How many Indiana Jones actors have also been in Bible movies?
The list is long, and includes such names as Paul Freeman, John Rhys-Davies, Alfred Molina, Ray Winstone, Antonio Banderas, and Elizabeth Hurley.
Several months ago, I created a list, complete with pictures, of all the actors from the Star Wars franchise who have worked in Bible movies and TV shows.
I’ve been updating that list ever since, as new episodes of the Star Wars TV shows come out. I have also created lists of actors from the Harry Potter and Downton Abbey series who have worked on Bible movies and TV shows.
But it wasn’t until I watched Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny last summer—and saw an actor from The Chosen chase Indy and his friends through the streets of Tangier—that I started to think about compiling a similar list for Indiana Jones.
And once the thought it occurred to me, it seemed obvious that I should make such a list, for at least three reasons:
First, Indiana Jones is, along with Star Wars, one of the two big Lucasfilm movie franchises that dominated the box office in the 1980s. So if I made a list for the Star Wars franchise, I should arguably make a list for Indiana Jones, too.
Second, at least two of the Indiana Jones films revolve around biblical artifacts, so the films are more than a little Bible-adjacent themselves.
And third, even as I was sitting there in the theatre, I began to think about the fact that every single Indiana Jones movie has at least one actor who has also been in a Bible movie; I even interviewed one of those actors—John Rhys-Davies, who plays Sallah in three of the films—on the set of Killing Jesus in Morocco.
So, it was decided: I would make a list of all the Indiana Jones actors who have also been in Bible movies. But I knew that, if I was going to do this properly, I would also have to include the actors who appeared in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles in the 1990s—and I had seen only one or two of those episodes prior to this year.
So, I went through the cast lists for every episode at the IMDb, figured out in advance which actors to look for, borrowed the DVDs from the library, and watched one episode per day over a period of about three weeks.
And now, here we are. Dial of Destiny is now available on home video, so I’ve been able to capture some images from that film, too, to make this list complete.
A few quick points:
I am listing all the theatrical movies first, and then the TV episodes.
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles was heavily re-edited in the mid- to late 1990s, so for convenience’s sake I am following the episode order on the DVDs.1
In a few cases, the actors I was looking for appeared only in scenes that were deleted from the current versions of those episodes, so for those images, I have relied on publicity stills, YouTube copies of the episodes, etc.
As before, I limited my search to all the credited actors, and I did not investigate any of the actors who were listed at the IMDb as “uncredited”.
Some of these actors played multiple characters in the Indiana Jones franchise; I am listing them in the order of their first appearance in the franchise.
The “Bible films” I am interested in are films and TV shows that adapt biblical narratives. This includes fictitious stories that are set in the ancient world and have some biblical plot points, like Ben-Hur or Monty Python’s Life of Brian, as well as films that stage biblical stories in modern settings with modern clothes, etc., like Liverpool Nativity, The Judas Project, and Tales from the Mad House.
I am not particularly interested in films about angels and demons (e.g. The Discovery of Heaven, Good Omens), or in films that put biblical characters in modern settings after the events of the Bible (e.g. Les rois mages, The Fallen Ones), or in films about modern people who think they’ve discovered big secrets about biblical figures (e.g. The Body, The Da Vinci Code), or in films about modern people who mount their own dramatizations of the Bible (e.g. Christ Recrucified, Hail Caesar!). But I do list all those films under ‘Honourable Mentions’.2
The Indiana Jones actors with the most Bible-movie experience are John Rhys-Davies and Renato Scarpa, who have six Bible-movie credits apiece.
The Bible movie with the most Indiana Jones actors is In the Beginning, a 2000 two-part TV-movie with no fewer than eight such actors. The 1985 miniseries A.D. Anno Domini runs a close second, with seven such actors. Ten films from The Bible Collection are also represented here, most of them multiple times.
And now, to the gallery!
The first thing to note, of course, is that there are biblical elements within the Indiana Jones films themselves, which makes them Bible-adjacent in their own way.
Two of the films even revolve around biblical artifacts.
The first and most obvious artifact is, of course, the Ark of the Covenant, which is not only featured in the title of the first film—Raiders of the Lost Ark—but even acts as a kind of character in its own right: it burns the Nazi insignia off its packing crate when no one is looking (similar to how it destroyed the Philistine idols when no one was looking, in I Samuel 5:1-5), and it eventually kills the Nazis who peer inside it (just like it killed certain Israelites when they looked inside it, in I Samuel 6:19).
