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Charlton Heston
Birthday: October 4, 1924

Birth Place: Evanston, Illinois, USA
Height: 6' 3"

Below is a complete filmography (list of movies he's appeared in) for Charlton Heston. If you have any corrections or additions, please email us at corrections@actorsofhollywood.com. We'd also be interested in any trivia or other information you have.

 

Biography

With features chiseled in stone, who else but Charlton Heston could you picture as Michelangelo, as Ben-Hur, as Moses? Heston's movie career took off with The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) and reached light speed with Ben-Hur (1959). Although he has played a pantheon of larger-than-life roles, he usually prefers to talk about the day-to-day daily grind of the movie business, and especially credits the writers and directors he has worked for much of his success. Though aging gracefully, the venerated Heston has lately been more interested in promoting right-wing political issues than acting.

Movie Credits
My Father, Rua Alguem 5555 (2003)
[ F. Murray Abraham ][ Thomas Kretschmann ]
Ben Hur (2003)
[ Gerard Plunkett ]
The Order (2001)
[ Jean-Claude Van Damme ][ Brian Thompson ]
Eco Challenge: US Armed Forces Championship (2001)
Planet of the Apes (2001)
[ Mark Wahlberg ][ Tim Burton ][ Michael Clarke Duncan ][ Tim Roth ][ Paul Giamatti ]
Cats & Dogs (2001)
[ Tobey Maguire ][ Alec Baldwin ][ Michael Clarke Duncan ][ Jeff Goldblum ][ Joe Pantoliano ]
Town & Country (2001)
[ Josh Hartnett ][ Warren Beatty ][ Garry Shandling ][ Ian McNeice ][ Michael Bailey Smith ]
Any Given Sunday (1999)
[ Al Pacino ][ Dennis Quaid ][ Jamie Foxx ][ James Woods ][ Oliver Stone ]
Gideon (1999)
[ Christopher Lambert ][ Christopher McDonald ][ Mykelti Williamson ][ Carroll O'Connor ][ Harvey Korman ]
Armageddon (1998)
[ Bruce Willis ][ Ben Affleck ][ Owen Wilson ][ Steve Buscemi ][ Jason Isaacs ]
Hercules (1997)
[ Danny DeVito ][ James Woods ][ Rip Torn ][ Tate Donovan ][ Erik von Detten ]
Hamlet (1996)
[ Robin Williams ][ Kenneth Branagh ][ Jack Lemmon ][ Billy Crystal ][ Rufus Sewell ]
Alaska (1996)
[ Dirk Benedict ][ Vincent Kartheiser ][ Don S. Davis ]
The Dark Mist (1996)
[ Jonathan Fuller ]
The Avenging Angel (1995)
[ Tom Berenger ][ Jeffrey Jones ][ Andrew Prine ][ Tom Bower ]
In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
[ Hayden Christensen ][ Sam Neill ][ John Carpenter ][ Kevin Zegers ][ David Warner ]
True Lies (1994)
[ Arnold Schwarzenegger ][ Bill Paxton ][ James Cameron ][ Art Malik ]
Texas (1994)
[ Anthony Michael Hall ][ Michael C. Hall ][ Benjamin Bratt ][ John Schneider ][ Rick Schroder ]
Tombstone (1993)
[ Val Kilmer ][ Kurt Russell ][ Billy Bob Thornton ][ Bill Paxton ][ Billy Zane ]
Wayne's World 2 (1993)
