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Charlton Heston

Highest Rated:: 100% The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
Lowest Rated:: 0% The Order (2002)

Birthday:: Oct 4, 1924
Birthplace:: Evanston, Illinois, USA
Bio:: Steely jawed, hard bodied, terse in speech, Charlton Heston was an American man's man, an epic unto himself. While he played modern men, he was at his best when portraying larger-than-life figures from world history, preferably with his shirt off. He was born John Charles Carter on October 4, 1924…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 0% - 100%

Number of Movies: 123

Box Office Since 2001: $296.6M

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
2011	94%	Sing Your Song	Charlton Heston	$27.9k
2010	96%	Cameraman: The Life And Work Of Jack Cardiff	Actor	$20.0k
2007		Vietnam: A Retrospective	Actor	--
2005		America Home of the Brave	Actor	--
2003		Celtic Inheritance	Actor	--
2002	96%	Bowling for Columbine	Actor Director	$21.2M
2002	0%	The Order	Actor	--
2001	54%	Cats & Dogs	Mastiff	$90.9M
2001	45%	Planet of the Apes	Actor	$178.1M
2001	13%	Town & Country	Mr. Claybourne	$6.3M
1999		Forever Hollywood	Actor	--
1999		Gideon	Actor	--
1999	50%	Any Given Sunday	The Commissioner	--
1998		Secrets of War - Bio & Nuclear Warfare	Actor	--
1998	60%	Behind the Planet of the Apes	Actor	--
1998		Secrets of War - Spy Games Of World War II	Actor	--
1998	40%	Armageddon	Narrator	--
1997	84%	Hercules	Narrator	--
1997		Charlton Heston Presents: The Bible	Actor	--
1997		To the Galaxy and Beyond with Mark Hamill (Hollywood Aliens & Monsters)	Actor	--
1997		I Am Your Child	Actor	--
1997		Alaska: Spirit of the Wild	Actor	--
1997		Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints	Actor	--
1996	18%	Alaska	Director Perry	--
1996		Charlton Heston	Actor	--
1996		Mysterious Origins of Man	Actor	--
1996	100%	Gamlet (Hamlet)	Player King	--
1996		Adventures of Mowgli	Narrator in the English-language version	--
1996	94%	Hamlet	Actor	--
1996		Catastrophe! Hollywood Disaster Movies	Actor	--
1996		The Lord Protector	Actor	--
1995		Avenging Angel	Brigham Young	--
1994		Texas	Actor	--
1994		United States Air Force Museum	Actor	--
1994	72%	True Lies	Spencer Trilby	--
1994	45%	In the Mouth of Madness	Jackson Harglow	--
1994		Thousand Heroes	Actor	--
1994		Dying for a Smoke	Actor	--
1993		Mystery of the Sphinx	Actor	--
1993		Noel	Actor	--
1993	77%	Tombstone	Henry Hooker Director	--
1993		Solar Crisis	Actor	--
1993	60%	Wayne's World 2	Good Actor	--
1992		Les Secrets professionnels du Dr Apfelgl�ck (The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck)	Actor	--
1992		Smithsonian's Great Battles of the Civil War - V. 1	Actor	--
1991		Sherlock Holmes - The Crucifer of Blood	Sherlock Holmes	--
1991		Symphony for the Spire	Actor	--
1990		Solar Crisis (Crisis 2050)	Skeet Kelso	--
1990		The Little Kidnappers	James MacKenzie	--
1990	29%	Almost an Angel	Moses	--
1989		Treasure Island (Devil's Treasure)	Long John Silver	--
1989		Original Sin	Louis Mancini	--
1988		Defeat Into Victory	Actor	--
1987		Proud Men	Actor	--
1986		Nairobi Affair	Actor	--
1985		The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal	Actor	--
1984		Nairobi Affair	Actor	--
1983		Chiefs	Hugh Holmes	--
1983		A.F.I. Life Achievement Awards - John Ford	Actor	--
1982		Mother Lode (Search for the Mother Lode: The Last Great Treasure)	Ian McGee Director	--
1980		David Sheehan Interviews the Stars	Actor	--
1980	50%	The Mountain Men	Bill Tyler	--
1980		The Awakening	Matthew Corbeck	--
1977		Crossed Swords (The Prince and the Pauper)	Henry VIII	--
