Charlton Heston
Town & Country (2001)
Town & Country is a 2001 American romantic comedy film directed by Peter Chelsom, written by Buck Henry and Michael Laughlin, and starring Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Garry Shandling, Andie MacDowell, Jenna Elfman, Nastassja Kinski, Charlton Heston, and Josh Hartnett. Beatty plays an architect, with Keaton as his wife, and Hawn and Sh...
Starring: John C. McGinley•Gilbert Roland•Myrna Loy•Walter Pidgeon•Gary Cooper•Ed Wynn
Any Given Sunday (1999)
Any Given Sunday is a 1999 American sports drama film directed by Oliver Stone depicting a fictional professional American football team. The film features an ensemble cast, including Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, Jamie Foxx, James Woods, LL Cool J, Ann-Margret, Lauren Holly, Matthew Modine, John C. McGinley, Charlton Heston, Bill Bellamy,...
Starring: John C. McGinley•Charles Bickford•John Wayne•Robert Young•Charles Boyer•Claude Rains•Narrated by•Henry Wilcoxon•Fred MacMurray•Henry Fonda
Alaska: Spirit of the Wild (1997)
Alaska: Spirit of the Wild is a documentary film featuring the landscape and wildlife of Alaska. It is directed by George Casey, narrated by Charlton Heston and was distributed to IMAX theaters in 1997.
Starring: James Stewart•John C. McGinley
Alaska (1996)
Alaska is a 1996 American adventure survival film directed by Fraser Clarke Heston and produced by Andy Burg. The story, written by Burg and Scott Myers, centers on two children who search through the Alaskan wilderness for their lost father. During their journey, they find a polar bear who helps lead them to their father. However, a poacher with a...
Starring: John C. McGinley•Jane Wyman•Michael Redgrave•Susan Hayward•Jennifer Jones
In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
In the Mouth of Madness is a 1994 American supernatural horror film directed and scored by John Carpenter and written by Michael De Luca. It stars Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow, David Warner and Charlton Heston. Neill stars as John Trent, an insurance investigator who visits a small town while looking into the disappearance of a successf...
Starring: John C. McGinley•Anne Baxter•Rex Harrison•Orson Welles•Roddy McDowall
True Lies (1994)
True Lies is a 1994 American spy action comedy film written and directed by James Cameron, based on the 1991 French comedy film La Totale!. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as Harry Tasker, a U.S. government agent who struggles to balance his double life as a spy with his familial duties. Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton, Art Malik, an...
Starring: John C. McGinley•Cornel Wilde•Eleanor Parker•Betty Hutton•Robert Mitchum•Ava Gardner•Kim Hunter
Almost an Angel (1990)
Almost an Angel is a 1990 American fantasy comedy-drama film directed by John Cornell and starring Paul Hogan. The original music score was composed by Maurice Jarre.
Starring: John C. McGinley•Angela Lansbury•Jeanne Crain
Solar Crisis (1990)
Solar Crisis is a 1990 Japanese-American co-production science fiction thriller film directed by Richard C. Sarafian. The screenplay was written by Joe Gannon and Tedi Sarafian, based on the 1990 novel Crisis 2050 by Takeshi Kawata, who co-produced the film. The film was first released in Japan in 1990, and in the United States in 1992.
Starring: John C. McGinley•Rhonda Fleming•Janet Leigh
Treasure Island (1990)
Treasure Island is a 1990 British-American made-for-television film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1883 novel of the same name, written and directed by Fraser Clarke Heston, and also starring several notable British actors, including Christian Bale, Oliver Reed, Christopher Lee, Julian Glover and Pete Postlethwaite.
Starring: John C. McGinley•Efrem Zimbalist Jr.•Yul Brynner•Burl Ives
A Man for All Seasons (1988)
A Man for All Seasons is a 1988 American made-for-television drama film about St. Thomas More, directed by and starring Charlton Heston. It is based on the play of the same name by Robert Bolt, which was previously adapted in the Academy Award winning 1966 film A Man for All Seasons. It was the first made-for-television film produced on behalf of t...
Starring: John C. McGinley•Charlton Heston•Karl Malden
Mother Lode (1982)
Mother Lode is a 1982 adventure thriller film directed by and starring Charlton Heston. It was written and produced by his son Fraser Clarke Heston. The film also stars Nick Mancuso and Kim Basinger as a gold-hunting couple.
