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
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	[16]
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

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Jesus (character) at IMDb

List of actors who have played Jesus

Topic: Religion

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