After that, Indy also drinks from the Holy Grail in The Last Crusade—and while most of the lore around the Grail is medieval in origin, the Grail itself, of course, is supposed to be the cup that Jesus used at the Last Supper, which would make it the cup that is mentioned in Mark 14:23-25, Matthew 26:27-29, and Luke 22:17-20.
There are at least two other significant nods to the Bible in the Indiana Jones series.
First, in Dial of Destiny, Indy and the Nazis go looking for the Lance of Longinus, but it turns out the Lance they’re fighting over is a fake. While the name Longinus is not mentioned in the Bible at all, the Lance itself is supposed to be the spear that a Roman soldier used to stab Jesus, after Jesus died on the cross (John 19:34).
Finally, just as some of the actors listed below have played not just Bible characters but modern characters who are playing Bible characters, so too there is a hint of Bible-movie-within-a-movie action within the Indiana Jones series itself.
Hollywood Follies, in particular, begins with Indy watching the 1925 version of Ben-Hur (which is an anachronism, as the episode takes place in 1920); and then, when Indy goes to the Universal Studios lot, his car passes two men who appear to be dressed as Jesus and a Roman soldier, plus two other men who are carrying a cross.
And now, for the list of Indiana Jones co-stars with Bible-movie experience.
The movies
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Paul Freeman (René Belloq; he also played Frederick Selous in Passion for Life and Phantom Train of Doom) played Cornelius in A.D. Anno Domini (1985), Manoah in The Bible Collection: Samson and Delilah (1996), and Samuel in The Bible (2013); he also played Melchior in The 3 Kings (2000), which I have not been able to find.
John Rhys-Davies (Sallah) played Nestor in The Nativity (1978), Silas in Peter and Paul (1981), Mordecai in One Night with the King (2006), Caiaphas in Saul: The Journey to Damascus (2014), Annas in Killing Jesus (2015), and Peter in Peter: The Redemption (2016).
Alfred Molina (Satipo) voiced Simon the Pharisee in The Miracle Maker (1999) and Rameses II in The Ten Commandments (2007); he also played Bishop Manuel Aringarosa in The Da Vinci Code (2006), which has a couple of flashbacks to Mary Magdalene.
Anthony Higgins (Major Gobler) played Korah in The Bible Collection: Moses (1995).
Tony Vogel (the Tall Captain in charge of the Nazi island) played Andrew in Jesus of Nazareth (1977), First Temple Guard in The Day Christ Died (1981), Aquila in A.D. Anno Domini (1985), and a Farmer in The Bible Collection: Jesus (1999).
William Hootkins (Major Eaton; he also played Sergei Diaghilev in Espionage Escapades) voiced Lucifer in The Miracle Maker (1999).
Tutte Lemkow (the Imam) played a Leper in Ben-Hur (1959; I can’t be positive that he’s the leper in the shot below, but that leper is the only male leper with any dialogue in the film) and the Devil in Job (1963), which I have not been able to find.
Kiran Shah (Abu) played Jude in The Passion (2008).
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Philip Stone (Captain Blumburtt) played Jethro in The Bible Collection: Moses (1995); he also played the Dad in A Clockwork Orange (1971), which has a sequence in which a character fantasizes about living in biblical times.
David Yip (Wu Han) played one of the Magi in Liverpool Nativity (2007).
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Julian Glover (Walter Donovan) played Esau in The Story of Jacob and Joseph (1974).
Kevork Malikyan (Kazim; he also played an Armenian Agent in Masks of Evil) played Sapai in Peter and Paul (1981), the Vizier in Slave of Dreams (1995), the Prison Governor in In the Beginning (2000), and Jethro in Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014).
Vernon Dobtcheff (Butler) played Samuel in The Messiah (1975), a Priest in Peter and Paul (1981), Flavius Sabinus in A.D. Anno Domini (1985), and Isaiah in Killing Jesus (2015).
Stefan Kalipha (Hatay Tank Gunner) played Melchior’s Aide in Jesus of Nazareth (1977), Chief Minister in The Ten Commandments (2006), and Gaspar in The Nativity Story (2006).
Peter Pacey (Hatay Tank Driver) voiced an unidentified character in The Story of the Other Wise Man (1989).
