Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston

American actor (1923–2008)

Charlton Heston was an American actor and political activist. He gained stardom for his leading man roles in numerous Hollywood films including biblical epics, historical drama films, science-fiction films, and action films. He won an Academy Award, a David di Donatello Award, a Laurel Award, a Photoplay Award, a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards. He received numerous honorary accolades including a Hollywood Walk of Fame Star in 1960, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1967, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1971, an honorary Saturn Award in 1975, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Academy Award in 1978, the ShoWest Convention Lifetime Achievement Award in 1984, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1997, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2003.

Filmography in the catalog

Credited on 70 films (1941–1980) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field. Also mentioned in 30 other records (descriptions, transcriptions, copyright notes).

Year ▲ Title CreatorLengthFormatColorSound
1941 Peer Gynt Willow Corp 1:25:00 16mm Color sound
1941 Peer Gynt VCI Entertainment 1:40:00 16mm B&W sound
1950 Dark City. Paramount Pictures Corp. 11 reels. 35mm B&W sound
1952 Ruby Gentry Bernhard-Vidor Productions 1:22:00 16mm B&W sound
1952 Ruby Gentry King Vidor 82 min 16mm B&W
1952 Ruby Gentry. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp 82 min. 35mm B&W sound
1952 The Greatest Show on Earth Cecil B. DeMille 152 min Color
1953 Arrowhead Gateway Educational Media. 105 min 16mm Color sound
1953 Arrowhead. Paramount Pictures Corp. 105 min 35mm Color sound
1953 Bad For Each Other. Columbia Pictures Corp. 8 reels 35mm B&W sound
1953 Pony Express Jerry Hopper 101 min Color
1953 PONY EXPRESS Paramount 60min 16mm Color Silent
1953 Pony Express Jerry Hopper 101 min Color
1953 The President’s Lady. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp 96 min. 35mm B&W sound
1954 Secret Of The Incas. Paramount Pictures Corp. 101 min 35mm Color sound
1954 The Naked Jungle. Paramount Pictures Corp. 95 min. 35mm Color sound
1955 Lucy Gallant. Paramount Pictures Corp. 104 min 35mm Color sound
1955 The Far Horizons Rudolph Maté 108 min Color
1955 The name's the same. [1955-09-23] / a Mark Goodson-Bill Todman production ; sponsored by the Ralston-Purina Company ; producers, Mark Goodson and Bill Todman ; directed by Jerome Schnur. 30 16mm B&W sound
1955 The Private War Of Major Benson. Universal Pictures Co. Inc. 105 min 35mm Color sound
1956 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ▶ Cecil B. DeMille 220 min 16mm Color
1956 The Ten commandments Cecil B. DeMille 220 min Color
1956 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. Paramount Pictures Corp. 219 min 35mm Color sound
1957 Three Violent People. Paramount Pictures Corp. 100 min 35mm Color sound
1958 A Touch Of Evil. Revue Productions Inc. unless otherwise indicated. 16mm B&W sound
1958 The Big Country Anthony-Worldwide Productions 2:46:00 16mm Color sound
1958 The Big Country. Anthony-Worldwide Productions 166 min 35mm Color sound
1958 THE BUCCANEER Anthony Quinn 114 min Color
1958 THE BUCCANEER. Paramount Pictures Corp. 121 min 35mm Color sound
1958 Touch of evil Universal International Pictures (UI) (presents) (as Universal International): Publisher | Universal Pictures (1958) (USA) (theatrical) (as Universal-International): Distributor 1:48:00 16mm B&W sound
1959 BEN-HUR. Loew's Inc. 12 reels Color sound
1959 The Wreck Of The Mary Deare. Loew’s Inc. Julian Blaustein Productions Inc. & Baroda Productions Inc. 105 min 35mm Color sound
1961 El Cid Dear film produzione | Samuel Bronston Productions Inc 3:04:00 16mm Color sound
1961 El Cid. Samuel Bronston Productions Inc. 182 min 35mm Color sound
1962 The Pigeon That Took Rome. Paramount Pictures Corp. & Llenroc Productions 103 min 35mm B&W sound
1963 55 Days At Peking. Samuel Bronston Productions Inc. 154 min 35mm Color sound
1963 Diamond Head. Jerry Bresler Productions Inc. 107 min 35mm Color sound
1965 Major Dundee. Jerry Bresler Productions Inc. 137 min 35mm Color sound
1965 The Agony And The Ecstasy. International Classics Inc. 138 min 35mm Color sound
1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told. George Stevens Productions Inc. & United Artists Corp. 191 min 35mm Color sound
1965 The War Lord. Universal Pictures Co. Inc. & Carter Management Co. Inc. 123 min 35mm Color sound
1966 Khartoum. Julian Blaustein Productions Ltd. 134 min 35mm Color sound
1966 The American film : The White House Festival of the Arts produced by George Stevens Jr.; written by James Silke. 36 16mm Color sound
1967 Planet of the Apes Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation 1:52:00 16mm Color sound
1967 Planet Of The Apes. Apjac Productions Inc.; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. 112 min 35mm Color sound
1967 Will Penny Paramount Pictures Corp. 110 min 35mm Color sound
1968 Counterpoint Ralph Nelson
1969 BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES. Apjac Productions Inc.; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. 95 min 35 mm Color sound
1969 Number one. Walter Seltzer Productions Inc. 1 reel 35mm Color sound
1970 King : a filmed record-- Montgomery to Memphis Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Sidney Lumet 135 min Color & B&W