Christopher Plummer

Highest Rated: 100% The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

Lowest Rated: 10% Where the Heart Is (1990)

Birthday: Dec 13, 1929

Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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 credits are JB, Royal Hunt of the Sun and The Good Doctor), efforts were made to convert Plummer into an American matinee idol, most of these attempts were resisted by Plummer himself. His first two films, Stage Struck (1957) and Wind Across the Everglades (1958), set no new box office records, although the latter, directed by Nicholas Ray, did earn strong critical notices. Plummer was shown to better advantage in such live network-TV presentations as The Prisoner of Zenda and A Doll's House.In 1965, the actor was cast as Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music, an assignment he despised, reportedly referring to the musical blockbuster as The Sound of Mucus. Nonetheless, and as Plummer has ruefully noted on many occasions, this one film did more to make the actor bankable in Hollywood than any previous effort. He went on to do steady, if varied, work throughout the rest of the century. Among Plummer's more notable films were The Return of the Pink Panther (1974), the British Empire extravaganza The Man W ho Would Be King (1975), 1979's Murder by Decree (in which he starred as Sherlock Holmes), Somewhere in Time (1980), the legendary 1983 miniseries The Thorn Birds, 1991's Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, and 1995's Dolores Claiborne and Twelve Monkeys. In 1999, Plummer received some of the strongest notices of his career for his uncannily accurate portrayal of 60 Minutes anchor Mike Wallace in Michael Mann's The Insider. Throughout his long career, the actor has won many awards, including Tonys for the musical Cyrano and the one-man stage show Barrymore, and an Emmy for his work in the TV miniseries The Moneychangers. Genie nominated for performances in the films Ararat and Blizzard in 2002 and 2003 respectively, Plummer and his daughter Amanda were both nominated for Emmy awards for their television performances in 2005. Though the father would ultimately walk away empty-handed, the award would stay in the family when Amanda was bestowed the honor for her memorable guest appearance in an episode of Law and Order: Special Victim's Unit. With roles in such high profile theatrical releases including The New World, Inside Man, and The Lake House keeping Plummer very much in the spotlight, it was obvious that his talent and passion for acting were still as strong as ever. 2009 turned out to be one of his busiest and most successful years in a very long time. In addition to appearing in Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, Plummer voiced the bad guy in Pixar's mega hit Up, and portrayed the legendary author Leo Tolstoy in Michael Hoffman's The Last Station. His work in that film, opposite Helen Mirren, earned the Canadian his first Academy Award nomination, as well as nods from the Screen Actors Guild, the Golden Globes, and the Independent Spirit Awards.He followed up and improved on that awards success in 2011 with his role as a senior citizen who comes out of the closet in Beginners. That performance garnered him the Screen Actors Guild award for Best Supporting Actor, as well as an Oscar in that same category. He also scored a box-office success as the head of the feuding Vanger clan in David Fincher's adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.Talent seems to run in Plummer's family: he and first wife, actress Tammy Grimes, are the parents of acclaimed actress Amanda Plummer.

