
Overview
Masada is a 1981 American historical drama television miniseries aired on ABC under the tentpole ABC Novel for Television. The screenplay by Joel Oliansky is based on Ernest Gann's 1971 novel The Antagonists. A dramatization of the historical siege of the Masada citadel in Roman Palestine by legions of the Roman Empire in AD 73. A siege that ended when the Roman armies entered the fortress, only to discover the mass suicide by the Jewish defenders when defeat became imminent.
Cast
Peter O'Toole
4 episodes
Peter Strauss
4 episodes
Barbara Carrera
4 episodes
Alan Feinstein
4 episodes
Giulia Pagano
4 episodes
Anthony Quayle
4 episodes
Paul L. Smith
4 episodes
David Warner
4 episodes
Clive Francis
4 episodes
David Opatoshu
4 episodes
Richard Pierson
4 episodes
Joseph Wiseman
4 episodes
David A. Block
4 episodes
Vernon Dobtcheff
4 episodes
David Mauro
4 episodes
Alexander Peleg
4 episodes
Joey Sagal
4 episodes
Michael Shillo
4 episodes
Christopher Biggins
3 episodes
Warren Clarke
3 episodes
Ken Hutchison
3 episodes
Reuven Bar-Yotam
3 episodes
Heinz Bernard
3 episodes
Denis Quilley
2 episodes
Anthony Valentine
2 episodes
Jack Watson
2 episodes
Michael Elphick
2 episodes
Nick Brimble
2 episodes
Derek Newark
2 episodes
Michael Schneider
2 episodes
Richard Basehart
2 episodes
Kevin McNally
1 episodes
George Innes
1 episodes
Nigel Davenport
1 episodes
Ray Smith
1 episodes
Diana Webster
1 episodes
Norman Rossington
1 episodes
John Terry Bell
1 episodes
Leon Greene
1 episodes
William Morgan Sheppard
1 episodes
Timothy West
1 episodes
Rolf Brin
1 episodes
John Philips
1 episodes
David Hooks
1 episodes
Kay Parker
1 episodes