Charlton Heston

All Movies of Charlton Heston

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  Genghis Khan: The Story of a Lifetime
  The fate of a legendary boy, Temudjin, later the Genghis Khan, who became the most powerful emperor of Mongolia. With his army created one of the largest empires of all time.
  Character: Trogul

   2010

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  7.9
  Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
  In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier whe...
  Character: Himself - Interviewee

   2010

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  4.7
  The Order
  Van Damme plays Rudy whose father, Oscar is an archaeologist. His father goes to Israel. When his father disappears, he goes to Israel to find him. The chief of police claims that his father never entered the country, but an old f...
  Character: Professor Finley

   2001

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  5.7
  Planet of the Apes
  Set in the future, year 2029, a crew member of a space exploration, astronaut Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) finds himself in an upside-down world, where apes can talk and are in charge, while human are their hunted and enslaved by ...
  Character: Zaius

   2001

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  3.5
  Town & Country
  Porter Stoddard is a well-known New York architect who is at a crossroads... a nexus where twists and turns lead to myriad missteps some with his wife Ellie, others with longtime friends Mona and her husband Griffin. Deciding whic...
  Character: Eugenie's Father

   2001

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  Gideon
  Gideon is a young man living out the remainder of his life in a home for the elderly, where he enriches the lives of his fellow residents.
   1999

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  6.0
  Any Given Sunday
  "Any Given Sunday" is a behind the scenes look at the life and death struggles of modern day gladiators and those who lead them.
  Character: AFFA Football Commissioner

   1999

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  7.5
  Behind the Planet of the Apes (TV)
  This documentary was shown as part of the American Movie Classics (AMC) cable TV channel's celebration of the 30th anniversary of the release of The Planet of the Apes. We learn how the original French novel was transformed into t...
  Character: Self

   1998

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  I Am Your Child (TV)
  Character: Self

   1997

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  A Century of Science Fiction (TV Series)
  Clips from Sci-Fi Films.
  Character: Self

   1996

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  5.8
  Alaska
  Jake Barnes (Dirk Benedict) and his two kids, Sean (Vincent Kartheiser) and Jessie (Thora Birch), have moved to Alaska after his wife died. He is a former airline pilot now delivering toilet paper across the mountains. During an e...
  Character: Perry

   1996

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  7.6
  Hamlet
  When Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh) returns from his studies to find his father dead, and his mother married to his uncle, he grows suspicious. After being visited by his dead father as a ghost, his suspicions are confirmed and Hamlet f...
  Character: Player King

   1996

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  7.7
  The Outer Limits (TV Series)
  TV Series (1995-2002). 7 Seasons. 154 Episodes. The Outer Limits is a provocative anthology series that has earned numerous Emmy, CableACE, Gemini and Saturn awards. Like the classic 1960s series of the same name, each episode is ...
  Character:  Chief Justice Haden Wainwright 1 episode, 2000

   1995

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  The Avenging Angel
  Miles Utley is a professional Mormon commando/bodyguard who is forced to turn renegade and to question his faith as he investigates a scandal involving assassination and land speculation.
  Character: Brigham Young

   1995

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  6.5
  In the Mouth of Madness
  Character: Jackson Harglow

   1994

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  Texas (TV)
  In the beginning of the 19th Century many Anglosaxons are settling in the Mexican province of Texas. As the years go by, political conflicts between the settlers and the Mexican government are escalating which would lead to war an...
   1994

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  6.9
  True Lies
  Secret agent Harry Tasker (Schwarzenegger) is a busy man; when he's not saving the world from terrorists, he's under cover as a boring computer salesman, juggling the everyday needs of his wife, Helen (Jamie Lee Curtis), and his d...
  Character: Spencer Trilby

   1994

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  6.6
  Tombstone
  The life and times of the famous cowboy outlaw turned town-taming marshall, Wyatt Earp. Story focuses on the build up to the gunfight at the OK Corral, located at the outskirts of the town of Tombstone, Arizona.
  Character: Henry Hooker

   1993

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  6.0
  Wayne's World 2
  The inseparable duo try to organize a rock concert while Wayne must fend off a record producer who has an eye for his girlfriend.
   1993

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  Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 (TV)
  Character: Captain Al Haynes

   1992

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  7.8
  Treasure Island (TV)
  Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led by Blind Pew. Jim and his mother fight off the attackers and discover Billy Bon...
  Character: Long John Silver

   1990

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  Call from Space
  Character: Alien (voice)

   1989

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  7.0
  A Man for All Seasons (TV)
  Henry VIII wants to divorce his wife, and seeks the approval of the aristocracy. Sir Thomas More is a man of principle and reason, and is thus placed in a difficult position: should he stand up for his principles, risking the wrat...
  | Movie director

