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    Ben-Hur is a 1959 American religious epic film directed by William Wyler, produced by Sam Zimbalist, and starring Charlton Heston as the title character...
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    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) originally announced a remake of the 1925 silent film Ben-Hur in December 1952, ostensibly as a way to spend its Italian assets. Stewart...
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  • novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace following the 1907 silent short film, the 1925 silent film, the Academy Award-winning 1959 film and the...
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    Judah Ben-Hur, shortened to Ben-Hur, is a fictional character, the title character and protagonist from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the...
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    Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace, published by Harper and Brothers on November 12, 1880, and considered "the most influential Christian...
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  • Ramon Novarro Ben-Hur (1959 film), an MGM sound film adaptation starring Charlton Heston; winner of eleven Academy Awards Ben Hur (2003 film), an animated...
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  • Ben Hur is a 2003 American-Canadian animated drama film based on the 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, by Lew Wallace. It is the fourth film adaptation...
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    Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a 1925 American silent epic adventure-drama film directed by Fred Niblo and written by June Mathis based on the 1880...
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    Haya Harareet (category Israeli film actresses)
    screenwriter. One of her major film roles was playing Esther, Ben Hur's love interest in the 1959 Hollywood-made film Ben-Hur. Haya Neuberg (חיה נויברג) was...
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  • The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards. The top ten 1959 released films by box office...
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    Ben-Hur was an 1899 theatrical adaptation of the novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) by Lew Wallace. The story was dramatized by William W. Young...
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    The American films of 1959 are listed in a table of the films which were made in the United States and released in 1959. The film Ben-Hur won the Academy...
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    Stephen Boyd (category Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe (film) winners)
    man during the late 1950's with his role as the villainous Messala in Ben-Hur (1959), a role that earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting...
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  • Remake (category Film and video terminology)
    A remake is a film, television series, video game, song or similar form of entertainment that is based upon and retells the story of an earlier production...
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    Finlay Currie (category Scottish male film actors)
    film Great Expectations (1946) and as Balthazar in the American film Ben-Hur (1959). In his career spanning 70 years, Currie appeared in seven films nominated...
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    portraying the role of Jesus Christ (uncredited in the titles) in the 1959 classic film Ben-Hur. Born in Oakland, California, Heater grew up in a family who were...
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    Academy Awards ever won by a single film stands at eleven. This feat has only been achieved by three films: Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997) and The Lord of...
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  • period (Ben Hur, The Magnificent Gladiator, Quo Vadis). The only other films made during the peplum era to use a Hellenistic setting are Hannibal (1959), Revak...
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    non-television film twelve-part series), played by Eileen Rowe. The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952 film), played by Virginia Gibson. Ben-Hur (1959 film), played...
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  • information packet on film appreciation, sent to bishops' conferences in mid-October 1995. Andrei Rublev (1966) Babette's Feast (1987) Ben-Hur (1959) The Flowers...
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  • (1963) Megillas Lester (2014) Ben Hur (1907 short) Ben-Hur (1925) Ben-Hur (1959) Ben Hur (2003) Ben Hur (2010) Ben Hur (2016) Quo Vadis? (1901) (France)...
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    Martha Scott (category American film actresses)
    She was featured in major films such as Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956), and William Wyler's Ben-Hur (1959), playing the mother of Charlton...
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  • most awards: Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997), and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) each earned 11 Academy Awards. Films with the most...
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    Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954), and the 1959 remake film Ben-Hur. In 1966, Pier Paolo Pasolini filmed The Gospel According to St. Matthew in southern...
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  • Commandments (1956), The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958), and Ben-Hur (1959). Other big-scoped films thrived internationally, too, such as Soviet fantasy director...
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    Cathy O'Donnell (category American film actresses)
    an American actress who appeared in The Best Years of Our Lives, Ben-Hur, and films noir such as Detective Story and They Live by Night. O'Donnell was...
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  • Susan Seaforth Hayes – actor Claude Heater – opera singer and actor, Ben-Hur (1959 film) Russell Hornsby – actor Moshe Kasher – comedian, actor, and author/writer;...
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  • Robert Brown (British actor) (category English male film actors)
    castle guard in the unrelated 1952 film Ivanhoe. He had an uncredited appearance as the galley-master in Ben-Hur (1959) and as factory worker Bert Harker...
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    Hugh Griffith (category Welsh male film actors)
    Lost Weekend), winning a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in Ben-Hur (1959), with an additional nomination for Tom Jones (1963). As a stage actor...
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    Sam Jaffe (category American male film actors)
    (1950). He also appeared in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) and Ben-Hur (1959), and is additionally known for his roles as the titular character in...
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