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Ray Winstone (‘Mac’ George Michale) played Quintus Arrius in Ben-Hur (2010), Tubal-Cain in Noah (2014), and King Saul in Of Kings and Prophets (2016).
John Hurt (Professor Harold Oxley) played Jesus in History of the World, Part I (1981).
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
Antonio Banderas (Renaldo) is playing Herod in Journey to Bethlehem (2023); he also played Fr Matt Gutierrez in The Body (2001), which is about a priest who investigates the possibility that an archaeologist may have discovered the skeleton of Jesus.
Thomas Kretschmann (Colonel Weber) played Ahasuerus in The Bible Collection: Esther (1999).
Alaa Safi (Rahim) plays Simon the Zealot in The Chosen (2021-present).
Mark Killeen (Pontimus)3 played the Centurion at Golgotha in Risen (2016).
Niccolo Cancellieri (Sirene Deckhand, standing behind Renaldo in the photo below) played Peter in 7 Miracles (2018), a virtual-reality film that I have not yet seen.
The Young Indiana Jones series
George Hall (Old Indy in the bookend sequences that were deleted from later editions of the series) played an Elder in The Bible Collection: Samson and Delilah (1996), though I could not identify his character in the latter film.
Chapter 1 — My First Adventure — May 1908
Neil Boulane (Baby Indy) played Baby Jesus in Marie de Nazareth (1995).
Tony Robinson (Pierre Duclos) played Peter in The Easter Stories (1994) and a sort of quasi-modernized Judas Iscariot in Tales from the Mad House (2000).
Kevin McNally (Walter Harris) played Nahor in The Bible Collection: Abraham (1993).
Leon Lissek (Sheik Es-Salih) played Annas in The Emissary: A Biblical Epic (1997).
Ashley Walters (Omar) played the Angel in The Ark (2015).
Abderrahim El Aadili (Rude Passer-By) played Second Head Priest in The Bible Collection: Jeremiah (1998), though I could not identify his character in the latter film.
Chapter 2 — Passion for Life — September 1908
Danny Webb (Pablo Picasso) played Laban in In the Beginning (2000).
Chapter 3 — The Perils of Cupid — November 1908
Max von Sydow (Sigmund Freud) played Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), Sidka in Samson and Delilah (1984), Peter in Quo Vadis? (1985), David in The Bible Collection: Solomon (1997), and Tiberius in The Inquiry aka The Final Inquiry (2006).
Pernilla August (Emilie; she also played Mamma in Tales of Innocence) played Mary in Mary, Mother of Jesus (1999).
Peter Eyre (Kurt) played the Vizier in The Bible Collection: Joseph (1995).
Chapter 4 — Travels with Father — March 1910
Michael Gough (Leo Tolstoy) played Job in ‘The Trial of Job’, a 1971 episode of Seeing and Believing that I have not been able to find.
George Jackos (Nikos Kazantzakis) played a Roman Centurion in The Emissary: A Biblical Epic (1997).
Raad Rawi (Pater) played Jeremiah in The Bible (2013).
Chapter 5 — Journey of Radiance — March 1910
This episode did not, apparently, introduce any new actors with Bible-movie credits.
Chapter 6 — Spring Break Adventure — February-March 1916
Francesco Quinn (José González aka Francois) played Marcus Vinicius in Quo Vadis? (1985) and Stephen in The Visual Bible: Acts (1994).
Chapter 7 — Love’s Sweet Song — April-May 1916
John Lynch (Sean O’Casey) played Sagan in The Passion (2008), Gabriel in The Nativity (2010), Nicodemus in Killing Jesus (2015), and Aquila in Paul, Apostle of Christ (2018).
Julian Fellowes (Winston Churchill) played Nero in Peter and Paul (1981).
Elizabeth Hurley (Vicky Prentiss) played Delilah in The Bible Collection: Samson and Delilah (1996).
Jane Wyatt (Older Vicky in a scene from ‘London, May 1916’ that was deleted when that episode was edited into this one) played Anna in The Nativity (1978).
Vanessa Redgrave (Vicky’s Mother) narrated the short film No Arks (1969) and played a Priestess in The 3 Kings (2000), neither of which I have been able to find.
Chapter 8 — Trenches of Hell — August 1916
Jamie Glover (Robert Graves) played Benjamin in The Bible Collection: Joseph (1995).
