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98%

Sandra Bullock, George Clooney

PG-13, 1 hr. 31 min.

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R, 1 hr. 40 min.

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Will Smith, Jaden Smith

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79%

Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow

PG-13, 1 hr. 49 min.

4%	Scary Movie 5	Apr 12
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Pacific Rim

72%

Charlie Hunnam, Diego Klattenhoff

PG-13, 2 hr. 11 min.

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Celebrities » Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston

Total Box Office:: $498.2M
Highest Rated:: 100% Khartoum (1966)
Lowest Rated:: 0% The Order (2002)

Birthday:: Oct 4
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

Movies

MOVIES

Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office	Year
	Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen	Actor	--	2013
97%	Sing Your Song	Charlton Heston	$47.7k	2011
96%	Cameraman: The Life And Work Of Jack Cardiff	Actor	$20.0k	2010
	Vietnam: A Retrospective	Actor	--	2007
	America Home of the Brave	Actor	--	2005
	Rated R - Republicans in Hollywood	Actor	--	2004
	John Wayne: American Legend	Actor	--	2003
	Celtic Inheritance	Actor	--	2003
	Ben Hur	Actor	--	2003
	Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible - Samson and Delilah	Actor	--	2002
	Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible - Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors	Actor	--	2002
96%	Bowling for Columbine	Director Actor	$21.2M	2002
	Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible - Joshua and the Battle of Jericho	Actor	--	2002
0%	The Order	Actor	--	2002
	Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible - Miracles of Jesus	Actor	--	2002
	Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible - Sodom and Gomorrah	Actor	--	2002
	Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible - The Nativity	Actor	--	2002
	The Making of The Ten Commandments	Actor	--	2001
45%	Planet of the Apes	Actor	$178.1M	2001
13%	Town & Country	Mr. Claybourne	$6.3M	2001
54%	Cats & Dogs	Mastiff	$90.9M	2001
	Mysterious Origins of Man	Host	--	1999
50%	Any Given Sunday	The Commissioner	--	1999
	Forever Hollywood	Actor	--	1999
	Gideon	Actor	--	1999
	Secrets of War - Air Wars - Vietnam: Alpha Strike	Narrator	--	1998
	Secrets of War - Air Wars: Spies in the Sky	Narrator	--	1998
	Secrets of War - Bio & Nuclear Warfare	Actor	--	1998
	Secrets of War - Intelligence: The Ultra Enigma	Narrator	--	1998
60%	Behind the Planet of the Apes	Actor	--	1998
	Secrets of War - Spy Games Of World War II	Actor	--	1998
	Secrets of War - Intelligence: Women Spies in WWII	Narrator	--	1998
40%	Armageddon	Narrator	$201.6M	1998
	Secrets of War - Bold Strikes	Actor	--	1998
	Secrets of War - Wealth & Power	Actor	--	1998
	I Am Your Child	Actor	--	1997
	Alaska: Spirit of the Wild	Narrator	--	1997
	Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints	Actor	--	1997
	The Lord Protector	Actor	--	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
	Adventures of Mowgli	Narrator in the English-language version	--	1996
95%	Hamlet	Actor	--	1996
18%	Alaska	Perry Director	--	1996
	Catastrophe! Hollywood Disaster Movies	Actor	--	1996
	Charlton Heston	Actor	--	1996
	Avenging Angel	Brigham Young	--	1995
47%	In the Mouth of Madness	Jackson Harglow	--	1994
	Thousand Heroes	Actor	--	1994
	Texas	Actor	--	1994
	Bible According to Hollywood	Actor	--	1994
	Dying for a Smoke	Actor	--	1994
	United States Air Force Museum	Actor	--	1994
72%	True Lies	Spencer Trilby	--	1994
	Solar Crisis	Actor	--	1993
60%	Wayne's World 2	Good Actor	--	1993
	Mystery of the Sphinx	Host	--	1993
	Noel	Actor	--	1993
73%	Tombstone	Henry Hooker	--	1993
	Smithsonian's Great Battles of the Civil War - V. 1	Actor	--	1992
	Les Secrets professionnels du Dr Apfelgl�ck (The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck)	Actor	--	1992
	Sherlock Holmes - The Crucifer of Blood	Sherlock Holmes	--	1991
	Symphony for the Spire	Actor	--	1991
