User:Necrothesp/List of historical characters depicted on film and television/Ancient Greece
Appearance
Actor | Film/TV show | Year | Country | Type | Notes |
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Macedonian royalty | |||||
Kings of Macedon | |||||
Philip II | |||||
Fredric March | Alexander the Great | 1956 | USA | Film | |
Val Kilmer | Alexander | 2004 | UK/USA | Film | Nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor. |
Alexander the Great | |||||
Andrew Osborn | BBC Sunday Night Theatre, #1.31 "Adventure Story" | 1950 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Terence Rattigan. |
Michael Higgins | You Are There, #3.30 "The Triumph of Alexander the Great" | 1955 | USA | TV short | Docudrama |
Richard Burton | Alexander the Great | 1956 | USA | Film | |
Paul Gross | Witness to Yesterday | 1998 | Canada | TV series | Docudrama |
Jessie Kamm | Alexander | 2004 | UK/USA | Film | As a child. |
Connor Paolo | Alexander | 2004 | UK/USA | Film | As a teenager. |
Colin Farrell | Alexander | 2004 | UK/USA | Film | Nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor. |
Cassander | |||||
Morgan Christopher Ferris | Alexander | 2004 | UK/USA | Film | As a teenager. |
Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Alexander | 2004 | UK/USA | Film | |
Queens Consort of Macedon | |||||
Olympias (Philip II) | |||||
Danielle Darrieux | Alexander the Great | 1956 | USA | Film | |
Angelina Jolie | Alexander | 2004 | UK/USA | Film | Nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress. |
Cleopatra Eurydice (Philip II) | |||||
Marisa de Leza | Alexander the Great | 1956 | USA | Film | |
Marie Meyer | Alexander | 2004 | UK/USA | Film | |
Roxana (Alexander the Great) | |||||
Anne Valery | BBC Sunday Night Theatre, #1.31 "Adventure Story" | 1950 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Terence Rattigan. |
Teresa del Río | Alexander the Great | 1956 | USA | Film | |
Rosario Dawson | Alexander | 2004 | UK/USA | Film | |
Stateira (Alexander the Great) | |||||
June Rodney | BBC Sunday Night Theatre, #1.31 "Adventure Story" | 1950 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Terence Rattigan. |
Carmen Carulla | Alexander the Great | 1956 | USA | Film | |
Annelise Hesme | Alexander | 2004 | UK/USA | Film | |
Royal mistresses | |||||
Barsine (Alexander the Great) | |||||
Neva Patterson | You Are There, #3.30 "The Triumph of Alexander the Great" | 1955 | USA | TV short | Docudrama |
Claire Bloom | Alexander the Great | 1956 | USA | Film | |
Other royalty | |||||
Kings of Lydia | |||||
Croesus | |||||
Michel Vitold | Le théâtre de la jeunesse, "Esope" | 1965 | France | TV film | |
Tyrants of Syracuse | |||||
Hiero II | |||||
Neil Hamilton | Telephone Time, #3.28 "Man of Principle" | 1958 | USA | TV short | |
Politics, government and court | |||||
Politicians | |||||
Aeschines | |||||
William Squire | Alexander the Great | 1956 | USA | Film | |
Demosthenes | |||||
Milton Selzer | You Are There, #3.30 "The Triumph of Alexander the Great" | 1955 | USA | TV short | Docudrama |
Michael Hordern | Alexander the Great | 1956 | USA | Film | |
Courtiers | |||||
Harpalus | |||||
José Marco | Alexander the Great | 1956 | USA | Film | |
Hermolaus | |||||
David Leon | Alexander | 2004 | UK/USA | Film | |
Military | |||||
Macedonian generals | |||||
Antigonus | |||||
Ian Beattie | Alexander | 2004 | UK/USA | Film | |
Antipater | |||||
Friedrich von Ledebur | Alexander the Great | 1956 | USA | Film | |
Attalus | |||||
Stanley Baker | Alexander the Great | 1956 | USA | Film | |
Nick Dunning | Alexander | 2004 | UK/USA | Film | |
Cleitus the Black | |||||
John Slater | BBC Sunday Night Theatre, #1.31 "Adventure Story" | 1950 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Terence Rattigan. |
Gustavo Rojo | Alexander the Great | 1956 | USA | Film | |
Gary Stretch | Alexander | 2004 | UK/USA | Film | |
Craterus | |||||
Simon Oakland | You Are There, #3.30 "The Triumph of Alexander the Great" | 1955 | USA | TV short | Docudrama |
