Actors who have portrayed God
Submitted by 5intheface on Wed, 12/22/2004 - 02:47
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- Alanis Morissette in Dogma
- Morgan Freeman in Bruce Almighty
- George Burns in the Oh God movies.
- Harry Shearer on an episode of "The Simpsons".
- Ralph Richardson in Time Bandits ('81)
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Anymore?
George Burns in the Oh God movies.
Harry Shearer on an episode of "The Simpsons".
I don't know if "Supreme Being" counts, but I'd nominate Ralph Richardson's odd spin in Time Bandits ('81)
Nice reference to the Time Bandits's Merry-Go-Round.
Charlton Heston in The Ten Commandments
George Murdock in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (even though Shatner thought it was him)
Graham Chapman in Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Trey Parker/Matt Stone in South Park (somewhere I heard them say [paraphrasing] "I get to play Saddam and Jesus, he gets to play the Devil and God... it's an equal division of labour and hate mail.")
Do non-Christian gods count? The Adventures of Baron Munchausen has Oliver Reed as Vulcan (aka Hephaestus) and Uma Thurman as Venus (Aphrodite... well, I worship her.)
Little story: I was so into Greek myths when I was young that I asked my mom why there weren't any temples to Apollo near where we lived. She said that people didn't believe in Apollo anymore. My response was, "But I do."
Walker Edmiston in Wholly Moses! (1980)
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James Garner was the voice of God
in the short-lived (2 episodes?) NBC series "God, The Devil, and Bob"