List of actors who have played Jesus

Howard Gaye as the Nazarene: "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." (Intolerance, 1916)

This is a list of actors who have played Jesus.

List of actors who have played Jesus  Actor(s) | Movie | Year | Director(s) | Notes

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Robert Henderson-Bland | From the Manger to the Cross | 1912 | Sidney Olcott | [1]
George Fisher | Civilization | 1916 | Thomas H. Ince | [2]
Howard Gaye | Intolerance | 1916 | D. W. Griffith | [3]
Claude Payton | Ben-Hur | 1925 | Fred Niblo | [4]
H.B. Warner | The King of Kings | 1927 | Cecil B. DeMille | [5]
Robert Le Vigan | Golgotha | 1935 | Julien Duvivier | [6]
Donald C. Klune | The Robe | 1953 | Henry Koster | [7]
Claude Heater | Ben-Hur | 1959 | William Wyler | [8]
Jeffrey Hunter | King of Kings | 1961 | Nicholas Ray | [9]
Roy Mangano | Barabbas | 1961 | Richard Fleischer |
Enrique Irazoqui | The Gospel According to St.Matthew | 1964 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | [10]
Max von Sydow | The Greatest Story Ever Told | 1965 | George Stevens | [11]
Donald Sutherland | Johnny Got His Gun | 1971 | Dalton Trumbo | [12]
Victor Garber | Godspell | 1973 | David Greene | [13]
Ted Neeley | Jesus Christ Superstar | 1973 | Norman Jewison | [14]
Robert Powell | Jesus of Nazareth | 1977 | Franco Zeffirelli | [15]
Liam Neeson | Pilgrim's Progress | 1978 | Ken Anderson |

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Kenneth Colley | Monty Python's Life of Brian | 1979 | Terry Jones | [17]
Chris Sarandon | The Day Christ Died | 1980 | James Cellan Jones | [18]
John Hurt | History of the World, Part I | 1981 | Mel Brooks |
Willem Dafoe | The Last Temptation of Christ | 1988 | Martin Scorsese |
Bruce Marchiano | The Visual Bible: Matthew | 1993 | Regardt van den Bergh | [19]
Jeremy Sisto | Jesus | 1999 | Roger Young |
Will Ferrell | Superstar | 1999 | Bruce McCulloch |
Christian Bale | Mary, Mother of Jesus | 1999 | Kevin Connor |
Henry Ian Cusick | The Gospel of John | 2003 | Philip Saville |
Jim Caviezel | The Passion of the Christ | 2004 | Mel Gibson |
Matthew Modine | Mary | 2005 | Abel Ferrara |
Ahmad Soleimani Nia  | The Messiah | 2007  | Nader Talebzadeh  |
Marco Foschi | Barabbas | 2012 | Roger Young |
Shredy Jabarin | المخلص (The Savior, Arabic language film) | 2014 | Robert Savo | [20]
Diogo Morgado | Son of God | 2014 | Christopher Spencer | [21]
Ewan McGregor | Last Days in the Desert | 2015 | Rodrigo Garcia |
Haaz Sleiman | Killing Jesus | 2015 | Christopher Menaul |
Rodrigo Santoro | Ben-Hur | 2016 | Timur Bekmambetov | [22]
Cliff Curtis | Risen | 2016 | Kevin Reynolds |
Adam Greaves-Neal | The Young Messiah | 2016 | Cyrus Nowrasteh |
Joaquin Phoenix | Mary Magdalene | 2018 | Garth Davis |

Matt Ranillo III in the Film

" KRISTO" ( 1996 )

directed by Ben Yalung

## Notes

* Jesus (character) at IMDb

## External links

* Jesus in Film and TV: 13 Devilishly Handsome Actors Who've Played the Son of God
* 20 Actors That Have Played Jesus Christ
* Actors who have portrayed Jesus
* Actors Who Played Jesus
* A look at actors who have played Jesus in movies
* Blestemul unui rol fascinant: ce s-a intamplat cu actorii care l-au jucat pe Iisus in filme, ProTv

## See also

* The Nativity (1978)
* List of films set in ancient Rome#The Life of Jesus Christ
* The Robe (1953)
* List of films based on the Bible

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