In Irving Pichel's 1939 film The Great Commandment, Albert Dekker portrays him as the commanding officer of a Roman army company escorting a tax collector about Judea. Subsequently, he is converted to Christianity through the kindness of Joel bar Lamech and by his own experiences at Golgotha. In the George Stevens's 1965 film The Greatest Story Ever Told, Longinus is identified with the centurion who professed, "Truly this man was the Son of God" on Golgotha (portrayed by John Wayne in a cameo role).Leonard Maltin, 2004 Movie & Video Guide, (New York: New American Library, 2003), 558 sub loco. Casca Rufio Longinus, in the Casca novel series by Barry Sadler, accidentally ingests some of Christ's blood after lancing him. He is condemned by Christ to walk the earth as a soldier until they meet again at the Second Coming. This series of novels is continued by British Writer Tony Roberts following the death of Barry Sadler. Cassius Longinus is the main character of Louis de Wohl's novel The Spear (1955). Gaius Cassius Longinus is one of the main characters in the 1997 Fox series "Roar," starring Heath Ledger. In the series, Longinus has spent 400 years searching for the Spear of Destiny, finally arriving in Ireland. He is referenced in the second season of DC's Legends of Tomorrow and most of the season is about trying to find the “spear of destiny” that he used to kill Christ. In the Vampire: The Requiem roleplaying books, Longinus is a mythical character who was cursed with vampirism when Jesus died. His story, called the Testament of Longinus, serves as the basis for a sect of modern Christian vampires called the Lancea et Sanctum. In the historical fiction series Britannia has the centurion who stabbed Jesus be young Aulus Plautius.
In Irving Pichel's 1939 film The Great Commandment, Albert Dekker portrays him as the commanding officer of a Roman army company escorting a tax collector about Judea. Subsequently, he is converted to Christianity through the kindness of Joel bar Lamech and by his own experiences at Golgotha. In the George Stevens's 1965 film The Greatest Story Ever Told, Longinus is identified with the centurion who professed, "Truly this man was the Son of God" on Golgotha (portrayed by John Wayne in a cameo role).Leonard Maltin, 2004 Movie & Video Guide, (New York: New American Library, 2003), 558 sub loco. Casca Rufio Longinus, in the Casca novel series by Barry Sadler, accidentally ingests some of Christ's blood after lancing him. He is condemned by Christ to walk the earth as a soldier until they meet again at the Second Coming. This series of novels is continued by British Writer Tony Roberts following the death of Barry Sadler. Cassius Longinus is the main character of Louis de Wohl's novel The Spear (1955). Gaius Cassius Longinus is one of the main characters in the 1997 Fox series "Roar," starring Heath Ledger. In the series, Longinus has spent 400 years searching for the Spear of Destiny, finally arriving in Ireland. He is referenced in the second season of DC's Legends of Tomorrow and most of the season is about trying to find the “spear of destiny” that he used to kill Christ. In the Vampire: The Requiem roleplaying books, Longinus is a mythical character who was cursed with vampirism when Jesus died. His story, called the Testament of Longinus, serves as the basis for a sect of modern Christian vampires called the Lancea et Sanctum. In the historical fiction series Britannia has the centurion who lances Jesus as young Aulus Plautius.
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