Masada (1981)
Masada (1981)

Plot.
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Cast & Crew.

Peter O'Toole
Gen. Cornelius Flavius Silva

Peter Strauss
Eleazar Ben Yair

Barbara Carrera
Sheva

Nigel Davenport
Mucianus

Alan Feinstein
Aaron

Giulia Pagano
Miriam

Anthony Quayle
Rubrius Gallus

Denis Quilley
Marcus Quadratus

Paul L. Smith
Gideon

Anthony Valentine
Merovius

Timothy West
Emperor Vespasian

David Warner
Pomponius Falco

Clive Francis
Attius

George Innes
Titus

David Opatoshu
Shimon

Richard Pierson
Ephraim

Jack Watson
Decurion

Joseph Wiseman
Jerahmeel

Heinz Bernard
Elder

Christopher Biggins
Claudius Albinus

David A. Block
Reuben

Warren Clarke
Plinius

Vernon Dobtcheff
Chief Priest

Michael Elphick
Vettius

Ken Hutchison
Fronto

David Mauro
Epos

Kevin McNally
Norbanus

Alexander Peleg
Zidon

Joey Sagal
Seth

Michael Shillo
Ezra

Richard Basehart
Narrator

George Eckstein
Producer

Boris Sagal
Director

Morton Stevens
Original Music Composer

Robert L. Kimble
Editor

Edwin F. England
Editor

Jerry Goldsmith
Original Music Composer

Paul Lohmann
Director of Photography

Ron Rutberg
Editor

Jennings Lang
Executive Producer
Media.



Details.
Release DateApril 5, 1981
StatusEnded
Seasons1
Episodes4
Running Time2h
Filming LocationsMasada, Israel
Genres
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This TV Show Is About.
Wiki.
Masada is an American television miniseries that aired on ABC in April 1981. Advertised by the network as an "ABC Novel for Television," the TV series' script is based on the 1971 novel The Antagonists by Ernest Gann, with a screenplay written by Joel Oliansky. It tells a fictionalized account of the historical siege of the Masada citadel in Israel by legions of the Roman Empire in AD 73. The siege ended when the Roman armies entered the fortress, only to discover the mass suicide by the Jewish defenders when defeat became imminent.
The miniseries starred: Peter O'Toole as Roman legion commander Lucius Flavius Silva, Peter Strauss as the Jewish commander Eleazar ben Ya'ir and Barbara Carrera as Silva's Jewish mistress. It was O'Toole's first appearance in an American miniseries.
Masada was one of several historical miniseries produced in the early 1980s, following the success of the miniseries Roots, that aired on the ABC Network in 1977, and Shogun, which aired on NBC in 1980.
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