Cast: Charlton Heston
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Charlton Heston. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 108
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
Direction James Kent
Cast Charlton Heston · Oliver Stone · Harry Carey Jr. · Maureen O'Hara
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