This article is about the Canadian actor. For the English football player, see
Chris Plummer.
| Christopher Plummer |
Plummer at the Doctor Parnassus premiere – September 18, 2009 – Roy Thomson Hall |
| Born |
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer
(1929-12-13) December 13, 1929 (age 82)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Residence |
Weston, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Nationality |
Canadian |
| Alma mater |
Canadian Repertory Theatre |
| Occupation |
Actor |
| Years active |
1953–present |
| Home town |
Senneville, Quebec, Canada |
| Spouse |
Tammy Grimes (1956–60; divorced)
Patricia Lewis (1962–67; divorced)
Elaine Taylor (1970–present) |
| Children |
Amanda Plummer
(with Tammy Grimes) |
| Relatives |
John Abbott
(great-grandfather) |
| Awards |
Academy Award, Tony Awards, Emmy Awards, SAG Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award |
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer, CC (born December 13, 1929) is a Canadian theatre, film and television actor. He made his film debut in 1958's Stage Struck, and notable early film performances include The Night of the Generals, The Return of the Pink Panther, and The Man Who Would Be King.
In a career that spans seven decades and includes substantial roles in each of the dramatic arts, Plummer is probably best known to audiences as the autocratic widower Captain Georg Ludwig von Trapp in the hit 1965 musical film The Sound of Music alongside Julie Andrews.[1] Plummer has also ventured into various television projects, including the legendary miniseries The Thorn Birds.
His most recent film roles include the The Insider as Mike Wallace, the Disney-Pixar 2009 film Up as Charles Muntz, the Shane Acker production 9 as 1, The Last Station as Leo Tolstoy, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus as Doctor Parnassus, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as Henrik Vanger, and Beginners as Hal.
Plummer has won numerous awards and accolades for his work, including an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a SAG Award, and a BAFTA Award. With his win at the age of 82 in 2012 for Beginners, Plummer is the oldest actor ever to win an Academy Award.
Plummer was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Isabella Mary (née Abbott) and John Orme Plummer, who was secretary to the Dean of Sciences at McGill University. Through his mother, Plummer is a great-grandson of Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Abbott,[2] and a great-great-grandson of Anglican clergyman and McGill acting president John Bethune.[3] Plummer was an only child. His parents were divorced shortly after he was born, and he was brought up at the Abbott family home in Senneville, Quebec, outside Montreal. He is bilingual.[4][5] He studied to be a concert pianist, but developed a love for the theatre at an early age, and began acting in high school. Plummer took up acting after seeing Laurence Olivier's film Henry V (1944).[6] He travelled by train to gain experience with the Canadian Repertory Theatre (the CRT) in Ottawa.
Christopher Plummer has played many of the great roles in classic repertoire. He did his apprenticeship with the Canadian Repertory Company (Ottawa, Ontario) from 1948–50, appearing in 75 roles, including Cymbeline in 1948 and The Rivals in 1950. He acted with the Bermuda Repertory Theatre in 1952, appearing in many plays, including The Playboy of the Western World, The Royal Family, The Little Foxes, The Petrified Forest, and The Constant Wife.
Plummer made his Broadway debut in January 1953 in The Starcross Story, a flop that closed on opening night. His next Broadway appearance, Home is the Hero, lasted 30 performances in September–October 1954. He appeared in support of Broadway legend Katharine Cornell and movie legend Tyrone Power in The Dark is Light Enough, which lasted 69 performances in February–April 1955. The play also toured several cities, with Plummer serving as Power's understudy. (In his autobiography, Plummer states that Cornell was his 'sponsor.'[7]). Later that year, he appeared in his first hit on Broadway, co-starring with Julie Harris (who won a Tony Award) in Jean Anouilh's The Lark.
After appearing in another flop, Night of the Auk, Plummer was in another hit, Elia Kazan's production of Archibald MacLeish's Pulitzer Prize-winning play J.B., for which he was nominated for his first Tony Award as Best Actor in Play. (J.B. also won Tonies as Best Play and for Kazan's direction.)
Plummer appeared less frequently on Broadway in the 1960s as he moved from New York to London. He appeared in the title role in a 1963 production of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, which flopped, but he had a great success in Peter Shaffer's The Royal Hunt of the Sun, playing conquistador Francisco Pizarro to David Carradine's Tony Award-nominated Atahuallpa. (In the 1969 film adaptation, Plummer would take the Atahuallpa role.)
