Christopher Plummer

Career timeline

1. 1929 · Born

   Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2. 1948 · Screen debut

   Studio One (TV)

3. 2001 · Breakthrough

   A Beautiful Mind (Movie)

4. 2020 · Latest release

   The Last Full Measure (Movie)

5. 2021 · Died

   February 5, 2021

Career in numbers

2 1940s

5 1950s

7 1960s

9 1970s

12 1980s

8 1990s

17 2000s

14 2010s

1 2020s

• Drama45
• Comedy17
• Thriller15
• Romance12
• Adventure11
• Crime11

Highest-rated title Up 2009 8.0 Most popular title Up 2009 8.0

Frequent collaborators

People who appear most often alongside Christopher Plummer in our catalogue.

Sidney Lumet

4 titles together

Paul Bettany

2 titles together

Jennifer Connelly

2 titles together

David Morse

2 titles together

Al Pacino

2 titles together

Michael Caine

2 titles together

1. 2020 The Last Full Measure as Frank Pitsenbarger 7.3 Movie
2. 2019 Knives Out as Harlan Thrombey 7.8 Movie
3. 2019 Departure as Howard Lawson 6.5 TV
4. 2017 All the Money in the World as Jean Paul Getty 6.5 Movie
5. 2017 The Star as King Herod (voice) 6.5 Movie
6. 2017 The Man Who Invented Christmas as Scrooge 6.9 Movie
7. 2017 The Exception as Kaiser Wilhelm II 6.9 Movie
8. 2015 Remember as Zev Guttman 7.4 Movie
9. 2015 Danny Collins as Frank Grubman 6.7 Movie
10. 2014 The Forger as Joseph Cutter 5.8 Movie
11. 2014 Hector and the Search for Happiness as Professor Coreman 6.7 Movie
12. 2012 Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage) 7.5 Movie
13. 2011 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as Henrik Vanger 7.4 Movie
14. 2011 Beginners as Hal Fields 6.8 Movie
15. 2011 Priest as Monsignor Orelas 5.9 Movie
16. 2009 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus as Doctor Parnassus 6.4 Movie
17. 2009 The Last Station as Leo Tolstoy 6.4 Movie
18. 2009 9 as #1 (voice) 7.0 Movie
19. 2009 Up as Charles Muntz (voice) 8.0 Movie
20. 2006 The Lake House as Simon Wyler 7.0 Movie
21. 2006 Inside Man as Arthur Case 7.4 Movie
22. 2005 The New World as Captain Newport 6.5 Movie
23. 2005 Syriana as Dean Whiting 6.4 Movie
24. 2005 Must Love Dogs as Bill 5.9 Movie
25. 2004 Alexander as Aristotle 6.0 Movie
26. 2004 National Treasure as John Adams Gates 6.7 Movie
27. 2003 Cold Creek Manor as Mr. Massie 5.3 Movie
28. 2003 The Gospel of John as Narrator (voice) 7.5 Movie
29. 2002 Nicholas Nickleby as Ralph Nickleby 6.8 Movie
30. 2001 A Beautiful Mind as Dr. Rosen 7.9 Movie
31. 2000 Dracula 2000 as Matthew Van Helsing 5.2 Movie
32. 2000 Nuremberg as Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe 7.4 TV
33. 1999 The Insider as Mike Wallace 7.5 Movie
34. 1995 Twelve Monkeys as Dr. Goines 7.6 Movie
35. 1995 Dolores Claiborne as John Mackey 7.3 Movie
36. 1994 Wolf as Raymond Alden 6.1 Movie
37. 1992 Malcolm X as Chaplain Gill 7.6 Movie
38. 1991 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country as Chang 7.1 Movie
39. 1991 Rock-A-Doodle as Grand Duke (voice) 6.2 Movie
40. 1990 Counterstrike as Alexander Addington TV
41. 1988 Madeline as Narrator (voice) 5.9 TV
42. 1988 American Experience as Narrator 6.5 TV
43. 1987 Dragnet as Reverend Jonathan Whirley 6.0 Movie
44. 1986 An American Tail as Henri (voice) 6.8 Movie
45. 1984 The Cosby Show as Jonathan Lawrence 7.0 TV
46. 1984 Dreamscape as Bob Blair 6.1 Movie
47. 1983 Prototype as Dr. Carl Forrester Movie
48. 1983 SuperTed 6.8 TV
49. 1983 The Thorn Birds as Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese 7.2 TV
50. 1982 Nature as Narrator (voice) 8.0 TV
51. 1982 American Playhouse as Alfred Stieglitz TV
52. 1980 Somewhere in Time as William Fawcett 'W.F.' Robinson 7.5 Movie
53. 1979 Hanover Street as Paul Sellinger 5.7 Movie
54. 1979 Murder by Decree as Sherlock Holmes 6.4 Movie
55. 1978 Starcrash as The Emperor 4.3 Movie
56. 1978 The Silent Partner as Reikle 7.0 Movie
57. 1977 The Sunday Drama as Sherlock Holmes TV
58. 1977 Jesus of Nazareth as Herod Antipas 7.8 TV
59. 1975 The Man Who Would Be King as Rudyard Kipling 7.5 Movie
60. 1975 The Return of the Pink Panther as Sir Charles Litton 6.8 Movie
61. 1970 Waterloo as Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington 7.1 Movie
62. 1969 Battle of Britain as Squadron Leader Colin Harvey 6.8 Movie
63. 1967 Omnibus as Narrator TV
64. 1967 The Night of the Generals as Field Marshal Rommel 6.8 Movie
65. 1966 Triple Cross as Freddie Chapman 6.1 Movie
66. 1965 BBC Play of the Month as Don Juan TV
67. 1965 The Sound of Music as Captain Georg von Trapp 7.7 Movie
68. 1964 The Fall of the Roman Empire as Commodus 6.4 Movie
69. 1959 NBC Sunday Showcase TV
70. 1957 DuPont Show of the Month as Sir Miles Hendon TV
71. 1953 General Electric Theater as Walter Shelley TV
72. 1952 Omnibus TV
73. 1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame as Dr. Jack Pelletier TV
74. 1949 Suspense TV
75. 1948 Studio One as Dick TV

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