1977	60%	Gray Lady Down	Capt. Paul Blanchard	--
1976		Two Minute Warning	Actor	--
1976		America at the Movies	Narrator	--
1976		The Last Hard Men	Sam Burgade	--
1976	55%	Midway (The Battle of Midway)	Capt. Matt Garth	--
1976		Two-Minute Warning	Capt. Peter Holly	--
1975		A.F.I. Life Achievement Awards - Orson Welles	Actor	--
1975	79%	The Four Musketeers	Cardinal Richelieu	--
1974	20%	Earthquake	Graff	--
1974	31%	Airport 1975	Alan Murdock	--
1974	97%	Major Dundee	Maj. Amos Charles Dundee	--
1974		A.F.I. Life Achievement Awards - James Cagney	Actor	--
1973	71%	Soylent Green	Detective Thorn	--
1973	82%	The Three Musketeers	Cardinal Richelieu	--
1972		Call of the Wild	John Thornton	--
1972		Antony And Cleopatra	Director Actor	--
1972		Skyjacked (Sky Terror)	Henry O'Hara	--
1971	59%	The Omega Man	Neville	--
1970		The Hawaiians,(Master of the Islands)	Whip Hoxworth	--
1970	41%	Beneath The Planet Of The Apes	Taylor	--
1970		Julius Caesar	Marc Antony	--
1968	89%	Planet of the Apes	Taylor	--
1967	82%	Will Penny	Will Penny	--
1967		The Adventures of Mowgli	Actor	--
1966	89%	Khartoum	Gen. Charles Gordon	--
1965		The Warlord	Actor	--
1965	37%	The Greatest Story Ever Told	John the Baptist	--
1965	67%	The War Lord	Chrysagon	--
1965	100%	The Agony and the Ecstasy	Michelangelo	--
1963		Diamond Head	Richard "King" Howland	--
1963	57%	55 Days at Peking	Maj. Matt Lewis	--
1962		The Pigeon That Took Rome	Capt. Paul MacDougall	--
1961	92%	El Cid	Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar/El Cid	--
1959		The Wreck of the Mary Deare	John Sands	--
1959	89%	Ben-Hur	Judah Ben Hur	--
1958	100%	The Big Country	Steve Leech	--
1958	95%	Touch of Evil	Ramon Miguel Vargas	--
1958		The Buccaneer	Gen. Andrew Jackson	--
1957		Three Violent People	Colt Saunders	--
1956	91%	The Ten Commandments	God (Uncredited)	--
1955		The Far Horizons	Bill Clark	--
1955		Private War of Major Bensen	Actor	--
1955		The Private War of Major Benson	Major Bernard Benson	--
1954		Bad for Each Other	Dr. Tom Owen	--
1954	83%	The Naked Jungle	Christopher Leiningen	--
1954		Secret of the Incas	Harry Steele	--
1953		Arrowhead	Ed Bannon	--
1953		Pony Express	Buffalo Bill Cody	--
1953		The President's Lady	Andrew Jackson	--
1953		The Savage	War Bonnet (Jim Aherne)	--
1953		Julius Caesar	Actor	--
1952	41%	The Greatest Show on Earth	Brad Braden	--
1952	67%	Ruby Gentry	Boake Tackman	--
1951		Westinghouse Studio One - "A Bolt of Lightning"	Actor	--
1950		Dark City	Danny Haley	--
1950		Julius Caesar	Marcus Antonius	--
1948		Studio One Anthology	Actor	--
1941		Peer Gynt	Peer Gynt	--
		Helga Pictures	Actor	--

Charlton Heston Trivia

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Has a collection of more than 400 modern and antique guns.

- submitted by Lindsay Elizabeth M (18 months ago)

Entertainment Weekly voted him as the 52nd Greatest Star of All Time.

- submitted by Lindsay Elizabeth M (18 months ago)

Quotes from Charlton Heston's Characters

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1. Detective Thorn: I can't figure this Simonson. If I was like him. Rich. Important... ...plenty to eat... ...real bourbon... ...and a girl like you... ...you wouldn't see me in church.
From Soylent Green. Submitted by Allen D (27 days ago)

1. Sol Roth: There was a world, once, you punk.
2. Detective Thorn: Yes, so you keep telling me.
3. Sol Roth: I was there. I can prove it.
4. Detective Thorn: I know, I know. When you were young, people were better.
5. Sol Roth: Aw, nuts. People were always rotten. But the world 'was' beautiful.
From Soylent Green. Submitted by Filipe M (5 months ago)