From May to June 1973, he appeared on Broadway as the swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano, a musical adaptation of Edmond Rostand's 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac by Anthony Burgess (libretto and lyrics) and Michael J. Lewis (music). For that performance, Plummer won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance. Later that year, he played Anton Chekhov in Neil Simon's adaptation of several Chekhov short stories, The Good Doctor, which was a hit.
In the 1980s, he appeared on Broadway in two Shakespearean tragedies, Othello, playing Iago to James Earl Jones' Moor, and the title role in Macbeth with Glenda Jackson playing his lady. His Iago brought him another Tony nomination.
He appeared with Jason Robards in the 1994 revival of Harold Pinter's No Man's Land and scored one of his greatest successes in 1997 in Barrymore, which he also toured with after a successful Broadway run. His turn as John Barrymore brought him his second Tony Award (this time as Best Actor in Play) and a Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Actor in a Play. He also was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for his 2004 King Lear and for a Tony playing Henry Drummond in the 2007 revival of Inherit the Wind.
Plummer made his debut at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival (Stratford, Ontario) in 1956, playing the title role in Henry V, which subsequently was performed that year at the Edinburgh Festival ( Edinburgh, Scotland). He played the title role in Hamlet and Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night at Stratford in 1957. The following year, he played Leontes in The Winter's Tale, Bardolph, in Henry IV, Part 1, and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. In 1960, he played Philip the Bastard in King John and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet. In 1962, he played the title roles in both Cyrano de Bergerac and Macbeth then returned in 1967 to play Mark Antony in Antony and Cleopatra.[8]
In 2002, he appeared in a lauded production of King Lear, directed by Jonathan Miller.[9] The production successfully transferred to New York City's Lincoln Center in 2004.[10]
Plummer returned to the stage at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in August 2008 in a critically acclaimed performance as Julius Caesar in George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra directed by Tony winner Des McAnuff; this production was videotaped and shown in high-definition in Canadian cinemas on January 31, 2009 (with an encore presentation on February 23, 2009) and broadcast on April 4, 2009 on Bravo! in Canada. Plummer once again returned to the Stratford Festival in the summer of 2010 in The Tempest as the lead character, Prospero.
In April 1961, he appeared as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing with the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (Stratford-Upon-Avon, England). He also appeared with the RSC in May 1961 in the lead role of Richard III. He made his London debut on June 11, 1961 playing King Henry II in Jean Anouilh's Becket with the RSC at the Aldwych Theatre, directed by Peter Hall. The production later transferred to the Globe for a December 1961 to April 1962 run.[8] For his performance, Plummer won the Evening Standard Award for Best Actor.[11]
From June 1971 to January 1972, he appeared at the National Theatre, acting in repertory for the season. The plays he appeared in where Jean Giraudoux's Amphitryon 38 directed by Laurence Olivier;[12] Georg Büchner's Danton's Death (director Jonathan Miller); Adrian Mitchell's Tyger; Luigi Pirandello's The Rules of the Game; and Eugene O'Neill' Long Day's Journey Into Night at the New Theatre in London.[13]
Edward Everett Horton hired Plummer to appear as Gerard in the 1953 road show production of Andre Roussin's Nina,[14] a role originated on Broadway by David Niven in 1951.[15] He appeared as Jason opposite Dame Judith Anderson in Robinson Jeffers' adaptation of Medea at the Theatre Sara Bernhardt in Paris in 1955. The American National Theatre and Academy production, directed by Guthrie McClintic, was part of Le Festival International.
Also in 1955, he played Mark Antony in Julius Caesar and Ferdinand in The Tempest at the American Shakespeare Festival (Stratford, Connecticut). He returned to the American Shakespeare Festival in 1981 to play the title role in Henry V.[8]
Plummer appeared in Lovers and Madmen at the Opera House, Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. in 1973 and in Love and Master Will at the same venue in 1975.[16] Love and Master Will consisted of selections from the works of William Shakespeare on the subject of love, arranged by Plummer. His co-stars were Zoe Caldwell, Bibi Andersson, and Leonard Nimoy.
He played the part of Edgar in E.L. Doctorow's Drinks before Dinner with the New York Shakespeare Festival at the Public/Newman Theatre in New York City in 1978.
