
1923-10-04 ( 101 years old ) in Wilmette, Illinois, USA
Charlton Heston (October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) 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.
Movies
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
2024-05-16
Charlton Heston: Radical to Right Wing
2023-02-24
Yul Brynner, the Magnificent
2020-12-02
Todos los nombres de Sara
2019-12-15
Hail Satan?
2019-04-17
I Am Richard Pryor
2019-03-12
Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"
2019-02-21
The Madding Crowd
2017-02-01
Bienvenido Mr. Heston
2016-11-25
The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille
2016-02-11
Spanish Western
2015-05-04
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014-09-20
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014-02-01
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
2010-08-03
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010-05-05
De Madrid a la Luna
2006-10-24
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
2005-09-13
Remembering Reagan at His Ranch
2004-06-22
Christmas in Hollywood
2003-11-13
My Father
2003-09-01
Ben Hur
2003-02-15
Lasting Love
2003-02-06
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002-11-26
The Face of Evil: Reinhard Heydrich
2002-10-10
Bowling for Columbine
2002-10-09
Last Party 2000
2001-11-02
The Making of Midway
2001-10-03
Planet of the Apes
2001-07-25
Cats & Dogs
2001-07-04
The Gun Deadlock
2001-06-18
The Order
2001-05-05
Town & Country
2001-04-27
Any Given Sunday
1999-12-22
Yesterday's Tomorrows
1999-08-09
Television: The First Fifty Years
1999-01-01
Forever Hollywood
1999-01-01
Private Screenings: Charlton Heston
1998-11-06
Gideon
1998-10-26
Behind the Planet of the Apes
1998-09-05
Alaska: Spirit of the Wild
1998-09-03
Armageddon
1998-07-01
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
1998-03-17
Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Genesis
1997-12-01
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997-07-27
Hercules
1997-06-13
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
1997-05-12
Charlton Heston Presents the Bible
1997-01-01
Hamlet
1996-12-25
Love in Hollywood
1996-12-08
Alaska
1996-08-14
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996-05-19
Andersonville Diaries
1996-02-28
The Mysterious Origins of Man
1996-02-25
The Dark Mist
1996-01-01
Texas
1995-04-16
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
1995-03-20
In the Mouth of Madness
1995-02-03
The Avenging Angel
1995-01-22
True Lies
1994-07-15
Charlie Sheen's Stunts Spectacular
1994-06-30
The Legacy of Malthus
1994-01-01
The Bible According to Hollywood
1994-01-01
A Century of Cinema
1994-01-01
Tombstone
1993-12-25
Wayne's World 2
1993-12-10
The Mystery of the Sphinx
1993-11-10
Noël
1992-12-03
Solar Crisis
1992-08-06
Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232
1992-02-24
The Crucifer of Blood
1991-11-04
Air Force One: The Planes and the Presidents
1991-01-01
Almost an Angel
1990-12-21
The Little Kidnappers
1990-08-17
Treasure Island
1990-01-22
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
1989-09-24
Original Sin
1989-02-20
Call from Space
1989-01-01
A Man for All Seasons
1988-12-21
Proud Men
1987-10-01
Andrew Weyth, The Helga Pictures
1987-09-01
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987-05-18
Eclipse of Reason
1987-01-01
The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
1986-07-31
Directed by William Wyler
1986-05-01
Nairobi Affair
1984-01-01
Barry Norman in Celebrity City
1982-09-14
Mother Lode
1982-08-06
Let Poland Be Poland
1982-01-31
This Is Your Life: 30th Anniversary Special
1981-02-26
The Awakening
1980-07-09
The Mountain Men
1980-06-01
Gray Lady Down
1978-03-10
Energy: A National Issue
1977-11-22
The Prince and the Pauper
1977-06-03
Two-Minute Warning
1976-11-12
America at the Movies
1976-09-22
Midway
1976-06-18
The Last Hard Men
1976-04-22
Earthquake
1974-11-15
The Four Musketeers
1974-10-31
Airport 1975
1974-10-18
The Three Musketeers
1973-12-11
Soylent Green
1973-04-18
A Look at the World of 'Soylent Green'
1973-01-01
The Call of the Wild
1972-11-30
Skyjacked
1972-05-24
Antony and Cleopatra
1972-03-18
The Special London Bridge Special
1972-01-01
Vietnam! Vietnam!
1971-09-01
The Omega Man
1971-08-01
The Last Man Alive: The Omega Man
1971-01-01
The Hawaiians
1970-06-17
Julius Caesar
1970-06-04
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
1970-04-23
Number One
1969-08-21
Planet of the Apes
1968-02-07
Elizabeth the Queen
1968-01-31
Rowan & Martin at the Movies
1968-01-01
Counterpoint
1967-12-22
Will Penny
1967-12-19
While I Run This Race
1967-01-01
Khartoum
1966-06-09
Planet of the Apes Test Reel
1966-03-01
The War Lord
1965-11-17
The Agony and the Ecstasy
1965-09-16
Uncertain Verification
1965-04-30
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965-04-09
Major Dundee
1965-03-15
The Patriots
1963-11-15
The Five Cities of June
1963-06-30
55 Days at Peking
1963-05-06
The Greatest All-Star Advertial of All Time
1963-01-01
Diamond Head
1962-12-27
The Pigeon That Took Rome
1962-06-19
El Cid
1961-10-24
Ben-Hur
1959-11-18
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
1959-11-17
The Buccaneer
1958-12-11
The Big Country
1958-09-30
Touch of Evil
1958-03-30
Fun in the Big Country
1958-01-01
Three Violent People
1956-12-01
The Ten Commandments
1956-10-05
Forbidden Area
1956-10-04
Stars of Cabaret
1956-01-01
Lucy Gallant
1955-10-20
The Private War of Major Benson
1955-08-02
The Far Horizons
1955-07-04
Secret of the Incas
1954-06-06
The Naked Jungle
1954-03-03
Bad for Each Other
1953-12-24
Three Lives
1953-09-17
Arrowhead
1953-08-03
Pony Express
1953-06-15
The President's Lady
1953-05-21
Ruby Gentry
1952-12-25
The Savage
1952-09-01
The Greatest Show on Earth
1952-02-16
A Bolt of Lightning
1951-11-12
Dark City
1950-10-17
Julius Caesar
1950-03-08
Jane Eyre
1949-12-12
Peer Gynt
1941-08-24
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