Actors who have played God

In one of the most successful classic films with an all-Black cast, Ingram plays God, Adam, and more in a set of stories that combine the Bible and Black folklore.

Groucho Marx called his final silver screen performance — in which he plays God in the heavily LSD-influenced experimental film — "God-awful" in his 1976 book The Groucho Phile.

Through the Oh, God! film franchise, veteran entertainer George Burns found new wind in his career playing Lord and Savior to a different character in each movie.

In director Terry Gilliam's first film in his Trilogy of Imagination, Richardson plays a Supreme Being that employs little people to fix holes in the space-time continuum. 

British actor Robert Morley plays God making a wager with Satan on whether or not Adam and Eve can stay moral through a series of different time periods, and save humanity from eternal damnation.

European actor Ferdy Mayne plays another version of God making a wager with Satan on whether a sample size of humans deserve heaven or hell.

Writer and media personality George Plimpton makes a quick appearance as God in this religious satire starring a young Sandra Bullock.

While we actually see Charlton Heston play God in this box office bomb starring Paul Hogan, the late actor was much more known for voicing the deity in The Ten Commandments.

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Classic film actor Robert Mitchum somehow found his way into playing Dieu in an obscure Belgian comedy.

The long-running CBS drama Touched By An Angel came to a conclusion with Monica (Roma Downey) finally meeting God in the body of a young man, played by Scott Bairstow.

Provocative filmmaker Lars von Trier made God a woman in the form of Emily Watson. The role earned her a Best Actress nomination at the 1997 Oscars.

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In a popular sketch from David Cross and Bob Odenkirk's cult classic sketch show Mr. Show, the future Better Call Saul star plays a God that emulates the late Hollywood producer Robert Evans.

As is common with many of these projects, actor Maurice Roëves is another person woven into several interconnecting stories who turns out to be God himself.

Alanis Morisette appeared as God in Kevin Smith's cult classic film that came out around five years after the release of the Canadian "You Oughta Know" singer's groundbreaking Jagged Little Pill album. 

Henry Nasiff Jr., also known as Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf from radio personality Howard Stern's Wack Pack, has a cameo as God in this B-movie sequel that came out in New York shortly after his death.

Yes, there's a Muppet movie where God is a character, and, of course, they are played by Oscar winner Whoopi Goldberg.

Morgan Freeman put his velvety voice to good use as the entity reigning over heaven in the Jim Carrey-lead comedy Bruce Almighty. He even returned in the lesser sequel Evan Almighty, where Steve Carell plays a modern Noah.

Brazilian dramedy God Is Brazilian lives up to its name by casting Brazilian actor Antônio Fagundes as the all-seeing and all-knowing God.

Short-lived network dramedy Joan of Arcadia had multiple actors play God throughout its two seasons, including Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas and Zachary Quinto.

Like comedy legend Groucho Marx before him, stand-up icon Rodney Dangerfield's last film role was that of God. Weirdly, the film also has an actor playing fellow former onscreen God George Burns.

Seven seasons after the character Chuck Shurley (Rob Benedict) is introduced, and in the eleventh season of the long-running show Supernatural, he is revealed to actually be God.

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Goldberg falls back into the role of God, trading Muppets for Kate Hudson in this rom-com.

Goodfellas actor Paul Sorvino plays God among sinners in a twisted musical horror film.

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In Ridley Scott's controversial adaptation of the story of Moses, young British actor Isaac Andrews play Malak, the boy God possesses to get a message across to the prophet.

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Veteran TV actor Mark Harelik dazed and confused the cast of the edgy AMC series Preacher through four seasons as the elusive God.

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In an adaptation of the popular 2007 Christian novel, Oscar winner Octavia Spencer plays God, who's living in a mystical shack with Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

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Steve Buscemi offers another oddball take on God, bored and ready to end humanity on this TBS anthology series. Buscemi returned for the next seasons, with new settings of the Dark Ages and the Oregon Trail.

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