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Cultural depictions of Herod the Great

Last updated December 08, 2025

This page lists cultural depictions of Herod the Great, grouped by order and arranged by date.

Art and literature

Plays

Herod appears in some cycles of the Mystery Plays, such as the pageant Herod the Great in the Towneley Cycle, played as an over-the-top villain. Such portrayals were still in folk memory in William Shakespeare's time, for Hamlet instructs the players not to "out-Herod Herod" (Act 3, Scene 2).^[1] This line is in turn quoted in regard to Prince Prospero in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Mask of the Red Death." Medieval dramatic portrayals of Herod may also have influenced Shakespeare's portrayal of Macbeth, King of Scotland in Macbeth .^[2]
Herod the Great is a central character in Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry (1613). The play is a work of historical fiction, set in 29 B.C., revolving around Herod's second wife, Mariam, and their families, when Herod is believed to have been killed by Octavian (later Caesar Augustus).

Sculpture and paint

Film, radio and television

Film

From the Manger to the Cross (1912), played by George Kellog
The Star of Bethlehem (1912), played by William Russell
Cleopatra (1934), played by Joseph Schildkraut
Herod the Great (1959), played by Edmund Purdom
King of Kings (1961), played by Grégoire Aslan
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964), played by Amerigo Bevilacqua
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), played by Claude Rains
The Visual Bible: Matthew (1993), played by Patrick Mynhardt
The 3 Kings (2000), played by Ron Moody
The Nativity Story (2006), played by Ciarán Hinds
Joseph & Mary (2016), played by Lawrence Bayne
The Star (2017), voiced by Christopher Plummer
The Penitent Thief (2020), played by Kevin Sorbo
Journey to Bethlehem (2023), played by Antonio Banderas
Mary (2024), played by Anthony Hopkins
The King of Kings (2025), voiced by Mark Hamill
Zero A. D. , (2026), played by Jim Caviezel

Radio

He appears in the first play of Dorothy L. Sayers' radio play cycle The Man Born to Be King .

Television

Jesus of Nazareth (1977), played by Peter Ustinov
The Nativity (1978), played by Leo McKern
Mary, Mother of Jesus (1999), played by Hywel Bennett
Rome (2007, episode 19, Death Mask ), played by René Zagger
The Bible (2013, episode 3, Hope ), played by Sam Douglas
Killing Jesus (2015), played by Kelsey Grammer

References

↑ David Staines, 'To Out-Herod Herod: The Development of a Dramatic Character', Comparative Drama, 10.1 (spring 1976), 29-53, doi : 10.1353/cdr.1976.0015.
↑ R. Chris Hassel, Jr., '"No Boasting like a Fool?" Macbeth and Herod', Studies in Philology, 98.2 (Spring, 2001), 205-24.

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[1] David Staines, 'To Out-Herod Herod: The Development of a Dramatic Character', Comparative Drama, 10.1 (spring 1976), 29-53, doi : 10.1353/cdr.1976.0015.

[2] R. Chris Hassel, Jr., '"No Boasting like a Fool?" Macbeth and Herod', Studies in Philology, 98.2 (Spring, 2001), 205-24.

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