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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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  • 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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    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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    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 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 novel by Lew Wallace, published by Harper and Brothers on November 12, 1880, and considered "the most influential Christian...
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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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  • 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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    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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    Stephen Boyd (category Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe (film) winners)
    man during the late 1950s 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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    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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  • 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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  • counting the nomination.   indicates Best Picture winner. Films with the most awards: Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997), and The Lord of the Rings: The Return...
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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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  • interest in the film following their success with Ben-Hur (1959). With MGM involved, mandatory rewrites and additional scenes were added to the film. Reshoots...
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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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  • 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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    Frank Thring (category Australian male film actors)
    starred in Hollywood film, where he became best known for roles in Ben-Hur in 1959 and King of Kings in 1961. He was known for always wearing black and...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • Sam Zimbalist (category American film producers)
    until that time, the 1959 epic Ben-Hur. Zimbalist collapsed suddenly of a heart attack on set in Rome, Italy, during filming of Ben-Hur. He was taken to his...
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    André Morell (category English male film actors)
    Film Productions version of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959). He also appeared in the films The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Ben-Hur (1959)...
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  • American screenwriter and occasional film producer. His screenplays for Tall, Dark and Handsome (1941) and Ben-Hur (1959) were nominated for the Academy Award...
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