Plummer's eclectic career on screen began in 1958 when Sidney Lumet cast him as a young writer in Stage Struck. That same year, he also appeared in Nicholas Ray's film of Budd Schulberg's Wind Across the Everglades. He did not appear on-screen again for six years, until he appeared as the Emperor Commodus in Anthony Mann's blockbuster The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964). His next film, the Oscar-winning The Sound of Music made cinematic history, becoming the all-time top-grossing film, eclipsing Gone With the Wind. (Gone With the Wind and The Sound of Music rank No. 1 and No. 3 all-time among the top grossing movies, when adjusted for inflation, as of 2010.[17])
Since appearing in the phenomenal Sound of Music, Plummer has appeared in a vast number of notable films, including Inside Daisy Clover (1965), The Night of the Generals (cameo as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel) (1967), Oedipus the King (1968), The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969), Battle of Britain (1970), Waterloo (1970), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), The Silent Partner (1978), International Velvet (1978), Murder by Decree (1979), Somewhere in Time (1980), Eyewitness (1981), Dragnet (1987), Shadow Dancing (1988), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Wolf (1994), Dolores Claiborne (1995), 12 Monkeys (1995), Syriana (2005), The New World (2005), and The Lake House (2006). In addition, when Rex Harrison was proving impossible to work with for the film adaptation of Doctor Dolittle, Plummer was cast to replace him. Although Harrison persuaded the producers to reverse the decision, Plummer was satisfied by receiving $87,500 just for signing the contract and didn't even miss a performance of his role in the stage play The Royal Hunt of the Sun during this incident.[18]
One of Plummer's most critically acclaimed roles was that of television journalist Mike Wallace in Michael Mann's Oscar-nominated The Insider (1999), for which he won Boston, Los Angeles, and National Society of Film Critics Awards for 'Best Supporting Actor'; he was also nominated for Chicago and Las Vegas Film Critics Awards, as well as a Satellite Award. Predictions of an Oscar nomination circulated, but such recognition only came in January 2010 when Plummer received his first Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of author Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station (2009).[19] Speaking to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in an interview that aired on March 7, 2010,[20] Plummer appeared slightly irritated that it had taken so long to receive a personal Academy Award nomination, saying, "Well, I said it's about time! I mean, I'm 80 years old, for God's sake. Have mercy." Still, on Oscar night, March 7, 2010, Plummer lost the Best Supporting Actor nomination to Christoph Waltz in the Quentin Tarantino 2009 war film Inglourious Basterds.[21] In 2012, he was nominated for his second Academy Award, again for Best Supporting Actor, for his performance in Beginners. He won the award on Oscar night, the 84th edition of the ceremony. This made him, at age 82, the oldest actor to win an Oscar. When he accepted the award, he first responded: "You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?"[22]
Other recent successes include his roles as Dr. Rosen in Ron Howard's Academy Award-winning A Beautiful Mind (2001), Arthur Case in Spike Lee's 2006 film Inside Man, and the philosopher Aristotle in Alexander, alongside Colin Farrell. In 2004, Plummer played John Adams Gates in National Treasure.
Plummer has also done some voice work, such as his role of Henri the pigeon in An American Tail, the villainous Grand Duke of Owls in Rock-a-Doodle, the antagonistic Charles Muntz in Up and the elder leader 1 in the Tim Burton-produced action/science fiction film 9.
In 1963, he was the subject of a short National Film Board of Canada documentary, 30 Minutes, Mister Plummer, directed by Anne Claire Poirier.[23]
In 2011, Plummer appeared in the feature length documentary The Captains. The film, which was written and directed by William Shatner, sees Shatner interview Plummer at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival Theatre where they talk about their young careers, long lasting friendship, and Plummer's role as General Chang in Star Trek VI. The film also mentions how Shatner was Plummer's understudy for a production of Henry V at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival; and that after Plummer had fallen ill, Shatner was forced to take the stage, and thus earned his first big break.[24]
[edit] The Sound of Music
Owing to the box office success and continued popularity of The Sound of Music (1965), Plummer remains best known for his portrayal of Captain Von Trapp, a role he reportedly disliked.[25] He declined to attend the 40th Anniversary cast reunion, but did provide commentary on the 2005 DVD release. Plummer relented in 2010 for the 45th anniversary, and appeared with the full cast on The Oprah Winfrey Show on October 28, 2010.
