Peter O'Toole
General Cornelius Flavius Silva
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Masada is an American historical drama 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.
Masada: With Peter O'Toole, Peter Strauss, Barbara Carrera, Alan Feinstein. After the destruction of the Second Temple, nine hundred Jewish zealots hold out against a five thousand man Roman legion on the mountaintop fortress of Masada.
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- 1981-04-05
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Peter O'Toole made his American TV acting debut as the Roman general leading the epic 1st-century siege of Masada, the mountain fortress where about 900 Jewish Zealots made a heroic stand against 5,000 Roman soldiers.
When the Romans successfully take Jerusalem, a combative faction of Jews relocates to a mountaintop redoubt in Masada under the leadership of Eleazar ben Yair (Peter Strauss) and refuses to...
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- Boris Sagal
A Roman general leads the epic 1st-century siege of Masada, the mountain fortress where more than 900 Jews made a heroic stand against 5,000 Roman soldiers.
In first century A.D., Flavius Silva (Peter O Toole), commander in Roman Palestine, leads his forces in combat against the remaining Jewish Zealots who have taken refuge in the seemingly impregnable fortress of Masada.
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Masada is an American historical drama television miniseries that aired on ABC in April 1981. Advertised by the network as an "ABC Novel for Television," the TV...
- April 1981 to April 1981
- Boris Sagal
- George Eckstein, Richard Irving (director), Jennings Lang, Arnon Milchan
- Arnon Milchan Film Production, Ltd., Universal Television
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