Charlton Heston
Known for Acting · 250 credits
- Born
- 1923-10-04
- Died
- 2008-04-05
- Place of birth
- Wilmette, Illinois, USA
- Also known as
- 찰톤 헤스톤 · John Charles Carter · چارلتون هستون
Biography
Charlton Heston (October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor, renowned for his towering screen presence and roles in some of Hollywood’s most famous epics. Born John Charles Carter in Illinois, he discovered his passion for acting in school, studied drama at Northwestern University, and began his career on stage and in live television before transitioning to film. He first gained major attention in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Greatest Show on Earth and then became an international star with his performances as Moses in The Ten Commandments and Judah Ben‑Hur in Ben‑Hur, the latter earning him the Academy Award for Best Actor. Heston went on to headline a wide range of big‑budget films, including El Cid, The Agony and the Ecstasy, Planet of the Apes, and The Omega Man, establishing himself as one of the most recognizable leading men of mid‑20th‑century cinema. Beyond acting, he was active in public life, supporting civil rights in the 1960s and later becoming a prominent conservative voice and president of the National Rifle Association from 1998 to 2003. He retired from public life after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2002 and died on April 5, 2008, in Beverly Hills, California, leaving behind a legacy as both a cinematic icon and a polarizing political figure.
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self / Self (archive footage)
Friends
1994
as Charlton Heston
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self - Guest
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self / Self - Presenter / Self - Nominee
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
as Cashel Bryon / Peter Handley / Melody Jones
TV Shows (55)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self / Self (archive footage)
Friends
1994
as Charlton Heston
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self - Guest
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self / Self - Presenter / Self - Nominee
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
as Cashel Bryon / Peter Handley / Melody Jones
Wogan
1982
as Self
Dynasty
1981
as Jason Colby
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
Spécial cinéma
1974
as Self
Climax!
1954
as Lt. Paul Peterson / Chipman
What's My Line?
1950
as Self
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
Studio One
1948
as Col. / Dr. Michael Knowle / Philip Carey / Petruchio / Heathcliff / Edward Rochester / Mitch Henderson / James Otis / Macbeth / Merton Densher / Commander Schneider
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
as Self / Self - Host
The Outer Limits
1995
as Chief Justice Haden Wainwright
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
as Self
seaQuest DSV
1993
as Abalon
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
Dinah!
1974
as Self
Bambi
1948
as Self
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Film '72
1971
as Self
Omnibus
1952
as Self - Presenter
Pebble Mill
1991
as Self
The Steve Allen Show
1956
as Self - Actor
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
1994
as Self
Shirley Temple's Storybook
1958
as Beast
Playhouse 90
1956
as Col. Jesse Price
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
as Self
Your Show of Shows
1950
as Self - Guest Performer / Self - Guest Host
Noel's House Party
1991
as Star guest
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971
as Self
Suspense
1949
The Colbys
1985
as Jason Colby
Talking Pictures
2013
as Self (archive footage)
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
as Self
Sworn to Secrecy: Secrets of War
1998
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Thomas Jefferson / Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex
Kraft Mystery Theatre
1961
as Paul Malone (archive footage)
The Weber Show
2000
as Charlton Heston
The Dame Edna Experience
1987
as Self
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
MADtv
1995
as Self
Chiefs
1983
as Hugh Holmes
General Electric Theater
1953
as Tim
The $64,000 Question
1955
as Substitute Host
Eco-Challenge
1995
Science Fiction Film Awards
as Himself
Secrets of War: Shadows of The Reich
1998
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Camino de Santiago
1999
as Professor Marcelo Rinaldi
Korea: The Unknown War
1988
as General Douglas MacArthur (voice)
F.D.R.