[ Christopher Walken ][ Mike Myers ][ Chris Farley ][ Harry Shearer ][ Kevin Pollak ]
Noel (1992)
Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 (1992)
[ Bruce McGill ][ Philip Baker Hall ][ Jeremy Howard ][ John M Jackson ][ John M. Jackson ]
The Crucifer of Blood (1991)
[ Simon Callow ][ Edward Fox ]
Cults: Saying No Under Pressure (1991)
[ Michael Ian Black ]
Almost an Angel (1990)
[ Elias Koteas ][ Jason Marsden ][ Paul Hogan ][ Larry Miller ][ Joe Dallesandro ]
The Little Kidnappers (1990)
[ Bruce Greenwood ]
Solar Crisis (1990)
[ Tim Matheson ][ Peter Boyle ][ Jack Palance ][ Corin Nemec ][ Michael Berryman ]
Treasure Island (1990)
[ Christian Bale ][ Christopher Lee ][ Oliver Reed ][ Pete Postlethwaite ][ Julian Glover ]
The Hollywood Road to Oz (1990)
Call from Space (1989)
[ Bill Campbell ]
Original Sin (1989)
A Man for All Seasons (1988)
[ John Gielgud ][ Roy Kinnear ]
Christmas Night with the Two Ronnies (1987)
Proud Men (1987)
[ Peter Strauss ]
The Dead End (1987)
[ Maxwell Caulfield ][ Ricardo Montalban ]
Episode #12.15 (1987)
[ Ben Stiller ]
Bid for Freedom (1986)
[ Maxwell Caulfield ][ Ricardo Montalban ]
And Baby Makes Four (1986)
[ Maxwell Caulfield ][ Ricardo Montalban ]
Deceptions (1986)
[ Maxwell Caulfield ][ Ricardo Montalban ]
The Man (1985)
The Californians (1985)
Nairobi Affair (1984)
[ John Rhys-Davies ][ John Savage ]
Mother Lode (1982)
The Awakening (1980)
[ Ian McDiarmid ]
The Mountain Men (1980)
[ John Glover ][ Brian Keith ][ Seymour Cassel ]
Gray Lady Down (1978)
[ Christopher Reeve ][ David Carradine ][ Stacy Keach ][ Ned Beatty ]
Crossed Swords (1977)
[ Ernest Borgnine ][ Oliver Reed ][ George C Scott ][ George C. Scott ][ Rex Harrison ]
Two-Minute Warning (1976)
[ John Cassavetes ][ Beau Bridges ][ Lloyd Bridges ][ Jack Klugman ][ Martin Balsam ]
Midway (1976)
[ Tom Selleck ][ Henry Fonda ][ Robert Mitchum ][ Pat Morita ][ Robert Wagner ]
The Last Hard Men (1976)
The Fun of Your Life (1975)
The Four Musketeers (1974)
[ Christopher Lee ][ Oliver Reed ][ Michael York ][ Richard Chamberlain ][ Roy Kinnear ]
Earthquake (1974)
[ Walter Matthau ][ John Williams ][ George Kennedy ][ Lorne Greene ][ Richard Roundtree ]
Airport 1975 (1974)
[ George Kennedy ][ Erik Estrada ][ Dana Andrews ][ Sid Caesar ][ Efrem Zimbalist Jr. ]
The Three Musketeers (1973)
[ Christopher Lee ][ Oliver Reed ][ Michael York ][ Richard Chamberlain ][ Joss Ackland ]
Soylent Green (1973)
[ Joseph Cotten ][ Chuck Connors ][ Dick Van Patten ][ Mike Henry ]
Call of the Wild (1972)
Skyjacked (1972)
[ James Brolin ][ Nicholas Hammond ][ John Hillerman ][ John Fiedler ][ Claude Akins ]
The Special London Bridge Special (1972)
[ Kirk Douglas ][ Elliott Gould ][ Michael Landon ][ John Lennon ][ Paul McCartney ]
Antony and Cleopatra (1972)
[ Julian Glover ]
The Omega Man (1971)
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