James Nesbitt (Yuri) played Pilate in The Passion (2008).
Sean Pertwee (Captain Heinz) played Isaac in In the Beginning (2000).
Niven Boyd (Leonid) played a Centurion in Mary, Mother of Jesus (1999) and Rachel’s Brother in In the Beginning (2000).
Chapter 9 — Demons of Deception — September-October 1916
Francis Lalanne (Colonel Barc) played Joseph in Marie de Nazareth (1995).
Paul Brooke (Policeman #1) played Reuben in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1972).
J. Michael Hunter (Businessman on Plane in a scene from ‘Verdun, September 1916’ that was deleted when that episode was edited into this one) played Andy, a modernized version of Andrew, in The Judas Project (1990).
Patrick Floersheim (Sergeant Jean DeMille) has a voice credit—as the angel, perhaps?—in Marie de Nazareth (1995); he also played an unidentified character in L’histoire en marche (1985), a history-themed series that may or may not have had some biblical content.
Chapter 10 — Phantom Train of Doom — November 1916
Norman Rodway (General Jan Christian Smuts) played Joab in The Story of David (1976).
Lynsey Baxter (Margaret Trappe) played Mary Magdalene in The Visual Bible: The Gospel of John (2003).
Freddie Jones (Birdy) played Diomedes in The Nativity (1978); he also played George, a man who plays God in a creation play, in The Passion (1999).
Chapter 11 — Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life — December 1916-January 1917
Isolde Barth (Helene Schweitzer) played Pilate’s wife, aka Claudia, in Es wäre gut, daß ein Mensch würde umbracht für das Volk (1991), a German adaptation of J.S. Bach’s St John Passion that I have not been able to find.
Yann Collete (Colonel Pernod) played Mathias, who may be identical to Matthew, in Jésus (1999), a French film that I have not been able to find.
Chapter 12 — Attack of the Hawkmen — February-April 1917
Marc Warren (Baron von Richthofen) played David in Ben-Hur (2010).
Victor Spinetti (Colonel Dupuis aka Bragas; he also played Major M in this episode) played Pharaoh’s Magician in In the Beginning (2000).
Daniel Kash (Raoul Lufbery) played Simon Peter in The Visual Bible: The Gospel of John (2003) and the High Priest in Joseph and Mary (2016).
Kenneth Collard (Pierre) played Barnabas in A.D. The Bible Continues (2015).
Nicholas Colicos (Green) played Reuben in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1999; he apparently played the character in a 1991 adaptation, too, which I have not been able to find).
Gertan Klauber (Maurice) played a Woodcutter in Jesus of Nazareth (1956) and an unidentified character in Paul of Tarsus (1960), a pair of British miniseries that I have not been able to find.
Chapter 13 — Adventures in the Secret Service — May-July 1917
Joss Ackland (The Prussian) played Isaac in The Bible Collection: Jacob (1994), voiced Noah and Samuel in Testament: The Bible in Animation (1996), and played a sort of quasi-modernized Barabbas in Tales from the Mad House (2000).
Christopher Lee (Count Ottokar Czernin) played Rameses II in The Bible Collection: Moses (1995) and Rameses I in In the Beginning (2000).
Pierre Lacan (Brossard) played Judas in Marie de Nazareth (1995).
Roger Ashton-Griffiths (Sinister German) played the Syrian Prefect in The Passion (2008).
David Sibley (Major Delon) played a sort of modernized Job in Job’s Dinner (2014), a short film set in the present day that I have not been able to find.
Chapter 14 — Espionage Escapades — July-August 1917
Terry Jones (Marcello) played Mandy Cohen and several other characters in Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979), which he also directed.
Charles McKeown (Charles) played the Giggling Guard and several other characters in Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979).
Kenneth Cranham (Colonel Schmidt) played Tiberius in A.D. The Bible Continues (2015); he also played an unidentified character in Bible Mysteries (2004), a British miniseries that I have not been able to find.
Matthew Sim (Theatre Page) played Prisoner #1 in In the Beginning (2000) and a Soothsayer in The Ten Commandments (2006).
Liz Smith (Delfina) played a Soothsayer in Imperium: Nero (2004), which might not be a biblical film per se but does feature Paul of Tarsus in a substantial role.
