Heston's turn in Planet of the Apes was a career first (that being sci-fi), but the 1968 hit was an epic in its own right that rivaled some of the actor's bigger movies in its scope.

Planet of the Apes' George Taylor is without question Charlton Heston's greatest contribution to the science fiction genre, but hardly his only significant one. Three years after briefly reprising ...

When Planet of the Apes premiered in 1968, audiences were stunned—not just by its twist ending, ... (Charlton Heston), who crash-lands on a strange planet ruled by intelligent apes.

A saga that dates back to 1968 — when Charlton Heston famously starred in the original Apes film, featuring that classic twist ending — could mean lots of homework to catch up. However ...

From the original Charlton Heston films to the modern prequels, the Planet of the Apes movies have a complex timeline — one ...

Pierre Boulle's 1963 novel La Planète des Singes served as the template for 1968's Planet of the Apes, starring Charlton Heston, Kim Hunter, and Roddy McDowall.

T he Planet of the Apesfranchise has offered several different versions of humanity's demise in its nearly 60-year history, and even the original films were inconsistent. The 1968 Charlton Heston ...

Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowall in ‘Planet of the Apes' Charlton Heston (as astronaut George Taylor) reviews his lines while Roddy McDowall, in full prosthetic as the thoughtful chimpanzee ...