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Christians Stop Worshipping Me, I Am Not The Real Jesus Actor Of Jesus Reveals by blazertech: 12:51am On Sep 01, 2016 |
Since he played the character, Jesus, in the
1977 movie, Jesus of Nazareth, Robert
Powell’s
photos are hung in churches, homes, cars,
schools, offices and many holy grottos all
over
the world to drive off evil forces and attract
good fortunes.
However, Powell has cried out in the social
media that he is not Jesus and that people
should stop worshiping him. Rather, they
should
respect the true Jesus and worship God. His
is
among the most trending stories on social
media
in January 2016.
In his words: “I never cease to say and I
repeat
it to the world since 1977. I am not Jesus
Christ,
I am just an actor and British comedian. I am
tired of seeing my photos displayed in places
of
worship and other places for worship. I just
make
a film for a living. Burn my picture and
worship
the only God in truth ! I am just an actor…
Jesus
is Lord!”
Another actor who played Jesus is Jim
Caviezel.
According to clipd.com, “Jim is arguably one
of
the most famous portrayals of Jesus in acting
history. He played Jesus in Mel Gibson’s ‘The
Passion Of The Christ,’ which is the greatest
selling Christian movie of all time. Jim won
one
award for his portrayal as Jesus, and several
other nominations.” He too may soon beg
people
to stop worshipping him like Powell.
Here Powell’s profile as published by
Wikipedia br /> “Robert Powell (born 1 June
1944) is an English
television and film actor, best known for the
title
role in Jesus of Nazareth (1977) and as the
fictional secret agent Richard Hannay. He is
also
known for his role as Mark Williams in BBC
One
medical drama, Holby City, and as David
Briggs
in the sitcom The Detectives alongside Jasper
Carrott.
His distinctive voice has become well known
in
advertisements and documentaries, especially
in
World War II documentaries such as World
War II
in HD Colour, Hitler’s Bodyguard, The Story of
the Third Reich and Secrets of World War II.
Powell was born in Salford, Lancashire, the
son
of Kathleen (née Davis) and John Wilson
Powell.
Powell was educated at Manchester Grammar
School (where one of his classmates was the
actor Ben Kingsley), then a direct grant
grammar
school for boys in the city of Manchester in
North West England, and later at the Royal
College of Advanced Technology in Salford.
Powell took up acting while an undergraduate.
He had aspired to become a lawyer and in
1963-4 attended an external London University
LLB degree Course at the Manchester College
of
Commerce but at the same time quietly took
acting roles under Trevor Nunn. At the College
of
Commerce he swapped roles with Bernard
Brandon in a week-long College Revue of
Comedy
Sketches to see which role gave him “the
best
laughs”. This early comedy experience was
later
to be fulfilled with Jasper Carrott. After this
he
secured a post at a repertory theatre in Stoke-
on-
Trent.His first film part was in Robbery when
he
played the driver of the driver who is coshed
in
the Stanley Baker film about the great train
robbery. He had a small role in the original
film
version of The Italian Job (1969) playing one
of
the gang, but had to wait a few years for his
first
success, playing scientist Toby Wren in the
BBC’s science fiction series, Doomwatch in
1970.
Having been killed off in the last episode of
the
original series, at his request, Powell became
a
pin-up and a household name, following up
with
starring roles in several BBC serials, including
television adaptations of the novels
Sentimental
Education (1970) and Jude the Obscure
(1971).
He also appeared in the 1975 series Looking
for
Clancy, based on the Frederic Mullally novel
Clancy.
For several years Powell continued as a
television regular, with occasional forays into
film, as the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler
in
the Ken Russell biopic Mahler (1974) and
Captain Walker in Russell’s film version of
Tommy (1975). His role in Tommy had no
lines
at all and apart from a few early scenes
during
the overture with Ann-Margret, he is primarily
seen through the mind of his son as played by
Barry Winch (Young Tommy) and Roger
Daltrey.
In one of those scenes Captain Walker is
shown
in a crucifixion pose.