Andrew Seear (Spanish 2nd #1) played a Messenger in A.D. Anno Domini (1985), though I could not identify his character in the latter film.
Peter Guinness (Mustachioed Man) played Admatha in The Bible Collection: Esther (1999) and Nebuchadnezzar in The Bible (2013).
Peter Hugo-Daly (Interrogator #2) played a Roman Soldier in A.D. Anno Domini (1985) and Ahithophel in The Bible Collection: David (1997).
Nickolas Grace (Colonel Clouseau aka The Prague Spy) played Jeroboam in Solomon & Sheba (1995); he also played Oscar Wilde in Salome’s Last Dance (1988), a film about a performance of Wilde’s play about Salome and John the Baptist.
Tim McInnerny (Franz Kafka) voiced Barabbas in The Miracle Maker (1999); he also played Apron Man in Mrs. Davis (2023), a sci-fi series about a nun who meets Jesus and Mary while fighting back against a world-dominating artificial intelligence.
Chapter 15 — Daredevils of the Desert — October 1917
Haluk Bilginer (Colonel Ismet Bey) played Simonides in Ben-Hur (2016).
Vincenzo Nicoli (Kazim Yoha) played Simeon in The Bible Collection: Joseph (1995).
Terrence Hardiman (Fitzgerald) played Uriah in The Story of David (1976).
Chapter 16 — Tales of Innocence — November 1917
Renato Scarpa (Papa) played Herod’s Brother in The Messiah (1975), Lucius Marinus in A.D. Anno Domini (1985), the King of Sodom in The Bible Collection: Abraham (1993), the Baker in The Bible Collection: Joseph (1995), a Eunuch in The Bible Collection: Esther (1999), and a Rabbi in Close to Jesus: Joseph of Nazareth (2000).
Valerio Isidori (Musician #2) played Herod’s Courtier in The Passion of the Christ (2004).
Peter Sullivan (Colonel Serre) played a Temple Lawyer in The Passion (2008).
Jeffrey Kissoon (El Hadji in Tales of Innocence) played Herod’s Architect in The Nativity Story (2006).
Chapter 17 — Masks of Evil — September 1918
Peter Firth (Stefan) played Pilate in Risen (2016).
Simone Bendix (Maria Straussler) played Mary Magdalene in Mary, Mother of Jesus (1999).
Ann Tirard (Tarot Reader) played Samuel’s Mother in A.D. Anno Domini (1985).4
Bob Peck (General Targo, who may or may not be Vlad the Impaler) voiced Joseph of Arimathea in The Miracle Maker (1999).
Chapter 18 — Treasure of the Peacock’s Eye — November 1918
Tom Courtenay (Bronislaw Malinowski) played Jesus in BBC Play of the Month: The Chester Mystery Plays (1976), which I have not been able to find (although I have found a couple of watermarked publicity photos for that episode: photo one, photo two).
Chapter 19 — Winds of Change — May 1919
Cyril Cusack (Georges Clemenceau) played Yehuda in Jesus of Nazareth (1977).
Jeroen Krabbé (Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau) played Satan in The Bible Collection: Jesus (1999); he also played Gabriel in The Discovery of Heaven (2001), a movie about an angel who is told to retrieve the stone tablets bearing the Ten Commandments.
Chapter 20 — Mystery of the Blues — April-May 2020
Frederick Weller (Eliot Ness) played Jacob in In the Beginning (2000).
Keith David (King Oliver) narrated Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites (2003) and The Bible (2013); he also played Reverend Otis in Black Jesus (2015), a sitcom in which Jesus lives in modern California, and the voice of the Bible in Woke (2020), a comedy series about a cartoonist who hears inanimate objects talking to him.
Chapter 21 — Scandal of 1920 — June-July 2020
This episode did not, apparently, introduce any new actors with Bible-movie credits.
Chapter 22 — Hollywood Follies — August 1920
This episode did not, apparently, introduce any new actors with Bible-movie credits, except for one actor I could not identify (see below).
The more-research-needed pile
Indiana Jones actors I could not identify
Geraldine O’Rawe played a Woman with Baby in Love’s Sweet Song; I noticed only two women who might have been that character, but neither of their faces appear on camera. O’Rawe voiced a Woman in the Temple in The Miracle Maker (1999).
