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Actors who have played God

Entertainment Weekly

January 27, 2020 at 7:52 PM

Actors who have played God

Rex Ingram in The Green Pastures (1936)

Groucho Marx in Skidoo (1968)

George Burns in Oh, God! (1977), Oh, God! Book II (1980), Oh, God! You Devil (1984)

Ralph Richardson in Time Bandits (1981)

Robert Morley in Second Time Lucky (1984)

Ferdy Mayne in Night Train to Terror (1985)

George Plimpton in A Fool and His Money (1989)

Charlton Heston in Almost An Angel (1990)

Robert Mitchum in Les Sept Péchés Capitaux (1992)

Scott Bairstow on Touched By An Angel (1994)

Emily Watson in Breaking The Waves (1996)

Bob Odenkirk on Mr. Show (1998)

Maurice Roëves in The Acid House (1998)

Alanis Morisette in Dogma (1999)

Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf in Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV (2000)

Whoopi Goldberg in It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002)

Morgan Freeman in Bruce Almighty (2003), Evan Almighty (2007)

Antônio Fagundes in God Is Brazilian (2003)

Will.I.Am, Zachary Quinto, and more on Joan of Arcadia (2003)

Rodney Dangerfield in Angels With Angles (2005)

Rob Benedict on Supernatural (2005)

Whoopi Goldberg in A Little Bit of Heaven (2011)

Paul Sorvino in The Devil’s Carnival (2012)

Isaac Andrews in Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

Mark Harelik on Preacher (2016)

Octavia Spencer in The Shack (2017)

Steve Buscemi on Miracle Workers (2019)

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