[elcid1970]

Was it Stubbs who said, “If God had wanted to be a fish, He’d be a whale, son, He’d be a whale!!”

And didn’t Charlton Heston portray the preacher in the whalers’ chapel who climbed a rope ladder into the pulpit shaped like a bowsprit?

[Bull Snipe]

No, the preacher Reverend Mapple was played by Orson Welles.

[Reily]

If we’re talking about the version with Richard Basehart as Ishmael, the preacher was played by Orson Welles.

[Oatka]

And didn’t Charlton Heston portray the preacher in the whalers’ chapel who climbed a rope ladder into the pulpit shaped like a bowsprit?

No, that was Orson Welles.