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Filmography

Movies

		Credit
59%	The Last Full Measure	Frank Pitsenbarger	—	2020
97%	Knives Out	Harlan Thrombey	—	2019
No Score Yet	Cliffs of Freedom	Thanasi	—	2019
51%	Boundaries	Jack Jaconi	—	2018
No Score Yet	Limites	Jack Jaconi	—	2018
No Score Yet	En famille	Actor	—	2018
79%	All the Money in the World	J. Paul Getty	$20.2M	2017
79%	The Man Who Invented Christmas	Ebenezer Scrooge	$5.7M	2017
42%	The Star	King Herod	$40.5M	2017
75%	The Exception (The Kaiser's Last Kiss)	Kaiser Wilhelm II	$0.8M	2017
No Score Yet	Howard Lovecraft and the Undersea Kingdom	Dr. West	—	2017
70%	Remember	Zev	$0.5M	2016
No Score Yet	Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom	Actor	—	2016
No Score Yet	Pixies	The Pixie King	—	2015
77%	Danny Collins	Frank Grubman	$4.3M	2015
32%	Elsa & Fred	Fred	—	2014
37%	Hector And The Search For Happiness	Professor Coreman	—	2014
No Score Yet	Caesar & Cleopatra	Actor	—	2014
No Score Yet	The Metropolitan Opera: Ceasar & Cleopatra	Executive Producer Caesar	—	2014
No Score Yet	The Legend of Sarila	Croolik	—	2013
38%	Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight	John Harlan II	—	2013
No Score Yet	Titans Of The Ice Age 3D	Narrator	—	2013
70%	Barrymore	Executive Producer John Barrymore	—	2012
No Score Yet	The Tempest Starring Christopher Plummer	Actor	—	2012
67%	The Tempest	Actor	—	2012
86%	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Henrik Vanger	$102.6M	2011
85%	Beginners	Hal	$5.8M	2011
No Score Yet	Sing-a-long-a Sound Of Music	Actor	—	2011
15%	Priest	Monsignor Orelas	$29.2M	2011
No Score Yet	The Tempest	Actor	—	2010
90%	My Dog Tulip	J.R. Ackerley	$0.3M	2010
71%	The Last Station	Leo Tolstoy	$6.6M	2010
64%	The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus	Doctor Parnassus	$7.6M	2009
57%	9	#1	$31.7M	2009
98%	Up	Charles Muntz	$293M	2009
No Score Yet	Already Dead	Dr. Heller	—	2008
No Score Yet	Madeline: Meet Me in Paris	Actor	—	2008
33%	Closing the Ring	Jack	—	2007
49%	Man in the Chair	Glenn 'Flash' Madden	—	2007
No Score Yet	Autumn Hearts: A New Beginning	David Winters	—	2007
No Score Yet	The Sound Of Music Sing-Along Edition	Actor	—	2007
No Score Yet	Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing Their Crimes	Narrator	—	2007
35%	The Lake House	Simon Wyler	$52.4M	2006
86%	Inside Man	Arthur Case	$88.5M	2006
No Score Yet	Alexander Revisited: Final Cut	Aristotle	—	2006
73%	Syriana	Dean Whiting	$50.9M	2005
No Score Yet	Four Minutes	Coach Archie Mason	—	2005
36%	Must Love Dogs	Bill	$43.9M	2005
No Score Yet	Our Fathers	Cardinal Bernard Law	—	2005
63%	The New World	Captain Christopher Newport	$12.5M	2005
16%	Alexander	Aristotle	$34.3M	2004
No Score Yet	Alexander: The Ultimate Cut	Aristotle	—	2004
46%	National Treasure	John Adams Gates	$173M	2004
67%	Blizzard	Santa Claus	—	2003
12%	Cold Creek Manor	Mr. Massie	—	2003
37%	The Gospel of John	Narrator	$3.9M	2003
78%	Nicholas Nickleby	Ralph Nickleby	$1.4M	2002
55%	Ararat	David	—	2002
48%	Lucky Break	Graham Mortimer	—	2002
No Score Yet	Agent of Influence	Actor	—	2002
74%	A Beautiful Mind	Dr. Rosen	—	2001
No Score Yet	Blackheart	Holmes	—	2001
17%	Dracula 2000	Van Helsing	$32.7M	2000
No Score Yet	Possessed	Archbishop Hume	—	2000
No Score Yet	The Dinosaur Hunter	Actor	—	2000
No Score Yet	Nuremberg	David Maxwell-Fyfe	—	2000
No Score Yet	American Tragedy	Actor	—	2000
No Score Yet	The Dinosaur Hunter	Hump	—	2000
No Score Yet	Hollywood Screen Tests	Actor	—	2000
96%	The Insider	Mike Wallace	—	1999
No Score Yet	Hidden Agenda	Actor	—	1999
No Score Yet	Madeline: Lost in Paris	Actor	—	1999
No Score Yet	Full Disclosure	Actor	—	1999
No Score Yet	The Clown at Midnight	Mr. Caruthers	—	1999
83%	Winchell	Franklin D. Roosevelt	—	1998
No Score Yet	The Conspiracy of Fear	Wakeman	—	1998
No Score Yet	Babes in Toyland	Barnaby Crookedman	—	1997
No Score Yet	The Arrow	Actor	—	1997
No Score Yet	Skeletons	Rev. Carlyle	—	1997
No Score Yet	Yanni: Tribute	Narrator	—	1997
90%	Twelve Monkeys (12 Monkeys)	Dr. Goines	—	1995
