Actor:

Genghis Khan: The Story of a Lifetime (2010)

My Father, Rua Alguem 5555 (2003)

Ben Hur (2003) (voice)

The Order (2001)

Planet of the Apes (2001) (uncredited)

Cats & Dogs (2001) (voice)

Town & Country (2001)

"The Outer Limits" (1 episode, 2000)

Any Given Sunday (1999)

Gideon (1999)

"Camino de Santiago" (1999) TV mini-series

Bagpipe: Instrument of War - Part 1 (1998) (TV) Narrator

"Sworn to Secrecy: Secrets of War" (1998) TV series Narrator

Armageddon (1998) (voice)

"Adventures from the Book of Virtues" (1 episode, 1998)

Bagpipe: Instrument of War - Part 2 (1998) (TV) Narrator

Hercules (1997) (voice)

Hamlet (1996)

Alaska (1996)

The Dark Mist (1996) (voice)

The Avenging Angel (1995) (TV)

In the Mouth of Madness (1994)

"The Great Battles of the Civil War" (1994) TV mini-series (voice)

Texas (1994) (TV) Narrator

True Lies (1994)

"SeaQuest DSV" (1 episode, 1994)

Tombstone (1993)

"The Bold and the Beautiful" (7 episodes, 1993)

Wayne's World 2 (1993)

Noel (1992) (TV) (voice)

Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 (1992) (TV)

Gengis Khan (1992)

The Crucifer of Blood (1991) (TV)

Cults: Saying No Under Pressure (1991) Narrator

Almost an Angel (1990) (uncredited)

The Little Kidnappers (1990) (TV)

Solar Crisis (1990)

Treasure Island (1990) (TV)

Original Sin (1989) (TV)

Call from Space (1989) (voice)

A Man for All Seasons (1988) (TV)

Christmas Night with the Two Ronnies (1987) (TV)

"The Two Ronnies" (1 episode, 1987)

Proud Men (1987) (TV)

"The Colbys" (49 episodes, 1985-1987)

"Dynasty" (3 episodes, 1985)

Nairobi Affair (1984) (TV)

"Chiefs" (1983) TV mini-series

Mother Lode (1982)

The Awakening (1980)

The Mountain Men (1980)

Gray Lady Down (1978)

Crossed Swords (1977)

Two-Minute Warning (1976)

Midway (1976)

The Last Hard Men (1976)

The Fun of Your Life (1975) Narrator

Earthquake (1974)

The Four Musketeers (1974)

Airport 1975 (1974)

The Three Musketeers (1973)

Soylent Green (1973)

The Call of the Wild (1972)

Skyjacked (1972)

The Special London Bridge Special (1972) (TV)

Antony and Cleopatra (1972)

The Omega Man (1971)

The Hawaiians (1970)

Julius Caesar (1970)

Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)

The Don Adams Special: Hooray for Hollywood (1970) (TV) Narrator

Number One (1969)

Will Penny (1968)

Planet of the Apes (1968)

"Hallmark Hall of Fame" (2 episodes, 1963-1968)

Counterpoint (1967)

All About People (1967) Narrator

Khartoum (1966)

What Is a Boy (1966) (TV)

The War Lord (1965)

The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)

Major Dundee (1965)

The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)

55 Days at Peking (1963)

Diamond Head (1963)

The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962)

El Cid (1961)

"Alcoa Premiere" (1 episode, 1961)

Ben-Hur (1959)

The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)

The Buccaneer (1958)

The Big Country (1958)

Touch of Evil (1958)

"Playhouse 90"(2 episodes, 1956-1958)

"Shirley Temple's Storybook" (1 episode, 1958)

"Climax!" (2 episodes, 1955-1957)

"Schlitz Playhouse of Stars" (2 episodes, 1951-1957)

Three Violent People (1956)

The Ten Commandments (1956) (voice)

"General Electric Theater" (1 episode, 1955)

Lucy Gallant (1955)

"Omnibus" (1 episode, 1955)

"Robert Montgomery Presents" (3 episodes, 1952-1955)

The Private War of Major Benson (1955)

The Far Horizons (1955)

Secret of the Incas (1954)

The Naked Jungle (1954)