He then played Jesus Christ in Jesus of
Nazareth (1977) following a successful
second
audition with Franco Zeffirelli. The two-part
television film had an all-star cast, including
Laurence Olivier, Ernest Borgnine and Stacey
Keach, Christopher Plummer, Rod Steiger and
James Mason. For this role, Powell was
nominated for a BAFTA award, and collected
the
TVTimes Best Actor award for the same
performance.
In 1975, Powell married his girlfriend, the
Pan’s
People dancer Babs Lord, shortly before he
was
due to start filming for Jesus of Nazareth on
location in Morocco. On 23 November 1977,
they
had their son, Barney, followed in 1979 by a
daughter, Kate.
In 1978, Powell took the leading role of
Richard
Hannay in the third film version of The Thirty
Nine Steps. It met with modest success, and
critics compared Powell’s portrayal of John
Buchan’s character favourably with his
predecessors. His characterisation proved to
be
enduring, as almost ten years later a
television
series entitled simply Hannay appeared with
Powell back in the role, (although the Buchan
short stories on which the series was based
were set in an earlier period than The Thirty-
Nine
Steps). Hannay ran for two seasons.
In 1980, Powell appeared in the film
Harlequin,
playing the Harlequin of the title who seems
to
have the power to cure the son of a powerful
politician. For this performance, he won the
Best
Actor Award at the Paris Film Festival. In
1982,
he won Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival
for his role in Imperativ.
Powell then agreed to a request from his old
friend and golf partner, comedian Jasper
Carrott,
taking the part of an incompetent detective in
a
succession of sketches that formed part of
Carrott’s television series. The Detectives was
so
popular that it was turned into a sitcom,
Powell’s
first and only venture into this genre.
In 1984, Powell made his U.S. film debut in
What
Waits Below (as known as Secrets of the
Phantom Caverns).
In 1986, Powell narrated and co-starred in
William C. Faure’s popular miniseries Shaka
Zulu,
with football legend Henry Cele in the title
role.
In 1992, he starred in the New Zealand World
War
I film Chunuk Bair, as Sgt Maj Frank Smith. In
1993-1995, he was the voice actor of Dr
Livesey
in The Legends of Treasure Island.
Nowadays Powell appears in person less
often,
but his distinctive voice is frequently heard on
voice-overs, advertisements and as a narrator
of
television programmes such as Great Crimes
and
Trials and The Century of Warfare and World
War
II in HD Colour. He read the novel Love in the
Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
for
BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime, and has also
narrated many audio books including The
Thirty
Nine Steps, abridged versions of many of Alan
Garner’s books, and several abridged novels
for
‘The Talking Classics Collection’. Powell has
also
lent his voice to musical works, such as David
Bedford’s album The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner,[4] or the 2002 rock opera The Hound
of
the Baskervilles, by Clive Nolan and Oliver
Wakeman, where he played the role of John
Watson. He also narrated on two rock albums
by
Rick Wakeman called Cost of Living and The
Gospels (1987).
On 29 October 2001, a state-of-the-art theatre
named after him was opened at the University
of
Salford.[5] He became a patron of 24:7
Theatre
Festival in 2004, and continues to operate in
this
capacity as of 2014. In early 2005 he became
a
regular in the UK TV medical drama, Holby
City,
where he remained for six years before
departing
to return to theatre.[6] On 9 February 2008, he
performed as narrator in Prokofiev’s Peter and
the Wolf with the Huddersfield Philharmonic
Orchestra with conductor Natalia Luis-Bassa
in
the North of England.[7] He currently has a
regular spot narrating literary passages on
BBC4’s The Book Quiz and will appear in
Aladdin
at the Malvern Theatre this winter .
On 20 December 2014, he took on the role of
“Ebenezer Scrooge” in Neil Brand’s BBC Radio
4
adaptation of A Christmas Carol.”
Other actors who have played Jesus in movies
are br /> Jeffrey Hunter, Max von Sydow,
Jeremy Sisto,
Chris Sarandon, Claude Heater, Henry Byron
Warner, Christian Charles Philip Bale, Willem
Dafoe, John Rubinstein, Brian Deacon and
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