No Score Yet	Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron	Klaxon	—	1995
84%	Dolores Claiborne	Det. John Mackey	—	1995
60%	Wolf	Raymond Alden	—	1994
No Score Yet	CrackerJack	Ivan Getz	—	1994
88%	Malcolm X	Chaplain Gill	—	1992
No Score Yet	Impolite	Naples O'Rourke	—	1992
20%	Rock-a-Doodle	Grand Duke	—	1992
No Score Yet	The First Circle	Actor	—	1992
No Score Yet	Liar's Edge	Harry	—	1992
81%	Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country	Gen. Chang	—	1991
No Score Yet	Danielle Steel's 'Secrets'	Mel Wexler	—	1991
36%	Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead	Howard	—	1991
No Score Yet	Firehead	Colonel Garland Vaughn	—	1991
No Score Yet	Young Catherine	Sir Charles	—	1991
No Score Yet	Miracle Planet	Actor	—	1990
No Score Yet	Red Blooded American Girl	Dr. Alcore	—	1990
No Score Yet	A Ghost in Monte Carlo	The Grand Duke	—	1990
No Score Yet	First Emperor of China: IMAX	Actor	—	1990
10%	Where the Heart Is	Homeless Gent	—	1990
No Score Yet	Mindfield	Doctor Satorius	—	1989
No Score Yet	The First Emperor of China	Actor	—	1989
No Score Yet	L'Homme qui plantait des arbres (The Man Who Planted Trees)	Actor	—	1988
No Score Yet	Nosferatu a Venezia (Nosferatu in Venice) (Vampire in Venice)	Paris Catalano	—	1988
No Score Yet	Gandahar (Light Years)	Metamorphis	—	1988
No Score Yet	Shadow Dancing	Edmund Beaumont	—	1988
No Score Yet	Making of a Legend: Gone With the Wind	Actor	—	1988
No Score Yet	Souvenir	Ernst Kestner	—	1988
No Score Yet	I Love N.Y.	John Robertson Yeats	—	1987
No Score Yet	The Happy Prince	Actor	—	1987
No Score Yet	National Geographic	Actor	—	1987
No Score Yet	The Gnomes' Great Adventure	Actor	—	1987
51%	Dragnet	Whirley	—	1987
70%	An American Tail	Henri	—	1986
No Score Yet	The Boss' Wife	Mr. Roalvang	—	1986
No Score Yet	The Boy in Blue	Knox	—	1986
No Score Yet	Tin Soldier	Narrator	—	1986
No Score Yet	Ordeal by Innocence	Leo Argyle	—	1985
No Score Yet	Lily in Love	Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova	—	1985
No Score Yet	The Final Chapter?	Actor	—	1985
77%	Dreamscape	Bob Blair	—	1984
No Score Yet	Little Gloria...Happy at Last	Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt	—	1984
No Score Yet	Prototype	Dr. Carl Forrester	—	1983
No Score Yet	The Scarlet and the Black	Col. Herbert Kappler	—	1983
No Score Yet	The Amateur	Professor Lakos	—	1982
No Score Yet	Little Gloria: Happy at Last	Actor	—	1982
No Score Yet	Dial M for Murder	Tony Wendice	—	1981
75%	Eyewitness	Joseph	—	1981
No Score Yet	Being Different	Narrator	—	1981
No Score Yet	The Gnomes	Actor	—	1980
61%	Somewhere in Time	William Fawcett Robinson	—	1980
No Score Yet	The Shadow Box	Brian	—	1980
29%	Starcrash	The Emperor	—	1979
88%	Murder by Decree	Sherlock Holmes	—	1979
No Score Yet	Arthur Miller on Home Ground	Actor	—	1979
57%	Hanover Street	Paul Sellinger	—	1979
No Score Yet	Riel	Actor	—	1979
No Score Yet	Highpoint	James Hatcher	—	1979
67%	The Silent Partner	Harry Reikle	—	1978
No Score Yet	International Velvet	John Seaton	—	1978
No Score Yet	The Assignment	Captain Behounek	—	1977
No Score Yet	Aces High	Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair	—	1976
97%	The Man Who Would Be King	Kipling	—	1975
60%	Conduct Unbecoming	Maj. Alastair Wimbourne	—	1975
84%	The Return of the Pink Panther	Sir Charles	—	1975
No Score Yet	The Spiral Staircase	Dr. Joe Sherman	—	1975
No Score Yet	The Hooker Cult Murders	Jim Henderson	—	1973
27%	Waterloo	Wellington	—	1970
67%	Battle of Britain	Squadron Leader Colin Harvey	—	1969
No Score Yet	Royal Hunt of the Sun	Atahualpa	—	1969
No Score Yet	The High Commissioner	Sir James Quentin	—	1968
50%	The Night of the Generals	Field Marshal Rommel	—	1967
No Score Yet	Oedipus The King	Actor	—	1967
No Score Yet	Triple Cross	Eddie Chapman/"Fritz Grauman"	—	1967
36%	Inside Daisy Clover	Raymond Swan	—	1966
84%	The Sound of Music	Capt. von Trapp	—	1965
100%	The Fall of the Roman Empire	Commodius	—	1964
No Score Yet	Wind Across the Everglades	Walt Murdock	—	1958
No Score Yet	Stage Struck	Joe Sheridan	—	1958

