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Jay Robinson (April 14, 1930 – September 27, 2013) was an American actor specializing in character roles.He achieved his greatest fame playing Emperor Caligula in the film The Robe (1953) and its sequel Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954), [1] and years later portraying the boss of the character played by Warren Beatty in Shampoo (1975).
Caligula is the young heir to the throne of his great-uncle, Emperor Tiberius.One morning, a blackbird flies into his room; Caligula considers this a bad omen. Shortly afterward, one of the heads of the Praetorian Guard, Naevius Sutorius Macro, tells Caligula that Tiberius demands his immediate presence at Capri, where the Emperor lives with his close friend Nerva, Caligula's dim-witted uncle ...
On the way to a slave auction, Marcellus Gallio, a Roman military tribune and senator's son, helps recapture Demetrius, a defiant Greek slave. At the auction site, Marcellus is reunited with Diana, his childhood love, who is now a ward of Emperor Tiberius and has been pledged in marriage to the regent Caligula.
He was played by Ralph Bates in the 1968 ITV historical drama series, The Caesars. [290] American actor Jay Robinson famously portrayed a sinister and scene-stealing Caligula in two epic films of the 1950s, The Robe (1953) and its sequel Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954). [291] He was played by John Hurt in the 1976 BBC mini-series I ...
Emperor Caligula asks Demetrius to renounce Christ. He does so. Thus, Caligula frees him and inducts him into the Praetorian Guard with the rank of Tribune. Having rejected Christianity, Demetrius begins a lusty affair with Messalina that lasts for months. One day, Caligula holds audience with Demetrius and orders him to retrieve the Robe.
Caligula. Mondadori via Getty Images. ... Before Robert Pattinson noticed how characters he played always masturbated in movies, he actually masturbated for real in Little Ashes, ...
John Gielgud, Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren and Peter O'Toole appeared in the movie Caligula, a film where producer Bob Guccione would eventually film and add explicit unsimulated sex scenes after the original filming had been completed; McDowell later expressed his outrage over this. [1] Gielgud also wrote a screenplay for a pornographic film ...
John Vincent Hurt was born on 22 January 1940, in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, [9] [10] the son of Arnould Herbert Hurt (1904–1999) and Phyllis (née Massey; 1907–1975). His father had been a mathematician, but became a Church of England clergyman and served as vicar of Holy Trinity Church in Shirebrook, Derbyshire; his mother, a one-time actress, became "the first female draughtsman" at ...