Said Plummer of the movie and his role in a December 2009 interview, “I was a bit bored with the character (of Captain Von Trapp)," said Plummer. “Although we worked hard enough to make him interesting, it was a bit like flogging a dead horse. And the subject matter is not mine. I mean, it can’t appeal to every person in the world."[1] However, Plummer admits the movie itself was well made and, despite his reservations, is proud to be associated with a film with such mass appeal. "The world has seen (The Sound of Music) so many times. And there’s a whole new generation every year—poor kids—that have to sit through it (laughs). But it was a very well-made movie, and it’s a family movie and we haven't seen a family movie, I don't think, on that scale for ages. I don’t mind that. It just happened to be not my particular cup of tea."[26]
Christopher Plummer made his television debut in the February 1953 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation production of Othello, starring Lorne Green as the Moor.[27] He appeared regularly on American television throughout the 1950s, appearing on both dramatic showcase programs like The Alcoa Hour, G.E. True Theater, Kraft Theatre and Omnibus and episodic series. In 1956, he appeared with Jason Robards and Constance Ford in an episode entitled "A Thief There Was" of CBS's anthology series Appointment with Adventure.
In 1958, he appeared in the TV movie Little Moon of Alban with Julie Harris, for which he received his first Emmy Award nomination. He also appeared with Harris in the 1958 TV adaptation of Johnny Belinda and played Torvald Helmer to Harris' Nora in the 1959 adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. He also starred in the TV adaptations of Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story (1959), Bernard Shaw's Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1960), Jean Anouilh's Time Remembered (playing the role of Prince Albert originated by Richard Burton on Broadway[28]), and Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac (1962). In 1964, his performance of the Gloomy Dane in the BBC production Hamlet at Elsinore garnered his second Emmy nomination.[29] Another notable play he appeared in was the 1974 adaptation of Arthur Miller's After the Fall, in which he played Quentin (a part originated on Broadway by Jason Robards[30]) to Faye Dunaway's Maggie.
He has acted in nearly 100 TV roles in all, including appearances in Jesus of Nazareth, the five-time Emmy Award-winning The Thorn Birds, the Emmy-winning Nuremberg, the Emmy-winning Little Moon of Alban and the Emmy-winning Moneychangers (for which he won his first Emmy as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series).[31]
He co-starred in American Tragedy as F. Lee Bailey (for which he received a Golden Globe Nomination), and appeared in Four Minute Mile, Miracle Planet, and a documentary by Ric Burns about Eugene O'Neill. He received an Emmy nomination for his performance in Our Fathers and reunited with Julie Andrews for a television production of On Golden Pond. He also played Herod Antipas in the miniseries, Jesus of Nazareth and was the narrator for The Gospel of John. He also co-starred with Gregory Peck in The Scarlet and The Black.
He narrated the animated television series Madeline, for which he received an Emmy,[32] as well as the animated television series David the Gnome.
Christopher Plummer has also written for the stage, television and the concert-hall. Plummer and Sir Neville Marriner rearranged Shakespeare’s Henry V with Sir William Walton’s music as a concert piece. They recorded the work with Marriner's chamber orchestra the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
He performed it and other works with the New York Philharmonic and symphony orchestras of London, Washington, D.C., Cleveland, Ohio, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Toronto, Vancouver and Halifax. With Marriner he made his Carnegie Hall debut in his own arrangements of Mendelssohn's incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Plummer has won many honours in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Austria. He was the first winner of Canada's Genie Award, for Best Actor in Murder by Decree (1980) and has received three other Genie nominations. Plummer has won two Tony Awards (from seven nominations), and two Emmy Awards (six nominations) in the United States, and Great Britain's Evening Standard Awards.
In 1968, he was invested as Companion of the Order of Canada, at the time Canada's highest civilian honour. In 2001, he received the Canadian Governor General's Performing Arts Awards for Lifetime Artistic Achievement. He was made an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts at New York's Julliard School and has received honorary doctorates from the University of Toronto, Ryerson University, McGill University, the University of Western Ontario, the University of Ottawa, and most recently the University of Guelph. Plummer was inducted into the American Theatre's Hall of Fame in 1986 and into Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto in 1997.
