Samson and Delilah

Samson and Delilah is a 1996 TV movie, one of a series of Italian/US co-productions based on The Biblical stories, broadcast on TNT in two parts. For the sequence in which Samson fights a lion, Jim Henson's Creature Shop supplied a lion for certain stunt scenes (intercut with an actual lion named Sudan).

Cast

 * Eric Thal as Samson
 * Elizabeth Hurtley as Delilah
 * Dennis Hopper as General Tariq
 * Diana Rigg as Mara
 * Michael Gambon as King Hanum
 * Daniel Massey as Ira
 * Paul Freeman as Manoah
 * Ben Becker as Prince Sidqa
 * Jale Arikan as Naomi

Creature Shop credits

 * Animatronic creature by Jim Henson's Creature Shop
 * Mechanical lion: Verner Gresty, Simon Hewitt, Tacy Kneale, David Dunsterville