Christopher Plummer on screen and stage
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Christopher Plummer (1929–2021) was a Canadian actor.[1] Plummer won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Mike Mills' movie Beginners (2010).
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Performances
Movies
More information Year, Title ...
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | Stage Struck | Joe Sheridan | ||
| Wind Across the Everglades | Walt Murdock | |||
| 1964 | The Fall of the Roman Empire | Commodus | ||
| 1965 | The Sound of Music | Captain Georg von Trapp | ||
| Inside Daisy Clover | Raymond Swan | |||
| 1966 | Triple Cross | Eddie Chapman | ||
| 1967 | The Night of the Generals | Field Marshal Erwin Rommel | ||
| Oedipus the King | Oedipus | |||
| 1968 | Nobody Runs Forever | Sir James Quentin | ||
| 1969 | Battle of Britain | Squadron Leader Colin Harvey | ||
| The Royal Hunt of the Sun | Atahualpa | |||
| Lock Up Your Daughters! | Lord Foppington | |||
| 1970 | Waterloo | Arthur Wellesley | ||
| 1973 | The Pyx | Det. Sgt. Jim Henderson | ||
| 1974 | The Happy Prince | The Happy Prince | Short film | |
| 1975 | The Spiral Staircase | Dr. Joe Sherman | ||
| The Return of the Pink Panther | Sir Charles Litton | |||
| Conduct Unbecoming | Major Alastair Wimbourne | |||
| The Man Who Would Be King | Rudyard Kipling | |||
| The Day That Shook the World | Archduke Ferdinand of Austria | |||
| 1976 | Aces High | Captain 'Uncle' Sinclair | ||
| 1977 | The Assignment | Captain Behounek | ||
| The Disappearance | Deverell | |||
| 1978 | The Silent Partner | Harry Reikle | ||
| International Velvet | John Seaton | |||
| 1979 | Starcrash | The Emperor | ||
| Murder by Decree | Sherlock Holmes | |||
| Hanover Street | Paul Sellinger | |||
| 1980 | Somewhere in Time | William Fawcett Robinson | ||
| 1981 | Eyewitness | Joseph | ||
| The Amateur | Professor Lakos | |||
| 1984 | Lily in Love | Fitzroy Wynn Roberto Terranova |
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| Dreamscape | Bob Blair | |||
| Highpoint | James Hatcher | |||
| Ordeal by Innocence | Leo Argyle | |||
| 1986 | The Boy in Blue | Knox | ||
| The Boss' Wife | Mr. Roalvang | |||
| An American Tail | Henri | Voice; Animated film | [2] | |
| The Tin Soldier | Narrator | Voice; Animated film | ||
| Vampire in Venice | Prof. Paris Catalano | |||
| 1987 | Dragnet | Rev. Jonathan Whirley | ||
| I Love N.Y. | John Robertson Yeats | |||
| The Man Who Planted Trees | Narrator | Voice; Animated film | ||
| The Gnomes' Great Adventure | Narrator | Voice; Animated film | ||
| 1988 | Light Years | Metamorphis | ||
| Shadow Dancing | Edmund Beaumont | |||
| The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Narrator | Voice; Documentary | ||
| 1989 | Souvenir | Ernst Kestner | ||
| Mindfield | Doctor Satorius | |||
| 1990 | Where the Heart Is | Jerry | ||
| Red Blooded American Girl | Dr. John Alcore | |||
| Money | Martin Yahl | |||
| 1991 | Firehead | Colonel Garland Vaughn | ||
| Rock-a-Doodle | The Grand Duke of Owls | Voice; Animated film | [2] | |
| Dragon and Slippers | Pelican | Voice; Animated film | ||
| Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | General Chang | |||
| 1992 | Liar's Edge | Harry Weldon | ||
| Impolite | Naples O'Rorke | |||
| Malcolm X | Chaplain Gill | |||
| 1994 | Wolf | Raymond Alden | ||
| Crackerjack | Ivan Getz | |||
| 1995 | Dolores Claiborne | Det. John Mackey | ||
| 12 Monkeys | Dr. Goines | |||
| 1996 | The Conspiracy of Fear | Joseph Wakeman | ||
| 1997 | Babes in Toyland | Barnaby Crookedman | Voice; Animated film | [2] |
| 1998 | Hidden Agenda | Ulrich Steiner | ||
| The First Christmas | Narrator | Voice; | ||
| Blackheart | Holmes | |||
| The Clown at Midnight | Mr. Caruthers | |||
| 1999 | Madeline: Lost in Paris | Narrator | Voice; Animated film | [2] |
| The Insider | Mike Wallace | |||
| 2000 | Dracula 2000 | Abraham Van Helsing | ||
| 2001 | Lucky Break | Graham Mortimer | ||
| A Beautiful Mind | Dr. Rosen | |||
| Full Disclosure | Robert Lecker | |||
| 2002 | Ararat | David | ||
| Nicholas Nickleby | Ralph Nickleby | |||
| 2003 | The Gospel of John | Narrator | Voice | |
| Blizzard | Santa Claus | |||
| Cold Creek Manor | Mr. Massie | |||
| 2004 | National Treasure | John Adams Gates | ||
| Alexander | Aristotle | |||
| 2005 | Must Love Dogs | Bill Nolan | ||
| Syriana | Dean Whiting | |||
| The New World | Captain Christopher Newport | |||
| 2006 | Inside Man | Arthur Case | ||
| The Lake House | Simon Wyler | |||
