Editing Marcus Licinius Crassus (section)

===Drama===
'''Film'''
* Crassus is a principal character in the 1960 film ''[[Spartacus (film)|Spartacus]]'', played by actor [[Laurence Olivier]].<ref name="imdb1">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054331/|title=Spartacus|date=17 November 1960|publisher=IMDb}}</ref> The film is based on [[Howard Fast]]'s 1951 [[Spartacus (Fast novel)|novel of the same name]].
* Crassus is the antagonist in the 1962 film ''[[The Slave (1962 film)|The Slave]]'', played by actor [[Claudio Gora]].
* A highly fictionalized version of Crassus called Marcus Crassius is an enemy figure in the film ''[[Amazons and Gladiators]]'' (2001), played by [[Patrick Bergin]]. They mention his defeating Spartacus and that Caesar exiles him due to his popularity to a poor province, where he's very cruel to the populace; he conquers the Amazons, under Queen Zenobia (who apparently rules a tribe of Amazons in the same province, Pannae). In this film, he is killed by a young girl whose family he killed.
* A character named Hamilton Crassus III portrayed by [[Jon Voight]] in [[Francis Ford Coppola]]'s 2024 sci-fi epic film [[Megalopolis (film)|Megalopolis]], is based on Marcus Licinius Crassus. The film is a modern take of the [[Catiline Conspiracy]] set in an imagined futuristic Modern America.

'''Television'''
* Crassus is a principal character in the 2004 TV film ''[[Spartacus (2004 film)|Spartacus]]'', played by actor [[Angus Macfadyen]].
* Crassus appears in a [[Xena: Warrior Princess (season 3)|3rd season]] episode of ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'', where he is beheaded in the Colosseum.
* He is portrayed by [[Simon Merrells]] in ''[[Spartacus: War of the Damned]]'' as the main antagonist. Unlike in Alfred Duggan's novel, he is portrayed as a brilliant military tactician.
* Crassus was also mentioned in the fifth series of ''[[Horrible Histories (2009 TV series)|Horrible Histories]]'', with a song named "Minted" dedicated to his life parodying [[Dizzee Rascal|Dizzee Rascal's]] [[Bonkers (song)|Bonkers]] sung by [[Simon Farnaby]].
* Crassus appears in the second season of the [[Netflix]] original series ''[[Roman Empire (TV series)|Roman Empire]]''.