Charlton Heston
Born October 04, 1923 (Age: 102)
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Wilmette, Illinois, USA
Biography
Charlton Heston was an American actor renowned for his towering screen presence and roles in some of Hollywood’s most famous epics. Born John Charles Carter on October 4, 1923, in Illinois, he discovered his passion for acting in school, studied drama at Northwestern University, and began his career on stage and in live television before transitioning to film. He first gained major attention in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Greatest Show on Earth and then became an international star with his performances as Moses in The Ten Commandments and Judah Ben‑Hur in Ben‑Hur, the latter earning him the Academy Award for Best Actor. Heston went on to headline a wide range of big‑budget films, including El Cid, The Agony and the Ecstasy, Planet of the Apes, and The Omega Man, establishing himself as one of the most recognizable leading men of mid‑20th‑century cinema. Beyond acting, he was active in public life, supporting civil rights in the 1960s and later becoming a prominent conservative voice and president of the National Rifle Association from 1998 to 2003. He retired from public life after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2002 and died on April 5, 2008, in Beverly Hills, California, leaving behind a legacy as both a cinematic icon and a polarizing political figure.
Charlton Heston was an American actor renowned for his towering screen presence and roles in some of Hollywood’s most famous epics. Born John Charles Carter on October 4, 1923, in Illinois, he discovered his passion for acting in school, studied drama at Northwestern University, and began his career on stage and in live television before transitioning to film. He first gained major attention in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Greatest Show on Earth and then became an international star with his performances as Moses in The Ten Commandments and Judah Ben‑Hur in Ben‑Hur, the latter earning him the Academy Award for Best Actor. Heston went on to headline a wide range of big‑budget films, including El Cid, The Agony and the Ecstasy, Planet of the Apes, and The Omega Man, establishing himself as one of the most recognizable leading men of mid‑20th‑century cinema. Beyond acting, he was active in public life, supporting civil rights in the 1960s and later becoming a prominent conservative voice and president of the National Rifle Association from 1998 to 2003. He retired from public life after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2002 and died on April 5, 2008, in Beverly Hills, California, leaving behind a legacy as both a cinematic icon and a polarizing political figure.
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Filmography
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
2019
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as Self - Actor (archive footage)
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Age: 95
Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"
2019
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as (archive footage)
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Age: 95
No Image
Children of the Civil Rights
2015
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as Self (archival footage)
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Age: 91
Hollywood sul Tevere
2009
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as
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Age: 85
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 83
De Madrid a la Luna
2006
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 83
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 80
Remembering Reagan at His Ranch
2004
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as Host
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Age: 80
The Face of Evil: Reinhard Heydrich
2002
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 79
Bowling for Columbine
2002
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as Self - NRA President
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Age: 79
The Making of 'Tombstone'
2002
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as Self
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Age: 78
The Making of Midway
2001
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as Self
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Age: 77
Planet of the Apes
2001
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as Zaius (uncredited)
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Age: 77
Cats & Dogs
2001
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as The Mastiff (voice)
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Age: 77
No Image
The Gun Deadlock
2001
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as Self
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Age: 77
Town & Country
2001
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as Mr. Clayborne
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Age: 77
Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints
2000
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as Self
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Age: 76
Any Given Sunday
1999
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as AFFA Football Commissioner
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Age: 76
Yesterday's Tomorrows
1999
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as Self
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Age: 75
No Image
Private Screenings: Charlton Heston
1998
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as Self
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Age: 75
Gideon
1998
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as Addison Sinclair
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Age: 75
Behind the Planet of the Apes
1998
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as Self - 'Taylor'
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Age: 74
Alaska: Spirit of the Wild
1998
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 74
Armageddon
1998
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as Narration (voice)
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Age: 74
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
1998
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as Self
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Age: 74
Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Genesis
1997
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as Self - Host
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Age: 74
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997
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as Self
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Age: 73
Hercules
1997
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 73
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997
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as Self
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Age: 73
Charlton Heston Presents the Bible
1997
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as Self - Narrator
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Age: 73
Hamlet
1996
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as Player King
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Age: 73
Love in Hollywood
1996
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as Self
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Age: 73
Alaska
1996
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as Perry
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Age: 72
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996
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as Self
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Age: 72
No Image
Andersonville Diaries
1996
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as Narrator
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Age: 72
The Mysterious Origins of Man
1996
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as Self - Host
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Age: 72
The Lord Protector
1996
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 72
In the Mouth of Madness
1995
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as Jackson Harglow
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Age: 71
True Lies
1994
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as Spencer Trilby
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Age: 70
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
1994
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as Self
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Age: 70
A Century of Cinema
1994
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as Self
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Age: 70
The Legacy of Malthus
1994
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as Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
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Age: 70
Tombstone
1993
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as Henry Hooker
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Age: 70
Wayne's World 2
1993
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as Good Actor
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Age: 70
The Mystery of the Sphinx
1993
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as Narrator
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Age: 70
Charlton Heston Presents The Bible: The Story of Moses
1993
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as Self - Host
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Age: 69
Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Jesus of Nazareth
1993
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as Self - Host
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Age: 69
Noël
1992
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as Narrator
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Age: 69
Solar Crisis
1992
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as Adm. "Skeet" Kelso
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Age: 68
Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232
1992
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as Captain Al Haynes
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Age: 68
Symphony for the Spire
1992
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as
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Age: 68
The Crucifer of Blood
1991
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as Sherlock Holmes
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Age: 68
No Image
Cults: Saying No Under Pressure
1991
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as Narrator
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Age: 67
Air Force One: The Planes and the Presidents
1991
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as Host and Narrator
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Age: 67
Almost an Angel
1990
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as God
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Age: 67
A Night on Mount Edna
1990
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as Self
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Age: 67
The Little Kidnappers
1990
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as James MacKenzie
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Age: 66
No Image
With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film
1990
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as Self
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Age: 66
Treasure Island
1990
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as Long John Silver
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Age: 66
Original Sin
1989
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as Louis Mancini
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Age: 65
Call from Space
1989
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as Alien (voice)
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Age: 65
A Man for All Seasons
1988
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as Sir Thomas More
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Age: 65
Proud Men
1987
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as Charley MacLeod Sr.
