Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston at the 1963 Civil Rights March.

Charlton Heston (1924-2006) was a Hollywood actor and former president of the National Rifle Association. He is best remembered for his portrayals of Moses in The Ten Commandments and Rodrigo in El Cid. He is a very passionate man, and rigorously defends the Second Amendment.

Filmography

• Peer Gynt (1941)
• Julius Caesar (1950)
• Dark City (1950)
• The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
• The Savage (1952)
• Ruby Gentry (1952)
• The President's Lady (1953)
• Pony Express (1953)
• Arrowhead (1953)
• Bad for Each Other (1953)
• The Naked Jungle (1954)
• Secret of the Incas (1954)
• The Far Horizons (1955)
• The Private War of Major Benson (1955)
• Lucy Gallant (1955)
• The Ten Commandments (1956)
• Three Violent People (1957)
• Touch of Evil (1958)
• The Big Country (1958)
• The Buccaneer (1958)
• The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)
• Ben-Hur (1959)
• El Cid (1961)
• The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962)
• Diamond Head (1963)
• 55 Days at Peking (1963)
• The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
• Major Dundee (1965)
• The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
• The War Lord (1965)
• Khartoum (1966)
• Maugli (1967)
• Counterpoint (1968)
• Planet of the Apes (1968)
• Will Penny (1968)
• Number One (1969)
• The Festival Game (1970)
• King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970)
• Beneath the Planet of the Apes
• Julius Caesar (1970)
• The Hawaiians (1970)
• The Omega Man (1971)
• Antony and Cleopatra (1972)
• Skyjacked (1972)
• The Call of the Wild (1972)
• Soylent Green (1973)
• The Three Musketeers (1973)
• Airport 1975 (1974)
• Earthquake (1974)
• The Four Musketeers (1974)
• The Last Hard Men (1976)
• Midway (1976)
• America at the Movies (1976)
• Two-Minute Warning (1976)
• Crossed Swords (1977)
• Gray Lady Down (1978)
• The Mountain Men (1980)
• The Awakening (1980)
• Mother Lode (1982)
• The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1985)
• Directed by William Wyler (1986)
• Solar Crisis (1990)
• Almost an Angel (1990)
• Genghis Khan (1992)
• Wayne's World 2 (1993)
• Tombstone (1993)
• A Century of Cinema (1994)
• True Lies (1994)
• In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
• The Dark Mist (1996) (narrator)
• Alaska (1996)
• Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right (1996)
• Hamlet (1996)
• Hercules (1997)
• Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997)
• Armageddon (1998)
• Gideon (1999)
• Any Given Sunday (1999)
• Town & Country (2001)
• Cats & Dogs (2001)
• Planet of the Apes (2001)
• Last Party 2000 (2001)
• The Order (2001)
• Bowling for Columbine (2002)
• My Father, Rua Alguem 5555 (2003)