Starring: John C. McGinley•Jean Simmons•Susan Morrow
The Awakening (1980)
The Awakening is a 1980 British horror film directed by Mike Newell in his directorial debut and starring Charlton Heston, Susannah York, and Stephanie Zimbalist. It is the third film version of Bram Stoker's 1903 novel The Jewel of Seven Stars, following the 1970 television adaptation as The Curse of the Mummy for the TV series Mystery and Imagina...
Starring: John C. McGinley•Robert Wagner•Richard Boone
The Mountain Men (1980)
The Mountain Men is a 1980 American Adventure Western film directed by Richard Lang and starring Charlton Heston and Brian Keith. Heston's son, Fraser Clarke Heston authored the screenplay.
Starring: John C. McGinley•John McIntire
Gray Lady Down (1978)
Gray Lady Down is a 1978 American submarine disaster film directed by David Greene and starring Charlton Heston, David Carradine, Stacy Keach, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox and Rosemary Forsyth, and includes the feature film debut of Christopher Reeve. It is based on David Lavallee's 1971 novel Event 1000.
Starring: John C. McGinley•Matthew Modine•Sidney Poitier•John Gielgud•Chuck Connors
The Last Hard Men (1976)
The Last Hard Men is a 1976 Western film directed by Andrew McLaglen, based on the 1971 novel Gundown by Brian Garfield. It stars Charlton Heston and James Coburn, with supporting roles by Barbara Hershey, Jorge Rivero, Michael Parks, and Larry Wilcox in his screen debut.
Starring: John C. McGinley•Kim Basinger•Abraham Sofaer•Nicole Maurey
Midway (1976)
Midway, released in the United Kingdom as Battle of Midway, is a 1976 American war film that chronicles the June 1942 Battle of Midway, a turning point in World War II in the Pacific. Directed by Jack Smight and produced by Walter Mirisch from a screenplay by Donald S. Sanford, the film starred Charlton Heston and Henry Fonda, supported by a large ...
Starring: Elsa Martinelli•Jack Hawkins•John Cassavetes•John C. McGinley•Carroll Baker•Geneviève Page•Kim Basinger
Two-Minute Warning (1976)
Two-Minute Warning is a 1976 action thriller directed by Larry Peerce and starring Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges, Jack Klugman, Gena Rowlands, and David Janssen. It was based on the novel of the same name written by George LaFountaine. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
Starring: Jessica Walter•John C. McGinley•Stephen Boyd•Inger Stevens•Elaine Stritch•Lorne Greene•Gena Rowlands•Harry Guardino•David Janssen•James Coburn
Airport 1975 (1974)
Airport 1975 is a 1974 American air disaster film and the first sequel to the successful 1970 film Airport. It was directed by Jack Smight, produced by William Frye, executive produced by Jennings Lang, and written by Don Ingalls. The film stars Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy and Gloria Swanson – as a fictionalized version of herself ...
Starring: Martin Landau•Martin Balsam•Yvette Mimieux•John C. McGinley•George Kennedy•Ann-Margret•Warren Beatty•Telly Savalas•Jack Klugman
Earthquake (1974)
Earthquake is a 1974 American ensemble disaster drama film directed and produced by Mark Robson and starring Charlton Heston and Ava Gardner. The plot concerns the struggle for survival after a catastrophic earthquake destroys most of the city of Los Angeles, California.
Starring: Lauren Holly•John C. McGinley•Brock Peters•George Kennedy•David McCallum•Sid Caesar•Jim Brown•Michael Parks
Soylent Green (1973)
Soylent Green is a 1973 American ecological dystopian thriller film directed by Richard Fleischer, and starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, and Edward G. Robinson in his final film role. It is loosely based on the 1966 science-fiction novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison, with a plot that combines elements of science fiction and a...
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin•John C. McGinley•Beau Bridges•Vanessa Redgrave
Skyjacked (1972)
Skyjacked is a 1972 American disaster film directed by John Guillermin. The film stars Charlton Heston, James Brolin and Yvette Mimieux, along with an ensemble cast primarily playing the roles of passengers and crew aboard an airliner. Skyjacked is based on the David Harper novel Hijacked.
Starring: Jessica Walter•Joan Hackett•John C. McGinley•Art Malik•James Brolin•John Phillip Law•Susan Clark
The Omega Man (1971)
The Omega Man is a 1971 American post-apocalyptic action film directed by Boris Sagal and starring Charlton Heston as a survivor of a pandemic. It was written by John William Corrington and Joyce Corrington, based on the 1954 novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. The film's producer, Walter Seltzer, went on to work with Heston again in the dystopi...