TV

		Credit
No Score Yet	The View 1997	Guest	2018
No Score Yet	Shakespeare Uncovered 2013-2018	Host	2018 2015 2013
No Score Yet	Charlie Rose 2013-2017	Guest	2017 2011
No Score Yet	Conan 2010	Guest	2015
No Score Yet	Great Performances 2000	John Barrymore	2014
No Score Yet	The Talk 2010	Guest	2014
No Score Yet	The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2003	Guest	2012
No Score Yet	Sunday Morning 2011-2018	Appearing	2011
No Score Yet	American Experience 1988	Voice Narrator	2006
No Score Yet	Nature 1982	Narrator	2003
No Score Yet	The World of David the Gnome 1985-1988	Narrator	1998 1988
No Score Yet	Madeline 1989-1996	Narrator	1995 1994 1993 1989
No Score Yet	The Cosby Show 1984-1992	Jonathan Lawrence	1987
No Score Yet	Jesus of Nazareth 1977	Herod Antipas	1977
No Score Yet	The Thorn Birds 1983	Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese

QUOTES FROM Christopher Plummer CHARACTERS

Zev says: Your voice has not changed.

Zev says: I must finish. I must.

Zev says: A Nazi is a bad person.

Wellington says: Napoleon is not a gentleman.

Duchess of Richmond says: What an Englishman you are!

Wellington says: On the battlefield his hat is worth fifty thousand men. But he's not a gentleman!

Henri says: Qu'est-ce que c'est? A little immigrant. Now they are coming by bottle.

Fievel Mousekewitz says: Henri, what's that over there?

Henri says: Oh, that is more America.

Fievel Mousekewitz says: Can we go see it?

Henri says: You will, my little American. Someday, you will.

General Chang says: To be... or not to be?

Leo Tolstoy says: Despite good cause for it, I have never stopped loving you.

Sofya Tolstoy says: Of course

Leo Tolstoy says: But God knows you don't make it easy

Sofya Tolstoy says: Why should it be easy? I am the work of your life, you are the work of mine. That's what love is

Leo Tolstoy says: She simply spoke the phrase, my phrase as if she had read my mind. In that moment, we both knew we would always be together. And for those first years, we were incredibly, terrifyingly, happy.

Hal says: I said - look I love you and we’re great buddies but you know what I am. And then she says, that doesn’t matter. I’ll fix that.

Hal says: I said look I love you and we're great buddies but you know what I am. And then she says, that doesn't matter. I'll fix that.

John Klaxon says: Can you imagine how I must feel? Knowing that I am striving to create a world in which no Beethoven will ever be born?

Van Helsing says: He hates God. He is repulsed by all things Christian. But these things do not kill him, no. They only fill him with a rage.

Van Helsing says: For the first time I believe that there is someone else in the world like him, and he senses it. He senses his own blood.

#1 says: Sometimes fear...is the appropriate response.

Captain Von Trapp says: You must find your life

Captain Von Trapp says: You must find your life.

Roberto Terranova says: One look at the wife and you know what the husband is like.

Rosanna says: What?

Roberto Terranova says: Blind.

Roberto Terranova says: I'd chuck all this Elizabethan muck if I could just once make it big on the screen.

General Chang says: We need breathing room.

James T. Kirk says: Earth, Hitler, 1938.

John Barrymore says: What's the line?! What's the line?!

John Barrymore says: I don't have to tell you that divorces cost more than marriages... But god damn it they're worth it!

Charles Muntz says: comon fredrickson spit it out

Charles Muntz says: Come on Fredricksen spit it out.

