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
R. Henderson Bland	From the Manger to the Cross; or, Jesus of Nazareth	1912	Sidney Olcott
Alberto Pasquali (it)	Christus	1916	Giulio Antamoro
Howard Gaye	Intolerance	1916	D. W. Griffith
Gregori Chmara	I.N.R.I.	1923	Robert Wiene
H.B. Warner	The King of Kings	1927	Cecil B. DeMille
Robert Le Vigan	Golgotha	1935	Julien Duvivier
José Cibrián	Jesús de Nazareth	1942	José Díaz Morales
Luis Alcoriza	María Magdalena: Pecadora de Magdala	1946	Miguel Contreras Torres
Luis Alcoriza	Reina de reinas: La Virgen María	1948	Miguel Contreras Torres
Enrique Rambal	El mártir del Calvario	1952	Miguel Morayta
José Nieto	El beso de Judas	1954	Rafael Gil
Jeffrey Hunter	King of Kings	1961	Nicholas Ray
Enrique Irazoqui	The Gospel According to St. Matthew	1963	Pier Paolo Pasolini
Max von Sydow	The Greatest Story Ever Told	1965	George Stevens
Enrique Rocha	El proceso de Cristo	1966	Julio Bracho
Colin Blakely	The Wednesday Play - Son of Man	1969	Gareth Davies
Claudio Brook	Jesús, nuestro Señor	1971	Miguel Zacarías
Alfredo Melher	Jesús, el niño Dios	1971	Miguel Zacarías
David Bravo, Jorge España, José Alberto Castro	Jesús, María y José	1972	Miguel Zacarías
Trevor White	Jesus Christ Superstar	1972	Sandy Harbutt, Bill Hughes
Victor Garber	Godspell	1973	David Greene
Robert Elfstrom	Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus	1973	Robert Elfstrom
Ted Neeley	Jesus Christ Superstar	1973	Norman Jewison
Pier Maria Rossi	Il messia	1975	Roberto Rossellini
Zalman King	The Passover Plot	1976	Michael Campus
Robert Powell	Jesus of Nazareth	1976	Franco Zeffirelli
Brian Deacon	Jesus	1979	Peter Sykes, John Krisch
Claudio Brook	La vida de nuestro señor Jesucristo	1980	Miguel Zacarías
Michael Brynntrup	Jesus - Der Film	1986	Michael Brynntrup, Jörg Buttgereit
Willem Dafoe	The Last Temptation of Christ	1988
Bruce Marchiano	The Visual Bible: Matthew	1997
Bruce Marchiano	The Visual Bible: Acts	1994
Jeremy Sisto	Jesus	1999
Christian Bale	Mary, Mother of Jesus	1999
Glenn Carter	Jesus Christ Superstar	2000
Nicholas Rogers	María, hija de su Hijo	2000
Ralph Fiennes (voice)	The Miracle Maker	2000	Derek W. Hayes, Stanislav Sokolov
Henry Ian Cusick	The Gospel of John	2003	Philip Saville
Jim Caviezel	The Passion of the Christ	2004	Mel Gibson
Jonathan Scarfe	Judas	2004
Johannes Brandrup	San Pietro	2005
Pablo Moreno	Jesús, el peregrino de la luz	2006
	The Nativity Story	2006
Fabrizio Bucci	The Inquiry (L'inchiesta)	2006	Giulio Base
Ahmad Soleimani Nia	The Messiah	2007	Nader Talebzadeh
Diogo Morgado[1]	The Bible	2013	Roma Downey and Mark Burnett
Diogo Morgado	Son of God	2014	Christopher Spencer
Cliff Curtis	Risen	2016	Kevin Reynolds

Notes

• Jesus (character) at IMDb

1. Hines, Ree (25 February 2014). "Bible, Son of God star Diogo Morgado 'freaked out' about playing Jesus". Today. Today. Retrieved 2 February 2015.

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