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Christopher Plummer

Highest Rated:
100% The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
Lowest Rated:
11% Where the Heart Is (1990)
Birthday:
Dec 13, 1929
Birthplace:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Bio:
From his 1950 debut onward, Christopher Plummer has been regarded as one of the most brilliant Canadian actors of his generation. His portrayal of Hamlet was a major ratings coup when telecast over the CBC in the early '60s. Following his first Broadway appearance in 1954 (among his New York stage…

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 11% - 100%
Number of Movies: 137
Box Office Since 2001: $1160.0M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2011 Barrymore
  • Actor
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2011 84% Beginners
  • Hal
$5.8M
2011 87% The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  • Henrik Vanger
$99.9M
2011 17% Priest
  • Monsignor Orelas
$29.1M
2010 The Tempest
  • Actor
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2010 The Metropolitan Opera: Ceasar & Cleopatra
  • Actor
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2010 29% The Tempest
  • Prospero
$0.3M
2009 90% My Dog Tulip
  • J.R. Ackerley
$0.2M
2009 98% Up
  • Charles Muntz
$293.0M
2009 70% The Last Station
  • Leo Tolstoy
$6.2M
2009 64% The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
  • Doctor Parnassus
$7.5M
2009 57% 9
  • #1
$31.7M
2007 Already Dead
  • Actor
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2007 Autumn Hearts: A New Beginning
  • David Winters
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2007 46% Man in the Chair
  • Flash Madden
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2007 31% Closing the Ring
  • Jack Etty
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2007 Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing Their Crimes
  • Narrator
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2006 86% Inside Man
  • Arthur Case
$88.4M
2006 36% The Lake House
  • Simon Wyler
$52.3M
2005 34% Must Love Dogs
  • Bill
$43.8M
2005 61% The New World
  • Capt. Christopher Newport
$12.5M
2005 72% Syriana
  • Dean Whiting
$50.8M
2005 The First Christmas
  • Actor
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2005 Our Fathers
  • Cardinal Bernard Law
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2005 Four Minutes
  • Archie Mason
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2004 16% Alexander
  • Aristotle
$34.3M
2004 44% National Treasure
  • John Adams Gates
$173.0M
2003 12% Cold Creek Manor
  • Mr. Massie
$21.3M
2003 36% The Visual Bible: The Gospel of John
  • Narrator
$3.9M
2003 60% Blizzard
  • Santa
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2002 First Circle
  • Actor
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2002 77% Nicholas Nickleby
  • Uncle Ralph Nickleby
$1.3M
2002 56% Ararat
  • David
$1.4M
2001 48% Lucky Break
  • Graham Mortimer
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2001 78% A Beautiful Mind
  • Dr. Rosen
$170.7M
2000 Possessed
  • Actor
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2000 14% Dracula 2000
  • Actor
$32.7M
2000 The Dinosaur Hunter
  • Actor
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2000 American Tragedy
  • Actor
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2000 Full Disclosure
  • Actor
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2000 Dinosaur Hunter
  • Actor
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2000 Hollywood Screen Tests
  • Actor
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2000 Nuremberg
  • Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe
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1999 96% The Insider
  • Mike Wallace
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1998 80% Winchell
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
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1998 Blackheart
  • Actor
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1998 The Clown at Midnight
  • Actor
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1998 Hidden Agenda
  • Actor
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1997 Skeletons
  • Actor
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1997 Babes in Toyland
  • Barnaby Crookedman
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1996 The Conspiracy of Fear
  • Wakeman
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1996 The Arrow
  • Actor
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1995 88% Twelve Monkeys (12 Monkeys)
  • Dr. Goines
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1995 Harrison Bergeron
  • John Klaxon
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1995 82% Dolores Claiborne
  • Detective John Mackey
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1994 61% Wolf
  • Raymond Alden
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1994 Crackerjack
  • Ivan Getz
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1993 Impolite
  • Naples O'Rourke
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1992 91% Malcolm X
  • Chaplain Gill
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1992 Liar's Edge
  • Harry Weldon
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1992 25% Rock-A-Doodle
  • The Duke
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1992 Secrets
  • Actor
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1991 83% Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country
  • General Chang
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1991 The First Circle
  • Actor
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1991 Palomino
  • Actor
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1991 Young Catherine
  • Sir Charles
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1991 31% Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
  • Howard
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1990 Red Blooded American Girl
  • Dr. Alcore
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1990 Miracle Planet
  • Actor
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1990 First Emperor of China: IMAX
  • Actor
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1990 Firehead
  • Colonel Garland Vaughn
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1990 Money
  • Martin Yahl
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1990 11% Where the Heart Is
  • Homeless Gent
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1990 Nabokov on Kafka: Understanding "The Metamorphosis"
  • Actor