His awards include the following:
Plummer has been married three times. His first marriage, to Tony Award-winning actress Tammy Grimes, was in 1956 and lasted four years. The couple's daughter, Amanda Plummer (born 1957), is an acclaimed actress in her own right, but (as he mentions in his autobiography) he had no contact with her during her early and teenage years. They now maintain a friendly relationship. Plummer was married to journalist Patricia Lewis from May 4, 1962 until their divorce in 1967. He and his third wife, British dancer and actress Elaine Regina Taylor, have been married since 1970 and live in a 100-year-old converted farm house in Connecticut.[33]
In a 2005 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Plummer maintained that in their early days he and his fellow actors did not drink to excess "because we had problems...Nonsense! Actually, I was taught as a child to drink. I came from a family that loved wine. I was twelve, I think, when I was drinking wine with dinner."
Plummer's memoir, In Spite of Myself,[34] was published by Knopf Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., in November 2008.
| Year |
Film |
Role |
Notes |
| 1958 |
Stage Struck |
Joe Sheridan |
|
| 1958 |
Wind Across the Everglades |
Walt Murdock |
|
| 1958 |
Little Moon of Alban |
Kenneth Boyd |
Nominated – Emmy Award, Best Single Performance by an Actor |
| 1959 |
Doll's House, AA Doll's House |
Torvald Helmer |
|
| 1961 |
Playdate |
Host |
|
| 1962 |
Cyrano de Bergerac |
Cyrano de Bergerac |
|
| 1964 |
Fall of the Roman Empire, TheThe Fall of the Roman Empire |
Commodus |
|
| 1964 |
Hamlet at Elsinore |
Hamlet |
Nominated – Emmy Award, Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama |
| 1965 |
Sound of Music, TheThe Sound of Music |
Captain von Trapp |
|
| 1966 |
Inside Daisy Clover |
Raymond Swan |
|
| 1966 |
Triple Cross |
Eddie Chapman |
|
| 1967 |
Night of the Generals, TheThe Night of the Generals |
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel |
|
| 1968 |
Oedipus the King |
Oedipus |
|
| 1968 |
Nobody Runs Forever |
Sir James Quentin |
|
| 1969 |
Battle of Britain |
Squadron Leader Colin Harvey |
|
| 1969 |
Royal Hunt of the Sun, TheThe Royal Hunt of the Sun |
Atahualpa |
|
| 1969 |
Lock Up Your Daughters! |
Lord Foppington |
|
| 1970 |
Waterloo |
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington |
|
| 1971 |
Don Juan in Hell |
Don Juan |
|
| 1973 |
Pyx, TheThe Pyx |
Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson |
|
| 1974 |
After the Fall |
Quentin |
|
| 1974 |
Happy Prince, TheThe Happy Prince |
The Happy Prince |
|
| 1975 |
Spiral Staircase, TheThe Spiral Staircase |
Dr. Joe Sherman |
|
| 1975 |
Return of the Pink Panther, TheThe Return of the Pink Panther |
Sir Charles Litton |
|
| 1975 |
Conduct Unbecoming |
Maj. Alastair Wimbourne |
|
| 1975 |
Man Who Would Be King, TheThe Man Who Would Be King |
Rudyard Kipling |
|
| 1975 |
Day That Shook the World, TheThe Day That Shook the World |
Archduke Ferdinand of Austria |
|
| 1976 |
Aces High |
Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair |
|
| 1976 |
Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers |
Roscoe Heyward |
Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor – Miniseries or a Movie |
| 1977 |
Jesus of Nazareth |
Herod Antipas |
|
| 1977 |
Assignment, TheThe Assignment |
Captain Behounek |
|
| 1977 |
Disappearance, TheThe Disappearance |
Deverell |
|
| 1977 |
Silver Blaze |
Sherlock Holmes |
|
| 1978 |
Silent Partner, TheThe Silent Partner |
Harry Reikle |
|
| 1978 |
International Velvet |
John Seaton |
|
| 1979 |
Starcrash |
Emperor |
|
| 1979 |
Murder by Decree |
Sherlock Holmes |
Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role |
| 1979 |
Riel |
John A. Macdonald |
|
| 1979 |
Hanover Street |
Paul Sellinger |
|
| 1980 |
Desperate Voyage |
Burrifous |
|
| 1980 |
Shadow Box, TheThe Shadow Box |
Brian |
|
| 1980 |
Somewhere in Time |
William Fawcett Robinson |
|
| 1981 |
When the Circus Came to Town |
Duke Royal |
|
| 1981 |
Eyewitness |
Joseph |
|
| 1981 |
Amateur, TheThe Amateur |
Professor Lakos |
Nominated – Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role |
| 1982 |
Little Gloria... Happy at Last |
Reggie Vanderbilt |
|
| 1983 |
Scarlet and the Black, TheThe Scarlet and the Black |
Col. Herbert Kappler |
|
| 1983 |
Thorn Birds, TheThe Thorn Birds |
Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese |
Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor – Miniseries or a Movie |