The Hawaiians (1970)
[ Mako ][ Chris Robinson ]
Julius Caesar (1970)
[ Christopher Lee ][ Robert Vaughn ][ Jason Robards ][ Richard Chamberlain ][ Michael Gough ]
Number One (1969)
[ Bruce Dern ][ Mike Henry ]
Will Penny (1968)
[ Jon Gries ][ Lee Majors ][ Bruce Dern ][ Donald Pleasence ][ Slim Pickens ]
Planet of the Apes (1968)
[ Roddy McDowall ][ James Whitmore ][ Robert Gunner ]
Elizabeth the Queen (1968)
Counterpoint (1968)
[ Leslie Nielsen ][ Maximilian Schell ]
Maugli (1967)
[ Sam Elliott ]
All About People (1967)
[ Henry Fonda ][ Burt Lancaster ][ George Burns ]
Khartoum (1966)
[ Laurence Olivier ]
What Is a Boy (1966)
The War Lord (1965)
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
[ Rex Harrison ][ Tomas Milian ]
Major Dundee (1965)
[ Richard Harris ][ Sam Peckinpah ][ Slim Pickens ][ Ben Johnson ][ Warren Oates ]
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
[ John Wayne ][ Sidney Poitier ][ Max von Sydow ][ Martin Landau ][ Roddy McDowall ]
Diamond Head (1963)
[ John Williams ][ George Chakiris ]
The Patriots (1963)
[ Dana Elcar ]
55 Days at Peking (1963)
[ David Niven ]
The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962)
[ Ted Knight ]
El Cid (1961)
[ Herbert Lom ]
Ben-Hur (1959)
[ Sergio Leone ]
The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)
[ Richard Harris ][ Gary Cooper ]
The Buccaneer (1958)
[ Yul Brynner ][ Lorne Greene ]
The Big Country (1958)
[ Gregory Peck ][ Chuck Connors ]
Touch of Evil (1958)
[ Orson Welles ][ Joseph Cotten ][ Dennis Weaver ][ Keenan Wynn ]
Three Violent People (1957)
[ Robert Blake ][ Jamie Farr ]
Forbidden Area (1956)
[ Vincent Price ][ Tab Hunter ]
The Ten Commandments (1956)
[ Vincent Price ][ Yul Brynner ][ Robert Vaughn ][ Richard Farnsworth ][ John Derek ]
Episode #5.38 (1955)
Episode #5.36 (1955)
Episode #5.31 (1955)
Episode #5.30 (1955)
The Private War of Major Benson (1955)
[ Sal Mineo ]
The Far Horizons (1955)
[ Fred MacMurray ]
Bailout at 43,000 Feet (1955)
[ Lee Marvin ]
Lucy Gallant (1955)
Secret of the Incas (1954)
The Naked Jungle (1954)
Bad for Each Other (1953)
Arrowhead (1953)
[ Jack Palance ][ Brian Keith ][ Richard Farnsworth ]
Pony Express (1953)
The President's Lady (1953)
[ James Best ][ Carl Betz ]
The Savage (1952)
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
[ James Stewart ][ Bob Hope ][ Lawrence Tierney ][ Johnny Crawford ]
The Closed Door (1952)
Cashel Byron's Profession (1952)
Ruby Gentry (1952)
[ Karl Malden ]
A Bolt of Lightning (1951)
Macbeth (1951)
[ Darren McGavin ]
Episode dated 22 December 1951 (1951)
Episode dated 13 October 1951 (1951)
One Is a Lonesome Number (1951)
Letter from Cairo (1950)
Wuthering Heights (1950)
Dark City (1950)
[ Harry Morgan ]
Julius Caesar (1950)
[ Jeffrey Hunter ]
Hear My Heart Speak (1950)
Suspicion (1949)
Peer Gynt (1941)

