FrameThrower · Actors · Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston
6 films · 379 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1958–1994
Born 4 October 1923 · Wilmette, Illinois, USA · died 5 April 2008
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 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.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 379 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1958–1994
- Academy Award for Best Actor1960
- Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award1966
- Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award
- Presidential Medal of Freedom2003
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres1997
- Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award1978
- Theatre World Award1950
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Kennedy Center Honors
How their films are shot
Measured across 379 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Charlton takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 53% of their frames are night, 49% low key — the look of the work Charlton takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 379 frames from Charlton Heston's 6 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.