Max von Sydow as Jesus Dorothy McGuire as the Virgin Mary Charlton Heston as John the Baptist Claude Rains as Herod the Great José Ferrer as Herod Antipas Telly Savalas as Pontius Pilate Martin Landau as Caiaphas David McCallum as Judas Iscariot Donald Pleasence as "The Dark Hermit '' (a personification of Satan) Michael Anderson, Jr. as James the Just Roddy McDowall as Matthew Joanna Dunham as Mary Magdalene Joseph Schildkraut as Nicodemus Ed Wynn as "Old Aram ''
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Max von Sydow