Biography: life and films
Charlton Heston was an American actor and film director whose birth name was John Charles Carter. He was born in Wilmette, Illinois, USA on 4th October 1923 and died in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA on 5th April 2008, aged 84.His best films as an actor include Orson Welles's crime-thriller Touch of Evil (1958), William Wyler's Ben-Hur (1959), Anthony Mann's El Cid (1961), Franklin J. Schaffner's thriller Planet of the Apes (1968) and Richard Fleischer's Soylent Green (1973), and whose best work as a film director include Antony and Cleopatra (1972) and Mother Lode (1982).
Charlton Heston appeared in 79 films, directed 2 films and scripted 1 film.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Tom Gries (3 films), Ken Annakin (3), Jerry Hopper (3), William Wyler (2), Rudolph Maté (2), Richard Lester (2), Richard Fleischer (2), Jack Smight (2), Franklin J. Schaffner (2), David Bradley (2) and Cecil B. DeMille (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (39 films), Thriller (16), history (13), Western (11), War (9), romance (7), Documentary (7), comedy (6), Fantasy (3), comedy-romance (2), Horror (2) and Biography (2).
Our average rating for Charlton Heston over all films is: 3.1
Filmography
Key: a = actor; d = director; w = writer
Peer Gynt (1941) [a]
Dark City (1950) [a]
Julius Caesar (1950) [a]
Ruby Gentry (1952) [a]
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) [a]
The Savage (1952) [a]
Arrowhead (1953) [a]
Bad for Each Other (1953) [a]
Pony Express (1953) [a]
The President's Lady (1953) [a]
Secret of the Incas (1954) [a]
The Naked Jungle (1954) [a]
Lucy Gallant (1955) [a]
The Far Horizons (1955) [a]
The Private War of Major Benson (1955) [a]
The Ten Commandments (1956) [a]
Three Violent People (1956) [a]
The Big Country (1958) [a]
The Buccaneer (1958) [a]
Ben-Hur (1959) [a]
The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959) [a]
El Cid (1961) [a]
The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962) [a]
55 Days at Peking (1963) [a]
Diamond Head (1963) [a]
Major Dundee (1965) [a]
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) [a]
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) [a]
The War Lord (1965) [a]
Khartoum (1966) [a]
Counterpoint (1967) [a]
Will Penny (1968) [a]
Number One (1969) [a]
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) [a]
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970) [a]
The Hawaiians (1970) [a]
Antony and Cleopatra (1972) [a,d,w]
Skyjacked (1972) [a]
The Call of the Wild (1972) [a]
The Special London Bridge Special (1972) [a]
The Three Musketeers (1973) [a]
Airport 1975 (1974) [a]
The Four Musketeers (1974) [a]
Midway (1976) [a]
The Last Hard Men (1976) [a]
Two-Minute Warning (1976) [a]
Gray Lady Down (1978) [a]
The Awakening (1980) [a]
The Mountain Men (1980) [a]
Mother Lode (1982) [a,d]
The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1985) [a]
Solar Crisis (1990) [a]
Gengis Khan (1992) [a]
Tombstone (1993) [a]
In the Mouth of Madness (1994) [a]
True Lies (1994) [a]
Alaska (1996) [a]
Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right (1996) [a]
Hamlet (1996) [a]
The Dark Mist (1996) [a]
Hercules (1997) [a]
Any Given Sunday (1999) [a]
Gideon (1999) [a]
Cats and Dogs (2001) [a]
The Order (2001) [a]
Bowling for Columbine (2002) [a]
My Father, Rua Alguem 5555 (2003) [a]
Religulous (2008) [a]
Genghis Khan: The Story of a Lifetime (2009) [a]
Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen (2010) [a]
The best of Russian cinema
The brighter side of Franz Kafka
The very best of Italian cinema
