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Acting

Charlton Heston

Career: Active from 1941 to 2019, with a break from 2004 to 2018, busiest in 1965 with 6 main titles.

Leading roles: 88
top three billing

Average score: 61/100

Highest rated: Touch of Evil
89/100

Awards

Reported results for this person. Coverage is incomplete; these results don't establish award totals.

Screen Actors Guild Awards · SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award
1971 · Won
Source: Wikidata
Golden Globe Awards · Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award
1966 · Won
Source: Wikidata
Academy Awards · Actor in a Leading Role
1960 · Won · 32nd Academy Awards
Ben-Hur
Source: Wikidata

Characters

9

The characters Charlton Heston played, best-known titles first.

Charlton Heston as Spencer Trilby

Charlton Heston as Zaius

Charlton Heston as George Taylor

Charlton Heston as Henry Hooker

Charlton Heston as Detective Robert Thorn

Charlton Heston as Taylor

Charlton Heston as Robert Neville

Charlton Heston as Stewart Graff

Charlton Heston as Michelangelo

Character images: TheTVDB

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 93 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Charlton Heston Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.0, average 5.4
Situational Comedy
1.6, average 2.7
Cringe Humor
1.2, average 2.2
Pop Culture
1.2, average 2.2

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

Historical Drama 11
Political Intrigue 11
Historical Setting 5
Moral Ambiguity 5
Period Piece 4
Survival Story 4
Character Study 4
Social Commentary 4
Family Saga 3
Classic Hollywood 3
Classic Cinema 3
Coming-of-Age 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

133

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

2 titles · average score 69

Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"

as (archive footage)

2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift

69

as (archive footage)

2000s

8 titles · average score 47

Ben Hur

65

as Ben Hur (voice)

My Father

66

as Josef Mengele

The Face of Evil: Reinhard Heydrich

as Narrator (voice)

The Order

28

as Professor Finley

Planet of the Apes

46

as Zaius (uncredited)

Cats & Dogs

49

as The Mastiff (voice)

Town & Country

31

as Mr. Clayborne

The Weber Show

TV show · as Charlton Heston

1990s

29 titles · average score 62

Camino de Santiago

TV show · as Professor Marcelo Rinaldi

Gideon

64

as Addison Sinclair

Hercules

75

as Narrator (voice)

Friends

75

TV show · as Charlton Heston

The Mystery of the Sphinx

74

as Narrator

Solar Crisis

46

as Adm. "Skeet" Kelso

Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232

62

as Captain Al Haynes

Noël

57

as Narrator

The Crucifer of Blood

51

as Sherlock Holmes

Treasure Island

69

as Long John Silver

Almost an Angel

46

as God

The Little Kidnappers

70

as James MacKenzie

1980s

13 titles · average score 58

Call from Space

as Alien (voice)

A Man for All Seasons

69

as Sir Thomas More

Korea: The Unknown War

TV show · as General Douglas MacArthur (voice)

Proud Men

71

as Charley MacLeod Sr.

Eclipse of Reason

as Narrator

The Colbys

62

TV show · as Jason Colby

Nairobi Affair

54

as Lee Cahill

Chiefs

80

TV show · as Hugh Holmes

Mother Lode

57

as Silas McGee / Ian McGee

Dynasty

66

TV show · as Jason Colby

The Mountain Men

43

as Bill Tyler

The Awakening

21

as Matthew Corbeck

1970s

21 titles · average score 56

Gray Lady Down

59

as Captain Paul Blanchard

The Prince and the Pauper

59

as Henry VIII

Midway

54

as Capt. Matthew Garth

The Last Hard Men

51

as Sam Burgade

Two-Minute Warning

42

as Capt. Peter Holly

Earthquake

52

as Stewart Graff

Airport 1975

46

as Alan Murdock

Soylent Green

69

as Detective Robert Thorn

The Call of the Wild

56

as John Thornton

The Omega Man

59

as Robert Neville

Beneath the Planet of the Apes

47

as Taylor

Julius Caesar

46

as Marc Antony

1960s

22 titles · average score 68

Number One

52

as Ron "Cat" Catlan

Planet of the Apes

82

as George Taylor

Will Penny

81

as Will Penny

Counterpoint

64

as Lionel Evans

Khartoum

82

as Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon

The Agony and the Ecstasy

79

as Michelangelo

Major Dundee

72

as Major Amos Charles Dundee

The War Lord

65

as Chrysagon

55 Days at Peking

60

as Maj. Matt Lewis

Diamond Head

57

as Richard 'King' Howland

The Pigeon That Took Rome

54

as Captain Paul MacDougall / Benny the Snatch / Narrator

El Cid

79

as El Cid Rodrigo de Vivar

1950s

33 titles · average score 66

Ben-Hur

86

as Judah Ben-Hur

The Wreck of the Mary Deare

63

as John Sands

Touch of Evil

89

as Ramon Miguel Vargas

The Ten Commandments

81

as Moses

Three Violent People

61

as Colt Saunders

The Naked Jungle

76

as Christopher Leiningen

Secret of the Incas

57

as Harry Steel

Pony Express

50

as Captain William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cody

Arrowhead

56

as Ed Bannon

The Greatest Show on Earth

55

as Brad Braden

Ruby Gentry

62

as Boake Tackman

Dark City

66

as Danny Haley

1940s

5 titles · average score 64

Jane Eyre

as Edward Rochester

Suspense

62

TV show

Studio One

65

TV show · as Merton Densher / Commander Schneider

The Philco Television Playhouse

TV show

Peer Gynt

67

as Peer Gynt