Joe Searby played someone named Gascoyne in Trenches of Hell; I assume he was one of the soldiers whose names are never mentioned in the dialogue. He voiced an unidentified character in The Story of the Other Wise Man (1989).
Richard Ashcroft played someone named LeBlanc in Attack of the Hawkmen; I assume he was one of the soldiers whose names are never mentioned in the dialogue. He played Abner (as per the photo below) in The Bible Collection: David (1997).
William Sleigh played someone named Youssef in Tales of Innocence; I assume he was one of the Moroccans whose names are never mentioned in the dialogue. He played Tzurim (the man on the left in the photo below) in The Bible Collection: Jacob (1994).
Timothy Fall played Director #1 in Hollywood Follies; I assume he was one of the filmmakers seen fleetingly while Indy tours the Universal Studios lot. He played Bruce (as per the photo below) in Hosea (2019), a modernization of the book of Hosea.
Indiana Jones actors I am not yet sure about
Due to incomplete data on the IMDb etc., there are some films I don’t know enough about to know whether they or their actors belong on this list. E.g.:
Volker Eckstein (Riding Instructor in The Perils of Cupid) played someone in Nero (1979), but I don’t know who he played, or whether this film depicted any of the apostles that were martyred by Nero, like some other Nero movies have.
Jean-Pierre Castaldi (Rocco in Demons of Deception) played someone named Barabbas in L’histoire en marche (1985), but I don’t know if he played that Barabbas, nor do I know if this history-themed series tackled any biblical history.
As noted above, Patrick Floersheim (Sergeant Jean DeMille in Demons of Deception) also played an unidentified character in L’histoire en marche.
Tomás Hanák (Barman in Passion for Life) played someone named Christ in Don Gio (1992), which depicts a modern production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, but I can’t tell if there’s anything biblical about the character or the film.
Honourable mentions
Indiana Jones actors who have played actors playing Bible characters
Jim Broadbent (Dean Charles Stanforth in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) played Wallace, an actor who plays Mary, a Magus, and various other characters in a two-man interpretation of The Messiah (1984).
Paul Birchard (Edmund Heller in Passion for Life) played Jesus in a movie playing at the bar in an episode of Rab C. Nesbitt (1994).
John Turner (General Lyautey in Tales of Innocence) played Panayotaros, a man who plays Judas in a passion play, in Christ Recrucified (1969), a British miniseries I have not been able to find. (The miniseries was based on a novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, who happens to be one of the guest characters in Travels with Father—see above!)
As noted above, Freddie Jones (Birdy in Phantom Train of Doom) played George, a man who plays God in a creation play, in The Passion (1999), a British movie about a love affair between a passion play’s costume designer and the actor who plays Jesus.
Indiana Jones actors who have appeared in Bible-adjacent films
Over a dozen actors with Indiana Jones experience have appeared in films and TV shows that feature biblical characters or have some sort of tenuous connection to the Bible but are not adaptations of biblical stories, per se.
The Wandering Jew (1947) is about a legendary figure who may or may not go back to biblical times.
Jon Pertwee (General Von Kramer in Attack of the Hawkmen) played Boemond, Prince of Tarentum.
Back to Methuselah (1952) is based on a five-part series of plays by George Bernard Shaw which trace human history from Adam & Eve to the distant future.
Edward Jewesbury (C-in-C Alhorn in Attack of the Hawkmen) played Zozim.
A Clockwork Orange (1971) is a dystopian film about a violent young man; at one point, he fantasizes about doing violent things in biblical times.
As noted above, Philip Stone (Captain Blumburtt in Temple of Doom) played the Dad.
Salome’s Last Dance (1988) is about a brothel that puts on a performance of Oscar Wilde’s play about Salome and John the Baptist.
As noted above, Nickolas Grace (Colonel Clouseau aka The Prague Spy in Espionage Escapades) played Oscar Wilde.
The Body (2001) is about a priest who investigates the claim that an archaeologist may have discovered the skeleton of Jesus.
As noted above, Antonio Banderas (Renaldo in Dial of Destiny) played Fr Matt Gutierrez.
Jason Flemying (Emile in Trenches of Hell) played Fr Walter Winstead.
John Wood (Charles Leadbetter in Journey of Radiance) played Cardinal Pesci.
The Discovery of Heaven (2001) is about an angel who is told to retrieve the stone tablets bearing the Ten Commandments.
