Charlton Heston

RECENT CREDITS
Sworn to Secrecy (TV)  Mar. 28, 2002
Planet of the Apes (FILM)  Jul. 27, 2001
Cats and Dogs (FILM)  Jul. 4, 2001
Town & Country (FILM)  Apr. 27, 2001
Any Given Sunday (FILM)  Dec. 22, 1999
View all Charlton Heston Credits


HIGHLIGHTS
Spent his early years in a small rural Michigan town where he was educated in a one-room schoolhouse.
In high school, he performed with a local theater company which subsequently gave him a drama scholarship to Northwestern.
Served in the Air Force during World War II before moving to New York to pursue an acting career.
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All Credits

Film Name / TV Show Name (Episode Name)
Role
Category

Planet of the Apes  2001
Actor
Film


Cats and Dogs  2001 -Mastiff
Voice
Film


Town & Country  2001 -Mr. Claybourne
Actor
Film


Any Given Sunday  1999 -The Commissioner
Actor
Film


Armageddon  1998 -Narrator
Voice
Film


Almost an Angel  1990 -Moses
Actor
Film


El Cid  1961 -Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar/El Cid
Actor
Film


Touch of Evil  1958 -Ramon Miguel Vargas
Actor
Film


A Man for All Seasons  
Actor, Director
TV


Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232   -Capt. Al Haynes
Actor
TV


