# Christopher Plummer on screen and stage

Christopher Plummer (1929–2021) was a Canadian film, television and stage actor. On stage, Plummer's most notable roles were that of Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano (1974) and as John Barrymore in Barrymore. He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for these two roles. On film, Plummer is known for portraying Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1965).
Plummer won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Mike Mills' film Beginners (2011). He also appeared in: The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Waterloo (1970), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Malcolm X (1992) and A Beautiful Mind (2001). He portrayed journalist Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999), author Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station (2009), Arthur Case in Inside Man (2006), and J. Paul Getty in All the Money in the World (2017). Plummer had provided his voice for two animated films: the Don Bluth film An American Tail (1986) and the Pixar film Up (2009).
At the time of his death, he had been filming season 2 of Departure. He was set to play the lead in a film adaptation of King Lear to be filmed in summer 2021, but he died in February, thus being unable to take part in the film.

## Film

Film credits :
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 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 | |
| 1969 | The Royal Hunt of the Sun | Atahualpa | |
| 1969 | Lock Up Your Daughters! | Lord Foppington | |
| 1970 | Waterloo | Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | |
| 1973 | The Pyx | Sergeant Jim Henderson | |
| 1974 | The Happy Prince | The Happy Prince | Short film |
| 1975 | The Spiral Staircase | Dr. Joe Sherman | |
| 1975 | The Return of the Pink Panther | Sir Charles Litton | |
| 1975 | Conduct Unbecoming | Major Alastair Wimbourne | |
| 1975 | The Man Who Would Be King | Rudyard Kipling | |
| 1975 | The Day That Shook the World | Archduke Franz 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 | |
| 1979 | Murder by Decree | Sherlock Holmes | |
| 1979 | 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 | |
| 1984 | Dreamscape | Bob Blair | |
| 1984 | Highpoint | James Hatcher | |
| 1984 | Ordeal by Innocence | Leo Argyle | |
| 1986 | The Boy in Blue | Knox | |
| 1986 | The Boss' Wife | Mr. Roalvang | |
| 1986 | An American Tail | Henri | Voice |
| 1986 | The Steadfast Tin Soldier | Narrator | |
| 1986 | Vampire in Venice | Professor Paris Catalano | |
| 1987 | Dragnet | Reverend Jonathan Whirley | |
| 1987 | I Love N.Y. | John Robertson Yeats | |
| 1987 | The Man Who Planted Trees | Narrator | |
| 1987 | The Gnomes' Great Adventure | Narrator | |
| 1988 | Light Years | Metamorphis | |
| 1988 | Shadow Dancing | Edmund Beaumont | |
| 1988 | The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Narrator | Documentary |
| 1989 | Souvenir | Ernst Kestner | |
| 1989 | Mindfield | Dr. Satorius | |
| 1990 | Where the Heart Is | Jerry | |
| 1990 | Red Blooded American Girl | Dr. John Alcore | |
| 1990 | Money | Martin Yahl | |
| 1991 | Firehead | Colonel Garland Vaughn | |
| 1991 | Rock-a-Doodle | The Grand Duke of Owls | Voice |
| 1991 | Dragon and Slippers | Pelican | Voice |
| 1991 | Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | General Chang | |
| 1992 | Liar's Edge | Harry Weldon | |
| 1992 | Impolite | Naples O'Rorke | |
| 1992 | Malcolm X | Chaplain Gill | |
| 1994 | Wolf | Raymond Alden | |
| 1994 | Crackerjack | Ivan Getz | |
| 1995 | Dolores Claiborne | Detective John Mackey | |
| 1995 | 12 Monkeys | Dr. Goines | |
| 1996 | The Conspiracy of Fear | Joseph Wakeman | |
| 1997 | Babes in Toyland | Barnaby Crookedman | Voice |
| 1998 | The First Christmas | Narrator | |
| 1998 | Blackheart | Holmes | |
| 1998 | The Clown at Midnight | Mr. Caruthers | |
| 1999 | Hidden Agenda | Ulrich Steiner | |
| 1999 | Madeline: Lost in Paris | Narrator | |
| 1999 | The Insider | Mike Wallace | |
| 2000 | Dracula 2000 | Abraham Van Helsing | |
| 2001 | Lucky Break | Graham Mortimer | |
| 2001 | A Beautiful Mind | Dr. Rosen | |
| 2001 | Full Disclosure | Robert Lecker | |
| 2002 | Ararat | David | |
| 2002 | Nicholas Nickleby | Ralph Nickleby | |
| 2003 | The Gospel of John | Narrator | |
| 2003 | Blizzard | Santa Claus | |
| 2003 | Cold Creek Manor | Mr. Massie | |
| 2004 | National Treasure | John Adams Gates | |
| 2004 | Alexander | Aristotle | |
| 2005 | Must Love Dogs | Bill Nolan | |
| 2005 | Syriana | Dean Whiting | |
| 2005 | The New World | Captain Christopher Newport | |
| 2006 | Inside Man | Arthur Case | |
| 2006 | The Lake House | Simon Wyler | |
| 2007 | Man in the Chair | 'Flash' Madden | |
| 2007 | Closing the Ring | Jack Etty | |
| 2007 | Emotional Arithmetic | David Winters | |
| 2007 | Already Dead | Dr. Heller | |
| 2009 | Caesar and Cleopatra | Julius Caesar | Also executive producer |
| 2009 | Up | Charles Muntz | Voice |
| 2009 | My Dog Tulip | J.R. Ackerley | Voice |
| 2009 | The Last Station | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 2009 | 9 | 1 | Voice |
| 2009 | The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | Dr. Parnassus | |
| 2010 | Beginners | Hal Fields | |
| 2011 | Priest | Monsignor Orelas | |
| 2011 | Barrymore | John Barrymore | |
| 2011 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Henrik Vanger | |
| 2013 | The Legend of Sarila | Croolik | Voice |
| 2014 | Elsa & Fred | Fred Barcroft | |
| 2014 | Hector and the Search for Happiness | Professor Coreman | |
| 2014 | The Forger | Joseph Cutter | |
| 2015 | Danny Collins | Frank Grubman | |
| 2015 | Pixies | Pixie King | Voice |
| 2015 | Remember | Zev Guttman / Otto Wallisch | |
| 2016 | The Exception | Kaiser Wilhelm | |
| 2016 | Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom | Dr. Jeffrey West | Voice |
| 2017 | Elegy | Narrator | Short film |
| 2017 | The Man Who Invented Christmas | Ebenezer Scrooge | |
| 2017 | The Star | King Herod | Voice |
| 2017 | All the Money in the World | J. Paul Getty | |
| 2017 | Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom | Dr. Jeffrey West | Voice |
| 2018 | Boundaries | Jack Jaconi | |
| 2018 | Howard Lovecraft and the Kingdom of Madness | Dr. Jeffrey West | Voice |
| 2019 | Cliffs of Freedom | Thanasi | |
| 2019 | