Cast: Charlton Heston

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Charlton Heston. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Khartoum

1966 · Movie · 122 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden · Eliot Elisofon

Cast Charlton Heston · Laurence Olivier · Richard Johnson · Ralph Richardson

Plot 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...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

Dark City

1950 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Charlton Heston · Lizabeth Scott · Viveca Lindfors · Dean Jagger

Plot 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...

6.6

495 votes

6.6

495 votes

Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero

1998 · Documentary · 50 min. · United States

Direction Gene Feldman · Suzette Winter

Cast Charlton Heston · Joan Leslie · Patricia Neal · George C. Scott

Plot Known for his personification of the Western Hero, it was Montana-born Cooper's horse-riding skills that first brought him bit parts in movies. And he never lost his love of the...

6.5

29 votes

6.5

29 votes

Battle of Midway

1976 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction Jack Smight

Cast Charlton Heston · Henry Fonda · James Coburn · Glenn Ford

Plot 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....

6.5

3K votes

6.5

3K votes

The Naked Jungle

1954 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Byron Haskin

Cast Charlton Heston · Eleanor Parker · William Conrad · Abraham Sofaer

Plot A plantation owner, living in a South American jungle, sends off to New Orleans for a mail-order-bride. When the woman finally arrives, she finds life difficult in the steamy, uncivilized...

6.5

8K votes

6.5

8K votes

Behind the Planet of the Apes (TV)

1998 · Documentary · 127 min. · United States

Direction Kevin Burns · David Comtois

Cast Roddy McDowall · Charlton Heston · Kim Hunter · Franklin J. Schaffner

Plot 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...

6.5

113 votes

6.5

113 votes

Tombstone

1993 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction George Pan Cosmatos

Cast Kurt Russell · Val Kilmer · Sam Elliott · Bill Paxton

Plot 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...

6.4

14K votes

6.4

14K votes

True Lies

1994 · Movie · 141 min. · United States

Direction James Cameron

Cast Arnold Schwarzenegger · Jamie Lee Curtis · Tom Arnold · Charlton Heston

Plot 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...

6.3

37K votes

6.3

37K votes

Bad for Each Other

1953 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Irving Rapper

Cast Charlton Heston · Lizabeth Scott · Dianne Foster · Mildred Dunnock

Plot A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between setting up a glamorous practice and helping the poor.

6.2

46 votes

6.2

46 votes

The Wreck of the Mary Deare

1959 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Gary Cooper · Charlton Heston · Michael Redgrave · Emlyn Williams

Plot Two sailors, one the captain of a beached cargo ship called the "Mary Deare", form an alliance to stop the ship's owner from collecting on an insurance scam which involved...

6.2

669 votes

6.2

669 votes

John Wayne: The Unquiet American (TV)

1997 · Documentary · 60 min. · United Kingdom

6.2

24 votes

6.2

24 votes

Any Given Sunday

1999 · Movie · 162 min. · United States

Direction Oliver Stone

Cast Al Pacino · Cameron Diaz · Dennis Quaid · James Woods

Plot "Any Given Sunday" is a behind the scenes look at the life and death struggles of modern day gladiators and those who lead them.

6.2

18K votes

6.2

18K votes

Three Violent People

1956 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Rudolph Maté

Cast Charlton Heston · Anne Baxter · Gilbert Roland · Tom Tryon

Plot Former dance hall girl Lorna, masquerading as a lady, meets and marries Confederate ex-officer Colt Saunders, returning to his rich Texas ranch. Everyone there is enchanted with Lorna. But the...

6.2

658 votes

6.2

658 votes

Julius Caesar

1950 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction David Bradley

Cast Harold Tasker · Charlton Heston · Bob Holt · Jeffrey Hunter

Plot An innovative approach to a classic. One of the two "unofficial" films (the other being Peer Gynt) Heston appeared in before his 1950 "debut" film, Dark City. Independently produced in...

6.2

144 votes

6.2

144 votes

The Prince and the Pauper

1977 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Oliver Reed · Charlton Heston · Mark Lester · Raquel Welch

Plot 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...

6.1

1K votes

6.1

1K votes

Treasure Island (TV)

1990 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction Fraser Clarke Heston

Cast Charlton Heston · Christian Bale · Oliver Reed · Christopher Lee

Plot 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....

6.1

1K votes

6.1

1K votes

The Three Musketeers

1973 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Lester

Cast Richard Chamberlain · Michael York · Raquel Welch · Oliver Reed

Plot 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...

6.0

2K votes

6.0

2K votes

Lucy Gallant (Oil Town)

1955 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Robert Parrish

Cast Jane Wyman · Charlton Heston · Claire Trevor · Thelma Ritter

Plot 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...

6.0

62 votes

6.0

62 votes

Counterpoint

1967 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Ralph Nelson

Cast Charlton Heston · Maximilian Schell · Kathryn Hays · Leslie Nielsen

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

6.0

411 votes

6.0

411 votes

The Greatest Story Ever Told

1965 · Movie · 200 min. · United States

Direction George Stevens · David Lean · Jean Negulesco

Cast Max von Sydow · Dorothy McGuire · Charlton Heston · Claude Rains

Plot 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...

6.0

3K votes

6.0

3K votes