Charlton Heston
Known for Acting · 249 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 was an American actor renowned for his towering screen presence and roles in some of Hollywood’s most famous epics. Born John Charles Carter on October 4, 1923, 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
TV Shows (55)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self / Self (archive footage)
Friends
1994
as Charlton Heston
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self - Guest
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self / Self - Presenter / Self - Nominee
Dynasty
1981
as Jason Colby
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
What's My Line?
1950
as Self - Mystery Guest
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
Wogan
1982
as Self
Climax!
1954
as Lt. Paul Peterson / Chipman
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
as Cashel Bryon / Peter Handley / Melody Jones
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
The Outer Limits
1995
as Chief Justice Haden Wainwright
Studio One
1948
as Col. / Dr. Michael Knowle / Philip Carey / Petruchio / Heathcliff / Edward Rochester / Mitch Henderson / James Otis / Macbeth / Merton Densher / Commander Schneider
seaQuest DSV
1993
as Abalon
Bambi
1948
as Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
as Self
Spécial cinéma
1974
as Self
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
1994
as Self
The Oscars
1953
as Self
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
as Self / Self - Host
Omnibus
1952
as Self - Presenter
Pebble Mill
1991
as Self
Dinah!
1974
as Self
The Steve Allen Show
1956
as Self - Actor
Film '72
1971
as Self
Playhouse 90
1956
as Col. Jesse Price
Suspense
1949
Shirley Temple's Storybook
1958
as Beast
The Colbys
1985
as Jason Colby
Your Show of Shows
1950
as Self - Guest Performer / Self - Guest Host
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
as Self
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971
as Self
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
as Self
Noel's House Party
1991
as Star guest
Talking Pictures
2013
as Self (archive footage)
Sworn to Secrecy: Secrets of War
1998
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Thomas Jefferson / Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex
The Weber Show
2000
as Charlton Heston
Kraft Mystery Theatre
1961
as Paul Malone (archive footage)
Chiefs
1983
as Hugh Holmes
General Electric Theater
1953
as Tim
The Dame Edna Experience
1987
as Self
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Eco-Challenge
1995
MADtv
1995
as Self
The $64,000 Question
1955
as Substitute Host
Science Fiction Film Awards
as Himself
Korea: The Unknown War
1988
as General Douglas MacArthur (voice)
Secrets of War: Shadows of The Reich
1998
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Camino de Santiago
1999
as Professor Marcelo Rinaldi
F.D.R.
1965
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Movies (194)
Bowling for Columbine
2002
as Self - NRA President
Midway
1976
as Capt. Matthew Garth
Armageddon
1998
as Narration (voice)
Hercules
1997
as Narrator (voice)
Ben-Hur
1959
as Judah Ben-Hur
Planet of the Apes
1968
as George Taylor
The Ten Commandments
1956
as Moses
True Lies
1994
as Spencer Trilby
Tombstone
1993
as Henry Hooker
Planet of the Apes
2001
as Zaius (uncredited)
In the Mouth of Madness
1995
as Jackson Harglow
Cats & Dogs
2001
as The Mastiff (voice)
Any Given Sunday
1999
as AFFA Football Commissioner
Soylent Green
1973
as Detective Robert Thorn
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
1970
as Taylor
The Three Musketeers
1973
as Cardinal Richelieu
Earthquake
1974
as Stewart Graff
Hamlet
1996
as Player King
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
as John the Baptist
Wayne's World 2
1993
as Good Actor
Touch of Evil
1958
as Ramon Miguel Vargas
Airport 1975
1974
as Alan Murdock
The Order
2001
as Professor Finley
El Cid
1961
as El Cid Rodrigo de Vivar
The Big Country
1958
as Steve Leech
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996
as Self
55 Days at Peking
1963
as Maj. Matt Lewis
The Omega Man
1971
as Robert Neville
The Prince and the Pauper
1977
as Henry VIII
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
1989
as Self
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
as Self (archive footage)
The Greatest Show on Earth
1952
as Brad Braden
The Four Musketeers
1974
as Cardinal Richelieu
Khartoum
1966
as Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon
Will Penny
1967
as Will Penny
Treasure Island
1990
as Long John Silver
Julius Caesar
1970
as Marc Antony
Town & Country
2001
as Mr. Clayborne
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
as Self
The Buccaneer
1958
as Gen. Andrew Jackson