"Danger" (1 episode, 1954)

"Your Show of Shows" (3 episodes, 1951-1954)

Bad for Each Other (1953)

"Medallion Theatre" (1 episode, 1953)

Arrowhead (1953)

Pony Express (1953)

The President's Lady (1953)

"The Philco Television Playhouse" (2 episodes, 1950-1953)

Three Lives (1953)

Ruby Gentry (1952)

The Savage (1952)

"Curtain Call" (1 episode, 1952)

"Studio One" (13 episodes, 1949-1952)

The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)

"Lux Video Theatre" (1 episode, 1951)

"Suspense" (2 episodes, 1949-1951)

Dark City (1950)

Julius Caesar (1950)

"The Clock" (1 episode, 1950)

Peer Gynt (1941)

Director:

A Man for All Seasons (1988) (TV)

Mother Lode (1982)

Antony and Cleopatra (1972)

Writer:

Antony and Cleopatra (1972) (writer)

As Himself:

Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen (2007)

The People's President (2006) (TV) Narrator

Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic (2004) (TV)

Lasting Love (2003) (TV)

"20/20" (1 episode, 2002)

The Face of Evil: Reinhard Heydrich (2002) (TV) Narrator

2002 ABC World Stunt Awards (2002) (TV) (uncredited)

Bowling for Columbine (2002)

"Film Genre" (1 episode, 2002)

The Making of 'Tombstone' (2002)

Eco Challenge: US Armed Forces Championship (2001) (TV) Narrator

MADtv (1 episode, 2001)

Last Party 2000 (2001) (uncredited)

The Making of 'Midway' (2001)

Larry and Vivien: The Oliviers in Love (2001) (TV)

Biography (6 episodes, 1997-2001)

Planet of the Apes: Rule the Planet (2001) (TV) (uncredited)

The Gun Deadlock (2001) (TV)

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills: America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies (2001) (TV)

"Intimate Portrait" (1 episode, 2001)

"Cursed" (1 episode, 2000)

When the Pipers Play (2000) (TV) Narrator

Heston of the Apes (2000)

Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints (2000)

"The Howard Stern Radio Show" (1 episode, 1999)

"E! Mysteries & Scandals" (1 episode, 1999)

The 20th Century: Yesterday's Tomorrows (1999) (TV)

Forever Hollywood (1999) (TV)

"The Roseanne Show" (1 episode, 1998)

Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1 episode, 1998)

Behind the Planet of the Apes (1998) (TV)

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: In Search of (1998) (TV)

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies (1998) (TV)

The 70th Annual Academy Awards 1998 (TV)

Friends (1 episode, 1998)

The Best of Hollywood (1998) (TV)

"Private Screenings" (1 episode, 1998)

The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1997) (TV)

"Space Ghost Coast to Coast" (1 episode, 1997)

Charlton Heston Presents the Bible (1997)

Hollywood Aliens & Monsters (1997) (TV)

Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997) (uncredited)

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western (1997) (TV)

The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1 episode, 1997)

Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero (1997)

I Am Your Child (1997) (TV)

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line (1997) (TV)

Dennis Miller Live (1 episode, 1997)

Alaska: Spirit of the Wild (1997) (voice)

To Be on Camera: A History with Hamlet (1997)

"Corazón, corazón" (2 episodes, 1995-1996)

Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right (1996)

The Daily Show (1 episode, 1996)

Shirley MacLaine: Kicking Up Her Heels (1996)

Mysterious Origins of Man (1996) (TV)

Andersonville Diaries (1996) (TV) Narrator

"Ruby Wax Meets..." (1 episode, 1996)

"Àngels de nit" (1 episode, 1996)

A Century of Science Fiction (1996)

"Clive Anderson Talks Back" (1 episode, 1995)

Charlton Heston: For All Seasons (1995) (TV)

"Advanced English: Interviews with the Famous" (1995) TV series

"This Is Your Life" (1 episode, 1994)

A Century of Cinema (1994)

Wyatt Earp: Walk with a Legend (1994) (TV)

The Bible According to Hollywood (1994)

Saturday Night Live (2 episodes, 1987-1993)

Mystery of the Sphinx (1993) (TV)