   1988

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  7.0
  The Colbys - Dynasty II: The Colbys (TV Series)
  TV Series (1985-1987). 2 Seasons. 49 Episodes. The Colbys are a spin off of Dynasty. Dynasty presented the Colby characters at a ball in Denver where The Colby's came to celebrate the Denver Carrington and Colby Enterprises busine...
  Character:  Jason Colby 49 episodes, 1985-1987

   1985

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  8.0
  Chiefs (TV Series)
  This mini-series tells the story of a southern town's police chiefs and the serial murderer who confounds them. Will Henry Lee is the first chief, an easy going man who works to establish the position while the murderer begins his...
   1983

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  5.7
  Mother Lode
  The lure of gold can make a man do anything. Anything.. Somewhere in the treacherous recesses of the Great Cassair Mountains lies a secret cavern, silent and deep below the earth’s surface. According to legend its walls and ceil...
  Character: Silas McGee / Ian McGee | Movie director

   1982

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  The Awakening
  An American archaeologist is in Egypt with his pregnant wife, searching for the tomb of a long-lost Egyptian queen. At the same moment he discovers the tomb and opens it's accursed seal, his wife gives birth to his daughter. Years...
   1980

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  The Horror Show (TV)
  Character: (archive footage)

   1979

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  6.3
  Gray Lady Down
  The USS Neptune, a nuclear submarine, is sunk off the coast of Connecticut after a collision with a Norwegian cargo ship. The navy must attempt a potentially dangerous rescue in the hope of saving the lives of the crew.
  Character: Capt. Paul Blanchard

   1978

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  5.3
  The Prince and the Pauper
  England, 19th Century. Tom Canty is a poor English boy who bears a remarkable resemblance to Edward, Prince of Wales and son of King Henry VIII. The two boys meet and decide to play a joke on the court by dressing in each other's ...
   1977

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  6.9
  Battle of Midway
  The summer of 1942 brought Naval stalemate to the Pacific as the American and Japanese fleets stood at even numbers each waiting for the other to begin a renewed offensive. "Midway" tells the story of this historic June ...
  Character: Capt. Matt Garth

   1976

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  6.4
  Two-Minute Warning
  A psychotic man, armed with a hunting rifle and acting alone, goes on a sniping spree and is hunted by the police and a SWAT team. Sniper and SWAT converge at a crowded major-league football game, where at the two-minute warning s...
  Character: Capt. Peter Holly

   1976

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  4.0
  Airport '75
   1974

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  5.3
  Earthquake
  Construction Engineer Stuart Graff is estranged from his jealously possessive wife, Remy, and has an affair with Denise Marshall, the widow of a co-worker. Meanwhile, Remy tries to persuade her father, Sam Royce, who is Stuart's e...
  Character: Graff

   1974

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  6.6
  The Four Musketeers
  D'Artagnan has become a Musketeer. Protestants hold La Rochelle, and the Queen loves Buckingham, who'll soon send ships to support the rebels. Richelieu enlists Rochefort to kidnap Constance, the Queen's go-between and D'Artagnan'...
  Character: Cardinal Richelieu

   1974

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  6.5
  Soylent Green
  In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodst
   1973

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  6.3
  The Three Musketeers
  Richard Lester's adaptation of The Three Musketeers was only the latest of many when released in 1974, but it arrived with a spirit all its own, one influenced as much by Lester's '60s work as the Alexandre Dumas classic. Even so,...
   1973

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  Call of the Wild
  A house dog is abducted and brought to the north as a sled dog.
   1972

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  5.5
  Skyjacked
  A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film filled with the usual early '70s stereotypes, and demands to be taken to Russia.
   1972

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  Beneath the Planet of the Apes
  It's the far future. The mass of humanity has descended into speechless savagery, kept as captive animals by the talking apes who have inherited the world. Two astronauts from our time have landed here, retracing the path of their...
   1970

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  8.1
  King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
  King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery To Memphis is a 1970 American documentary film biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., presented in the form of newsreel footage and segments of recordings by Dr. King, framed by celebrity nar...
  Character: Himself

   1970

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  6.5
  The Hawaiians
  The Hawaiians is a 1970 American historical film based on the novel Hawaii by James A. Michener.It was directed by Tom Gries with its screenplay by James R. Webb. The cast included Charlton Heston as Whipple Hoxworth, and Geraldin...
  Character: Whip Hoxworth

   1970

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  6.0
  Number One
  The story of Cat Catlan (Heston), a washed up quarterback who turns to drink and women to solve his problems. But he soon discovers that his problems are just beginning.
   1969

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  Elizabeth the Queen (TV)
  England is rocked by a power struggle between Queen Elizabeth and her lover, the Earl of Essex.
   1968

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  8.2
  Planet of the Apes
  Complex sociological themes run through this science-fiction classic, about three astronauts marooned on a futuristic planet where apes rule and humans are slaves... The stunned trio discovers that these highly intellectual simian...
  Character: George Taylor