The Agony and the Ecstasy
1965
as Michelangelo
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
2010
as (archive footage)
Dark City
1950
as Danny Haley
Major Dundee
1965
as Major Amos Charles Dundee
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
as Self (archive footage)
The Savage
1952
as James 'Jim' Aherne Jr. / War Bonnet
The Hawaiians
1970
as Whip Hoxworth
Almost an Angel
1990
as God
The Naked Jungle
1954
as Christopher Leiningen
Pony Express
1953
as Captain William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
The Mountain Men
1980
as Bill Tyler
Two-Minute Warning
1976
as Capt. Peter Holly
Ruby Gentry
1952
as Boake Tackman
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Television: The First Fifty Years
1999
as Self
Solar Crisis
1992
as Adm. "Skeet" Kelso
Mother Lode
1982
as Silas McGee / Ian McGee
Barry Norman in Celebrity City
1982
as Self
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010
as Self – Interviewee
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Antony and Cleopatra
1972
as Marc Antony
Alaska
1996
as Perry
The Private War of Major Benson
1955
as Maj. Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
1994
as Self
The Awakening
1980
as Matthew Corbeck
The Special London Bridge Special
1972
as Tennis Player
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007
as Self (archive footage)
Skyjacked
1972
as Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara
Hail Satan?
2019
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
2019
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
The Avenging Angel
1995
as Brigham Young
Three Violent People
1956
as Colt Saunders
The Far Horizons
1955
as Lt. William Clark
Diamond Head
1962
as Richard 'King' Howland
Gray Lady Down
1978
as Captain Paul Blanchard
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
2005
as Self (archive footage)
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
1959
as John Sands
Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232
1992
as Captain Al Haynes
Behind the Planet of the Apes
1998
as Self - 'Taylor'
The War Lord
1965
as Chrysagon
Secret of the Incas
1954
as Harry Steel
The Call of the Wild
1972
as John Thornton
A Look at the World of 'Soylent Green'
1973
as Self
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997
as Self
The Last Hard Men
1976
as Sam Burgade
A Century of Cinema
1994
as Self
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997
as Self
Arrowhead
1953
as Ed Bannon
Proud Men
1987
as Charley MacLeod Sr.
Yesterday's Tomorrows
1999
as Self
Gideon
1998
as Addison Sinclair
Ben Hur
2003
as Ben Hur (voice)
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002
as Self (archive footage)
Rowan & Martin at the Movies
1968
as Self
Counterpoint
1967
as Lionel Evans
Directed by William Wyler
1986
as Self
Texas
1995
as Narrator
Christmas in Hollywood
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Number One
1969
as Ron "Cat" Catlan
Last Party 2000
2001
as Self
Nairobi Affair
1984
as Lee Cahill
The Lord Protector
1996
as Narrator (voice)
The President's Lady
1953
as Andrew Jackson
Spanish Western
2015
as Self (archive footage)
Forbidden Area
1956
as Col. Jesse Price
Lucy Gallant
1955
as Casey Cole
The Mystery of the Sphinx
1993
as Narrator
Forever Hollywood
1999
as Self
I Am Richard Pryor
2019
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
A Man for All Seasons
1988
as Sir Thomas More
The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
1986
as Self
My Father
2003
as Josef Mengele
Bad for Each Other
1953
as Dr. Tom Owen
The Crucifer of Blood
1991
as Sherlock Holmes
Fun in the Big Country
1958
as Self
Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: The Garden of Eden
2003
as Self - Host
Noël
1992
as Narrator
Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints
2000
as Self
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013
as Self (archive footage)
The Pigeon That Took Rome
1962
as Captain Paul MacDougall / Benny the Snatch / Narrator
About Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston was an American actor renowned for his towering screen presence and roles in some of Hollywood’s most famous epics. Born John Charles Carter on October 4, 1923, 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 Be… With 249 credits spanning from 1941 to 2025, Charlton Heston has appeared in 194 films and 55 TV shows.
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Most Popular Charlton Heston Movies
- Bowling for Columbine (2002) — as Self - NRA President
- Midway (1976) — as Capt. Matthew Garth
- Armageddon (1998) — as Narration (voice)
- Hercules (1997) — as Narrator (voice)
- Ben-Hur (1959) — as Judah Ben-Hur
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