As noted above, Jeroen Krabbé (Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau in Winds of Change) played Gabriel.
Les rois mages (2001) is a French comedy in which the Magi travel through time to the present day; it may or may not have scenes set in the biblical past.
Rémy Roubakha (Claude in Demons of Deception) played Le gros Jésus.
The Second Coming (2003) is a two-part miniseries about a man who learns that he is the Son of God and has to find some way to prevent the apocalypse.
John Warnaby (British Officer #1 in Attack of the Hawkmen) played a Phone-in Presenter.
Anděl Páně aka An Angel of the Lord (2005) is a Czech movie about an angel who is sent to Earth after ruining Jesus’ birthday party in Heaven.
Jin Wenjun (Chinese Servant in Journey of Radiance) played one of three people named “Král” according to the IMDb, and that word apparently means “King” in Czech, so he may have played one of the Magi.
The Fallen Ones (2005) is about an archaeologist who finds the mummified remains of one of the Nephilim; it has a prologue set before the Flood.
Saginaw Grant (Grey Cloud in Mystery of the Blues) played Joseph.
The Da Vinci Code (2006) is about a conspiracy to hide the “fact” that Jesus had a child with Mary Magdalene; it has a few flashbacks to the biblical era.
As noted above, Alfred Molina (Satipo in Raiders of the Lost Ark) played Bishop Manuel Aringarosa.
Holy Night! (2011) is an animated film about Christmas toys and decorations come to life, including figurines based on Mary, Joseph, and other characters.
Peter Marinker (John J. Pershing in Spring Break Adventure) voiced Caspar and Big Woodcutter.
Martin T. Sherman (a Drunk in the Appliance Store in Dial of Destiny) voiced Pooper and Misfit Popper.
Black Jesus (2015) is a sitcom in which Jesus lives in modern California.
As noted above, Keith David (King Oliver in Mystery of the Blues) played Reverend Otis.
Hail, Caesar! (2016) is partly about the making of a Bible movie in the 1950s.
Robert Trebor (Schwarz in Scandal of 1920) played Producer of Hail, Caesar!.
Ralph P. Martin (Carl in Hollywood Follies) played Director of Action Western.
Michael Yama (Chinese Co-Pilot in Temple of Doom) played Chinese Maitre D’.
Britannia (2017-2021) takes place during the Roman occupation of Britain in the AD 40s; in Season 2, it introduced a subplot tied to the death of Jesus.
Ian McDiarmid (Professor Levi in Demons of Deception) played King Pellenor.
Good Omens (2019-2023) is about an angel and a demon and takes place primarily in the modern era, but it includes some flashbacks to the biblical era.
Jill Winternitz (Pan Am Stewardess in Dial of Destiny) played Harriet Dowling.
Woke (2020-2022) is a comedy series about a cartoonist who hears inanimate objects talking to him.
As noted above, Keith David (King Oliver in Mystery of the Blues) played the voice of the Bible (so, not a Bible character, but the Bible as a character).
Mrs. Davis (2023), a sci-fi series about a nun who fights back against an artificial intelligence, has non-biblical scenes that depict Jesus and Mary.
As noted above, Tim McInnerny (Franz Kafka in Espionage Escapades) played Apron Man.
And, I think that about covers it. Did I miss any actors? If so, please let me know!
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones began streaming on Disney+ in the United States on May 31. I assume the episodes on Disney+ are identical to the episodes on the DVDs.
Some of the films and shows I mention in this paragraph, like Good Omens and The Da Vinci Code, do have flashbacks to the Bible, and I would certainly highlight those flashbacks if any of the Indiana Jones actors had appeared in those flashbacks specifically, the same way I highlight John Hurt’s performance as Jesus in History of the World, Part I. But if the actors only appear in the modern-day scenes, then no, I do not highlight those shows.
I’m not 100% convinced that the Greek officer in the photo is Pontimus—partly because the name Pontimus sounds more Latin than Greek to me—but there are only five ancient characters in the credits, and this Greek officer is the only one we see who has any dialogue besides Maximus (the Roman who tries to kill Indy) and Archimedes and his servants.
I’m not 100% convinced that the woman in the photo from A.D. Anno Domini is Ann Tirard, but after checking the novelization and looking at images of Tirard from Doctor Who and other shows, I can’t think of anyone else in the series that she could be.