Crucifer of Blood   -Sherlock Holmes
Actor
TV


DeMille Dynasty  
Host
TV


Friends   -Himself
Actor
TV
Expand


Gideon   -Addison Sinclair
Actor
TV


Nairobi Affair  
Actor
TV


Proud Men  
Actor
TV


Saturday Night Live  
Host
TV
Expand


Sworn to Secrecy  2001-2002
Narrator
TV
Expand


The Avenging Angel   -Brigham Young
Actor
TV


The Colbys   -Jason Colby
Actor
TV


The Little Kidnappers  
Actor
TV


Hercules  1997 -Narrator
Voice
Film


Hamlet  1996 -Player King
Actor
Film


Alaska  1996 -Perry
Actor
Film


In the Mouth of Madness  1995 -Jackson Harglow
Actor, Actor
Film


True Lies  1994 -Spencer Trilby
Actor
Film


Tombstone  1993 -Henry Hooker
Actor
Film


Wayne's World 2  1993 -Good Actor
Actor
Film


Two-Minute Warning  1976 -Capt. Peter Holly
Actor
Film


Airport 1975  1974 -Alan Murdock
Actor
Film


Soylent Green  1973 -Detective Thorn
Actor
Film


The Omega Man  1971 -Neville
Actor
Film


Beneath the Planet of the Apes  1970 -Taylor
Actor
Film


Planet of the Apes  1968 -Taylor
Actor
Film


Khartoum  1966 -Gen. Charles Gordon
Actor
Film


The Agony and the Ecstasy  1965 -Michelangelo
Actor
Film


Major Dundee  1965 -Maj. Amos Charles Dundee
Actor
Film


The Greatest Story Ever Told  1965 -John the Baptist
Actor
Film


The War Lord  1965 -Chrysagon
Actor
Film


55 Days at Peking  1963 -Maj. Matt Lewis
Actor
Film


Diamond Head  1962 -Richard "King" Howland
Actor
Film


Ben-Hur  1959 -Judah Ben Hur
Actor
Film


The Buccaneer  1958 -Gen. Andrew Jackson
Actor
Film


The Big Country  1958 -Steve Leech
Actor
Film


The Ten Commandments  1956 -God (Uncredited), Moses
Voice, Actor
Film


Lucy Gallant  1955 -Casey Cole
Actor
Film


The Private War of Major Benson  1955 -Major Bernard Benson
Actor
Film


The Far Horizons  1955 -Bill Clark
Actor
Film


Secret of the Incas  1954 -Harry Steele
Actor
Film


The Naked Jungle  1954 -Christopher Leiningen
Actor
Film


Arrowhead  1953 -Ed Bannon
Actor
Film


The Greatest Show on Earth  1952 -Brad Braden
Actor
Film


The Savage   -War Bonnet (Jim Aherne)
Actor
Film


The Order  
Actor
Film


The Pigeon That Took Rome   -Capt. Paul MacDougall
Actor
Film


The Pony Express   -Buffalo Bill Cody
Actor
Film


The President's Lady   -Andrew Jackson
Actor
Film


The Prince and the Pauper   -Henry VIII
Actor
Film


The Five Cities of June   -Narrator
Actor
Film


The Four Musketeers   -Cardinal Richelieu
Actor
Film


The Hawaiians   -Whip Hoxworth
Actor
Film


The Helga Pictures  
Actor
Film


The Last Hard Men   -Sam Burgade
Actor
Film


The Little Kidnappers   -James MacKenzie
Actor
Film


The Mountain Men   -Bill Tyler
Actor
Film


Treasure Island   -Long John Silver
Actor
Film


The Three Musketeers   -Cardinal Richelieu
Actor
Film


The Wreck of the Mary Deare   -John Sands
Actor
Film


Three Violent People   -Colt Saunders
Actor
Film


While I Run This Race   -Narrator
Actor
Film


Will Penny   -Will Penny
Actor
Film


Earthquake   -Graff
Actor
Film


Call of the Wild   -John Thornton
Actor
Film


Elizabeth, the Queen  
Actor
Film


Ernani: Opera Stories   -Narrator
Actor
Film


From Defeat into Victory  
Actor
Film


Gideon  
Actor
Film


Gray Lady Down   -Capt. Paul Blanchard
Actor
Film


Midway   -Capt. Matt Garth
Actor
Film


Mother Lode   -Ian McGee, Silas McGee
Director, Actor, Actor
Film


Mysterious Origins of Man: Rewriting Man's History   -Host, Narrator
Actor, Actor
Film


Nairobi Affair   -Lee Cahill
Actor
Film


Noel  
Actor
Film


Number One   -Ron "Cat" Catlan
Actor
Film


Original Sin   -Louis Mancini
Actor
Film


Papa Rua Alguem 5555   -Herman's Father
Actor
Film


Peer Gynt   -Peer Gynt
Actor
Film


Peer Gynt   -Peer Gynt
Actor
Film


The Awakening   -Matthew Corbeck
Actor
Film


Television's Vietnam  
Actor
Film


The Adventures of Mowgli   -Narrator in the Englishlanguage version
Voice
Film


Proud Men  
Actor
Film


Ruby Gentry   -Boake Tackman
Actor
Film


Avenging Angel   -Brigham Young
Actor
Film


Bad for Each Other   -Dr. Tom Owen
Actor
Film


Ben Hur  
Voice
Film


America at the Movies   -Narrator
Actor
Film


Antony and Cleopatra   -Marc Antony
Director, Screenwriter, Actor
Film


Alaska: Spirit of the Wild   -Narrator
Actor
Film


Chiefs   -Hugh Holmes
Actor
Film


Counterpoint   -Lionel Evans
Actor
Film


Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232   -Capt. Al Haynes
Actor
Film


Dark City   -Danny Haley
Actor
Film


Defeat into Victory   -Host
Actor
Film


A Man for All Seasons   -Sir Thomas More, Chancellor of England
Director, Actor
Film


Skyjacked   -Henry O'Hara
Actor
Film


Solar Crisis   -Skeet Kelso
Actor
Film




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Highlights

Spent his early years in a small rural Michigan town where he was educated in a one-room schoolhouse.
In high school, he performed with a local theater company which subsequently gave him a drama scholarship to Northwestern.
Served in the Air Force during World War II before moving to New York to pursue an acting career.
Made his Broadway debut in Katharine Cornell's 1947 production of Anthony and Cleopatra; he later made his silver screen directorial debut with 1971's Anthony and Cleopatra.
Big break came when Cecil B. DeMille cast him as Moses in the 1956 classic epic The Ten Commandments (his months-old son joined him on-screen as baby Moses).
In the 1960s, he supported Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the campaign for passage of the Civil Rights Act.
President Reagan selected him to co-chair the White House Task Force on the Arts and Humanities in 1981.
His autobiography In the Arena was published in 1995.
In 1997, he received the Kennedy Center Honors.


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