He also worked as an assistant director on several large-scale international productions shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome, notably Quo Vadis ( 1951 ) and Ben-Hur ( 1959 ), financially backed by the American studios.

He also had an uncredited role as a doctor in Ben-Hur and appeared alongside Norman Wisdom in Follow a Star.

MGM Records also issued albums of film scores, including Ben-Hur, King of Kings, Doctor Zhivago, and How the West Was Won.

He was also one of the writers of the classic 1959 film, Ben-Hur, directed by William Wyler.

He also appeared in the Academy Award-winning films The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ) and Ben-Hur ( 1959 ), in several of Hammer's well-known horror films throughout the 1960s and in the acclaimed ITV historical drama The Caesars ( 1968 ).

Gozzo also performed on motion picture soundtracks including The Glenn Miller Story, The Benny Goodman Story, Bye Bye Birdie, Call Me Madam, Ben-Hur and Cleopatra.

He also had an uncredited appearance as the galley-master in Ben-Hur ( 1959 ) and as factory worker Bert Harker in the BBC's 1960s soap opera The Newcomers.

The cameraman was three-time Academy Award winner color specialist W. Howard Greene, billed as William H. Greene, who also photographed the 2-color Technicolor scenes in Ben-Hur ( 1925 ), in addition to many other early Technicolor films.

Ben-Hur had been a great success as a novel, and also as a stage play.

Ben-Hur declines, even after he learns that champion charioteer Messala will also compete.

This made the Ben-Hur film musical score the first to be released not only in its entirety but also as a separate album.

Ben-Hur also appears on several " best of " lists generated by the American Film Institute, an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1967.

The most notable example of this trend was the " Biblical trilogy " of William Vaughn Moody, which also illustrate the rise of religious-themed drama during the same years, as seen in the 1899 production of Ben-Hur and two 1901 adaptations of Quo Vadis.

Films shown in roadshow format before 1953 included silent epics such as The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), Intolerance ( 1916 ), The Covered Wagon ( 1923 ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1923 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), Ben-Hur ( 1925 ), The Big Parade ( 1925 ), and other films such as The Phantom of the Opera ( 1925 ), the first Oscar winner Wings ( 1927 ), the very first feature length part-talkie The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ), the silent film Chicago ( 1927 ) ( based on the play that inspired the Kander and Ebb Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film ), Show Boat ( 1929 ) ( a part-talkie based not on the 1927 stage musical but on Edna Ferber's original novel from which the musical was adapted ), The Desert Song ( 1929 ), Rio Rita ( also 1929 ), Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ), the all-star Oscar winning Grand Hotel ( 1932 ), the Oscar-winning biopic The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ), the classic films Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1943 ) and The Song of Bernadette ( 1943 ), the wartime tear-jerker Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), Samuel Goldwyn's Oscar-winning postwar epic The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), the flamboyant Western Duel in the Sun ( also 1946 ), and the biopic Joan of Arc starring Ingrid Bergman ( 1948 ), as well as some other DeMille epics, such as Samson and Delilah ( 1949 ).

Designed by the architectural firm of Clarence Blackall and paid for by Frederick Lothrop Ames ( see also Ames Building, Boston ) the theatre first opened its doors for a performance of Ben-Hur on December 20, 1900.

Jerry ( Veronica Cartwright ), Guy's repressed lesbian ball-bustingly ambitious agent, connives to cover up the impending outing and ensure Guy the role in Ben-Hur by marrying her client off with great fanfare to the studio head's secretary, Sally ( Carrie Preston ), who just happens to also be a slavishly devoted Guy Stone fan.

** Ben-Hur ( 1959 film ), an MGM sound film starring Charlton Heston that won 11 Academy Awards

Heston is known for heroic roles in films such as The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur ( for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor ), El Cid, and Planet of the Apes.

Notable works included Ben-Hur ( 1959 ), The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), and Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ), all of which won Wyler Academy Awards for Best Director, as well as Best Picture in their respective years.

Charlton Heston won his only nomination and Best Actor Oscar for his work in Wyler's 1959 Ben-Hur.

In 1959, Wyler directed Ben-Hur, which won 11 Oscars ( a feat equalled only by Titanic in 1997 and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003 ).

Wyler won his third Academy Award for Best Director for Ben-Hur.

The film was nominated for, and won a total of eleven Academy Awards, a record for the number of Oscars won by a single film, and a record that only two other films — Titanic ( 1997 ) and Ben-Hur ( 1959 )— have matched.

The film tied with the most awards nominated with All About Eve and tied with the most awards won with Ben-Hur.

He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Ben-Hur ( 1959 ), and received a nomination for his role in Tom Jones ( 1963 ).

He appeared in two films which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ; The Bridge on the River Kwai in 1957, as Colonel Green, and Ben-Hur in 1959 as Sextus .< ref >

Following release of the 1959 MGM film adaptation of Ben-Hur, which was seen by tens of millions and won 11 Academy Awards in 1960, book sales surpassed Gone with the Wind.

When Ben-Hur won Academy Awards in a wide range of categories except best screenplay, the Guild then accused Wyler of interfering with Tunberg's nomination.

Ben-Hur was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and won an unprecedented 11., only Titanic in 1998 and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2004 have matched the film's wins.

Ben-Hur won the following Oscars:

Rózsa's most recent work at the time was the score for MGM's hugely successful religious epic Ben-Hur ( 1959 ), for which he won his third Oscar.

All three Oscars went instead to Ben-Hur.

The other three were Going My Way, Best Years of Our Lives and Ben-Hur.

During the next three years, Jesus preaches his gospel around Galilee, and Ben-Hur becomes one of his followers.

After three years as a galley slave, Ben-Hur is assigned to the flagship of the Roman Consul Quintus Arrius ( Jack Hawkins ), who has been charged with destroying a fleet of Macedonian pirates.

* Gaspar one of the three Magi mentioned in the famous novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace.

After appearing in more than three dozen films, McAvoy co-starred with Ramón Novarro and Francis X. Bushman in director Fred Niblo's 1925 production of Ben-Hur released by MGM.

The operations of Klaw & Erlanger produced dozens of Broadway shows during the first three decades of the 20th century, including Dracula, Ben-Hur, and The Jazz Singer.

He received a Golden Globe for his performance in Ben-Hur.

In the Golden Age of Hollywood, MGM Studios was responsible for shooting 52 films a year, from screen epics such as Gone with the Wind ( although it was shot in the Culver Studios ), Ben-Hur, and Mutiny on the Bounty, to drawing-room dramas such as Grand Hotel, Dinner At Eight, and Anna Karenina.

** At the 32nd Academy Awards ceremony, Ben-Hur wins a record number of Oscars, including Best Picture.

The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards.

His notable Hollywood career earned him considerable fame, including Academy Awards for Spellbound ( 1945 ), A Double Life ( 1947 ), and Ben-Hur ( 1959 ), while his concert works were championed by such major artists as Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky, and János Starker.