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Charlton Heston Acting Filmography (194)

Airports
2025
Planet of the Apes: A Milestone of Science Fiction
2024·Self (archive footage)
Charlton Heston: Radical to Right Wing
2023·Self (archive footage)
Yul Brynner, the Magnificent
2020·Self - Actor (archive footage)
I Am Richard Pryor
2019·Self - Actor (archive footage)
Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"
2019·(archive footage)
Hail Satan?
2019·Self - Actor (archive footage)
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
2019·Self - Actor (archive footage)
Todos los nombres de Sara
2019·Self - Actor (archive footage)
The Madding Crowd
2017·Self (archive footage)
The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille
2016·Self
Bienvenido Mr. Heston
2016·Self (archive footage)
Spanish Western
2015·Self (archive footage)
Children of the Civil Rights
2015·Self (archival footage)
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014·Self - Actor (archive footage)
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014·Self - Actor (archive footage)
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013·Self (archive footage)
Charlton Heston and Ben-Hur: A Personal Journey
2011·Self (archive footage)
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010·Self – Interviewee
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
2010·(archive footage)
Hollywood sul Tevere
2009
Greatest Heroes and Legends: The Story of Moses
2008·Self - Host / Moses
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007·Self (archive footage)
De Madrid a la Luna
2006·Self (archive footage)
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
2005·Self (archive footage)
Remembering Reagan at His Ranch
2004·Host
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004·Self (archive footage)
Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: Daniel and the Lion's Den
2003·Self - Host
Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Jonah and the Whale
2003·Self - Host
Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: David and Goliath
2003·Self - Host
Lasting Love
2003
Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Samson and Delilah
2003·Self - Host
My Father
2003·Josef Mengele
Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: The Garden of Eden
2003·Self - Host
Christmas in Hollywood
2003·Self (archive footage)
Ben Hur
2003·Ben Hur (voice)
Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Joshua and the Battle of Jericho
2003·Self - Host
The Making of The Ten Commandments
2003·Self (archive footage)
Bowling for Columbine
2002·Self - NRA President
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002·Self (archive footage)
The Face of Evil: Reinhard Heydrich
2002·Narrator (voice)
The Making of 'Tombstone'
2002·Self
Town & Country
2001·Mr. Clayborne
The Order
2001·Professor Finley
The Gun Deadlock
2001·Self
Planet of the Apes
2001·Zaius (uncredited)
The Making of Midway
2001·Self
Cats & Dogs
2001·The Mastiff (voice)
Last Party 2000
2001·Self
Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints
2000·Self
Yesterday's Tomorrows
1999·Self
Any Given Sunday
1999·AFFA Football Commissioner
Television: The First Fifty Years
1999·Self
Forever Hollywood
1999·Self
Alaska: Spirit of the Wild
1998·Self - Narrator (voice)
Behind the Planet of the Apes
1998·Self - 'Taylor'
Gideon
1998·Addison Sinclair
Armageddon
1998·Narration (voice)
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
1998·Self
Private Screenings: Charlton Heston
1998·Self
Hercules
1997·Narrator (voice)
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997·Self
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997·Self
Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Genesis
1997·Self - Host
Charlton Heston Presents the Bible
1997·Self - Narrator
Hamlet
1996·Player King
Andersonville Diaries
1996·Narrator
Love in Hollywood
1996·Self
The Lord Protector
1996·Narrator (voice)
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996·Self
Alaska
1996·Perry
The Mysterious Origins of Man
1996·Self - Host
In the Mouth of Madness
1995·Jackson Harglow
The Avenging Angel
1995·Brigham Young
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
1995·Self
Texas
1995·Narrator
The Legacy of Malthus
1994·Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
True Lies
1994·Spencer Trilby
The Bible According to Hollywood
1994·Self
A Century of Cinema
1994·Self
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
1994·Self
Tombstone
1993·Henry Hooker
Wayne's World 2
1993·Good Actor
The Mystery of the Sphinx
1993·Narrator
Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Jesus of Nazareth
1993·Self - Host
Charlton Heston Presents The Bible: The Story of Moses
1993·Self - Host
Solar Crisis
1992·Adm. "Skeet" Kelso
Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232
1992·Captain Al Haynes
Noël
1992·Narrator
Symphony for the Spire
1992
The Crucifer of Blood
1991·Sherlock Holmes
Air Force One: The Planes and the Presidents
1991·Host and Narrator
Cults: Saying No Under Pressure
1991·Narrator
Almost an Angel
1990·God
Treasure Island
1990·Long John Silver
The Little Kidnappers
1990·James MacKenzie
With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film
1990·Self
A Night on Mount Edna
1990·Self
Call from Space
1989·Alien (voice)
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
1989·Self
Original Sin
1989·Louis Mancini
A Man for All Seasons
1988·Sir Thomas More
Andrew Weyth, The Helga Pictures
1987·Self - Host
Proud Men
1987·Charley MacLeod Sr.