1965
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Movies (195)
Hercules
1997
as Narrator (voice)
Armageddon
1998
as Narration (voice)
In the Mouth of Madness
1995
as Jackson Harglow
Planet of the Apes
1968
as George Taylor
Ben-Hur
1959
as Judah Ben-Hur
Planet of the Apes
2001
as Zaius (uncredited)
The Ten Commandments
1956
as Moses
Tombstone
1993
as Henry Hooker
Will Penny
1967
as Will Penny
True Lies
1994
as Spencer Trilby
Any Given Sunday
1999
as AFFA Football Commissioner
Midway
1976
as Capt. Matthew Garth
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
1970
as Taylor
Soylent Green
1973
as Detective Robert Thorn
Cats & Dogs
2001
as The Mastiff (voice)
Touch of Evil
1958
as Ramon Miguel Vargas
The Three Musketeers
1973
as Cardinal Richelieu
Treasure Island
1990
as Long John Silver
Let Poland Be Poland
1982
as Self - Co-Host
The Big Country
1958
as Steve Leech
El Cid
1961
as El Cid Rodrigo de Vivar
55 Days at Peking
1963
as Maj. Matt Lewis
Bowling for Columbine
2002
as Self - NRA President
Earthquake
1974
as Stewart Graff
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
as John the Baptist
Forever Hollywood
1999
as Self
Airport 1975
1974
as Alan Murdock
Hamlet
1996
as Player King
The Four Musketeers
1974
as Cardinal Richelieu
Jane Eyre
1949
as Edward Rochester
The Naked Jungle
1954
as Christopher Leiningen
Forbidden Area
1956
as Col. Jesse Price
The Order
2001
as Professor Finley
Mother Lode
1982
as Silas McGee / Ian McGee
The Mountain Men
1980
as Bill Tyler
Alaska: Spirit of the Wild
1998
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Three Violent People
1956
as Colt Saunders
Counterpoint
1967
as Lionel Evans
The Last Hard Men
1976
as Sam Burgade
Pony Express
1953
as Captain William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
Major Dundee
1965
as Major Amos Charles Dundee
The Greatest Show on Earth
1952
as Brad Braden
Khartoum
1966
as Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon
Yesterday's Tomorrows
1999
as Self
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
1959
as John Sands
The Omega Man
1971
as Robert Neville
The War Lord
1965
as Chrysagon
Last Party 2000
2001
as Self
The Far Horizons
1955
as Lt. William Clark
The Agony and the Ecstasy
1965
as Michelangelo
The Prince and the Pauper
1977
as Henry VIII
Antony and Cleopatra
1972
as Marc Antony
Gray Lady Down
1978
as Captain Paul Blanchard
The Hawaiians
1970
as Whip Hoxworth
Alaska
1996
as Perry
A Man for All Seasons
1988
as Sir Thomas More
Vietnam! Vietnam!
1971
as Narrator (voice)
Texas
1995
as Narrator
Directed by William Wyler
1986
as Self
Greatest Heroes and Legends: The Story of Moses
2008
as Self - Host / Moses
Wayne's World 2
1993
as Good Actor
Almost an Angel
1990
as God
Hail Satan?
2019
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
The Lord Protector
1996
as Narrator (voice)
The Making of Midway
2001
as Self
Julius Caesar
1970
as Marc Antony
Rowan & Martin at the Movies
1968
as Self
Fun in the Big Country
1958
as Self
Arrowhead
1953
as Ed Bannon
The Avenging Angel
1995
as Brigham Young
Two-Minute Warning
1976
as Capt. Peter Holly
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
1989
as Self
Call from Space
1989
as Alien (voice)
The Buccaneer
1958
as Gen. Andrew Jackson
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996
as Self
Airports
2025
The Savage
1952
as James 'Jim' Aherne Jr. / War Bonnet
The Awakening
1980
as Matthew Corbeck
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
A Century of Cinema
1994
as Self
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010
as Self – Interviewee
Skyjacked
1972
as Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara
Christmas in Hollywood
2003
as Self (archive footage)
I Am Richard Pryor
2019
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
A Night on Mount Edna
1990
as Self
Bienvenido Mr. Heston
2016
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood sul Tevere
2009
The Crucifer of Blood
1991
as Sherlock Holmes
Secret of the Incas
1954
as Harry Steel
The Call of the Wild
1972
as John Thornton
The Mystery of the Sphinx
1993
as Narrator
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
2010
as (archive footage)
Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232
1992
as Captain Al Haynes
The Making of 'Tombstone'
2002
as Self
All-Time Movie Greats
1988
as Self (archive footage)
Town & Country
2001
as Mr. Clayborne
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
as Self
Television: The First Fifty Years
1999
as Self
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997
as Self
The Taming of the Shrew
1950
as Petruchio
America at the Movies
1976
as Narrator
The Little Kidnappers
1990
as James MacKenzie
The President's Lady
1953
as Andrew Jackson
The Stars Salute the U.S. Olympic Team
1984
as Self - Performer
Solar Crisis
1992
as Adm. "Skeet" Kelso
Spanish Western
2015
as Self (archive footage)
Lucy Gallant
1955
as Casey Cole
Elizabeth the Queen
1968
as Lord Essex
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
2019
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Number One
1969
as Ron "Cat" Catlan
The Madding Crowd
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002
as Self (archive footage)
Dark City
1950
as Danny Haley
Bad for Each Other
1953
as Dr. Tom Owen
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
as Self (archive footage)
Uncertain Verification
1965
as (archive footage)
The Private War of Major Benson
1955
as Maj. Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
1994
as Self
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
as Self (archive footage)
Nairobi Affair
1984
as Lee Cahill
About Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston (October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor, renowned for his towering screen presence and roles in some of Hollywood’s most famous epics. Born John Charles Carter in Illinois, he discovered his passion for acting in school, studied drama at Northwestern University, and began his career on stage and in live television before transitioning to film. He first gained major attention in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Greatest Show on Earth and then became an international star with his performances as Moses in The Ten Commandmen… With 250 credits spanning from 1941 to 2025, Charlton Heston has appeared in 195 films and 55 TV shows.
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Most Popular Charlton Heston Movies
- Hercules (1997) — as Narrator (voice)
- Armageddon (1998) — as Narration (voice)
- In the Mouth of Madness (1995) — as Jackson Harglow
- Planet of the Apes (1968) — as George Taylor
- Ben-Hur (1959) — as Judah Ben-Hur
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