| 2007 | Man in the Chair | Flash Madden | ||
| Closing the Ring | Jack Etty | |||
| Emotional Arithmetic | David Winters | |||
| Already Dead | Dr. Heller | |||
| 2009 | Caesar and Cleopatra | Julius Caesar | Also executive producer | |
| Up | Charles Muntz | Voice; Animated film | [2] | |
| My Dog Tulip | J.R. Ackerley | Voice; Animated film | [2] | |
| The Last Station | Leo Tolstoy | |||
| 9 | 1 | Voice; Animated film | [2] | |
| The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | Doctor Parnassus | |||
| 2010 | Beginners | Hal Fields | ||
| 2011 | Priest | Monsignor Orelas | ||
| Barrymore | John Barrymore | |||
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Henrik Vanger | |||
| 2013 | The Legend of Sarila | Croolik | Voice; Animated film | [2] |
| 2014 | Elsa & Fred | Fred Barcroft | ||
| Hector and the Search for Happiness | Professor Coreman | |||
| The Forger | Joseph Cutter | |||
| 2015 | Danny Collins | Frank Grubman | ||
| Pixies | Pixie King | Voice; Animated movie | [2] | |
| Remember | Zev Guttman/Otto Wallisch | |||
| 2016 | The Exception | Kaiser Wilhelm | ||
| Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom | Dr. West | Voice; Animated film | [2] | |
| 2017 | Elegy | Narrator | Voice; Short film | [3] |
| The Man Who Invented Christmas | Ebenezer Scrooge | |||
| The Star | King Herod | Voice; Animated film | [2] | |
| All the Money in the World | J. Paul Getty | |||
| Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom | Dr. West / The Pixie King | Voice; Animated film | ||
| 2018 | Boundaries | Jack Jaconi | ||
| Howard Lovecraft and the Kingdom of Madness | Dr. Jeffrey West | Voice; Animated film | [2] | |
| 2019 | Cliffs of Freedom | Thanasi | ||
| Knives Out | Harlan Thrombey | |||
| The Last Full Measure | Frank Pitsenbarger | |||
| 2021 | Heroes of the Golden Masks | Rizzo | Voice; Animated film Posthumous release Post film role |
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Television
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | Broadway Television Theatre | Michael O'Leary | Episode: "Dark Victory" | |
| 1955 | Kraft Television Theatre | Robert Carr | Episode: "The King's Bounty" | |
| Producers' Showcase | Christian de Neuvillette | Episode: "Cyrano de Bergerac" | ||
| 1956 | General Electric Theater | Walter Shelley | Episode: "A Letter from the Queen" | |
| The Alcoa Hour | Bruce Quealy | Episode: "Even the Weariest River" | ||
| 1957–58 | Omnibus | Thomas Mendip/Oedipus | 2 episodes | |
| 1957–61 | DuPont Show of the Month | Various Roles | ||
| 1958 | Little Moon of Alban | Kenneth Boyd | Television movie | |
| 1959 | Johnny Belinda | Dr. Jack Pelletier | ||
| A Doll's House | Torvald Helmer | |||
| The Philadelphia Story | Mike Connor | |||
| 1960 | NBC Sunday Showcase | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | 2 episodes | |
| Captain Brassbound's Conversion | Captain Brassbound | Television movie | ||
| 1961 | Playdate | Himself | 13 episodes | |
| Time Remembered | Prince Albert | Television movie | ||
| 1962 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac | ||
| 1964 | Hamlet at Elsinore | Hamlet | ||
| 1968 | The Secret of Michelangelo | Narrator (voice) | TV documentary | |
| 1971 | Don Juan in Hell | Don Juan | Television movie | |
| 1974 | Witness to Yesterday | Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington | Episode: "The Duke of Wellington" | |
| After the Fall | Quentin | Television movie | ||
| 1976 | The Moneychangers | Roscoe Heyward | TV miniseries, 4 episodes | |
| 1977 | Silver Blaze | Sherlock Holmes | Television movie | |
| Jesus of Nazareth | Herod Antipas | TV miniseries, 2 episodes | ||
| 1979 | Riel | Sir John A. Macdonald | Television movie | |
| 1980 | Desperate Voyage | Burrifous | ||
| The Shadow Box | Brian | |||
| 1981 | When the Circus Came to Town | Duke Royal | ||
| 1981 | Dial M for Murder | Mark Halliday | ||
| 1982 | Little Gloria... Happy at Last | Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt | TV miniseries, 2 episodes | |
| 1983 | The Scarlet and the Black | Colonel Herbert Kappler | Television movie | |
| The Thorn Birds | Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese | TV miniseries, 3 episodes | ||
| Prototype | Dr. Carl Forrester | Television movie | ||
| 1985 | Rumpelstiltskin | Narrator (voice) | Voice; Television movie | |
| The Velveteen Rabbit | Narrator (voice) | Voice; Television movie | ||
| 1986 | Crossings | Armand DeVilliers | TV miniseries, 3 episodes | |
