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- Science Fiction Film Awards (TV) → Himself
- Airports
- Planet of the Apes: A Milestone of Science Fiction → Self (archive footage)
- Charlton Heston: Radical to Right Wing → Self (archive footage)
- Yul Brynner, the Magnificent → Self - Actor (archive footage)
- Hail Satan? → Self - Actor (archive footage)
- I Am Richard Pryor → Self - Actor (archive footage)
- Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic → Self - Actor (archive footage)
- Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil" → (archive footage)
- Todos los nombres de Sara → Self - Actor (archive footage)
- The Madding Crowd → Self (archive footage)
- The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille → Self
- Bienvenido Mr. Heston → Self (archive footage)
- Spanish Western → Self (archive footage)
- Children of the Civil Rights → Self (archival footage)
- Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire → Self - Actor (archive footage)
- Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles → Self - Actor (archive footage)
- Talking Pictures (TV) → Self (archive footage)
- Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia → Self (archive footage)
- Charlton Heston and Ben-Hur: A Personal Journey → Self (archive footage)
- Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff → Self – Interviewee
- 2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift → (archive footage)
- Hollywood sul Tevere
- Greatest Heroes and Legends: The Story of Moses → Self - Host / Moses
- AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition → Self (archive footage)
- De Madrid a la Luna → Self (archive footage)
- Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema → Self (archive footage)
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade → Self (archive footage)
- Remembering Reagan at His Ranch → Host
- Christmas in Hollywood → Self (archive footage)
- Ben Hur → Ben Hur (voice)
- Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: The Garden of Eden → Self - Host
- The Making of The Ten Commandments → Self (archive footage)
- My Father → Josef Mengele
- Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: Daniel and the Lion's Den → Self - Host
- Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Joshua and the Battle of Jericho → Self - Host
- Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: David and Goliath → Self - Host
- Lasting Love
- Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Samson and Delilah → Self - Host
- Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Jonah and the Whale → Self - Host
- Bowling for Columbine → Self - NRA President
- Edith Head: The Paramount Years → Self (archive footage)
- The Making of 'Tombstone' → Self
- The Face of Evil: Reinhard Heydrich → Narrator (voice)
- Planet of the Apes → Zaius (uncredited)
- Cats & Dogs → The Mastiff (voice)
- The Order → Professor Finley
- Town & Country → Mr. Clayborne
- Last Party 2000 → Self
- The Making of Midway → Self
- The Gun Deadlock → Self
- The Weber Show (TV) → Charlton Heston
- Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints → Self
- Any Given Sunday → AFFA Football Commissioner
- Camino de Santiago (TV) → Professor Marcelo Rinaldi
- Television: The First Fifty Years → Self
- Forever Hollywood → Self
- Yesterday's Tomorrows → Self
- Armageddon → Narration (voice)
- Sworn to Secrecy: Secrets of War (TV) → Self - Narrator (voice)
- Behind the Planet of the Apes → Self - 'Taylor'
- Gideon → Addison Sinclair
- Secrets of War: Shadows of The Reich (TV) → Self - Narrator (voice)
- Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero → Self
- Alaska: Spirit of the Wild → Self - Narrator (voice)
- Private Screenings: Charlton Heston → Self
- Hercules → Narrator (voice)
- Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line → Self
- Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western → Self
- Charlton Heston Presents the Bible → Self - Narrator
- Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Genesis → Self - Host