Eclipse of Reason
1987·Narrator
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987·Self
The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
1986·Self
Directed by William Wyler
1986·Self
Nairobi Affair
1984·Lee Cahill
The Stars Salute the U.S. Olympic Team
1984·Self - Performer
Mother Lode
1982·Silas McGee / Ian McGee
Barry Norman in Celebrity City
1982·Self
Let Poland Be Poland
1982·Self - Co-Host
The Orson Welles Story
1982·Self
This Is Your Life: 30th Anniversary Special
1981·Self
The Awakening
1980·Matthew Corbeck
The Mountain Men
1980·Bill Tyler
Gray Lady Down
1978·Captain Paul Blanchard
The Prince and the Pauper
1977·Henry VIII
Energy: A National Issue
1977·Narrator (voice)
Midway
1976·Capt. Matthew Garth
Two-Minute Warning
1976·Capt. Peter Holly
The Last Hard Men
1976·Sam Burgade
America at the Movies
1976·Narrator
Earthquake
1974·Stewart Graff
Airport 1975
1974·Alan Murdock
The Four Musketeers
1974·Cardinal Richelieu
The Three Musketeers
1973·Cardinal Richelieu
Soylent Green
1973·Detective Robert Thorn
A Look at the World of 'Soylent Green'
1973·Self
The Call of the Wild
1972·John Thornton
Skyjacked
1972·Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara
Antony and Cleopatra
1972·Marc Antony
The Special London Bridge Special
1972·Tennis Player
The Omega Man
1971·Robert Neville
Vietnam! Vietnam!
1971·Narrator (voice)
The Last Man Alive: The Omega Man
1971·Self - Narrator
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
1970·Taylor
Julius Caesar
1970·Marc Antony
The Hawaiians
1970·Whip Hoxworth
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970·Self (archive footage)
Number One
1969·Ron "Cat" Catlan
Planet of the Apes
1968·George Taylor
Rowan & Martin at the Movies
1968·Self
Elizabeth the Queen
1968·Lord Essex
Will Penny
1967·Will Penny
Counterpoint
1967·Lionel Evans
While I Run This Race
1967·Narrator
Khartoum
1966·Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon
Planet of the Apes Test Reel
1966·Thomas
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965·John the Baptist
Major Dundee
1965·Major Amos Charles Dundee
The Agony and the Ecstasy
1965·Michelangelo
The War Lord
1965·Chrysagon
Uncertain Verification
1965·(archive footage)
Night of the Dragon
1965·Narrator
55 Days at Peking
1963·Maj. Matt Lewis
The Five Cities of June
1963·Narrator
The Patriots
1963·Thomas Jefferson
The Greatest All-Star Advertial of All Time
1963·Self
Look at Life: The City's Built for Shooting
1963·Self
Diamond Head
1962·Richard 'King' Howland
The Pigeon That Took Rome
1962·Captain Paul MacDougall / Benny the Snatch / Narrator
El Cid
1961·El Cid Rodrigo de Vivar
Ben-Hur
1959·Judah Ben-Hur
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
1959·John Sands
Touch of Evil
1958·Ramon Miguel Vargas
The Buccaneer
1958·Gen. Andrew Jackson
The Big Country
1958·Steve Leech
Fun in the Big Country
1958·Self
The Ten Commandments
1956·Moses
Three Violent People
1956·Colt Saunders
Forbidden Area
1956·Col. Jesse Price
Stars of Cabaret
1956·Self (archive footage)
The Far Horizons
1955·Lt. William Clark
The Private War of Major Benson
1955·Maj. Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson
Lucy Gallant
1955·Casey Cole
Secret of the Incas
1954·Harry Steel
The Naked Jungle
1954·Christopher Leiningen
Pony Express
1953·Captain William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
Arrowhead
1953·Ed Bannon
Bad for Each Other
1953·Dr. Tom Owen
The President's Lady
1953·Andrew Jackson
Three Lives
1953·Self
The Greatest Show on Earth
1952·Brad Braden
Ruby Gentry
1952·Boake Tackman
The Savage
1952·James 'Jim' Aherne Jr. / War Bonnet
A Bolt of Lightning
1951·James Otis
Dark City
1950·Danny Haley
Julius Caesar
1950·Mark Antony
Studio One: Wuthering Heights
1950·Heathcliff
The Taming of the Shrew
1950·Petruchio
Jane Eyre
1949·Edward Rochester
Peer Gynt
1941·Peer Gynt