Rory McCann | Alexander | 2004 | UK/USA | Film | |
Hephaestion | |||||
Terence Longdon | BBC Sunday Night Theatre, #1.31 "Adventure Story" | 1950 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Terence Rattigan. |
Ricardo Valle | Alexander the Great | 1956 | USA | Film | |
Patrick Carroll | Alexander | 2004 | UK/USA | Film | As a teenager. |
Jared Leto | Alexander | 2004 | UK/USA | Film | |
Leonnatus | |||||
Garrett Lombard | Alexander | 2004 | UK/USA | Film | |
Nearchus | |||||
Carlos Baena | Alexander the Great | 1956 | USA | Film | |
Peter Williamson | Alexander | 2004 | UK/USA | Film | As a teenager. |
Denis Conway | Alexander | 2004 | UK/USA | Film | |
Parmenion | |||||
Michael Hordern | BBC Sunday Night Theatre, #1.31 "Adventure Story" | 1950 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Terence Rattigan. |
Niall MacGinnis | Alexander the Great | 1956 | USA | Film | |
John Kavanagh | Alexander | 2004 | UK/USA | Film | |
Perdiccas | |||||
Alan Tilvern | BBC Sunday Night Theatre, #1.31 "Adventure Story" | 1950 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Terence Rattigan. |
Larry Taylor | Alexander the Great | 1956 | USA | Film | |
Aleczander Gordon | Alexander | 2004 | UK/USA | Film | As a teenager. |
Neil Jackson | Alexander | 2004 | UK/USA | Film | |
Philotas | |||||
Basil Appleby | BBC Sunday Night Theatre, #1.31 "Adventure Story" | 1950 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Terence Rattigan. |
Rubén Rojo | Alexander the Great | 1956 | USA | Film | |
Joseph Morgan | Alexander | 2004 | UK/USA | Film | |
Polyperchon | |||||
Chris Aberdein | Alexander | 2004 | UK/USA | Film | |
Ptolemy: See Ancient Egypt: Kings of Egypt | |||||
Seleucus: See Ancient Persia: Seleucid Kings | |||||
Other generals | |||||
Memnon of Rhodes | |||||
Peter Cushing | Alexander the Great | 1956 | USA | Film | |
Xenophon | |||||
Robert Culp | You Are There, #1.14 "The Death of Socrates" | 1953 | USA | TV short | Docudrama |
Other warriors | |||||
Pausanias of Orestis | |||||
Peter Wyngarde | Alexander the Great | 1956 | USA | Film | |
Toby Kebbell | Alexander | 2004 | UK/USA | Film | |
Literature and thought | |||||
Writers | |||||
Aesop | |||||
Michel Bouquet | Le théâtre de la jeunesse, "Esope" | 1965 | France | TV film | |
Aristobulus of Cassandreia | |||||
E. G. Marshall | You Are There, #3.30 "The Triumph of Alexander the Great" | 1955 | USA | TV short | Docudrama |
Aristophanes | |||||
E. G. Marshall | You Are There, #1.14 "The Death of Socrates" | 1953 | USA | TV short | Docudrama |
Theophanes of Mytilene | |||||
George Skillan | BBC Sunday Night Theatre, #1.39 "The Tragedy of Pompey the Great" | 1950 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by John Masefield. |
Philosophers | |||||
Apollodorus of Phaleron | |||||
Richard Kiley | You Are There, #1.14 "The Death of Socrates" | 1953 | USA | TV short | Docudrama |
Aristotle | |||||
Barry Jones | Alexander the Great | 1956 | USA | Film | |
Christopher Plummer | Alexander | 2004 | UK/USA | Film | |
Phaedo of Elis | |||||
John Breslin | You Are There, #1.14 "The Death of Socrates" | 1953 | USA | TV short | Docudrama |
Plato | |||||
John Cassavetes | You Are There, #1.14 "The Death of Socrates" | 1953 | USA | TV short | Docudrama |
Socrates | |||||
Barry Jones | You Are There, #1.14 "The Death of Socrates" | 1953 | USA | TV short | Docudrama |
Mavor Moore | Witness to Yesterday | 1974 | Canada | TV series | Docudrama |
Tony Steedman | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | 1989 | USA | Film | Comedy |
Relatives and associates | |||||
Iadmon: Owner of Aesop. | |||||
Jean Marchat | Le théâtre de la jeunesse, "Esope" | 1965 | France | TV film | |
Science and medicine | |||||
Physicians | |||||
Glaucias | |||||
Brian McGrath | Alexander | 2004 | UK/USA | Film | |
Hippocrates | |||||
Guy Spaull | Kraft Television Theatre, #2.34 "The Oath of Hippocrates" | 1949 | USA | TV film | |