- Hamlet → Player King
- Alaska → Perry
- Love in Hollywood → Self
- Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels → Self
- The Lord Protector → Narrator (voice)
- The Mysterious Origins of Man → Self - Host
- Andersonville Diaries → Narrator
- The Outer Limits (TV) → Chief Justice Haden Wainwright
- In the Mouth of Madness → Jackson Harglow
- MADtv (TV) → Self
- Eco-Challenge (TV)
- Texas → Narrator
- The Avenging Angel → Brigham Young
- Charlton Heston: For All Seasons → Self
- Friends (TV) → Charlton Heston
- Space Ghost Coast to Coast (TV) → Self
- True Lies → Spencer Trilby
- A Century of Cinema → Self
- Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects → Self
- The Bible According to Hollywood → Self
- The Legacy of Malthus → Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien (TV) → Self - Guest
- seaQuest DSV (TV) → Abalon
- Tombstone → Henry Hooker
- Wayne's World 2 → Good Actor
- The Mystery of the Sphinx → Narrator
- Charlton Heston Presents The Bible: The Story of Moses → Self - Host
- Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Jesus of Nazareth → Self - Host
- Solar Crisis → Adm. "Skeet" Kelso
- Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 → Captain Al Haynes
- Noël → Narrator
- Symphony for the Spire
- Pebble Mill (TV) → Self
- Noel's House Party (TV) → Star guest
- The Crucifer of Blood → Sherlock Holmes
- Air Force One: The Planes and the Presidents → Host and Narrator
- Cults: Saying No Under Pressure → Narrator
- Treasure Island → Long John Silver
- Almost an Angel → God
- The Little Kidnappers → James MacKenzie
- With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film → Self
- A Night on Mount Edna → Self
- Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary → Self
- Original Sin → Louis Mancini
- Call from Space → Alien (voice)
- A Man for All Seasons → Sir Thomas More
- Korea: The Unknown War (TV) → General Douglas MacArthur (voice)
- The Dame Edna Experience (TV) → Self
- Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood → Self
- Proud Men → Charley MacLeod Sr.
- Andrew Weyth, The Helga Pictures → Self - Host
- Eclipse of Reason → Narrator
- Directed by William Wyler → Self
- The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal → Self
- The Colbys (TV) → Jason Colby
- The Stars Salute the U.S. Olympic Team → Self - Performer
- Nairobi Affair → Lee Cahill
- Chiefs (TV) → Hugh Holmes
- Wogan (TV) → Self
- Mother Lode → Silas McGee / Ian McGee
- Barry Norman in Celebrity City → Self
- Let Poland Be Poland → Self - Co-Host
- The Orson Welles Story → Self
- Dynasty (TV) → Jason Colby
- This Is Your Life: 30th Anniversary Special → Self
- The Mountain Men → Bill Tyler
- The Awakening → Matthew Corbeck
- The Kennedy Center Honors (TV) → Self
- Gray Lady Down → Captain Paul Blanchard
- The Prince and the Pauper → Henry VIII
- Energy: A National Issue → Narrator (voice)
- Midway → Capt. Matthew Garth
- The Last Hard Men → Sam Burgade
- Two-Minute Warning → Capt. Peter Holly
- America at the Movies → Narrator
- Saturday Night Live (TV) → Self - Host
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (TV) → Self
- Dinah! (TV) → Self
- Spécial cinéma (TV) → Self
- Airport 1975 → Alan Murdock
- Earthquake → Stewart Graff
- The Four Musketeers → Cardinal Richelieu
- The American Film Institute Salute to ... (TV) → Self
- Soylent Green → Detective Robert Thorn
- The Three Musketeers → Cardinal Richelieu
- A Look at the World of 'Soylent Green' → Self
- Skyjacked → Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara
- The Call of the Wild → John Thornton
- The Special London Bridge Special → Tennis Player
- Antony and Cleopatra → Marc Antony
- Film '72 (TV) → Self
- V.I.P. Schaukel (TV) → Self
- The Omega Man → Robert Neville
- The Last Man Alive: The Omega Man → Self - Narrator
- Vietnam! Vietnam! → Narrator (voice)
- Beneath the Planet of the Apes → Taylor
- The Hawaiians → Whip Hoxworth
- Julius Caesar → Marc Antony
