
Christopher Plummer
Biography
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer CC (December 13, 1929 – February 5, 2021) was a Canadian theatre, film and television actor. He made his film debut in 1958's Stage Struck, and notable film performances include The Night of the Generals, The Return of the Pink Panther, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, The Man Who Would Be King, and The Insider. In a career that spans seven decades and includes substantial roles in each of the dramatic arts, Plummer is probably best known to film audiences …
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Filmography
Acting (234)
Movies (198)
Heroes of the Golden Mask
2023as Rizzo (voice)
MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
2023as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
2022as Self
Kalahari: The Flooded Desert
2021as Narrator (voice)
Bondarchuk. Battle
2021as self
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
2021as Self
Mooseltoe
2021as Mooseking
The Last Full Measure
2020as Frank Pitsenbarger
Knives Out
2019as Harlan Thrombey
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019as Self
Cliffs of Freedom
2019as Thanasi
Boundaries
2018as Jack Jaconi
Howard Lovecraft & The Kingdom Of Madness
2018as Dr. Jeffrey West (voice)
The Star
2017as King Herod (voice)
All the Money in the World
2017as Jean Paul Getty
The Exception
2017as Kaiser Wilhelm II
The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017as Scrooge
The River of My Dreams
2017as Himself
Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom
2017as Dr. West (voice)
Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom
2016as Dr. West (voice)
Pixies
2015as Pixie King (voice)
Danny Collins
2015as Frank Grubman
Remember
2015as Zev Guttman
The Untold Story of The Sound of Music: A Diane Sawyer Special
2015as Self
Elsa & Fred
2014as Fred
The Forger
2014as Joseph Cutter
Hector and the Search for Happiness
2014as Professor Coreman
The Captains: Still Kicking
2013as Himself
The Legend of Sarila
2013as Croolik (voice)
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2013as John Marshall Harlan
Titans of the Ice Age
2013as Narrator
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012as (archive footage)
Behind the Wall: The Making of Skyrim
2012as Self
Barrymore
2012as John Barrymore
Kali, the Little Vampire
2012as Narrator (english version)
Priest
2011as Monsignor Orelas
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011as Henrik Vanger
Beginners
2011as Hal Fields
Discovering Hamlet
2011as Self
A Short Film About Making Beginners
2011
The Tempest
2010as Prospero
My Dog Tulip
2010as J.R. Ackerley (voice)
Up
2009as Muntz (voice)
9
2009as #1 (voice)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
2009as Doctor Parnassus
Caesar and Cleopatra
2009as Caesar
The Last Station
2009as Leo Tolstoy
Emotional Arithmetic
2008as David Winters
Closing the Ring
2007as Jack
Hamlet {Solo}
2007as Self
Man in the Chair
2007as Flash Madden
Already Dead
2007as Dr. Heller
Inside Man
2006as Arthur Case
The Lake House
2006as Simon Wyler
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006as Self
Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes
2006as Narrator (voice over)
Must Love Dogs
2005as Bill
Syriana
2005as Dean Whiting
The New World
2005as Captain Newport
Our Fathers
2005as Cardinal Bernard Law
Four Minutes
2005as Archie Mason
National Treasure
2004as John Adams Gates
Alexander
2004as Aristotle
Cold Creek Manor
2003as Mr. Massie
The Gospel of John
2003as Narrator (voice)
Blizzard
2003as Santa Claus
The Life Of Jesus
2003as Narrator
Ararat
2002as David
Nicholas Nickleby
2002as Ralph Nickleby
Agent of Influence
2002as John Watkins
Night Flight
2002as 'Flash' Harry Peters
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
2002as Self
A Beautiful Mind
2001as Dr. Rosen
Full Disclosure
2001as Robert Lecker
On Golden Pond
2001as Norman Thayer
Lucky Break
2001as Graham Mortimer
Dracula 2000
2000as Matthew Van Helsing
The Dinosaur Hunter
2000as Hump Hinton
Possessed
2000as Archbishop Hume
Back To "Somewhere In Time"
2000as Self
American Tragedy
2000as F. Lee Bailey
Madeline: Lost in Paris
1999as Narrator (voice)
The Insider
1999as Mike Wallace
The Clown at Midnight
1999as Mr. Caruthers
Hidden Agenda
1999as Ulrich Steiner
Winchell
1998as Franklin D. Roosevelt
Blackheart
1998as Holmes
The First Christmas
1998as Narrator (voice)
Babes in Toyland
1997as Barnaby Crookedman (voice)
Skeletons
1997as Reverend Carlyle
The Arrow
1997as George Hees
The Conspiracy of Fear
1996as Wakeman
We the Jury
1996as Wilfred Fransiscus
The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys'
1996as Self
Twelve Monkeys
1995as Dr. Goines
Dolores Claiborne
1995as John Mackey
Harrison Bergeron
1995as John Klaxon
Wolf
1994as Raymond Alden
Crackerjack
1994as Ivan Getz
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
1994as Self (archive footage)
Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic
1993as Narrator
A Stranger in the Mirror
1993as Clifton Lawrence
Malcolm X
1992as Chaplain Gill
Liar's Edge
1992as Harry Weldon
Impolite
1992as Naples O'Rorke
The First Circle
1992as Viktor Abakumov
Secrets
1992as Mel Wexler
Madeline and the Gypsies
1991as Narrator (voice)
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
1991as Chang
Rock-A-Doodle
1991as Grand Duke (voice)
Firehead
1991as Col. Garland Vaughn
Madeline in London
1991as Narrator (voice)
Money
1991as Martin Yahl
Madeline and the Bad Hat
1991as Narrator (voice)
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
1990as The Grand Duke Ivan
Red Blooded American Girl
1990as Dr. John Alcore
Where the Heart Is
1990as Shitty
Madeline's Christmas
1990as Narrator (voice)
The Little Crooked Christmas Tree
1990as Narrator
Mindfield
1989as Doctor Satorius
Nabokov on Kafka
1989as Vladimir Nabokov
Souvenir
1989as Ernst Kestner
The First Emperor of China
1989as Self - Narrator (voice)
Nosferatu in Venice
1988as Professor Paris Catalano
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988as Narrator (voice)
Madeline
1988as Narrator (voice)
Shadow Dancing
1988as Edmund Beaumont
Dragnet
1987as Reverend Jonathan Whirley
A Hazard of Hearts
1987as Sir Giles Staverley
I Love N.Y.