Carl Fredricksen says: (fredrickson spits false teeth at charles muntz)

Carl Fredricksen says: [Fredricksen spits false teeth at Charles Muntz]

#9 says: I was right! You did send him out to die!

#1 says: He was old! He was weak!

#5 says: *gasp*

#1 says: Sometimes one must be sacrificed for the good of many.

#7 says: You coward!

Hal says: You give very good relationship advice despite being so alone.

Herr Zeller says: I've not asked you where you and your family are going. Nor have you asked me why I am here.

Captain Von Trapp says: Well, apparently, we're both suffering from a deplorable lack of curiosity.

Henrik Vanger says: The man who hires the detective should always be kept in the suspect list.

General Chang says: We need breathing room.

James T. Kirk says: Earth. Hitler, 1938.

Mother Abbess says: Maria, these walls were not meant to shut out problems. You have to face them. You have to live the life you were born to live.

Kurt says: I wonder what grass tastes like.

Captain Von Trapp says: You brought music back into the house. I had forgotten.

Frau Schmidt says: The Von Trapp children don't play. They march.

Captain Von Trapp says: If the Nazis take over Austria, I have no doubt, Herr Zeller, that you will be the entire trumpet section.

Kurt says: Only grown-up men are scared of women.

Maria von Trapp says: When the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.

#1 says: They left us nothing. Nothing. Why do we have to right their wrongs?

General Chang says: Don't wait for the translation! Answer me now!

General Chang says: In space, all warriors are cold warriors.

Lord Richard Hay says: If you would take the men into your confidence....

Wellington says: If I thought my hair knew what my brain was thinking, I'd shave it off and wear a wig.

Henrik Vanger says: You will be investigating thieves, bullies... the most detestable collection of people that you will ever meet. My family.

Hal says: I don't want to just be theoretically gay. I want to do something about it.

Wellington says: I don't need a white horse to puff ME up, by God!

Sherlock Holmes says: When people are frightened, they turn to God. When they have no help from Him, they look to the Devil.

Henrik Vanger says: You will be investigating thieves, misers, bullies. The most detestable collection of people that youï»¿ will ever meet... MY FAMILY.

Henrik Vanger says: You will be investigating thieves, misers, bullies. The most detestable collection of people that you will ever meet... MY FAMILY.

Mikael Blomkvist says: [look's at framed flower's, then at Henrik] Who know's about this?

Henrik Vanger says: Just me, the police, the killer, and know.... you.

Henrik Vanger says: Just me, the police, the killer, and now.... you.

Henrik Vanger says: This is Harriet, someone in the family murdered her. And for the past 40 year's, has been trying to drive me insane.

Henrik Vanger says: You will be investigating thief's, misers, bullies, the most detestable collection of people that you will ever meet... my family.

Monsignor Orelas says: To go against the church is to go against god.

Leonard "Bones" McCoy says: We got a heartbeat! Lock and load, she's ready Jim!

James T. Kirk says: Fire!

General Chang says: To be... or not... to be...

Hikaru Sulu says: Target that explosion and fire.

General Chang says: I am constant as the northern star!

Leonard "Bones" McCoy says: I'd give real money if he'd shut up...

General Chang says: I am constant as the northern star!

Leonard "Bones" McCoy says: I'd give real money if he'd shut up...

Monsignor Orelas says: THE WAR IS OVER, PRIEST!

Priest says: No, it is JUST beginning!

Henrik Vanger says: Soon, you will know us all too well. With my apologies.

Charles Muntz says: Adventure is out there!

Henrik Vanger says: Soon you will know us all only, too well, with my apologies.

Dr. Rosen says: Imagine if you suddenly learned that the people, the places, the moments most important to you were not gone, not dead, but worse, had never been. What kind of hell would that be?

Hal says: Well let's say... let's say since you were little, and you've always dreamed of someday getting a lion. And you wait, and you wait, and you wait, and you wait and the lion doesn't come. Then along comes a giraffe. You can be alone, or you can be with the giraffe.

Oliver says: I'd wait for the lion.

Hal says: That's why I worry about you.

J.R. Ackerley says: Dogs read the world through their noses and write their history in urine.

The Emperor says: "Imperial Battleship, halt the flow of time!"

The Emperor says: Imperial Battleship, halt the flow of time!

Hal says: Okay. House, music.

Captain Von Trapp says: Fraulein, is it to be at every meal, or merely at dinnertime, that you intend on leading us all through this rare and wonderful new world of... indigestion?