Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston () adalah seorang aktor berkebangsaan Amerika Serikat yang meraih Academy Award untuk perannya sebagai Judah Ben-Hur dalam film Ben-Hur (1959). Dia berkarier di dunia film sejak tahun 1941 hingga 2003.

Karier

Aktivitas politik 
Heston menentang aborsi dan memperkenalkan sebuah film dokumenter tahun 1987 karya Bernard Nathanson, yaitu Eclipse of Reason, yang berfokus pada aborsi periode akhir. Heston bertugas dalam dewan penasihat Accuracy in Media, suatu kelompok pengawas media yang konservatif yang didirikan oleh Reed Irvine.

Filmografi 

 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) (narator versi bahasa Inggris)
 Counterpoint (1968)
 Planet of the Apes (1968)
 Will Penny (1968)
 Number One (1969)
 The Festival Game (1970) (dokumenter)
 King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970) (dokumenter)
 Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
 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) (dokumenter) (narrator)
 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) (dokumenter)
 Directed by William Wyler (1986) (dokumenter)
 Solar Crisis (1990)
 Almost an Angel (1990)
 Genghis Khan (1992) (tidak diselesaikan)
 Wayne's World 2 (1993)
 Tombstone (1993)
 A Century of Cinema (1994) (dokumenter)
 True Lies (1994)
 In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
 Friends (1995) (Guest as Himself)
 The Dark Mist (1996) (narrator)
 Alaska (1996)
 Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right (1996) (dokumenter)
 Hamlet (1996)
 Hercules (1997) (narator)
 Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997) (dokumenter)
 Armageddon (1998) (narator)
 Gideon (1999)
 Any Given Sunday (1999)
 Town & Country (2001)
 Cats & Dogs (2001) (pengisi suara)
 Planet of the Apes (2001)
 Last Party 2000 (2001) (dokumenter)
 The Order (2001)
 Bowling for Columbine (2002) (dokumenter)
 My Father, Rua Alguem 5555 (2003)

Film kecil 

 Introducing Charlton Heston (1950)
 Three Lives (1953)
 The Five Cities of June (1963) (narator)
 The Egyptologists (1965) (narator)
 While I Run This Race (1967) (narator)
 Think Twentieth (1967)
 The American Film: 1966 White House Festival of the Arts (1967) (narator)
 All About People (1967) (narator)
 Rowan & Martin at the Movies (1968)
 The Movie Experience: A Matter of Choice (1968) (narator)
 Rod Laver's Wimbledon (1969) (narator)
 The Heart of Variety (1969)
 The Last Man Alive (1971)
 Our Active Earth (1972) (narator)
 A Look at the World of Soylent Green (1973)
 Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (1973) (narator)
 The Fun of Your Life (1975) (narator)
 They Were There (1976)
 Call from Space (1989) (pengisi suara)
 Alaska: Spirit of the Wild (1997) (narator)

Referensi

Pranala luar 

 
  Hollywood.com entry on Charlton Heston
  Yahoo Movies entry on Charlton Heston
  http://www.reelclassics.com/Actors/Heston/heston.htm
  http://charltonhestonworld.homestead.com/

Penghargaan 

Pemeran Amerika Serikat
Aktor Terbaik (Academy Awards)