29%	Almost an Angel	Moses	--	1990
	The Little Kidnappers	James MacKenzie	--	1990
	Solar Crisis (Crisis 2050)	Skeet Kelso	--	1990
	Treasure Island (Devil's Treasure)	Long John Silver	--	1989
	Original Sin	Louis Mancini	--	1989
	Defeat Into Victory	Actor	--	1988
	Nairobi Affair	Lee Cahill	--	1988
	Proud Men	Actor	--	1987
	Nairobi Affair	Actor	--	1986
	The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal	Actor	--	1985
	A.F.I. Life Achievement Awards - John Ford	Actor	--	1983
	Chiefs	Hugh Holmes	--	1983
	Mother Lode (Search for the Mother Lode: The Last Great Treasure)	Director Ian McGee	--	1982
50%	The Mountain Men	Bill Tyler	--	1980
	The Awakening	Matthew Corbeck	--	1980
	David Sheehan Interviews the Stars	Actor	--	1980
	Helga Pictures	Actor	--	1979
60%	Gray Lady Down	Capt. Paul Blanchard	--	1977
	Crossed Swords (The Prince and the Pauper)	Henry VIII	--	1977
54%	Midway	Capt. Matt Garth	--	1976
	Two-Minute Warning	Capt. Peter Holly	--	1976
	Two Minute Warning	Actor	--	1976
	America at the Movies	Narrator	--	1976
	The Last Hard Men	Sam Burgade	--	1976
79%	The Four Musketeers	Cardinal Richelieu	--	1975
	A.F.I. Life Achievement Awards - Orson Welles	Actor	--	1975
	A.F.I. Life Achievement Awards - James Cagney	Actor	--	1974
25%	Earthquake	Graff	--	1974
31%	Airport 1975	Alan Murdock	--	1974
97%	Major Dundee	Maj. Amos Charles Dundee	--	1974
71%	Soylent Green	Detective Thorn	--	1973
82%	The Three Musketeers	Cardinal Richelieu	--	1973
	Antony And Cleopatra	Marc Antony Director	--	1972
	Skyjacked (Sky Terror)	Henry O'Hara	--	1972
	Call of the Wild	John Thornton	--	1972
59%	The Omega Man	Neville	--	1971
	Julius Caesar	Marc Antony	--	1970
80%	Airport	Actor	--	1970
	The Hawaiians,(Master of the Islands)	Whip Hoxworth	--	1970
41%	Beneath The Planet Of The Apes	Taylor	--	1970
	King - Montgomery to Memphis	Actor	--	1970
89%	Planet of the Apes	Taylor	--	1968
	The Adventures of Mowgli	Actor	--	1967
	Counterpoint	Actor	--	1967
82%	Will Penny	Will Penny	--	1967
100%	Khartoum	Gen. Charles Gordon	--	1966
100%	The Agony and the Ecstasy	Michelangelo	--	1965
67%	The Warlord	Chrysagon	--	1965
37%	The Greatest Story Ever Told	John the Baptist	--	1965
100%	Gamlet (Hamlet)	Player King	--	1964
57%	55 Days at Peking	Maj. Matt Lewis	--	1963
	Diamond Head	Richard "King" Howland	--	1963
	The Pigeon That Took Rome	Capt. Paul MacDougall	--	1962
92%	El Cid	Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar/El Cid	--	1961
	The Wreck of the Mary Deare	John Sands	--	1959
89%	Ben-Hur	Judah Ben Hur	--	1959
95%	Touch of Evil	Ramon Miguel Vargas	--	1958
	The Buccaneer	Andrew Jackson	--	1958
100%	The Big Country	Steve Leech	--	1958
	Three Violent People	Colt Saunders	--	1957
91%	The Ten Commandments	God (Uncredited)	--	1956
	The Private War of Major Benson	Major Bernard Benson	--	1955
	The Far Horizons	Bill Clark	--	1955
	Private War of Major Bensen	Actor	--	1955
	Secret of the Incas	Harry Steele	--	1954
83%	The Naked Jungle	Christopher Leiningen	--	1954
	Bad for Each Other	Dr. Tom Owen	--	1954
	The President's Lady	Andrew Jackson	--	1953
	Julius Caesar	Actor	--	1953
	Arrowhead	Ed Bannon	--	1953
	Pony Express	Buffalo Bill Cody	--	1953
	The Savage	War Bonnet (Jim Aherne)	--	1953
42%	The Greatest Show on Earth	Brad Braden	--	1952
67%	Ruby Gentry	Boake Tackman	--	1952
	Westinghouse Studio One - "A Bolt of Lightning"	Actor	--	1951
	Dark City	Danny Haley	--	1950
	Julius Caesar	Marcus Antonius	--	1950
	Studio One Anthology	Actor	--	1948
	Peer Gynt	Peer Gynt	--	1941

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

- submitted by Lindsay Elizabeth M (3 years ago)

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

- submitted by Lindsay Elizabeth M (3 years ago)

Quotes from Charlton Heston's Characters

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1. Ramon Miguel Vargas: A policeman's job is only easy in a police state...
From Touch of Evil. Submitted by Jay A (45 days ago)

1. Steve Leech: All I can say, McKay, is you take a hell of a long time to say goodbye.
From The Big Country. Submitted by Christopher B (6 months ago)