Charlton Heston

from Wilmette, Illinois, USA

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Biography

Charlton Heston was an American actor of film, theatre and television. Heston 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.

Timeline

2025Aged 102

  • Poster for Airports

    (Unknown)

2024Aged 101

  • Poster for Planet of the Apes: A Milestone of Science Fiction

    Self (archive footage)

2023Aged 100

  • Poster for Charlton Heston: Radical to Right Wing

    Self (archive footage)

2020Aged 97

  • Poster for Yul Brynner, the Magnificent

    Self - Actor (archive footage)

2019Aged 96

  • Poster for Emergency: Donald Trump’s

    (archive footage)

  • Poster for I Am Richard Pryor

    Self - Actor (archive footage)

  • Poster for Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic

    Self - Actor (archive footage)

  • Poster for Hail Satan?

    Self - Actor (archive footage)

  • Poster for Todos los nombres de Sara

    Self - Actor (archive footage)

2017Aged 94

  • Poster for The Madding Crowd

    Self (archive footage)

2016Aged 93

  • Poster for The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille

    Self

  • Poster for Bienvenido Mr. Heston

    Self (archive footage)

2015Aged 92

2014Aged 91

  • Poster for Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

    Self - Actor (archive footage)

  • Poster for Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

    Self - Actor (archive footage)

2013Aged 90

  • Poster for Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia

    Self (archive footage)

2011Aged 88

  • Poster for Charlton Heston and Ben-Hur: A Personal Journey

    Self (archive footage)

2010Aged 87

  • Poster for Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

    Self – Interviewee

  • Poster for 2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift

    (archive footage)

2009Aged 86

  • Poster for Hollywood sul Tevere

    (Unknown)

2008Aged 85

  • Poster for Greatest Heroes and Legends: The Story of Moses

    Self - Host / Moses

2007Aged 84

  • Poster for AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition

    Self (archive footage)

2006Aged 83

  • Poster for De Madrid a la Luna

    Self (archive footage)

2005Aged 82

  • Poster for Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema

    Self (archive footage)

2004Aged 81

  • Poster for Remembering Reagan at His Ranch

    Host

  • Poster for Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

    Self (archive footage)

2003Aged 80

  • Poster for Lasting Love

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Ben Hur

    Ben Hur (voice)

  • Poster for Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Jonah and the Whale

    Self - Host

  • Poster for Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Joshua and the Battle of Jericho

    Self - Host

  • Poster for Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: David and Goliath

    Self - Host

  • Poster for Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Samson and Delilah

    Self - Host

  • Poster for Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: Daniel and the Lion's Den

    Self - Host

  • Poster for Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: The Garden of Eden

    Self - Host

  • Poster for My Father

    Josef Mengele

  • Poster for The Making of The Ten Commandments

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Christmas in Hollywood

    Self (archive footage)

2002Aged 79

  • Poster for The Making of 'Tombstone'

    Self

  • Poster for Bowling for Columbine

    Self - NRA President

  • Poster for The Face of Evil: Reinhard Heydrich

    Narrator (voice)

  • Poster for Edith Head: The Paramount Years

    Self (archive footage)

2001Aged 78

  • Poster for Town & Country

    Mr. Clayborne

  • Poster for The Order

    Professor Finley

  • The Gun Deadlock

    Self

  • Poster for Cats & Dogs

    The Mastiff (voice)

  • Poster for Planet of the Apes

    Zaius (uncredited)

  • Poster for The Making of Midway

    Self

  • Poster for Last Party 2000

    Self

2000Aged 77

  • Poster for Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints

    Self

1999Aged 76

1998Aged 75

1997Aged 74

  • Poster for Charlton Heston Presents the Bible

    Self - Narrator

  • Poster for Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line

    Self

  • Poster for Hercules

    Narrator (voice)

  • Poster for Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

    Self

  • Poster for Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Genesis

    Self - Host

1996Aged 73

1995Aged 72

  • Poster for The Avenging Angel

    Brigham Young

  • Poster for In the Mouth of Madness

    Jackson Harglow

  • Poster for Charlton Heston: For All Seasons

    Self

  • Poster for Texas

    Narrator

1994Aged 71

  • Poster for The Legacy of Malthus

    Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)

  • Poster for The Bible According to Hollywood

    Self

  • Poster for A Century of Cinema

    Self

  • Poster for Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects

    Self

  • Poster for True Lies

    Spencer Trilby

1993Aged 70

  • Poster for Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Jesus of Nazareth

    Self - Host

  • Poster for Charlton Heston Presents The Bible: The Story of Moses

    Self - Host

  • Poster for The Mystery of the Sphinx

    Narrator

  • Poster for Wayne's World 2

    Good Actor

  • Poster for Tombstone

    Henry Hooker

1992Aged 69

  • Poster for Symphony for the Spire

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232

    Captain Al Haynes

  • Poster for Solar Crisis

    Adm. "Skeet" Kelso

  • Poster for Noël

    Narrator

1991Aged 68

1990Aged 67

1989Aged 66

  • Poster for Call from Space

    Alien (voice)

