Cultural depictions of Herod the Great

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This page lists cultural depictions of Herod the Great, grouped by order and arranged by date.

Contents 1 Literature 1.1 Plays 2 Performing arts 3 Film, radio and television 3.1 Film 3.2 Radio 3.3 Television 4 External links

[edit] Literature

[edit] Plays

• Herod appears in some cycles of the Mystery Plays, played as an over the top villain. Such portrayals were still in folk memory in William Shakespeare's time, for Hamlet instructs the players not to "out-Herod Herod" (Act 3, Scene 2).

[edit] Performing arts

[edit] Film, radio and television

[edit] Film

• Cleopatra (1934), played by Joseph Schildkraut
• King of Kings (1961), played by Gregoire Aslan
• The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), played by Claude Rains
• The Nativity Story (2006), played by Ciarán Hinds

[edit] Radio

• He appears in the first play of Dorothy L. Sayers' radio play cycle The Man Born to be King.

[edit] Television

• Jesus of Nazareth (1977), played by Peter Ustinov
• The Nativity (1978), played by Leo McKern
• Rome (2007, episode 19, Death Mask), played by Rene Zagger

[edit] External links

• Herod the Great at the Internet Movie Database