Starring: John C. McGinley•Oliver Reed•Barbara Hershey
The Hawaiians (1970)
The Hawaiians, released in the UK as Master of the Islands, is a 1970 United States historical film based on the 1959 novel Hawaii by James A. Michener. It was directed by Tom Gries with a screenplay by James R. Webb. The cast included Charlton Heston as Whipple Hoxworth and Geraldine Chaplin. The performance by Tina Chen led to her receiving a Gol...
Starring: John C. McGinley•David Warner•Stacy Keach•Karen Black
Number One (1969)
Number One is a 1969 American sports drama film released by United Artists and directed by Tom Gries.
Starring: John C. McGinley•Arnold Schwarzenegger•Ronny Cox
Counterpoint (1968)
Counterpoint is a 1968 epic war film starring Charlton Heston, Maximilian Schell, Kathryn Hays and Leslie Nielsen. It is based on the novel The General by Alan Sillitoe. In the United States the film was released as a double feature with Sergeant Ryker a 1963 television film starring Lee Marvin.
Starring: John C. McGinley•Richard Roundtree•Christopher Lee
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Planet of the Apes is a 1968 American science fiction film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from a screenplay by Michael Wilson and Rod Serling, loosely based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Pierre Boulle. The film stars Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, James Daly, and Linda Harrison. In the film, a...
Starring: Mitchell Ryan•Rosalind Cash•John C. McGinley•Al Pacino
Will Penny (1968)
Will Penny is a 1968 American Western film written and directed by Tom Gries and starring Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett and Donald Pleasence. The picture was based upon an episode of the 1960 Sam Peckinpah television series The Westerner starring Brian Keith called "Line Camp," also written and directed by Tom Gries. Heston mentioned that this was ...
Starring: John C. McGinley•Ned Beatty•Ronny Cox
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
The Agony and the Ecstasy is a 1965 American historical drama film directed by Carol Reed and starring Charlton Heston as Michelangelo and Rex Harrison as Pope Julius II. The film was partly based on Irving Stone's 1961 biographical novel of the same name, and deals with the conflicts of Michelangelo and Pope Julius II during the 1508-1512 painting...
Starring: Dirk Benedict•John C. McGinley•Roosevelt Grier
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
The Greatest Story Ever Told is a 1965 American epic film produced and directed by George Stevens. It is a retelling of the Biblical account about Jesus of Nazareth, from the Nativity through to the Ascension. With an ensemble cast, it is Claude Rains' final film role.
Starring: Leslie Uggams•James Woods•Linda Blair•Tim Matheson•Marjoe Gortner•John C. McGinley•Jamie Lee Curtis•Dennis Quaid•Nick Mancuso•Stephanie Zimbalist
Major Dundee (1965)
Major Dundee is a 1965 American Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, and James Coburn. Written by Harry Julian Fink, the film is about a Union cavalry officer who leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners, and Indian scouts on an expedition into Mexico during the Am...
Starring: John C. McGinley•Kim Basinger•Nastassja Kinski
The War Lord (1965)
The War Lord is a 1965 American drama historical film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starring Charlton Heston. The film, which concerns medieval warfare and culture in 11th-century Normandy, is an adaptation of the play The Lovers by Leslie Stevens. The film also features Richard Boone, Rosemary Forsyth, Guy Stockwell, Maurice Evans, Niall M...
Starring: John C. McGinley•Bill Paxton•Matthew Modine
55 Days at Peking (1963)
55 Days at Peking is a 1963 American epic historical war film dramatizing the siege of the foreign legations' compounds in Peking during the Boxer Uprising, which took place in China in the summer of 1900. It was produced by Samuel Bronston for Allied Artists, with a screenplay by Philip Yordan and Bernard Gordon, and with uncredited contributions ...
Starring: Andie MacDowell•Lauren Holly•John C. McGinley
Diamond Head (1963)
Diamond Head is a 1962 Eastmancolor drama romance film starring Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, George Chakiris, and James Darren, directed by Guy Green, and released by Columbia Pictures. The original music score was composed by John Williams, Hugo Winterhalter composed the theme, and Darren sang the title song. The soundtrack album was released ...
