Robert Thomas Powell (/ ˈpaʊəl / POW-əl; born 1 June 1944) is an English actor who is known for the title roles in Mahler (1974) and Jesus of Nazareth (1977), and for his portrayal of secret agent Richard Hannay in The Thirty Nine Steps (1978) and its subsequent spinoff television series.

It stars Robert Powell as Jesus, and features an all-star ensemble cast of renowned actors, including eight who had won or would go on to win Academy Awards: Anne Bancroft, Ernest Borgnine, Laurence Olivier, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Quinn, Rod Steiger, James Earl Jones and Peter Ustinov.

Apr 14, 2017 · This four-part series takes the famous 1977 Franco Zeffirelli’s “Jesus of Nazareth” film star, Robert Powell, who became to the masses the quintessential blue-eyed “Jesus,” back to the Holy Land on the 40th anniversary of the film to explore again, this time historically and archaeologically, what we know of Jesus and how we know it.

In 1977, British actor Robert Powell was cast as Jesus for Franco Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth. Acting alongside Hollywood greats, like Anne Bancroft, Christopher Plummer and James Mason, Powell gave the performance of his life.

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English actor Robert Powell began his career in the mid-1960s and appeared in TV movies like ‘L'enfance du Christ’ (1964), ‘Jock on the Go’ (1967) and ‘Tower of London: The Innocent’ …

Asylum (U.S. title: House of Crazies) is a 1972 British anthology horror film made by Amicus Productions. [1][2] The film was directed by Roy Ward Baker and produced by Milton Subotsky. Robert Bloch wrote the script, adapting four of his own short stories. [3]

Robert Powell. Actor: The Italian Job. Robert Powell was born on Thursday, June 1st, 1944, five days before D-Day, on Tuesday, June 6th, 1944, in Salford, Greater Manchester, England. In 1964, he started his acting career while attending Manchester University.

Aug 23, 2000 · Robert Powell stars as a keen, young shrink who starts work at a lunatic asylum only to find that it has rather strange working practices.

His first major roles came with the ecological thriller series Doomwatch (BBC, 1970-72) and the six-part Thomas Hardy adaptation Jude the Obscure (BBC, 1971), which for the first time pointed to that elusive quality in Powell's screen persona that …