Charlton Heston Movies

Want to know the best Charlton Heston movies?  How about the worst Charlton Heston movies?  Curious about Charlton Heston’s box office grosses or which Charlton Heston movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Charlton Heston movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Charlton Heston (October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) is known for his heroic roles in films such as 1961’s El Cid, 1956’s The Ten Commandments, 1968’s Planet of the Apes and 1959’s Ben-Hur, for which he won the Oscar® for Best Actor. At one point, Heston had starred in three of the top eight movies of all-time. Those movies were Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur and The Greatest Show on Earth. Heston remained a leading man from 1950 until the early 1980s. After that he started appearing in supporting roles in such movies as True Lies, Any Given Sunday and Tombstone.

His IMDb page shows 131 acting credits from 1941-2010. This page will rank Charlton Heston movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies that were not released in theaters were not included in the rankings.

Charlton Heston in 1959's Ben-Hur
Charlton Heston in 1959’s Ben-Hur

Charlton Heston Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Charlton Heston Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

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Charlton Heston in 1968's Planet of the Apes
Charlton Heston in 1968’s Planet of the Apes

Possibly Interesting Facts About Charlton Heston

1. Charlton Heston was born John Charles Carter….Charlton’s name comes from his mom’s maiden name, Charlton, and his stepfather’s last name, Heston.

2. Charlton Heston turned down the role of “Police Chief Brody” in Jaws. Other movies he turned down over the years….John Wayne’s The Alamo, A Man For All Seasons, The Wild Bunch, The Omen, Deliverance and Stalag 17

3. Charlton Heston only received one Oscar® nomination in his acting career but he made it count as won the Oscar® for Ben-Hur…..luckily Burt Lancaster turned down the role.

4. Charlton Heston had two parts in The Ten Commandments……Moses and he provided the voice of God……years later he was hired by the F.B.I during the April 1993 Waco stand-off with cult leader David Koresh, to play the voice of God while communicating with him. However the plan was never used.

5. Charlton Heston played President Andrew Jackson twice in two separate unrelated films: The President’s Lady in 1953 and The Buccaneer in 1958.

6. Charlton Heston was also known for his political activism. In the 1950s and 1960s he was one of a handful of Hollywood actors to speak openly against racism and was an active supporter of the Civil Rights Movement. He was also president of the NRA from 1998 to 2003.

7. Charlton Heston was married to Lydia Clarke from 1944 until his death in 2008…they had two children.

8. In his 1985 autobiography “In The Arena” Charlton Heston wrote that 1972’s The Call of the Wild was easily his worst film, and hoped the public would never have to watch the film.

9. His line “Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!” from Planet of the Apes, is ranked by the American Film Institute as the 66th best movie quote of all-time.

10.  Two links from SteveLensman are highly recommended.  One is all about Ben-Hur and the other about all Charlton Heston movies.  Charlton Heston Movies

Steve’s Charlton Heston You Tube Video

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  2. Charlton Heston was one of the greatest film stars of all time. He had a unique talent and persona to do huge epic films like the Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, El Cid, The Agony and the Ecstasy, Khartoum, and The Warlord. He branched out into other genres like science fiction with equal success such as The Planet of the Apes and Soylent Green; disaster films, Airport 2, Earthquake, and Two-Minute Warning; and westerns, like Peckinpah’s Major Dundee and Wyler’s The Big Country.
    He co-founded the American Film Institute and served as Screen Actors Guild president. He did numerous plays, wrote several books, and campaigned for civil rights and conservative cause later in his life.
    In the 1980s, an ugly public feud with the liberal actor Ed Asner resulted in Heston being black-listed from films and was reduced to doing only cameos (not supporting roles as noted above). He was also suffered from cancer, which he survived, but which seriously limited his career, as actors must be insured in order to do leading roles.
    He definitely belongs in any list of the 100 greatest films stars of all-time, especially during the period of 1950 to 1980. Heston was unique and bigger than life!

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  3. What was the just added film Bruce? Ben-Hur?

    “I only know that I race against Messala.”

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    1. You are 100% correct…the little known Ben-Hur finally made the table…lol. His added movie is exactly just a tick behind Ben….coming in at #62….the classic Solar Crisis. It co-starred Jack Palance….it was part of Palance all-time classic trilogy of Gor, Gor 2 and Solar Crisis. All made in about a 5 year time span.

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