- King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis → Self (archive footage)
- Number One → Ron "Cat" Catlan
- The Dick Cavett Show (TV) → Self - Guest
- Planet of the Apes → George Taylor
- Rowan & Martin at the Movies → Self
- Elizabeth the Queen → Lord Essex
- Will Penny → Will Penny
- Counterpoint → Lionel Evans
- While I Run This Race → Narrator
- Khartoum → Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon
- Planet of the Apes Test Reel → Thomas
- The Greatest Story Ever Told → John the Baptist
- Major Dundee → Major Amos Charles Dundee
- The War Lord → Chrysagon
- The Agony and the Ecstasy → Michelangelo
- Uncertain Verification → (archive footage)
- F.D.R. (TV) → Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Night of the Dragon → Narrator
- 55 Days at Peking → Maj. Matt Lewis
- The Patriots → Thomas Jefferson
- The Greatest All-Star Advertial of All Time → Self
- The Five Cities of June → Narrator
- Look at Life: The City's Built for Shooting → Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV) → Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV) → Self (archive footage)
- The Merv Griffin Show (TV) → Self
- Diamond Head → Richard 'King' Howland
- The Pigeon That Took Rome → Captain Paul MacDougall / Benny the Snatch / Narrator
- The Mike Douglas Show (TV) → Self - Guest
- Kraft Mystery Theatre (TV) → Paul Malone (archive footage)
- El Cid → El Cid Rodrigo de Vivar
- Ben-Hur → Judah Ben-Hur
- The Wreck of the Mary Deare → John Sands
- The Buccaneer → Gen. Andrew Jackson
- Shirley Temple's Storybook (TV) → Beast
- The Big Country → Steve Leech
- Touch of Evil → Ramon Miguel Vargas
- Fun in the Big Country → Self
- The Steve Allen Show (TV) → Self - Actor
- The Steve Allen Show (TV) → Self
- Playhouse 90 (TV) → Col. Jesse Price
- The Ten Commandments → Moses
- Three Violent People → Colt Saunders
- Forbidden Area → Col. Jesse Price
- Stars of Cabaret → Self (archive footage)
- The Far Horizons → Lt. William Clark
- The $64,000 Question (TV) → Substitute Host
- Lucy Gallant → Casey Cole
- The Private War of Major Benson → Maj. Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson
- Climax! (TV) → Lt. Paul Peterson
- Climax! (TV) → Chipman
- The Naked Jungle → Christopher Leiningen
- Secret of the Incas → Harry Steel
- The Oscars (TV) → Self
- General Electric Theater (TV) → Tim
- Arrowhead → Ed Bannon
- Pony Express → Captain William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
- Bad for Each Other → Dr. Tom Owen
- The President's Lady → Andrew Jackson
- Three Lives → Self
- Omnibus (TV) → Self - Presenter
- The Greatest Show on Earth → Brad Braden
- The Savage → James 'Jim' Aherne Jr. / War Bonnet
- Ruby Gentry → Boake Tackman
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Thomas Jefferson
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (TV)
- A Bolt of Lightning → James Otis
- Robert Montgomery Presents (TV) → Cashel Bryon
- Robert Montgomery Presents (TV) → Peter Handley
- Robert Montgomery Presents (TV) → Melody Jones
- What's My Line? (TV) → Self - Mystery Guest
- The Colgate Comedy Hour (TV) → Self
- The Colgate Comedy Hour (TV) → Self - Host
- Your Show of Shows (TV) → Self - Guest Performer
- Your Show of Shows (TV) → Self - Guest Host
- Dark City → Danny Haley
- Julius Caesar → Mark Antony
- Studio One: Wuthering Heights → Heathcliff
- The Taming of the Shrew → Petruchio
- Suspense (TV)
- Jane Eyre → Edward Rochester
- Bambi (TV) → Self
- Studio One (TV)
- Studio One (TV) → Philip Carey
- Studio One (TV) → Edward Rochester
- Studio One (TV) → Col. / Dr. Michael Knowle
- Studio One (TV) → Petruchio
- Studio One (TV) → Mitch Henderson
- Studio One (TV) → Heathcliff
- Studio One (TV) → Macbeth
- Studio One (TV) → James Otis
- Studio One (TV) → Merton Densher
- Studio One (TV) → Commander Schneider
- The Philco Television Playhouse (TV)
- The Ed Sullivan Show (TV) → Self
- Golden Globe Awards (TV) → Self
- Golden Globe Awards (TV) → Self - Presenter
- Golden Globe Awards (TV) → Self - Nominee
- Peer Gynt → Peer Gynt