Cast
- Charlton Heston as Judah Ben-Hur
- Jack Hawkins as Quintus Arrius
- Haya Harareet as Esther
- Stephen Boyd as Messala
- Hugh Griffith as Sheik Ilderim
- Martha Scott as Miriam
- Cathy O'Donnell as Tirzah
- Sam Jaffe as Simonides
- Finlay Currie as Balthasar and the narrator
- Frank Thring as Pontius Pilate
- Terence Longdon as Drusus
- George Relph as Tiberius Caesar
- André Morell as Sextus
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