Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston 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.
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TV Series
The Colgate Comedy Hour
6.8
seaQuest DSV
7
The Merv Griffin Show
5.75
Noel's House Party
7.2
Omnibus
6
Playhouse 90
7.6
Studio One
5
MADtv
6.942
General Electric Theater
6.25
The Colbys
5.9
Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
Eco-Challenge
8
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
7.25
Your Show of Shows
6.333
Climax!
3.273
The Philco Television Playhouse
6.286
Suspense
4.909
Robert Montgomery Presents
5.6
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
6.3
The Steve Allen Show
5.6
Pebble Mill
3.1
F.D.R.
0
The Outer Limits
7.722
The Oscars
7
The Kennedy Center Honors
7.4
Kraft Mystery Theatre
6
Chiefs
7.9
Friends
8.429
The Colgate Comedy Hour
6.8
Talking Pictures
5
Your Show of Shows
6.333
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
7.4
The Dame Edna Experience
5
Saturday Night Live
7
Camino de Santiago
6
Korea: The Unknown War
0
Sworn to Secrecy: Secrets of War
6
The $64,000 Question
0
Robert Montgomery Presents
5.6
Robert Montgomery Presents
5.6
The Ed Sullivan Show
6.8
Wogan
4.5
The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
7.8
V.I.P. Schaukel
6
Studio One
5
Studio One
5
Studio One
5
Studio One
5
Studio One
5
Studio One
5
Studio One
5
Studio One
5
Studio One
5
Secrets of War: Shadows of The Reich
0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
7.2
Spécial cinéma
0
Climax!
3.273
Bambi-Verleihung
9
The Steve Allen Show
5.6
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
6
Dynasty
6.5
The Dick Cavett Show
6.7
Golden Globe Awards
7
What's My Line?
6.9
The Weber Show
7.8
Golden Globe Awards
7
Dinah!
6.667
Golden Globe Awards
7
Studio One
5
Shirley Temple's Storybook
6.2
Science Fiction Film Awards
0
Movies
Planet of the Apes
7.645
Bowling for Columbine
7.524
Touch of Evil
7.753
Solar Crisis
4.29
Ben-Hur
7.887
Will Penny
6.563
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
6.142
Hamlet
7.334
The Greatest Story Ever Told
6.4
In the Mouth of Madness
7.21
The Three Musketeers
6.785
Earthquake
6.098
The Buccaneer
6.4
The Omega Man
6.154
Midway
6.6
The Ten Commandments
7.773
Town & Country
4.432
Two-Minute Warning
6.2
Gray Lady Down
6.381
Hercules
7.5
Tombstone
7.6
Soylent Green
6.945
I Am Richard Pryor
6.8
Wayne's World 2
6.093
Almost an Angel
5.7
Treasure Island
6.6
Charlton Heston: Radical to Right Wing
8.5
Yul Brynner, the Magnificent
7.5
The Greatest Show on Earth
6.317
The Big Country
7.601
55 Days at Peking
6.964
The Legacy of Malthus
0
Airport 1975
5.699
Alaska: Spirit of the Wild
6.938
Secret of the Incas
5.75
Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: Daniel and the Lion's Den
6
Khartoum
6.296
Major Dundee
6.7
Dark City
6.5
Julius Caesar
5.665
The Agony and the Ecstasy
7.1
The War Lord
6.3
The Call of the Wild
6
True Lies
7.079
Andersonville Diaries
0
Pony Express
5.6
Arrowhead
5.9
The Order
5.097
The Naked Jungle
6.4
The Last Hard Men
6.2
El Cid
6.8
The Awakening
5.422
Behind the Planet of the Apes
7.222
Love in Hollywood
0
Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: David and Goliath
0
Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Jonah and the Whale
0
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
0
Ruby Gentry
6.5
The Dark Mist
3.5
Bad for Each Other
5.7
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
6.6
Three Violent People
6.1
Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"
0
The Mountain Men
5.9
The Hawaiians
5.4
The Far Horizons
6.2
Mother Lode
5.606
Skyjacked
6.196
The Mystery of the Sphinx
8
Number One
5.1
Yesterday's Tomorrows
10
The President's Lady
6.929
Antony and Cleopatra
5.6
Fun in the Big Country
0
The Crucifer of Blood
6.5
Barry Norman in Celebrity City
0
The Little Kidnappers
5.125
The Private War of Major Benson
6.7
Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232
5.8
Uncertain Verification
6.6
The Avenging Angel
4.95
The Savage
6.1
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
6.3
Lucy Gallant
7
Remembering Reagan at His Ranch
0
Diamond Head
5.4
A Man for All Seasons
6.818
Counterpoint
6.2
Charlton Heston and Ben-Hur: A Personal Journey
7.6
The Pigeon That Took Rome
5.3
A Look at the World of 'Soylent Green'
0
America at the Movies
5
Nairobi Affair
4.8
Gideon
5.808
Julius Caesar
5.8
Andrew Weyth, The Helga Pictures
0
Noël
4.2
The Five Cities of June
6.3
While I Run This Race
5
Lasting Love
0
Forbidden Area
7.5
The Gun Deadlock
0
Planet of the Apes
5.762
Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Samson and Delilah
0
Proud Men
7
Hail Satan?
7.041
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
5
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
7.5
Any Given Sunday
6.82
The Special London Bridge Special
0
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
6.7
Jane Eyre
0
My Father
6
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
6.4
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
7
Let Poland Be Poland
0
The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
7.5
Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: The Garden of Eden
5
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
6.688
A Bolt of Lightning
0
Christmas in Hollywood
0
Television: The First Fifty Years
0
Planet of the Apes: A Milestone of Science Fiction
7.833
Planet of the Apes Test Reel
0
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
6.4
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
7.091
Alaska
5.8
The Four Musketeers
6.381
Rowan & Martin at the Movies
0
The Making of Midway
0
Cats & Dogs
5.387
Peer Gynt
7
Call from Space
10
De Madrid a la Luna
6
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
7.5
The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille
6.2
With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film
0
Eclipse of Reason
0
The Prince and the Pauper
5.99
Charlie Sheen's Stunts Spectacular
9.5
Original Sin
3.333
Vietnam! Vietnam!
5.3
Bienvenido Mr. Heston
0
Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Jesus of Nazareth
0
Ben Hur
5.7
Texas
5
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
7
Forever Hollywood
8
The Bible According to Hollywood
6
Stars of Cabaret
0
Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Genesis
8
And the Oscar Goes To...
6.991
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
6.7
Greatest Heroes and Legends: The Story of Moses
0
Directed by William Wyler
0
A Century of Cinema
8
Charlton Heston Presents the Bible
10
Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Joshua and the Battle of Jericho
0
Todos los nombres de Sara
4
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
7.3
Energy: A National Issue
5
Air Force One: The Planes and the Presidents
0
Spanish Western
6.219
The Madding Crowd
0
Charlton Heston Presents The Bible: The Story of Moses
0
Armageddon
6.8
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
7
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
7.429
The Mysterious Origins of Man
6
Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints
0
Three Lives
0
The Patriots
0
Private Screenings: Charlton Heston
0
This Is Your Life: 30th Anniversary Special
0
The Last Man Alive: The Omega Man
0
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
6.9
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
0
Last Party 2000
6.1
Elizabeth the Queen
0
The Face of Evil: Reinhard Heydrich
0
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
7.5
The Greatest All-Star Advertial of All Time
0
The Making of The Ten Commandments
8
The Stars Salute the U.S. Olympic Team
0
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
7.79