| Spearfield's Daughter | Lord Jack Cruze | Television movie | ||
| 1987 | A Hazard of Hearts | Sir Giles Staverley | ||
| The Cosby Show | Jonathan Lawrence | Episode: "Shakespeare" | ||
| The World of David the Gnome | Narrator | Voice; English version | ||
| 1988–91 | Madeline | Narrator | Voice; 6 episodes | |
| 1989 | Nabokov on Kafka | Vladimir Nabokov | Television short | |
| 1990 | A Ghost in Monte Carlo | The Grand Duke Ivan | Television movie | |
| 1990–93 | Counterstrike | Alexander Addington | 65 episodes | |
| 1991 | Young Catherine | Sir Charles Williams | TV miniseries, 3 episodes | |
| A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz |
Alfred Stieglitz | Television movie | ||
| Berlin Lady | Wilhem Speer | 6 episodes | ||
| The First Circle | Victor Abakumov | Television movie | ||
| 1992 | Secrets | Mel Wexler | ||
| 1993 | A Stranger in the Mirror | Clifton Lawrence | ||
| 1993–95 | Madeline | Narrator (voice) | 33 episodes | [2] |
| 1995 | Harrison Bergeron | John Klaxon | TV movie | |
| 1996 | We the Jury | Wilfred Fransiscus | Television movie | |
| Skeletons | Reverend Carlyle | |||
| 1997 | The Arrow | George Hees | TV miniseries, 2 episodes | |
| 1998 | Winchell | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Television movie | |
| 2000 | Nuremberg | Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe | TV miniseries, 2 episodes | |
| The Dinosaur Hunter | Hump Hinton | Television movie | ||
| Possessed | Archbishop Hume | |||
| American Tragedy | F. Lee Bailey | 2 episodes | ||
| 2001 | Leo's Journey | Narrator (voice) | Television movie | |
| On Golden Pond | Norman Thayer | |||
| 2002 | Night Flight | 'Flash' Harry Peters | ||
| Agent of Influence | John Watkins | |||
| 2003 | Odd Job Jack | Magnus the Maker | Episode: "Holyland" | |
| 2005 | Our Fathers | Cardinal Bernard Law | Television movie | |
| Miracle Planet | Narrator (voice) | 6 episodes | ||
| 2006 | American Experience | Narrator/James Tyrone | Episode: "Eugene O'Neill" | |
| 2008 | The Summit | P.J. Aimes | 2 episodes | |
| 2013 | Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight | John Marshall Harlan II | Television movie, HBO | |
| 2019 | Departure | Howard Larson | 6 episodes | |
| 2020 | Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time | Himself - Video Clue Presenter | 1 episode |
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Theatre
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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| 1954 | The Starcross Story | George Phillips | Royale Theatre, Broadway | |
| 1954 | Home is the Hero | Manchester Monagham | Booth Theatre, Broadway | |
| 1955 | The Dark is Light Enough | Count Peter Zichy | ANTA Theatre, Broadway | |
| 1955 | The Lark | Warwick | Longacre Theatre, Broadway | |
| 1956 | Night of the Auk | Lewis Roheman | Playhouse Theatre, Broadway | |
| 1958 | J.B. | Nickles | ANTA Playhouse, Broadway | |
| 1963 | The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui | Arturo Ui | Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, Broadway | |
| 1965 | The Royal Hunt of the Sun | Francisco Pizarro | ANTA Theatre, Broadway | |
| 1971 | Amphitryon 38 | Jean Giraudoux | National Theatre, London Directed by Laurence Olivier |
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| 1973 | The Good Doctor | Performer | Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Broadway | |
| 1974 | Cyrano | Cyrano de Bergerac | Palace Theatre, Broadway | |
| 1978 | Drinks Before Dinner | Edgar | The Public Theatre, Off-Broadway | |
| 1982 | Othello | Iago | Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway | |
| 1988 | Macbeth | Macbeth | Mark Hellinger Theatre, Broadway | |
| 1994 | No Man's Land | Spooner | Roundabout Theater Company, Broadway | [4] |
| 1997 | Barrymore | John Barrymore | Music Box Theatre, Broadway | [5] |
| 2004 | King Lear | King Lear | Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Broadway | [6] |
| 2007 | Inherit the Wind | Henry Drummond | Lyceum Theatre, Broadway | [7] |
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Video games
More information Year, Title ...
| Year | Title | Voice role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Star Trek: Klingon Academy | General Chang | |
| 2009 | Up | Charles Muntz (voice) | |
| 2011 | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | Arngeir (voice) | [2] |
| 2012 | Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure | Charles Muntz (voice) |
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