Christopher Plummer on screen and stage

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).

Performances

Movies

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1958	Stage Struck	Joe Sheridan
1958	Wind Across the Everglades	Walt Murdock
1964	The Fall of the Roman Empire	Commodus
1965	The Sound of Music	Captain Georg von Trapp
1965	Inside Daisy Clover	Raymond Swan
1966	Triple Cross	Eddie Chapman
1967	The Night of the Generals	Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
1967	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
1977	The Disappearance	Deverell
1978	The Silent Partner	Harry Reikle
1978	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
1981	The Amateur	Professor Lakos
1984	Lily in Love	Fitzroy Wynn Roberto Terranova
	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
1989	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
1994	Crackerjack	Ivan Getz
1995	Dolores Claiborne	Det. John Mackey
1995	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]
1999	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
2002	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
2004	Alexander	Aristotle
2005	Must Love Dogs	Bill Nolan
	Syriana	Dean Whiting
	The New World	Captain Christopher Newport
2006	Inside Man	Arthur Case
2006	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
2016	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
2018	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

Television

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"
1955	Producers' Showcase	Christian de Neuvillette	Episode: "Cyrano de Bergerac"
1956	General Electric Theater	Walter Shelley	Episode: "A Letter from the Queen"
1956	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	2 episodes
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
1960	Captain Brassbound's Conversion	Captain Brassbound	Television movie
1961	Playdate	Himself	13 episodes
1961	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"
1974	After the Fall	Quentin	Television movie
1976	The Moneychangers	Roscoe Heyward	TV miniseries, 4 episodes
1977	Silver Blaze	Sherlock Holmes	Television movie
1977	Jesus of Nazareth	Herod Antipas	TV miniseries, 2 episodes
1979	Riel	Sir John A. Macdonald	Television movie
1980	Desperate Voyage	Burrifous
1980	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
1985	The Velveteen Rabbit	Narrator (voice)	Voice; Television movie
1986	Crossings	Armand DeVilliers	TV miniseries, 3 episodes
1986	Spearfield's Daughter	Lord Jack Cruze	Television movie
1987	A Hazard of Hearts	Sir Giles Staverley	Television movie
	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
1996	Skeletons	Reverend Carlyle	Television movie
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	Television movie
	American Tragedy	F. Lee Bailey	2 episodes
2001	Leo's Journey	Narrator (voice)	Television movie
2001	On Golden Pond	Norman Thayer
2002	Night Flight	'Flash' Harry Peters
2002	Agent of Influence	John Watkins
2003	Odd Job Jack	Magnus the Maker	Episode: "Holyland"
2005	Our Fathers	Cardinal Bernard Law	Television movie
2005	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

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
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
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]

Video games

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)

References

↑ Judy Abel (January 31, 2010). "At 80, Plummer has arrived at his 'Station'". The Boston Globe. Retrieved July 25, 2012.
↑ ^2.00 ^2.01 ^2.02 ^2.03 ^2.04 ^2.05 ^2.06 ^2.07 ^2.08 ^2.09 ^2.10 ^2.11 ^2.12 ^2.13 https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Christopher-Plummer/
↑ "The Long Dark Inspires a Short Film, With Christopher Plummer's Help". pastemagazine.com. 2017-08-01. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
↑ "No Man's Land". Variety. 28 January 1994. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
↑ "Tony-Winner Christopher Plummer Starts Barrymore Tour, July 11". Playbill.com. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
↑ "Christopher Plummer Is Shakespeare's Mad Monarch as King Lear Begins at Beaumont". Playbill.com. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
↑ "Plummer and Dennehy to Inherit the Wind on Broadway". Playbill.com. Retrieved May 22, 2020.

[Plummer-1] Judy Abel (January 31, 2010). "At 80, Plummer has arrived at his 'Station'". The Boston Globe. Retrieved July 25, 2012.

[btva-2] 2.00 ^2.01 ^2.02 ^2.03 ^2.04 ^2.05 ^2.06 ^2.07 ^2.08 ^2.09 ^2.10 ^2.11 ^2.12 ^2.13 https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Christopher-Plummer/

[3] "The Long Dark Inspires a Short Film, With Christopher Plummer's Help". pastemagazine.com. 2017-08-01. Retrieved 2021-02-05.

[4] "No Man's Land". Variety. 28 January 1994. Retrieved May 22, 2020.

[5] "Tony-Winner Christopher Plummer Starts Barrymore Tour, July 11". Playbill.com. Retrieved May 22, 2020.

[6] "Christopher Plummer Is Shakespeare's Mad Monarch as King Lear Begins at Beaumont". Playbill.com. Retrieved May 22, 2020.

[7] "Plummer and Dennehy to Inherit the Wind on Broadway". Playbill.com. Retrieved May 22, 2020.

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