TCM Schedule for Oct. 2023: Heston, Halloween

Turner Classic Movies celebrates Charlton Heston with a month of his top films every Wednesday in October. Also look for month of spooky movies for Halloween.

Heston (1923-2008) is TCM’s star of the month for October, and TCM will show many of his films, including epics like Ben Hur. Khartoum, and The Agony and The Ecstasy, plus his later sci-fi classics like Soylent Green and The Omega Man.

The tribute begins with a full day of programming, hosted by Ben Mankiewicz, on October 4, which would have been Heston’s 100th birthday. Read more at: TCM Star of the Month: Charlton Heston

Other TCM schedule highlights for October include:

Monday, October 2: Oscar and Tony Winners for the same role, with The Miracle Worker, My Fair Lady and other classic stage to screen films.
Tuesdays: Creepy Cinema, with classics like The Night of the Hunter and Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte.
Fridays – Gothic Movies, like Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and the Haunting. Every Friday in October
Sunday, October 8: Harry Palmer Night, starring Michael Caine in The Ipcress File and Billion Dollar Brain.
Sunday, October 15: Bridge Night, featuring The Bridge on the River Kwai and Waterloo Bridge.
Thursday, October 19: Guest Programmer Martin Scorcese introduces A Place in the Sun, Wild River and more.
Monday, October 23: Dick Van Dyke night, with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Bye Bye Birdie and more.
Thursday, October 26: Charlie Chaplin vs America, featuring Modern Times, the Great Dictator and more.
Saturday, October 28: Remake and original: The Man Who Knew Too Much, made twice by Alfred Hitchcock, once in 1934 and again in 1956.
Monday, October 30, continuing through Oct. 31: TCM Terror-thon, with classic horror films like Burn, Witch Burn and Suspiria.

Highlights of October 2023 on TCM are previewed below, followed by movie picks from October by director and TCM host Guillermo del Toro.

For a complete schedule and more details visit:

TCM November Schedule

Coming to TCM in November are:

TCM Star of the Month: Gloria Graham. Every Tuesday in November 2023 the film noir star is featured.

Also in November look for tributes to Ann Rutherford on Nov, 2, Robert Youngson on Nov. 5, and Alan Arkin on Nov. 6.

You get an early look at what else is coming to TCM in November in TCM’s Now Playing newsletter for October (scroll to the bottom for a sneak peak at November).

About Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter; October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor best known for starring roles in epic Hollywood films like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur (1959). He also starred in The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), Secret of the Incas (1954), Touch of Evil (1958), The Big Country (1958), El Cid (1961), The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), Khartoum (1966), Planet of the Apes (1968), Julius Caesar (1970), The Omega Man (1971), Antony and Cleopatra (1972), Soylent Green (1973), The Three Musketeers (1974), Airport 1975 (1974), Earthquake (1974), Crossed Swords (1978), Mother Lode (1982), and Alaska (1996).

In the 1950s and early 1960s, he was one of a handful of Hollywood actors to speak openly against racism and was an active supporter of the civil rights movement. Heston left the Democratic Party in 1987 to become a Republican, founding a conservative political action committee and supporting Ronald Reagan. Heston was a five-term president of the National Rifle Association of America (NRA), from 1998 to 2003. After announcing he had Alzheimer’s disease in 2002, he retired from both acting and the NRA presidency.

Below is an interview with Heston from The American Film Institute followed by a trailer for Ben Hur, showing at 8:00 pm Wednesday, October 4, on TCM.

Heston wrote an autobiography in 1995, In the Arena: An Autobiography, which you can get on Amazon.

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