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1989 Mindfield
  • Doctor Satorius
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1988 Gandahar (Light Years)
  • Actor
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1988 Shadow Dancing
  • Edmund Beaumont
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1988 Souvenir
  • Ernst Kestner
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1988 Making of a Legend: Gone With the Wind
  • Actor
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1988 Nosferatu a Venezia (Nosferatu in Venice) (Vampire in Venice)
  • Actor
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1987 46% Dragnet
  • Rev. Jonathan Whirley
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1987 A Hazard of Hearts
  • Sir Giles Staverly
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1987 Happy Prince
  • Actor
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1987 I Love N.y.
  • John R. Yeats
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1987 L'Homme qui plantait des arbres (The Man Who Planted Trees)
  • Actor
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1986 The Boss' Wife
  • Mr. Roalvang
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1986 The Boy in Blue
  • Knox
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1986 64% An American Tail
  • Henri
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1986 Cannon Movie Tales: Rumpelstiltskin
  • Actor
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1986 Tin Soldier
  • Actor
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1985 Final Chapter
  • Actor
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1985 Lily in Love
  • Roberto Terranova
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1984 Little Gloria
  • Reggie Vanderbilt
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1984 Highpoint
  • Actor
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1984 78% Dreamscape
  • Robert Blair
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1984 Ordeal by Innocence
  • Leo Argyle
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1983 Prototype
  • Dr. Carl Forrester
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1983 The Scarlet and the Black (The Vatican Pimpernel)
  • Colonel Herbert Kappler
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1982 The Amateur
  • Professor Lakos
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1982 Little Gloria: Happy at Last
  • Actor
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1981 80% Eyewitness
  • Joseph
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1981 Dial M for Murder
  • Tony Wendice
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1981 Being Different
  • Narrator
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1980 63% Somewhere in Time
  • William Fawcett Robinson
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1980 Shadow Box
  • Actor
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1979 Riel
  • Actor
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1979 57% Hanover Street
  • Paul Sellinger
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1979 Female Space Invaders
  • Actor
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1979 86% Murder by Decree
  • Sherlock Holmes
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1978 The Silent Partner
  • Harry Reikle
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1978 33% Starcrash
  • The Emperor
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1978 International Velvet
  • John Seaton
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1977 Jesus of Nazareth
  • Herod Antipas
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1976 Aces High
  • Sinclair
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1975 96% The Man Who Would Be King
  • Rudyard Kipling
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1975 88% The Return of the Pink Panther
  • Sir Charles Litton
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1975 The Day That Shook The World
  • Ferdinand
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1975 Conduct Unbecoming
  • Maj. Alastair Wimbourne
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1975 The Spiral Staircase
  • Prof. Sherman
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1973 The Hooker Cult Murders
  • Jim Henderson
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1973 The Pyx (The Hooker Cult Murders)
  • Actor
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1970 Waterloo
  • Wellington
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1969 63% Battle of Britain
  • Squadron Leader Colin Harvey
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1969 Royal Hunt of the Sun
  • Atahuallpa
  • Director
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1968 The High Commissioner
  • Sir James Quentin
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1967 Oedipus The King
  • Actor
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1967 Triple Cross
  • Eddie Chapman/"Fritz Grauman"
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1967 The Night of the Generals
  • Field Marshal Rommel
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1965 Inside Daisy Clover
  • Raymond Swan
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1965 84% The Sound of Music
  • Captain Von Trapp
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1964 100% The Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Commodius
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1964 94% My Fair Lady
  • Actor
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1960 The Disappearance
  • Deverell
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1958 Wind Across the Everglades
  • Actor
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1957 Stage Struck
  • Joe Sheridan
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Nightingale
  • Actor
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Assignment
  • Actor
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Quotes from Christopher Plummer's Characters

    1. Henrik Vanger: You will be investigating thieves, misers, bullies. The most detestable collection of people that you will ever meet... MY FAMILY.
    From The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Submitted by Alex M (18 days ago)
    1. Mikael Blomkvist: [look's at framed flower's, then at Henrik] Who know's about this?
    2. Henrik Vanger: Just me, the police, the killer, and know.... you.
    From The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Submitted by Ben C (20 days ago)
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