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	[1]
Alberto Pasquali (it)	Christus	1916	Giulio Antamoro	[2]
Howard Gaye	Intolerance	1916	D. W. Griffith	[3]
Gregori Chmara	I.N.R.I.	1923	Robert Wiene	[4]
H.B. Warner	The King of Kings	1927	Cecil B. DeMille	[5]
Robert Le Vigan	Golgotha	1935	Julien Duvivier	[6]
José Cibrián	Jesús de Nazareth	1942	José Díaz Morales	[7]
Luis Alcoriza	María Magdalena: Pecadora de Magdala	1946	Miguel Contreras Torres	[8]
Luis Alcoriza	Reina de reinas: La Virgen María	1948	Miguel Contreras Torres	[9]
Enrique Rambal	El mártir del Calvario	1952	Miguel Morayta	[10]
José Nieto	El beso de Judas	1954	Rafael Gil	[11]
Jeffrey Hunter	King of Kings	1961	Nicholas Ray	[12]
Enrique Irazoqui	The Gospel According to St. Matthew	1963	Pier Paolo Pasolini	[13]
Max von Sydow	The Greatest Story Ever Told	1965	George Stevens	[14]
Enrique Rocha	El proceso de Cristo	1966	Julio Bracho	[15]
Colin Blakely	The Wednesday Play - Son of Man	1969	Gareth Davies	[16]
Claudio Brook	Jesús, nuestro Señor	1971	Miguel Zacarías	[17]
Alfredo Melher	Jesús, el niño Dios	1971	Miguel Zacarías	[18]
David Bravo, Jorge España, José Alberto Castro	Jesús, María y José	1972	Miguel Zacarías	[19]
Trevor White	Jesus Christ Superstar	1972	Sandy Harbutt, Bill Hughes	[20]
Victor Garber	Godspell	1973	David Greene	[21]
Robert Elfstrom	Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus	1973	Robert Elfstrom	[22]
Ted Neeley	Jesus Christ Superstar	1973	Norman Jewison	[23]
Pier Maria Rossi	Il messia	1975	Roberto Rossellini	[24]
Zalman King	The Passover Plot	1976	Michael Campus	[25]
Robert Powell	Jesus of Nazareth	1976	Franco Zeffirelli	[26]
Brian Deacon	Jesus	1979	Peter Sykes, John Krisch	[27]
Claudio Brook	La vida de nuestro señor Jesucristo	1980	Miguel Zacarías	[28]
Michael Brynntrup	Jesus - Der Film	1986	Michael Brynntrup, Jörg Buttgereit	[29]
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	[30]
Henry Ian Cusick	The Gospel of John	2003	Philip Saville	[31]
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	[32]
Ahmad Soleimani Nia	The Messiah	2007	Nader Talebzadeh	[33]
Diogo Morgado	The Bible	2013	Roma Downey and Mark Burnett	[34]
Diogo Morgado	Son of God	2014	Christopher Spencer	[35]
Cliff Curtis	Risen	2016	Kevin Reynolds	[36]

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