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
1970 THE HAWAIIANS. Mirisch Productions Inc. 134 35 mm Color sound
1971 The Omega Man Warner Bros. & Walter Seltzer Productions 98 min Color sound
1972 EARTHQUAKE ▶ U.S. Department of Agriculture 122 min 16mm Color sound
1972 Earthquake Mark Robson 122 min Color
1972 EARTHQUAKE Defense Civil Preparedness Agency (Department of Defense) 29 min Color Optical sound
1972 Skyjacked Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 101 min Color sound
1972 The Call of the Wild Ken Annakin 105 min Color
1973 EARTHQUAKE Office of Civil Defense (Department of Defense) 13 min Color Optical sound
1973 Soylent Green Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 97 min Color sound
1974 Airport 1975 Universal Pictures 107 min Color sound
1974 Earthquake Mark Robson 122 min Color
1974 Earthquake Mark Robson 122 min 16mm Color
1976 Midway Mirisch Corporation 132 min Color sound
1976 The Last Hard Men Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation 97 min Color sound
1976 Two Minute Warning Universal Pictures. A Filmways production 115 min Color sound
1978 Gray Lady Down Universal Studios, cMCMLXXVII 111 min Color sound
1979 The Mountain Men Columbia Picture Corp 100 min 16mm Color sound
1980 Awakening !The Awakening Newell, MikeMike Newell
1980 The Mountain Men Richard Lang 100 min Color
1980 The mountain men Richard Lang 100 min Color