1950'li yıllarda parlayan, pek çok önemli filmde başrollerde oynayan ünlü aktör, eşi Lydia'nın da bulunduğu Beverly Hills'deki evinde yaşamını yitirdi. Heston'ın ailesi, olayı yazılı bir açıklama yaparak duyurdu. 2002 yılından bu yana Alzheimer hastası olan aktörün ölümüyle ilgili aile açıklamasında, hiç kimsenin Heston'dan daha dolu dolu bir hayat yaşamadığı belirtilerek, ünlü aktörün "Şahane bir hayat yaşadım. 2 kişiye yetecek kadar yaşadım" sözleri hatırlatıldı. Açıklamada, sanatçının cenazesi için özel bir tören düzenleneceği bildirildi.

Doğum adı: John Charles Carter
Doğum: 4 Ekim 1923 - Evanston, Illinois, ABD
Ölüm: 5 Nisan 2008 - Beverly Hills, Kaliforniya, ABD
Aktif olduğu yıllar: 1941-2003
Evlilik: Lydia Clarke (1944-2008)

• Peer Gynt (1941) (student film)
• Dark City (1950)
• Introducing Charlton Heston (1950)
• Julius Caesar (1950)
• Ruby Gentry (1952)
• The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
• The Savage (1952)
• Arrowhead (1953)
• Bad for Each Other (1953)
• Pony Express (1953)
• The President's Lady (1953)
• Three Lives (1953)
• Secret of the Incas (1954)
• The Naked Jungle (1954)
• Lucy Gallant (1955)
• The Far Horizons (1955)
• The Private War of Major Benson (1955)
• The Ten Commandments (1956)
• Three Violent People (1957)
• The Big Country (1958)
• The Buccaneer (1958)
• Touch of Evil (1958)
• Ben-Hur (1959)
• The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)
• El Cid (1961)
• The Fugitive Eye (1961)
• The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962)
• 55 Days at Peking (1963)
• Diamond Head (1963)
• The Five Cities of June (1963)
• Major Dundee (1965)
• The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
• The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
• The War Lord (1965)
• The Egyptologists (1965)
• Khartoum (1966)
• Think Twentieth (1967)
• Maugli (1967) (narrator in English version)
• All About People (1967)
• The American Film: 1966 White House Festival of the Arts (1967)
• While I Run This Race (1967)
• Counterpoint (1968)
• Planet of the Apes (1968)
• Rowan & Martin at the Movies (1968)
• Will Penny (1968)
• The Movie Experience: A Matter of Choice (1968)
• Number One (1969)
• The Heart of Variety (1969)
• Rod Laver's Wimbledon (1969)
• Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
• Julius Caesar (1970)
• The Hawaiians (1970)
• The Festival Game (1970)
• King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970)
• The Last Man Alive (1971)
• The Omega Man (1971)
• Antony and Cleopatra (1972)
• Skyjacked (1972)
• The Call of the Wild (1972)
• Our Active Earth (1972)
• A Look at the World of Soylent Green (1973)
• Soylent Green (1973)
• The Three Musketeers (1973)
• Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (1973)
• Airport 1975 (1974)
• Earthquake (1974)
• The Four Musketeers (1974)
• The Fun of Your Life (1975)
• Midway (1976)
• The Last Hard Men (1976)
• They Were There (1976)
• Two-Minute Warning (1976)
• America at the Movies (1976)
• Crossed Swords (1977)
• Gray Lady Down (1978)
• The Awakening (1980)
• The Mountain Men (1980)
• Mother Lode (1982)
• Chiefs (1983) (mini-series)
• The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1985)
• Directed by William Wyler (1986)
• Proud Men (1987)
• Call from Space (1989) (voice)
• Almost an Angel (1990)
• The Little Kidnappers (1990) (Cable)
• Solar Crisis (1990)
• Treasure Island (1990)
• Genghis Khan (1992) (unfinished)
• A Thousand Heroes (1992) (TV)
• Tombstone (1993)
• Wayne's World 2 (1993)
• SeaQuest DSV (1993) (TV)
• True Lies (1994)
• A Century of Cinema (1994)
• In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
• Friends (dizi) (1995) (TV) (kendisi rolünde)
• The Avenging Angel (1995) (TV)
• Alaska (film) (1996)
• Hamlet (film, 1990) (1996) (1 Player)
• Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right (1996)
• The Dark Mist (1996)
• Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997)
• Alaska: Spirit of the Wild (1997)
• Hercules (1997)
• Armageddon (1998)
• Any Given Sunday (1999)
• Gideon (1999)
• Planet of the Apes (2001)
• The Order (2001)
• Town & Country (2001)
• Last Party 2000 (2001)
• Cats & Dogs (2001) (voice)
• My Father, Rua Alguem 5555 (2003)