Trivia

  • Went to British Columbia to promote guns, arguing it is man's "God-given right" to own guns.
  • Alumnus of New Trier Township High School East, Winnetka, Illinois, where tennis was among his extracurricular activities. Other New Trier graduates include Ralph Bellamy, Rock Hudson, Hugh O'Brien, Ann-Margret, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford, Virginia Madsen and Liz Phair.
  • Ranked #28 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
  • Originally a Democrat who campaigned for Presidential candidates Adlai Stevenson and John F. Kennedy, he gradually switched to becoming a conservative Republican during the 1960s.
  • Father of director Fraser Clarke Heston and Holly Heston Rochell
  • Elected 1st Vice-President of the National Rifle Association of America (1997).
  • Co-chairman of the American Air Museum in Britain.
  • Elected President of the National Rifle Association of America. [June 1998]
  • Was president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1966-1971.
  • Attended Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) prior to serving in WWII.
  • Has stated that he sees no contradiction with his work as a Civil Rights activist in the 1960s and his advocacy for gun ownership rights in the 1990s, insisting that he is simply promoting "freedom in the truest sense".
  • Volunteered his time and effort to the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, and even marched alongside the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on a number of occasions, including the 1963 March on Washington. In the original (uncut) version of "King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis" (1970), he appears as a narrator.
  • He and his wife, Lydia, both battled cancer recently. He battled prostate cancer and she battled breast cancer. Now both are in remission.
  • He was considered, along with English actor Ronnie Barker, for the role of Claudius in the British series _"I, Claudius" (1976)(mini)_ , but the role went to the less famous Derek Jacobi instead.
  • Was Billy Wilder's first choice for the role of Sefton in Stalag 17 (1953). The role was eventually given to William Holden.
  • On August 9, 2002, he issued a statement in which he advised his physicians have recently told him he may have a neurological disorder whose symptoms are consistent with Alzheimer's disease.
  • Elected as the president of the National Rifle Association, he was re-elected to an unprecedented 4th 3-year term in 2001.
  • After his starring role in the 1968 version of Planet of the Apes, he had an uncredited cameo in the 2001 remake, as General Thade's dying father.
  • His professional name of Charlton Heston came from a combination of his mother's maiden name (Lila Charlton) and his stepfather's last name (Chester Heston).
  • Prior to starring in "The Omega Man", a remake of Vincent Price 's film "The Last Man On Earth", Heston and Price appeared together in Cecil B. Demille's "The Ten Commandments".
  • Said that "Planet of the Apes" was the most physically demanding film he had ever done.
  • Along with Linda Harrison, he is one of only two actors to appear in both the 1968 and 2001 versions of "Planet of the Apes."
  • After their son was born, they decided to adopt their next child so that they could be sure it would be a girl. Heston and his wife felt that one son and one daughter made the perfect family.
  • His wife calls him Charlie, but everyone else calls him Chuck
  • Two grandsons: John (Jack) Alexander Clarke Heston & Ridley Charlton Rochell
  • His favorite food is peanut butter, and he takes it with him everywhere, even overseas.
  • He was voted the 52nd Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
  • Played Ben Hur in both Ben-Hur (1959) (live action) and _Ben Hur (2003) (TV)_ (animated).
  • A frail-looking Heston was presented with a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, at the White House by George W. Bush in July 2003.
  • Was considered for the role of Police Chief Brody in Jaws (1975), but both he and Oliver Reed turned it down. The part eventually went to Roy Scheider.
  • Was the original choice to star in Alexander the Great (1956), but declined so he could play Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956). The part eventually went to Richard Burton.
  • Was asked by some Democrats to run for the Californian Senate in 1969, but declined because he wanted to continue acting.
  • First recipient of the American Film Institute's Charlton Heston Award, created in 2003. The second recipient was his close friend Jack Valenti in 2004.
  • He turned down the role of General Stillwell in Steven Spielberg's 1941 (1979), owing to the fact that he felt the film was an insult to World War II veterans.
  • While they were starring in a play together in 1960, Laurence Olivier told Heston that he had the potential to become the greatest American actor of the century. When the play received unfavorable notices, Heston said, "I guess you learn to forget bad notices?", to which Olivier replied, "What's more important laddie, and much harder - learn to forget good notices."
