Charlton Heston

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1923 age 0

   Born

2. 1952 age 29

   CreditThe Greatest Show on Earth

3. 1956 age 33

   CreditThe Ten Commandments

4. 1958 age 35

   CreditThe Big Country

   CreditTouch of Evil

5. 1959 age 36

   CreditBen-Hur

6. 1965 age 42

   CreditThe Greatest Story Ever Told

7. 1968 age 45

   CreditPlanet of the Apes

8. 1970 age 47

   CreditBeneath the Planet of the Apes

9. 1971 age 48

   CreditThe Omega Man

10. 1973 age 50

    CreditSoylent Green

    CreditThe Three Musketeers

11. 1974 age 51

    CreditEarthquake

12. 1993 age 70

    CreditTombstone

13. 1994 age 71

    CreditIn the Mouth of Madness

    CreditTrue Lies

14. 1999 age 76

    CreditAny Given Sunday

15. 2001 age 78

    CreditCats & Dogs

    CreditPlanet of the Apes

16. 2002 age 79

    CreditBowling for Columbine

17. 2008 age 84

    Died

    CreditReligulous

• RMRoddy McDowall4 titles
• KHKim Hunter3 titles
• LHLinda Harrison3 titles
• DADorothy Adams3 titles
• JCJohn Crawford3 titles
• MSMax von Sydow2 titles
• DWDavid Warner2 titles
• BPBill Paxton2 titles
• CLChristopher Lee2 titles
• GMGeorge Murdock2 titles

• Spouse

  • LCLydia Clarke

• Children

  • FHFraser Clarke Heston

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Parents, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• Charlton Heston once told me that getting ahead in acting was more a matter of luck than talent and skill; but then he hastily amended that. "What I meant," he said, "was that there are a lot of skillful and talented people out there, far more than the industry can absorb, so that it takes luck, at least one good break, to rise above the crowd. However, if you haven't done your homework and developed your skills, one good break won't do you any good because you won't be able to exploit it."

  Charlton Heston, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Let me make a short, opening, blanket comment. There are no "good guns". There are no "bad guns". Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people.

  Charlton Heston, CC BY-SA 4.0

• You do not define the First Amendment. It defines you. And it is bigger than you. That's how freedom works. It also demands you do your homework. Again and again, I hear gun owners say, how can we believe anything the anti-gun media says when they can't even get the facts right? For too long, you have swallowed manufactured statistics and fabricated technical support from anti-gun organizations that wouldn't know a semi-auto from a sharp stick. And it shows. You fall for it every time.

  Charlton Heston, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those who either can't understand it, don't like the sound of it, or find themselves too philosophically squeamish to see why it remains the first among equals: Because it is the right we turn to when all else fails. That's why the Second Amendment is America's first freedom.

  Charlton Heston, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Now, I doubt any of you would prefer a rolled up newspaper as a weapon against a dictator or a criminal intruder. Yet in essence, that is what you have asked our loved ones to do, through an ill-contrived and totally naive campaign against the Second Amendment.

  Charlton Heston, CC BY-SA 4.0

• You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the "assault weapons" of the First Amendment. They're ugly, a lot of people don't like them, but they're protected by the First Amendment — just as "assault weapons" are protected by the Second Amendment.

  Charlton Heston, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

United States

Cause of death

pneumonia

Height

189 cm

Languages

English

Years active

1941–2003

Education

Northwestern University, Northwestern University School of Communication