The 14th Annual CableACE Awards (1993) (TV)

"MGM: When the Lion Roars" (1 episode, 1992)

Symphony for the Spire (1992)

Dying for a Smoke (1992)

The 18th Annual People's Choice Awards (1992) (TV)

"Això és massa!" (1 episode, 1991)

All-Star Salute to Our Troops (1991) (TV)

Air Force One: The Planes and the Presidents (1991) (TV) Narrator

A Night on Mount Edna (1990) (TV)

The 62nd Annual Academy Awards 1990 (TV)

The Hollywood Road to Oz (1990) (TV)

Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary (1989) (TV)

Wogan (1 episode, 1989)

The American Film Institute Salute to Gregory Peck (1989) (TV)

Comic Relief III (1989) (TV)

"Korea: The Unknown War" (1988) TV mini-series (voice)

With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film (1988) (TV)

"The Dame Edna Experience" (2 episodes, 1987)

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (1987) (TV)

"Disneyland" (1 episode, 1986)

All-Star Tribute to General Jimmy Doolittle (1986) (TV)

Liberty Weekend (1986) (TV)

Directed by William Wyler (1986)

Good Morning America (1 episode, 1986)

The 43rd Annual Golden Globe Awards 1986 (TV)

An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr. (1986) (TV)

All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985) (TV)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (9 episodes, 1970-1985)

Television's Vietnam (1985) Narrator

"Aspel & Company" (1 episode, 1985)

The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1985)

The 55th Annual Academy Awards 1983 (TV)

The American Film Institute Salute to John Huston (1983) (TV)

All-Star Birthday Party at Annapolis (1982) (TV)

The American Film Institute Salute to Frank Capra (1982) (TV)

Let Poland Be Poland (1982) (TV)

The Way They Were (1981) (TV)
The American Film Institute Salute to Fred Astaire (1981) (TV)

"The John Davidson Show" (4 episodes, 1980-1981)

This Is Your Life: 30th Anniversary Special (1981) (TV)

"The Merv Griffin Show" (7 episodes, 1963-1981)

All-Star Inaugural Gala (1981) (TV)

The 52nd Annual Academy Awards 1980 (TV)

The American Film Institute Salute to James Stewart (1980) (TV)

The American Film Institute Salute to Alfred Hitchcock (1979) (TV)

"America 2-Night" (1 episode, 1978)

The 50th Annual Awards Academy Awards 1978 (TV)

The American Film Institute Salute to Henry Fonda (1978) (TV)

Science Fiction Film Awards (1978) (TV)

"The Phil Donahue Show" (1 episode, 1977)

The American Film Institute's 10th Anniversary Special (1977) (TV)

America at the Movies (1976) (voice)

"Dinah!" (2 episodes, 1976)

The 48th Annual Academy Awards 1976 (TV)

The American Film Institute Presents a Salute to William Wyler (1976) (TV)

They Were There (1976)

The American Film Institute Salute to Orson Welles (1975) (TV)

"The Mike Douglas Show" (3 episodes, 1973-1974)

"ABC's Wide World of Entertainment" (1 episode, 1974)

The 46th Annual Academy Awards 1974 (TV)

The American Film Institute Salute to James Cagney (1974) (TV)

"Dinah's Place" (1 episode, 1973)

"Jack Paar Tonite" (1 episode, 1973)

Today (1 episode, 1973)

The American Film Institute Salute to John Ford (1973) (TV)

The 45th Annual Academy Awards 1973 (TV)

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (1973) Narrator

A Look at the World of SOYLENT GREEN (1973)

"Film Night" (1 episode, 1972)

Our Active Earth (1972) Narrator

Parkinson (1 episode, 1971)

"V.I.P.-Schaukel" (1 episode, 1971)

Vietnam! Vietnam! (1971)

"The Irv Kupcinet Show" (1 episode, 1971)

The Last Man Alive (1971)

"The David Frost Show" (2 episodes, 1969-1970)

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970)

The Festival Game (1970)

Rod Laver's Wimbledon (1969) Narrator

The Heart of Variety (1969)

"The Ed Sullivan Show" (8 episodes, 1957-1968)