  • In 1999 he joined Karl Malden in pressing for an honorary Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement to be awarded to veteran director Elia Kazan. Marlon Brando, who never made public appearances, refused to present the award so Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese ultimately did.
  • Was chosen to portray Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956) by Cecil B. DeMille because he bore an uncanny resemblance to the statue of Moses carved by Michaelangelo.
  • While studying acting early in his career, he made ends meet by posing as a model in New York at The Art Students League, across from Carnegie Hall. The lure to Hollywood and a contract soon ended his modeling days.
  • When his TV series "The Colby's" was canceled, both he and fellow cast members John James and Emma Samms were offered contracts to continue playing their characters on "Dynasty", the series that "The Colby's" was spun off from. Heston ultimately declined because his salary demands could not be met. James and Samms, on the other hand, accepted contracts.
  • Was unable to use his real name, John (Charles) Carter as an actor because it bore too close a resemblance to the name of the hero in Edgar Rice Burroughs novel Princess of Mars.
  • Offered to return his entire paycheck to the producers of Major Dundee (1965) so that director Sam Peckinpah could film some crucial scenes that were cut due to time and budget constraints. The producers took back Heston's pay check but still refused to let the scenes be filmed. Heston wrote in his autobiography "In The Arena" (1995) that the main problem with Major Dundee was that everyone had a different idea of what the film was - Heston saw it as a film about life after the Civil War, the producers just wanted a standard cavalry vs Indians film while Peckinpah, according to Heston, really had his next film The Wild Bunch in mind.
  • Heston is a popular actor in Greece, where his name is written as "Charlton Easton" due to Heston having Scatology connotations in the Greek language.
  • He and The Big Country (1958) co-star, Gregory Peck, both played the infamous Nazi war criminal, Dr. Josef Mengele: Heston in My Father, Rua Alguem 5555 (2003), Peck in The Boys from Brazil (1978).
  • John Wayne offered Heston the role of Jim Bowie in The Alamo (1960), but he declined due to the political implications of the film.
  • In 1981, Heston was named co-chairman of President Ronald Reagan's Task Force for the Arts and Humanities. Charlton served on the National Council for the Arts and was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild six times.
  • A World War II U.S. Army veteran, he visited troops fighting during the Vietnam War in 1966.
  • Recipient of Kennedy Center honors in 1997, along with Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, Jessye Norman and Edward Villella.
  • On 18 June 1968, Heston appeared on "The Joey Bishop Show" (1967) and, along with Gregory Peck, James Stewart and Kirk Douglas, called for gun controls following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Ironically, thirty years later Heston was elected President of the National Rifle Association of America (NRA), and campaigned against gun control.
  • In 2000 he surprised the Oxford Union by reading his address on gun laws from a teleprompter. This later sparked rumors he had known of his Alzheimer's long before he announced it to the world in August 2002.
  • He campaigned for Republican candidates Ronald Reagan in 1984, George Bush in 1988 and George W. Bush in 2000.
  • He is an opponent of abortion and gave the introduction to a pro-life documentary by Bernard Nathanson called "Eclipse of Reason" which focuses on late-term abortions.
  • Heston served on the Advisory Board of Accuracy in the Media (AIM), a conservative media watchdog group founded by the late Reed Irvine.
  • He retired as President of the National Rifle Association in April 2003, citing reasons of ill health.
  • Along with Tony Curtis, Heston admitted to voting for Russell Crowe to win the Best Actor Oscar in 2001, saying before the ceremony, "I hope he gets it. He's very good."
  • Heston's portrayal of William F. Cody in Pony Express (1953), a western from early in his career, inspired the Bills, a Congolese youth cult who idolized Western movies.
  • Accepted the role of Ben-Hur after Burt Lancaster turned it down.
  • Has two films on the American Film Institute's 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time. They are "The Ten Commandments" (1956) at #79 and "Ben-Hur" (1959) at #56.
  • The actors he admired the most were Gary Cooper, Henry Fonda, Clark Gable, Cary Grant and James Stewart.
  • Turned down the role of Livius in _The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)- , which was subsequently played by his _Ben Hur (1959)_ co-star Stephen Boyd.
  • Was considered for the role of Jor-El in Superman: The Movie (1978). The part went to Marlon Brando instead.
  • Although Heston was a lifelong non-smoker, he did hold a pipe in some early publicity photographs because both Clark Gable and Cary Grant were smoked pipes.

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