| 1983 |
Prototype |
Dr. Carl Forrester |
|
| 1984 |
Lily in Love |
Fitzroy Wynn/Roberto Terranova |
|
| 1984 |
Dreamscape |
Bob Blair |
|
| 1984 |
Highpoint |
James Hatcher |
|
| 1984 |
Terror in the Aisles |
Archival appearance |
|
| 1984 |
Ordeal by Innocence |
Leo Argyle |
|
| 1985 |
Játszani kell |
|
|
| 1985 |
World of David the Gnome, TheThe World of David the Gnome |
|
|
| 1985 |
Rumpelstiltskin |
Narrator |
|
| 1986 |
Boy in Blue, TheThe Boy in Blue |
Knox |
|
| 1986 |
Crossings |
Armand DeVilliers |
|
| 1986 |
Boss' Wife, TheThe Boss' Wife |
Mr. Roalvang |
|
| 1986 |
American Tail, AnAn American Tail |
Henri |
Voice talent |
| 1986 |
Spearfield's Daughter |
Lord Jack Cruze |
|
| 1986 |
Vampire in Venice |
Professor Paris Catalano |
|
| 1987 |
Dragnet |
Reverend Jonathan Whirley |
|
| 1987 |
Hazard of Hearts, AA Hazard of Hearts |
Sir Giles Staverley |
|
| 1987 |
Man Who Planted Trees, TheThe Man Who Planted Trees |
Narrator |
|
| 1987 |
Gnomes' Great Adventure, TheThe Gnomes' Great Adventure |
Narrator |
|
| 1988 |
Light Years |
Metamorphis |
|
| 1988 |
Shadow Dancing |
Edmund Beaumont |
|
| 1988 |
Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind, TheThe Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind |
Narrator |
|
| 1988 |
I Love N.Y. |
John Robertson Yeats |
|
| 1989 |
Souvenir |
Ernst Kestner |
|
| 1989 |
Nabokov on Kafka |
Vladimir Nabokov |
|
| 1989 |
Mindfield |
Doctor Satorius |
|
| 1989 |
Kingsgate |
|
|
| 1990 |
Where the Heart Is |
Jerry |
|
| 1990 |
Ghost in Monte Carlo, AA Ghost in Monte Carlo |
The Grand Duke Ivan |
|
| 1990 |
Red Blooded American Girl |
Dr. John Alcore |
|
| 1990 |
Money |
Martin Yahl |
|
| 1990 |
Madeline |
Narrator |
|
| 1990 |
Counterstrike |
Alexander Addington |
|
| 1991 |
Firehead |
Col. Garland Vaughn |
|
| 1991 |
Young Catherine |
Sir Charles |
|
| 1991 |
Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, AA Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz |
Alfred Stieglitz |
|
| 1991 |
Rock-a-Doodle |
Grand Duke |
Voice talent |
| 1991 |
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country |
General Chang |
|
| 1991 |
Berlin Lady |
Wilhem Speer |
|
| 1991 |
First Circle, TheThe First Circle |
Victor Abakumov |
|
| 1992 |
Secrets |
Mel Wexler |
|
| 1992 |
Impolite |
Naples O'Rorke |
Nominated – Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role |
| 1992 |
Malcolm X |
Chaplain Gill |
|
| 1992 |
Liar's Edge |
Harry Weldon |
|
| 1993 |
Sidney Sheldon's A Stranger in the Mirror |
Clifton Lawrence |
|
| 1993 |
Little Crooked Christmas Tree, TheThe Little Crooked Christmas Tree |
|
|
| 1993 |
Madeline |
|
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance |
| 1994 |
Wolf |
Raymond Alden |
|
| 1994 |
Crackerjack |
Ivan Getz |
|
| 1995 |
Dolores Claiborne |
Det. John Mackey |
|
| 1995 |
Harrison Bergeron |
John Klaxon |
|
| 1995 |
12 Monkeys |
Dr. Goines |
|
| 1996 |
We the Jury |
Wilfred Fransiscus |
|
| 1996 |
Skeletons |
R. Carlyle |
|
| 1996 |
Conspiracy of Fear, TheThe Conspiracy of Fear |
Joseph Wakeman |
|
| 1997 |
Arrow, TheThe Arrow |
George Hees |
|
| 1997 |
Babes in Toyland |
Barnaby Crookedman |
Voice talent |
| 1998 |
Winchell |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
|
| 1998 |
Hidden Agenda |
Ulrich Steiner |
|
| 1998 |
First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow, TheThe First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow |
Narrator |
|
| 1998 |
Clown at Midnight, TheThe Clown at Midnight |
Mr. Caruthers |
|
| 1999 |
Celebrate the Century |
|
|
| 1999 |
Madeline: Lost in Paris |
Narrator |
|
| 1999 |
Insider, TheThe Insider |
Mike Wallace |
Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture |
| 2000 |
Nuremberg |
Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe |
|
| 2000 |
Dinosaur Hunter, TheThe Dinosaur Hunter |
Hump Hinton |
|
| 2000 |
Possessed |
Archbishop Hume |
|
| 2000 |
American Tragedy |
F. Lee Bailey |
Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film |
| 2000 |
Dracula 2000 |
Abraham Van Helsing |
|
| 2000 |
Star Trek: Klingon Academy |
General Chang |
Video game voiceover |
| 2001 |
Leo's Journey |
Narrator |
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| 2001 |
On Golden Pond |
Norman Thayer |
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| 2001 |
Lucky Break |
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| 2001 |
Blackheart |
Holmes |
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| 2001 |
Beautiful Mind, AA Beautiful Mind |