The Movie Experience: A Matter of Choice (1968) Narrator

Rowan & Martin at the Movies (1968)

The 39th Annual Academy Awards 1967 (TV)

While I Run This Race (1967) Narrator

The American Film: 1966 White House Festival of the Arts (1967)

Think Twentieth (1967)

"House Party" (1 episode, 1966)

"A Whole Scene Going" (1 episode, 1966)

"The Jack Paar Program" (1 episode, 1965)

The Egyptologists (1965) Narrator

"F.D.R." (1965) TV mini-series (voice)

The World's Greatest Showman: The Legend of Cecil B. DeMille (1963) (TV)

A Tribute to John F. Kennedy from the Arts (1963) (TV)

The Five Cities of June (1963) Narrator

At This Very Moment (1962) (TV)

"The Revlon Revue" (1 episode, 1960)

"The Steve Allen Show" (3 episodes, 1956-1960)

The 32nd Annual Academy Awards 1960 (TV)

The 31st Annual Academy Awards 1959 (TV)

Screen Snapshots: Salute to Hollywood (1958)

"This Is Your Life" (1 episode, 1957)

"What's My Line?" (1 episode, 1956)

"The George Gobel Show" (1 episode, 1956)

Person to Person (1 episode, 1955)

"The Colgate Comedy Hour" (5 episodes, 1955)

"The $64,000 Question" (1955) TV series

Introducing Charlton Heston (1950)

The Actor's Life

In the Arena: An Autobiography

The Courage to be Free

Beijing Diary

To Be a Man: Letters to My Grandson

Charlton Heston Presents the Bible

Charlton Heston's Hollywood: 50 Years in American Film

Academy Awards

1978 - Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

1960 Won Oscar Best Actor in a Leading Role for: Ben-Hur (1959)


Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA

1975 Won Special Award


Bambi Awards

1964 Won Bambi


Emmy Awards

1996 Nominated Emmy Outstanding Informational Special for: Andersonville Diaries (1996) (TV)
Shared with Amy Walter Richards (producer/writer) Kaye Zusmann (executive producer)

1953 Nominated Emmy Best Actor

1952 Nominated Emmy Best Actor


Fotogramas de Plata

1960 Won Fotogramas de Plata Best Foreign Performer (Mejor intérprete de cine extranjero) for: Ben-Hur (1959) Also for The Ten Commandments (1956)


Golden Globes

1967 Won Cecil B. DeMille Award

1963 Nominated Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy for: The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962)

1962 Won Henrietta Award World Film Favorite - Male

1960 Nominated Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama for: Ben-Hur (1959)

1957 Nominated Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama for: The Ten Commandments (1956)


Laurel Awards

1968 Nominated Golden Laurel Male Star 13th place.

1965 Nominated Golden Laurel Male Star 15th place.

1964 Nominated Golden Laurel Top Action Performance for: 55 Days at Peking (1963) 5th place.

1963 Nominated Golden Laurel Top Male Star 15th place.

1962 Nominated Golden Laurel Top Male Star 15th place.

1960 2nd place Golden Laurel Top Male Dramatic Performance for: Ben-Hur (1959)


Long Beach International Film Festival

2003 - Lifetime Achievement Award


MTV Movie Awards

2002 Nominated MTV Movie Award Best Cameo for: Planet of the Apes (2001)


Screen Actors Guild Awards

1972 - Life Achievement Award


ShoWest Convention, USA

1984 - Lifetime Achievement Award


Soap Opera Digest Awards

1988 Nominated Soap Opera Digest Award Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role: Prime Time for: "The Colbys" (1985)

1986 Nominated Soap Opera Digest Award Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role on a Prime Time Serial for: "The Colbys" (1985)


Walk of Fame

Star on the Walk of Fame Motion Picture At 1620 Vine Street.


Western Heritage Awards

1969 Won Bronze Wrangler Theatrical Motion Picture for: Will Penny (1968) Shared with: Tom Gries (director)

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A handsome man with a sculpted jaw and long forehead leading up to a mop of thick brown hair, with bushy eyebrows, a thin line for a mouth, and an inscrutable squint under bright sunlight, Charlton Heston began his performance career as a model but ended up an Oscar-winning actor. Following the divorce of his parents and his mother's remarriage to Chester Heston, young Heston and his family moved to a Chicago suburb. He participated in community theater, experimented with filmmaking while in high school, and earned a drama scholarship to Northwestern University. In 1944 he left school for the U.S. Army Air Corps, served two years, and married Lydia Clarke, a fellow Northwestern student and model.