Charles Coburn | The Story of Mankind | 1957 | USA | Film | An adaptation of the non-fiction children's book by Hendrik Willem van Loon. |
Mathematicians | |||||
Archimedes | |||||
Jonathan Harris | Telephone Time, #3.28 "Man of Principle" | 1958 | USA | TV short | |
Nasser Memarzia | Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny | 2023 | USA | Film | |
Supernatural and occult | |||||
Seers | |||||
Aristander | |||||
Jesús Luque | Alexander the Great | 1956 | USA | Film | |
Charles Haigh | Alexander | 2004 | UK/USA | Film | |
Mythical figures | |||||
Deities | |||||
Adonis | |||||
Michael Byron Taylor | Bewitched, #8.5 "Bewitched, Bothered and Baldoni" | 1971 | USA | TV episode | Comedy |
Aphrodite (Venus) | |||||
Francine York | Bewitched, #8.5 "Bewitched, Bothered and Baldoni" | 1971 | USA | TV episode | Comedy |
Ares | |||||
David Thewlis | Wonder Woman | 2017 | USA | Film | |
Hecate | |||||
Rosario García Ortega | Estudio 1, "La tragedia de Macbeth" | 1966 | Spain | TV film | An adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. |
Heracles: See Heroes. | |||||
Hygieia | |||||
Felicia Montealegre | Kraft Television Theatre, #2.34 "The Oath of Hippocrates" | 1949 | USA | TV film | |
Zeus | |||||
Drew Coombs | Relic Hunter, #1.10 "Myth of the Maze" | 1999 | Canada | TV episode | |
Heroes | |||||
Achilles | |||||
Cavan Kendall | Doctor Who, #3.6–9 "The Myth Makers" | 1965 | UK | TV serial | |
Ajax | |||||
Bryan Pringle | ITV Play of the Week, #6.8 "Tiger at the Gates" | 1960 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Jean Giraudoux. |
Diomedes | |||||
Peter Purves | Doctor Who, #3.6–9 "The Myth Makers" | 1965 | UK | TV serial | |
Epeius of Phocis | |||||
Abraham Sofaer | The Time Tunnel, #7 "Revenge of the Gods" | 1966 | USA | TV episode | |
Hector | |||||
Keith Michell | ITV Play of the Week, #6.8 "Tiger at the Gates" | 1960 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Jean Giraudoux. |
Alan Haywood | Doctor Who, #3.6–9 "The Myth Makers" | 1965 | UK | TV serial | |
Heracles | |||||
Noah Danby | Relic Hunter, #3.15 "Antianeirai" | 2002 | Canada | TV episode | |
Odysseus | |||||
Charles Gray | ITV Play of the Week, #6.8 "Tiger at the Gates" | 1960 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Jean Giraudoux. |
Ivor Salter | Doctor Who, #3.6–9 "The Myth Makers" | 1965 | UK | TV serial | |
John Doucette | The Time Tunnel, #7 "Revenge of the Gods" | 1966 | USA | TV episode | |
Paris | |||||
John Bonney | ITV Play of the Week, #6.8 "Tiger at the Gates" | 1960 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Jean Giraudoux. |
Barrie Ingham | Doctor Who, #3.6–9 "The Myth Makers" | 1965 | UK | TV serial | |
Paul Carr | The Time Tunnel, #7 "Revenge of the Gods" | 1966 | USA | TV episode | |
Theseus | |||||
Michael Gambon | Play of the Month, #7.1 "A Midsummer Night's Dream" | 1971 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. |
Jeremy Arnold | Into the Labyrinth, #1.7 "Minotaur" | 1981 | UK | TV episode | |
Troilus | |||||
Richard Palmer | ITV Play of the Week, #6.8 "Tiger at the Gates" | 1960 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Jean Giraudoux. |
James Lynn | Doctor Who, #3.6–9 "The Myth Makers" | 1965 | UK | TV serial | |
Kings and queens | |||||
Aegisthus | |||||
Julian Glover | Play of the Month, #10.2 "Electra" | 1974 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Sophocles. |
Agamemnon | |||||
Francis de Wolff | Doctor Who, #3.6–9 "The Myth Makers" | 1965 | UK | TV serial | |
Sean Connery | Time Bandits | 1981 | UK | Film | |
Clytemnestra | |||||
Rosalie Crutchley | Play of the Month, #10.2 "Electra" | 1974 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Sophocles. |
Creon | |||||
Robert Goodier | Omnibus, #5.14 "Oedipus, the King" | 1957 | USA | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Sophocles. |
Anthony Bate | Play of the Month, #8.3 "King Oedipus" | 1972 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Sophocles. |
Eteocles | |||||