   1968

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  6.1
  Counterpoint
  Famous orchestra conductor is captured by the Germans in WW2, is forced to put on private concerts for the Nazi generals.
   1967

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  6.7
  Khartoum
  After an Egyptian army, commanded by British officers, is destroyed in a battle in the Sudan in the 1880's, the British government is in a quandary. It does not want to commit a British military force to a foreign war but they hav...
  Character: Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon

   1966

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  6.7
  The Greatest Story Ever Told
  George Stevens presents his monumental adaptation of the story of Jesus Christ starring Max von Sydow. The film concentrates on the most familiar episodes of the biblical story, including the birth of Christ in Bethlehem, Herod's ...
  Character: John the Baptist

   1965

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  7.1
  The Agony and the Ecstasy
  Pope Julius is eager to leave behind works by which he will be remembered. To this end he cajoles Michelangelo into painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. When not on the battlefield uniting Italy, the Pope nags Michelangelo ...
  Character: Michelangelo

   1965

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  7.7
  Major Dundee
  Sam Peckinpah's 1965 feature Major Dundee was recut and rescored for re-release theatrically in 2005, 40 years after its original release. The "Extended Version," as it is known officially, tells essentially the same story as the ...
  Character: Maj. Amos Charles Dundee

   1964

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  Hollywood: The Great Stars
  Host Henry Fonda follows the creation of the star system with Mary Pickford in the Silent Era through its demise in the early Sixties.
  Character: Self (archive footage)

   1963

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  6.7
  55 Days at Peking
  Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, ov...
  Character: Maj. Matt Lewis

   1963

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  Diamond Head
  Charlton Heston nearly ruins his family with his domineering dictates in this steamy drama set in Hawaii. Heston is a wealthy pineapple plantation owner and a bigoted bully who despite the fact that he himself has a Chinese mistre...
   1963

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  6.5
  The Pigeon That Took Rome
  Charlton Heston stars as an American soldier behind Italian lines in World War II. In order to communicate German movements to the Allies, he uses carrier pigeons fitted with messages. As he grows more and more in love with the da...
  Character: Captain Paul MacDougall / Benny the Snatch / Narrator

   1962

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  7.6
  El Cid
  Eleventh-century Spain is divided into Christian kingdoms and Moorish strongholds. The young Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar--dubbed El Cid by his followers--vows to see his country at peace, free from the invader. Vigorously brave and reso...
  Character: El Cid Rodrigo de Vivar

   1961

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  8.3
  Ben-Hur
  Anno Domini: the seventh year of Augustus Caesar's reign. In the Roman province of Judea, Jews return to the city of their birth for the census. A bright star in the night over Bethlehem marks the birth of Jesus Christ. Years late...
  Character: Judah Ben-Hur

   1959

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  8.7
  Touch of Evil
  An unseen man sets the timer on an explosive device. The clock starts ticking down as soon as he stashes it in the boot of a fancy-looking car. Immediately afterwards, a well-heeled businessman motors off with his cheap-looking gi...
  Character: Mike Vargas

   1958

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  6.8
  The Buccaneer
  During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will arrive with 60 ships and 16,000 men to take the city. In this situation an islan...
  Character: Gen. Andrew Jackson

   1958

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  7.8
  The Big Country
  In a dry, parched canyon located in the southwest, a rich rancher battles it out with a poor counterpart for water rights. Yet in fact, neither man has control of the precious liquid. It really belongs to Julie Maragon, and she ge...
  Character: Steve Leech

   1958

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  8.0
  The Ten Commandments
  To escape the edict of Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, condemning all first-born Hebrew males, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up i...
   1956

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  Lucy Gallant (Oil Town)
  An unusually matronly Jane Wyman plays the title character in Lucy Gallant. Adapted from a novel by Margaret Cousins, the story concerns the efforts by Lucy Gallant to make the wide-open spaces of Texas a mecca for High Fashion. J...
   1955

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  7.0
  The Private War of Major Benson
  A Major noted for advancing with his mouth before thinking is given a choice: to be drummed out of the Army, or take command of and shape up the ROTC program at Sheridan Academy before it fails its next inspection. At Sheridan he ...
  Character: Maj. Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson

   1955

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  7.5
  The President's Lady
  The story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, through his meeting with and subsequent marriage to Rachel Donelson Robards. The plot concentrates on the later scandal concerning the legality of their marriage and how ...
  Character: President Andrew Jackson

   1953

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  7.2
  The Greatest Show on Earth
  To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in ...
  Character: Brad Braden

   1952

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  Dark City
  Danny Haley's bookie operation is shut down, so he and his pals need money; when Danny meets Arthur Winant, a sucker from out of town, he decoys him into a series of poker games where eventually Winant loses $5000 that isn't his.....
   1950