awakening

1996
Movie

Love in Hollywood

1952
Movie

Ruby Gentry

1996
Movie

The Dark Mist

1953
Movie

Bad for Each Other

1980
Movie

The Mountain Men

1970
Movie

The Hawaiians

1955
Movie

The Far Horizons

1982
Movie

Mother Lode

1972
Movie

Skyjacked

1969
Movie

Number One

1995
Movie

The Avenging Angel

1952
Movie

The Savage

1955
Movie

Lucy Gallant

1962
Movie

Diamond Head

1967
Movie

Counterpoint

1984
Movie

Nairobi Affair

1998
Movie

Gideon

1950
Movie

Julius Caesar

1992
Movie

Noël

2003
Movie

Lasting Love

1956
Movie

Forbidden Area

2001
Movie

The Gun Deadlock

2001
Movie

Planet of the Apes

1987
Movie

Proud Men

2019
Movie

Hail Satan?

1999
Movie

Any Given Sunday

1949
Movie

Jane Eyre

2003
Movie

My Father

1996
Movie

Alaska

2001
Movie

Cats & Dogs

1941
Movie

Peer Gynt

1989
Movie

Call from Space

1987
Movie

Eclipse of Reason

1989
Movie

Original Sin

1971
Movie

Vietnam! Vietnam!

2003
Movie

Ben Hur

1995
Movie

Texas

1999
Movie

Forever Hollywood

1956
Movie

Stars of Cabaret

2015
Movie

Spanish Western

2017
Movie

The Madding Crowd

1998
Movie

Armageddon

1953
Movie

Three Lives

1963
Movie

The Patriots

2001
Movie

Last Party 2000

1993
Tv

seaQuest DSV

1952
Tv

Omnibus

1956
Tv

Playhouse 90

1948
Tv

Studio One

1995
Tv

MADtv

1985
Tv

The Colbys

1995
Tv

Eco-Challenge

1954
Tv

Climax!

1949
Tv

Suspense

1991
Tv

Pebble Mill

1965
Tv

F.D.R.

1953
Tv

The Oscars

1983
Tv

Chiefs

1994
Tv

Friends

1982
Tv

Wogan

1948
Tv

Studio One

1948
Tv

Studio One

1948
Tv

Studio One

1948
Tv

Studio One

1948
Tv

Studio One

1948
Tv

Studio One

1948
Tv

Studio One

1948
Tv

Studio One

1948
Tv

Studio One

1954
Tv

Climax!

1981
Tv

Dynasty

1974
Tv

Dinah!

1948
Tv

Studio One