1987as John Robertson Yeats
The Nightingale
1987as Narrator (voice)
Portraits of Canada
1987as Narrator (voice)
The Boss' Wife
1986as Mr. Roalvang
An American Tail
1986as Henri (voice)
The Tin Soldier
1986as Narrator (voice)
The Boy in Blue
1986as Knox
Spearfield's Daughter
1986as Lord Jack Cruze
Rumpelstiltskin
1985as Narrator
The Velveteen Rabbit
1985as Narrator (voice)
Dreamscape
1984as Bob Blair
Ordeal by Innocence
1984as Leo Argyle
Lily in Love
1984as Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova
Prototype
1983as Dr. Carl Forrester
The Scarlet and the Black
1983as Col. Herbert Kappler
Highpoint
1982as James Hatcher
Night of 100 Stars
1982as Self
Eyewitness
1981as Joseph
The Amateur
1981as Professor Lakos
Being Different
1981as Self (Narrator) (voice)
Dial M for Murder
1981as Tony Wendice
When the Circus Came to Town
1981as Duke Royal
Somewhere in Time
1980as William Fawcett Robinson
The Shadow Box
1980as Brian
Desperate Voyage
1980as Jacques Burrifous
Murder by Decree
1979as Sherlock Holmes
Hanover Street
1979as Paul Sellinger
Riel
1979as Prime Minister John A. Macdonald
Arthur Miller on Home Ground
1979
Starcrash
1978as The Emperor
The Silent Partner
1978as Reikle
International Velvet
1978as John Seaton
The Disappearance
1977as Deverell
The Assignment
1977as Kaptain Behounek
Silver Blaze
1977as Sherlock Holmes
Aces High
1976as Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair
The Spiral Staircase
1975as Dr. Joe Sherman
The Return of the Pink Panther
1975as Sir Charles Litton
The Man Who Would Be King
1975as Rudyard Kipling
Conduct Unbecoming
1975as Maggiore Alastair Wimbourne
The Day That Shook the World
1975as Archduke Ferdinand
The Happy Prince
1974as The Happy Prince (voice)
After the Fall
1974as Quentin
The Pyx
1973as Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson
Waterloo
1970as Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
Battle of Britain
1969as Squadron Leader Colin Harvey
Lock Up Your Daughters
1969as Lord Foppington
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
1969as Atahualpa
Nobody Runs Forever
1968as Sir James Quentin
Oedipus the King
1968as Oedipus
The Night of the Generals
1967as Field Marshal Rommel
Triple Cross
1966as Freddie Chapman
Inside Daisy Clover
1966as Raymond Swan
The Sound of Music
1965as Captain Georg von Trapp
Salzburg Sight and Sound
1965as Self
Hamlet at Elsinore
1964as Hamlet
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964as Commodus
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
1964as Narrator (voice)
Trans-Canada Journey
1963as Narrator (voice)
30 Minutes, Mister Plummer
1963as Himself
Cyrano De Bergerac
1962as Cyrano de Bergerac
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
1960as Captain Brassbound
A Doll's House
1959as Torvald
Little Moon of Alban
1958as Kenneth Boyd
Stage Struck
1958as Joe Sheridan
Wind Across the Everglades
1958as Walt Murdock
Johnny Belinda
1958as Dr. Jack Pelletier
Madeline at the Ballet
as Narrator (voice)
Ted Allan: Minstrel Boy of the 20th Century
as Narrator
Television (36)
Departure
2019as Howard Lawson
Departure
2019as Howard Lawson
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
2010as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Summit
2008as P.J. Aimes
Miracle Planet
2005as Himself - Host
Nuremberg
2000as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe
The Arrow
1997as George Hees
Young Catherine
1991as Sir Charles
Berlin Lady
1991as Wilhelm Speer
Counterstrike
1990as Alexander Addington
American Experience
1988as Narrator
Madeline
1988as Narrator (voice)
Crossings
1986as Armand DeVilliers
The Cosby Show
1984as Jonathan Lawrence
The Thorn Birds
1983as Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese
SuperTed
1983
Nature
1982as Narrator (voice)
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
1982as Reggie Vanderbilt
Jesus of Nazareth
1977as Herod Antipas
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
1976as Roscoe Heyward
The Dick Cavett Show
1968as Self - Guest
Omnibus
1967as Narrator
BBC Play of the Month
1965as Don Juan
The Mike Douglas Show
1961as Self
NBC Sunday Showcase
1959
DuPont Show of the Month
1957as Sir Miles Hendon
Tony Awards
1956as Self - Nominee
The Oscars
1953as Self
General Electric Theater
1953as Walter Shelley
Kraft Television Theatre
1953
Omnibus
1952as Oedipus
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951as Dr. Jack Pelletier
Suspense
1949
Studio One
1948as Dick
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948as Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944as Self - Nominee
Crew (1)
Movies (1)
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