  • Poster for Original Sin

    Louis Mancini

  • Poster for Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary

    Self

1988Aged 65

  • Poster for A Man for All Seasons

    Sir Thomas More

1987Aged 64

1986Aged 63

  • Poster for Directed by William Wyler

    Self

  • Poster for The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal

    Self

1984Aged 61

  • Poster for Nairobi Affair

    Lee Cahill

  • Poster for The Stars Salute the U.S. Olympic Team

    Self - Performer

1982Aged 59

  • Poster for Let Poland Be Poland

    Self - Co-Host

  • Poster for The Orson Welles Story

    Self

  • Poster for Mother Lode

    Silas McGee / Ian McGee

  • Poster for Barry Norman in Celebrity City

    Self

1981Aged 58

1980Aged 57

  • Poster for The Mountain Men

    Bill Tyler

  • Poster for The Awakening

    Matthew Corbeck

1978Aged 55

  • Poster for Gray Lady Down

    Captain Paul Blanchard

1977Aged 54

  • Poster for The Prince and the Pauper

    Henry VIII

  • Poster for Energy: A National Issue

    Narrator (voice)

1976Aged 53

  • Poster for The Last Hard Men

    Sam Burgade

  • Poster for Midway

    Capt. Matthew Garth

  • Poster for America at the Movies

    Narrator

  • Poster for Two-Minute Warning

    Capt. Peter Holly

1974Aged 51

  • Poster for Airport 1975

    Alan Murdock

  • Poster for The Four Musketeers

    Cardinal Richelieu

  • Poster for Earthquake

    Stewart Graff

1973Aged 50

  • Poster for A Look at the World of 'Soylent Green'

    Self

  • Poster for Soylent Green

    Detective Robert Thorn

  • Poster for The Three Musketeers

    Cardinal Richelieu

1972Aged 49

  • Poster for The Special London Bridge Special

    Tennis Player

  • Poster for Antony and Cleopatra

    Marc Antony

  • Poster for Skyjacked

    Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara

  • Poster for The Call of the Wild

    John Thornton

1971Aged 48

  • Poster for The Last Man Alive: The Omega Man

    Self - Narrator

  • Poster for The Omega Man

    Robert Neville

  • Poster for Vietnam! Vietnam!

    Narrator (voice)

1970Aged 47

  • Poster for King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Beneath the Planet of the Apes

    Taylor

  • Poster for Julius Caesar

    Marc Antony

  • Poster for The Hawaiians

    Whip Hoxworth

1969Aged 46

  • Poster for Number One

    Ron "Cat" Catlan

1968Aged 45

  • Poster for Rowan & Martin at the Movies

    Self

  • Poster for Elizabeth the Queen

    Lord Essex

  • Poster for Planet of the Apes

    George Taylor

1967Aged 44

  • Poster for While I Run This Race

    Narrator

  • Poster for Will Penny

    Will Penny

  • Poster for Counterpoint

    Lionel Evans

1966Aged 43

  • Poster for Planet of the Apes Test Reel

    Thomas

  • Poster for Khartoum

    Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon

1965Aged 42

  • Poster for Major Dundee

    Major Amos Charles Dundee

  • Poster for The Greatest Story Ever Told

    John the Baptist

  • Poster for Uncertain Verification

    (archive footage)

  • Poster for The Agony and the Ecstasy

    Michelangelo

  • Night of the Dragon

    Narrator

  • Poster for The War Lord

    Chrysagon

1963Aged 40

1962Aged 39

  • Poster for The Pigeon That Took Rome

    Captain Paul MacDougall / Benny the Snatch / Narrator

  • Poster for Diamond Head

    Richard 'King' Howland

1961Aged 38

  • Poster for El Cid

    El Cid Rodrigo de Vivar

1959Aged 36

  • Poster for The Wreck of the Mary Deare

    John Sands

  • Poster for Ben-Hur

    Judah Ben-Hur

1958Aged 35

  • Poster for Fun in the Big Country

    Self

  • Poster for Touch of Evil

    Ramon Miguel Vargas

  • Poster for The Big Country

    Steve Leech

  • Poster for The Buccaneer

    Gen. Andrew Jackson

1956Aged 33

  • Poster for Stars of Cabaret

    Self (archive footage)

  • Forbidden Area

    Col. Jesse Price

  • Poster for The Ten Commandments

    Moses

  • Poster for Three Violent People

    Colt Saunders

1955Aged 32

  • Poster for The Far Horizons

    Lt. William Clark

  • Poster for The Private War of Major Benson

    Maj. Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson

  • Poster for Lucy Gallant

    Casey Cole

1954Aged 31

  • Poster for The Naked Jungle

    Christopher Leiningen

  • Poster for Secret of the Incas

    Harry Steel

1953Aged 30

  • Poster for The President's Lady

    Andrew Jackson

  • Poster for Pony Express

    Captain William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cody

  • Poster for Arrowhead

    Ed Bannon

  • Three Lives

    Self

  • Poster for Bad for Each Other

    Dr. Tom Owen

1952Aged 29

  • Poster for The Greatest Show on Earth

    Brad Braden

  • Poster for The Savage

    James 'Jim' Aherne Jr. / War Bonnet

  • Poster for Ruby Gentry

    Boake Tackman

1951Aged 28

  • Poster for A Bolt of Lightning

    James Otis

1950Aged 27

  • Poster for Julius Caesar

    Mark Antony

  • Poster for The Taming of the Shrew

    Petruchio

  • Poster for Dark City

    Danny Haley

  • Poster for Studio One: Wuthering Heights

    Heathcliff

1949Aged 26

  • Poster for Jane Eyre

    Edward Rochester

1941Aged 18

  • Poster for Peer Gynt

    Peer Gynt

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