Starring: John C. McGinley•Art Malik
The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962)
The Pigeon That Took Rome is a 1962 American comedy war film directed and written by Melville Shavelson and starring Charlton Heston. The film is set in the Italian Campaign of World War II and was based on the 1961 novel The Easter Dinner by former spy Donald Downes.
Starring: John C. McGinley•Julie Carmen•Thora Birch
El Cid (1961)
El Cid is a 1961 epic historical drama film directed by Anthony Mann and produced by Samuel Bronston. The film is loosely based on the life of the 11th-century Castilian warlord Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, called "El Cid". The film stars Charlton Heston in the title role and Sophia Loren as Doña Jimena, spelled "Chimene" in the script and pronounced tha...
Starring: John C. McGinley•Tia Carrere•Tom Arnold•Vincent Kartheiser•Don S. Davis
Ben-Hur (1959)
Ben-Hur is a 1959 American epic religious film directed by William Wyler, produced by Sam Zimbalist, and starring Charlton Heston as the title character. A remake of the 1925 silent film with a similar title, it was adapted from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. The screenplay is credited to Karl Tunberg, but includes contribu...
Starring: John C. McGinley•Gilbert Roland•Gary Cooper
The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)
The Wreck of the Mary Deare is a 1959 Metrocolor British-American thriller film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Gary Cooper and Charlton Heston, and featuring Michael Redgrave, Cecil Parker, Richard Harris and John Le Mesurier. The screenplay by Eric Ambler was based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Hammond Innes.
Starring: Charles Bickford•Robert Young•John C. McGinley
The Big Country (1958)
The Big Country is a 1958 American epic Western film directed by William Wyler, starring Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, and Burl Ives. The supporting cast features Charles Bickford and Chuck Connors. Filmed in Technicolor and Technirama, the picture was based on the serialized magazine novel Ambush at Blanco Canyon by D...
Starring: Charles Boyer•Henry Wilcoxon•Fred MacMurray•John C. McGinley•James Stewart•Beau Bridges•Dorothy Lamour
The Buccaneer (1958)
The Buccaneer is a 1958 pirate-war film made by Paramount Pictures starring Yul Brynner as Jean Lafitte, Charles Boyer and Claire Bloom. Charlton Heston played a supporting role as Andrew Jackson, the second time that Heston played Jackson, having portrayed him earlier in the 1953 film The President's Lady. The film was shot in Technicolor and Vist...
Starring: Jane Wyman•Gregory Peck•John C. McGinley•Susan Hayward•Jennifer Jones
Touch of Evil (1958)
Touch of Evil is a 1958 American film noir written and directed by Orson Welles, who also stars in the film. The screenplay was loosely based on the contemporary Whit Masterson novel Badge of Evil (1956). The cast included Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff and Marlene Dietrich.
Starring: Anne Baxter•Orson Welles•John C. McGinley
Three Violent People (1957)
Three Violent People is a 1957 American Western film directed by Rudolph Maté and starring Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Gilbert Roland, Tom Tryon, Forrest Tucker, Bruce Bennett, and Elaine Stritch.
Starring: Forrest Tucker•Cornel Wilde•John C. McGinley•Eleanor Parker•Betty Hutton
The Ten Commandments (1956)
The Ten Commandments is a 1956 American epic religious drama film produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille, shot in VistaVision, and released by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on the 1949 novel Prince of Egypt by Dorothy Clarke Wilson, the 1859 novel Pillar of Fire by J. H. Ingraham, the 1937 novel On Eagle's Wings by A. E. South...
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin•Gregory Peck•John C. McGinley
The Far Horizons (1955)
The Far Horizons is a 1955 American Western film directed by Rudolph Maté, starring Fred MacMurray, Charlton Heston, Donna Reed and Barbara Hale. It is about the early 19th century Lewis and Clark Expedition, which was sent by President Thomas Jefferson to survey the territory that the United States has just acquired in the Louisiana Purchase from ...
Starring: Lizabeth Scott•John C. McGinley
Lucy Gallant (1955)
Lucy Gallant is a 1955 American drama film directed by Robert Parrish and written by John Lee Mahin and Winston Miller. The film stars Jane Wyman, Charlton Heston, Claire Trevor, Thelma Ritter, William Demarest and Wallace Ford. The film was released on October 20, 1955, by Paramount Pictures.
