JESUS OF NAZARETH {PART 2 OF 4} (TV)
Summary
Part two of this special four-part production based on the New Testament. In this part, Joseph dies, Jesus is baptized by John the Baptist, Andrew and Philip join Jesus, Jesus begins his public life, John the Baptist is arrested by Herod's troops, and Jesus heals a lame man and tells the parable of the prodigal son, Salome dances for Herod, Mary Magdalene first hears of Jesus, and Judas joins the apostles. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: April 2, 1979 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:37:53
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T79:0177
- GENRE: Docudrama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Biography; Docudrama; Bible stories
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1979
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Bernard J. Kingham … Executive Producer
- Vincenzo Labella … Producer
- Dyson Lovell … Associate Producer
- Franco Zeffirelli … Director, Writer
- Anthony Burgess … Writer
- Suso Cecchi D'Amico … Writer
- Maurice Jarre … Music by
- National Philharmonic Orchestra, The … Symphony Orchestra
- Robert Powell … Cast, Jesus
- Anne Bancroft … Cast, Mary Magdalene
- Ernest Borgnine … Cast, The Centurion
- Claudia Cardinale … Cast, The Adultress
- Valentina Cortese … Cast, Herodias
- James Farentino … Cast, Simon-Peter
- James Earl Jones … Cast, Balthazar
- Stacy Keach … Cast, Barabbas
- Tony Lo Bianco … Cast, Quintilius
- James Mason … Cast, Joseph of Arimathea
- Ian McShane … Cast, Judas Iscariot
- Laurence Olivier … Cast, Nicodemus
- Donald Pleasence … Cast, Melchior
- Christopher Plummer … Cast, Herod Antipas
- Anthony Quinn … Cast, Caiaphas
- Fernando Rey … Cast, Gaspar
- Ralph Richardson … Cast, Simeon
- Ron Steiger … Cast, Pontius Pilate
- Peter Ustinov … Cast, Herod the Great
- Michael York … Cast, John the Baptist
- Olivia Hussey … Cast, Mary
- Cyril Cusack … Cast, Yehuda
- Ian Holm … Cast, Zerah
- Yorgo Voyagis … Cast, Joseph
- Ian Bannen … Cast, Amos
- Marina Berti … Cast, Elizabeth
- Regina Bianchi … Cast, Anne
- Maria Carta … Cast, Martha
- Lee Montague … Cast, Habbukuk
- Renato Rascel … Cast, The Blind Man
- Olivier Tobias … Cast, Joel
- Tony Vogel … Cast, Andrew
- Murray Salem … Cast, Simon the Zealot
- Steve Gardner … Cast, Philip
- John Duttine … Cast, John the Evangelist
- Michael Haughey … Cast, Nahum
- Keith Skinner … Cast, Obsessed Boy
- Cyril Shaps … Cast, Obsessed Boy's Father
- Jonathan Muller … Cast, James I
- John Tordoff … Cast, Malachi
- Keith Washington … Cast, Matthew
- Sergio Nicolai … Cast, James II
- Isabel Mestres … Cast, Salome
- Renato Montalbano … Cast, Jairus
- Bruce Lidington … Cast, Thomas ("Doubting" Thomas)
- Derek Godfrey … Cast, Elihu
- Mimmo Crao … Cast, Thaddeus
- John Eastham … Cast, Bartholomew
- Robert Davey … Cast, Daniel
- Oliver Smith … Cast, Saul
- George Camiller … Cast, Hosias