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List of actors who have played Jesus

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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

Notes

External links

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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