Starring: Rhonda Fleming•John C. McGinley
The Private War of Major Benson (1955)
The Private War of Major Benson is 1955 comedy film starring Charlton Heston, Julie Adams, Sal Mineo and Tim Hovey, about a tough-talking U.S. Army officer who must shape up the JROTC program at Sheridan Academy, a Catholic boys' military academy, or be forced out of the Army.
Starring: Janet Leigh•John C. McGinley
The Naked Jungle (1954)
The Naked Jungle is a 1954 American adventure film directed by Byron Haskin, and starring Charlton Heston and Eleanor Parker. Telling the story of an attack of army ants on a Brazilian cocoa plantation, it was based on the 1937 short story "Leiningen Versus the Ants" by Carl Stephenson.
Starring: Yul Brynner•John C. McGinley•Burl Ives
Secret of the Incas (1954)
Secret of the Incas is a 1954 American adventure film directed by Jerry Hopper and starring Charlton Heston as adventurer Harry Steele, on the trail of an ancient Incan artifact. Shot on location at Machu Picchu in Peru, the film is often credited as the inspiration for Raiders of the Lost Ark. The supporting cast features Robert Young, Nicole Maur...
Starring: Julie Adams•John C. McGinley•Karl Malden
Arrowhead (1953)
Arrowhead is a 1953 Western Technicolor film directed by Charles Marquis Warren, starring Charlton Heston, and featuring a supporting cast including Jack Palance, Katy Jurado, Brian Keith and Milburn Stone. The picture is based on the novel Adobe Walls by W. R. Burnett. The screenplay was also by Charles Marquis Warren.
Starring: John C. McGinley•Harold Tasker•Jean Simmons
Bad for Each Other (1953)
Bad for Each Other is a 1953 American drama film noir directed by Irving Rapper and starring Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott and Dianne Foster. It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. Its genre has been characterized as a "medical melodrama" with a film noir "bad girl".
Starring: Susan Morrow•John C. McGinley
Pony Express (1953)
Pony Express is a 1953 American Western film directed by Jerry Hopper, filmed in Kanab, Utah, and starring Charlton Heston as Buffalo Bill, Forrest Tucker as Wild Bill Hickok, Jan Sterling as a Calamity Jane-type character, and Rhonda Fleming. The story is largely based on the 1925 silent film The Pony Express while the threat of a Californian sece...
Starring: Jack Palance•John McIntire•John C. McGinley
The President's Lady (1953)
The President's Lady is a 1951 novel of the life of American president Andrew Jackson and his marriage to Rachel Donelson Robards, written by Irving Stone. A biographical film was made in 1953 by 20th Century Fox, directed by Henry Levin and produced by Sol C. Siegel with Levin as associate producer. The screenplay was by John Patrick, based on the...
Starring: Katy Jurado•John C. McGinley•Claire Bloom
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 American drama film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, shot in Technicolor and released by Paramount Pictures. Set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the film stars Betty Hutton and Cornel Wilde as trapeze artists competing for the center ring and Charlton Heston as the circus manager. Jam...
Starring: Abraham Sofaer•Nicole Maurey•Jack Hawkins•Carroll Baker•Tom Tryon•John C. McGinley
Ruby Gentry (1952)
Ruby Gentry is a 1952 film directed by King Vidor, and starring Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston, and Karl Malden. In February 2020, the film was shown at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, as part of a retrospective dedicated to King Vidor's career.
Starring: Stephen Boyd•John C. McGinley•Inger Stevens
The Savage (1952)
The Savage is a 1952 American Technicolor Western film directed by George Marshall. The film stars Charlton Heston, Susan Morrow, and Peter Hansen. Much of The Savage was shot in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The film is based on L. L. Foreman's novel, The Renegade, first published in 1949 by Pocket Books.
Starring: John C. McGinley•Elaine Stritch
Dark City (1950)
Dark City is a 1950 American film noir crime film starring Charlton Heston in his Hollywood debut, and featuring Lizabeth Scott, Viveca Lindfors, Dean Jagger, Don DeFore, Ed Begley, Jack Webb and Harry Morgan. It was produced by Hal B. Wallis and directed by William Dieterle.
Starring: Susan Morrow•John C. McGinley
Julius Caesar (1950)
Julius Caesar is a 1950 film adaptation of the Shakespeare play Julius Caesar starring Charlton Heston. The first film version of the play with sound, it was produced and directed by David Bradley using actors from the Chicago area. Heston, who had known Bradley since his youth, and who was establishing himself in television and theater in New York...
Starring: John C. McGinley•Harold Tasker