Andrew Dowling | Play of the Month, #8.3 "King Oedipus" | 1972 | UK | TV film | As a child. An adaptation of the play by Sophocles. |
Hecuba | |||||
Veronica Turleigh | ITV Play of the Week, #6.8 "Tiger at the Gates" | 1960 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Jean Giraudoux. |
Helen of Troy | |||||
Dani Crayne | The Story of Mankind | 1957 | USA | Film | An adaptation of the non-fiction children's book by Hendrik Willem van Loon. |
Carole Lesley | ITV Play of the Week, #6.8 "Tiger at the Gates" | 1960 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Jean Giraudoux. |
Dee Hartford | The Time Tunnel, #7 "Revenge of the Gods" | 1966 | USA | TV episode | |
Aspasia Papathanasiou | Thirty-Minute Theatre, #6.5 "Helen" | 1970 | UK | TV short | |
Hippolyta: See Amazons | |||||
Jocasta | |||||
Carol Goodner | Omnibus, #5.14 "Oedipus, the King" | 1957 | USA | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Sophocles. |
Sheila Allen | Play of the Month, #8.3 "King Oedipus" | 1972 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Sophocles. |
Menelaus | |||||
Jack Melford | Doctor Who, #3.6–9 "The Myth Makers" | 1965 | UK | TV serial | |
Odysseus: See Heroes. | |||||
Oedipus | |||||
Christopher Plummer | Omnibus, #5.14 "Oedipus, the King" | 1957 | USA | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Sophocles. |
Ian Holm | Play of the Month, #8.3 "King Oedipus" | 1972 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Sophocles. |
Orestes | |||||
Martin Shaw | Play of the Month, #10.2 "Electra" | 1974 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Sophocles. |
Polynices | |||||
Adrian Cox | Play of the Month, #8.3 "King Oedipus" | 1972 | UK | TV film | As a child. An adaptation of the play by Sophocles. |
Priam | |||||
Robert Eddison | ITV Play of the Week, #6.8 "Tiger at the Gates" | 1960 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Jean Giraudoux. |
Max Adrian | Doctor Who, #3.6–9 "The Myth Makers" | 1965 | UK | TV serial | |
Royal children | |||||
Andromache | |||||
Jeanette Sterke | ITV Play of the Week, #6.8 "Tiger at the Gates" | 1960 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Jean Giraudoux. |
Antigone | |||||
Ana Leah | Play of the Month, #8.3 "King Oedipus" | 1972 | UK | TV film | As a child. An adaptation of the play by Sophocles. |
Cassandra | |||||
Barbara Chilcott | ITV Play of the Week, #6.8 "Tiger at the Gates" | 1960 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Jean Giraudoux. |
Frances White | Doctor Who, #3.6–9 "The Myth Makers" | 1965 | UK | TV serial | |
Chrysothemis | |||||
Georgina Hale | Play of the Month, #10.2 "Electra" | 1974 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Sophocles. |
Electra | |||||
Eileen Atkins | Play of the Month, #10.2 "Electra" | 1974 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Sophocles. |
Ismene | |||||
Michelle Foster | Play of the Month, #8.3 "King Oedipus" | 1972 | UK | TV film | As a child. An adaptation of the play by Sophocles. |
Amazons | |||||
Aella | |||||
Hayley Warnes | Wonder Woman | 2017 | USA | Film | |
Antiope | |||||
Robin Wright | Wonder Woman | 2017 | USA | Film | |
Hippolyta | |||||
Eleanor Bron | Play of the Month, #7.1 "A Midsummer Night's Dream" | 1971 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. |
Janaya Stephens | Relic Hunter, #3.15 "Antianeirai" | 2002 | Canada | TV episode | |
Connie Nielsen | Wonder Woman | 2017 | USA | Film | |
Melanippe | |||||
Lisa Loven Kongsli | Wonder Woman | 2017 | USA | Film | As Menalippe. |
Penthesilea | |||||
Brooke Ence | Wonder Woman | 2017 | USA | Film | |
Other mythical figures | |||||
Cressida | |||||
Maureen O'Brien | Doctor Who, #3.6–9 "The Myth Makers" | 1965 | UK | TV serial | |
Tiresias | |||||
Donald Davies | Omnibus, #5.14 "Oedipus, the King" | 1957 | USA | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Sophocles. |
Alan Webb | Play of the Month, #8.3 "King Oedipus" | 1972 | UK | TV film | An adaptation of the play by Sophocles. |