Dr. Rosen |
Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture |
| 2001 |
Full Disclosure |
Robert Lecker |
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| 2002 |
Night Flight |
'Flash' Harry Peters |
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| 2002 |
Ararat |
David |
Nominated – Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role |
| 2002 |
Agent of Influence |
John Watkins |
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| 2002 |
Nicholas Nickleby |
Ralph Nickleby |
National Board of Review Award for Best Cast |
| 2002 |
Tma |
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| 2003 |
Blizzard |
Santa Claus |
Nominated – Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role |
| 2003 |
Gospel of John, TheThe Gospel of John |
Narrator |
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| 2003 |
Cold Creek Manor |
Mr. Massie |
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| 2004 |
National Treasure |
John Adams Gates |
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| 2004 |
Alexander |
Aristotle |
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| 2005 |
Our Fathers |
Cardinal Bernard Law |
Television film
Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor – Miniseries or a Movie
Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie |
| 2005 |
Must Love Dogs |
Bill Nolan |
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| 2005 |
Syriana |
Dean Whiting |
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| 2005 |
New World, TheThe New World |
Captain Newport |
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| 2006 |
Inside Man |
Arthur Case |
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| 2006 |
Lake House, TheThe Lake House |
Simon Wyler |
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| 2007 |
Man in the Chair |
Flash Madden |
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| 2007 |
Closing the Ring |
Jack |
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| 2007 |
Emotional Arithmetic |
David Winters |
Nominated – Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role |
| 2007 |
Already Dead |
Dr. Heller |
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| 2008 |
Summit, TheThe Summit |
P.J. Aimes |
TV Miniseries: 2 Episodes |
| 2009 |
Caesar and Cleaopatra |
Julius Caesar |
also executive producer |
| 2009 |
Up |
Charles Muntz |
voice talent |
| 2009 |
My Dog Tulip |
J. R. Ackerley |
voice talent |
| 2009 |
9 |
1 |
voice talent |
| 2009 |
Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, TheThe Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus |
Doctor Parnassus |
|
| 2009 |
Last Station, TheThe Last Station |
Leo Tolstoy |
Nominated – Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
Nominated – Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male
Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role |
| 2011 |
Priest |
Monsignor Orelas |
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| 2011 |
Beginners |
Hal |
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor[35]
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Detroit Film Critics Society for Best Supporting Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
Hollywood Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actor
Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male
Indiana Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor
Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor
Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Nominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – Houston Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor (runner-up)
Nominated – Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
Nominated – Utah Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor (runner-up)
Nominated – Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor[36] |
| 2011 |
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, TheThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
Henrik Vanger |
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| 2011 |
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim |
Arngeir |
Video game voiceover |
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| Name |
Plummer, Christopher |
| Alternative names |
Plummer, Arthur Christopher Orme |
| Short description |
Actor |
| Date of birth |
1929-12-13 |
| Place of birth |
Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Date of death |
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