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Age: 63
No Image
Andrew Weyth, The Helga Pictures
1987
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as Self - Host
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Age: 63
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
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as Self
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Age: 63
Eclipse of Reason
1987
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as Narrator
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Age: 63
Barry Norman in Celebrity City
1982
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as Self
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Age: 58
The Orson Welles Story
1982
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as Self
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Age: 58
No Image
This Is Your Life: 30th Anniversary Special
1981
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as Self
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Age: 57
The Awakening
1980
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as Matthew Corbeck
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Age: 56
The Mountain Men
1980
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as Bill Tyler
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Age: 56
Gray Lady Down
1978
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as Captain Paul Blanchard
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Age: 54
Energy: A National Issue
1977
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 54
Two-Minute Warning
1976
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as Capt. Peter Holly
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Age: 53
Midway
1976
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as Capt. Matthew Garth
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Age: 52
Earthquake
1974
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as Stewart Graff
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Age: 51
The Four Musketeers
1974
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as Cardinal Richelieu
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Age: 51
Airport 1975
1974
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as Alan Murdock
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Age: 51
The Three Musketeers
1973
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as Cardinal Richelieu
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Age: 50
Soylent Green
1973
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as Detective Robert Thorn
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Age: 49
A Look at the World of 'Soylent Green'
1973
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as Self
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Age: 49
The Call of the Wild
1972
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as John Thornton
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Age: 49
Skyjacked
1972
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as Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara
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Age: 48
Antony and Cleopatra
1972
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as Marc Antony
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Age: 48
The Special London Bridge Special
1972
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as Tennis Player
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Age: 48
Vietnam! Vietnam!
1971
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 47
The Omega Man
1971
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as Robert Neville
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Age: 47
The Last Man Alive: The Omega Man
1971
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as Self - Narrator
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Age: 47
The Hawaiians
1970
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as Whip Hoxworth
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Age: 46
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
1970
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as Taylor
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Age: 46
Number One
1969
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as Ron "Cat" Catlan
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Age: 45
Planet of the Apes
1968
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as George Taylor
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Age: 44
Elizabeth the Queen
1968
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as Lord Essex
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Age: 44
Rowan & Martin at the Movies
1968
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as Self
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Age: 44
Planet of the Apes Test Reel
1966
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as Thomas
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Age: 42
The War Lord
1965
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as Chrysagon
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Age: 42
No Image
Night of the Dragon
1965
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as Narrator
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Age: 42
The Agony and the Ecstasy
1965
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as Michelangelo
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Age: 41
Uncertain Verification
1965
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as (archive footage)
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Age: 41
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
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as John the Baptist
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Age: 41
Major Dundee
1965
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as Major Amos Charles Dundee
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Age: 41
No Image
The Patriots
1963
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as Thomas Jefferson
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Age: 40
The Five Cities of June
1963
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as Narrator
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Age: 39
55 Days at Peking
1963
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as Maj. Matt Lewis
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Age: 39
No Image
Look at Life: The City's Built for Shooting
1963
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as Self
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Age: 39
The Greatest All-Star Advertial of All Time
1963
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as Self
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Age: 39
Diamond Head
1962
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as Richard 'King' Howland
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Age: 39
The Pigeon That Took Rome
1962
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as Captain Paul MacDougall / Benny the Snatch / Narrator
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Age: 38
El Cid
1961
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as El Cid Rodrigo de Vivar
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Age: 38
Ben-Hur
1959
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as Judah Ben-Hur
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Age: 36
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
1959
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as John Sands
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Age: 36
The Buccaneer
1958
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as Gen. Andrew Jackson
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Age: 35
The Big Country
1958
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as Steve Leech
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Age: 34
Touch of Evil
1958
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as Ramon Miguel Vargas
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Age: 34
Fun in the Big Country
1958
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as Self
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Age: 34
Three Violent People
1956
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as Colt Saunders
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Age: 33
The Ten Commandments
1956
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as Moses
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Age: 33
No Image
Forbidden Area
1956
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as Col. Jesse Price
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Age: 33
Stars of Cabaret
1956
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 32
Lucy Gallant
1955
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as Casey Cole
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Age: 32
The Private War of Major Benson
1955
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as Maj. Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson
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Age: 31
The Far Horizons
1955
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as Lt. William Clark
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Age: 31
Secret of the Incas
1954
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as Harry Steel
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Age: 30
The Naked Jungle
1954
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as Christopher Leiningen
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Age: 30
Bad for Each Other
1953
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as Dr. Tom Owen
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Age: 30
No Image
Three Lives
1953
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as Self
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Age: 29
Arrowhead
1953
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as Ed Bannon
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Age: 29
Pony Express
1953
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as Captain William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
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Age: 29
The President's Lady
1953
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as Andrew Jackson
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Age: 29
Studio One: Wuthering Heights
1950
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as Heathcliff
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Age: 27
Dark City
1950
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as Danny Haley
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Age: 27
The Taming of the Shrew
1950
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as Petruchio
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Age: 26
Julius Caesar
1950
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as Mark Antony
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Age: 26
Peer Gynt
1941
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as Peer Gynt
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Age: 17