After military service, Heston headed to New York, where he earned acclaim for his work in the Broadway play Antony and Cleopatra, along with his efforts on a number of TV shows, especially Suspense and Studio One. There were early movie roles in Dark City and Julius Caesar, both in 1950, but the breakout year was 1952, when he played the circus manager in The Greatest Show on Earth for director Cecil B. DeMille, who became one of his most important collaborators.

Afterward the six-foot, three-inch-tall actor appeared in such titles as The Naked Jungle (1954) and The Private War of Major Benson (1955) before doing the Biblical epic The Ten Commandments (1956), in which he played Moses. Now an annual rite for American Christians on their Easter celebration, this one performance concretely established Heston as a good man: an artistically sound, culturally centrist, morally and ethically upright actor of no ill repute, and a hunk. Two years later he lent his influence to Orson Welles for Touch of Evil (1958), a noirish masterpiece, but the pivotal role will always be Ben-Hur (1959). Although later years would see him undertake similarly large-scale historical epics like El Cid (1961), Khartoum (1966), and Midway (1976), his Judah Ben-Hur made Heston a shorthand statement for purity, silent suffering, and loyalty to higher powers, be those powers God or otherwise. As if to gild his saintliness, Heston later appeared as John the Baptist in The Greatest Story Ever Told in 1965.

For many fans, Heston is better remembered for his work in less religiously dogmatic and more fantastic works like Planet of the Apes (1968), Omega Man (1971), and Soylent Green (1973). There are also those who favor his inclination to experimental and less popular fare like Major Dundee (1965), or his extensive TV work, including Dynasty, The Colbys, and Treasure Island.

Heston is the flesh-and-blood center of all these performances, and he is a personality that exists far beyond them. He is also a father and activist-oriented, political risk taker, unafraid of wearing his beliefs on his sleeve, and to that extent he stepped beyond themold of big-screen actor. Heston has headed the Screen Actors Guild and the National Rifle Association. Now a conservative, he supports free speech and racial integration while being against abortion and political correctness.

Take him or leave him, like him or hate him, Heston has been fearless in living up to this simple, though not simple-minded, point of view about being true to one's career and life direction. This for him has meant nearly 50 years of steady work before bouts with prostate cancer and onset Alzheimer's hampered his ability to be in the public eye.

Heston died on Saturday, April 5, 2008, at his home in Beverly Hills, California, with Lydia, his wife of 64 years, by his side. He was also survived by his son, Fraser Clarke Heston, and an adopted daughter, Holly Ann Heston. The cause of death was pneumonia.

"The minute you feel you have given a faultless performance is the time to get out."

Elected first vice-president of the National Rifle Association of America (1997).

Elected president of the National Rifle Association of America. [June 1998]

Was president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1966-1971.

Volunteered his time and effort to the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, and even marched alongside the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on a number of occasions, including the 1963 March on Washington.

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).

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.

He turned down the role of Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell in Steven Spielberg's 1941 (1979) because he felt the film was an insult to World War II veterans

John Wayne offered Heston the role of Jim Bowie in The Alamo (1960), but he declined due to the political implications of the film.

The actors he admired the most were Gary Cooper, Henry Fonda, Clark Gable, Cary Grant and James Stewart.

Turned down an offer to co-star with Marilyn Monroe in Let's Make Love (1960) in order to be directed in a play by Laurence Olivier, whom he greatly admired.

Was offered the role of Colonel Benjamin Vandervoort in The Longest Day (1962), but John Wayne signed for the part before Heston could accept.

Turned down the lead in The Omen (1976). The role then went to Gregory Peck.

Turned down Gary Cooper's role in High Noon (1952).

Owned more than 400 modern and antique guns.

Turned down Rock Hudson's role as the captain of a nuclear submarine in Ice Station Zebra (1968) because he didn't think there was much characterization in the script.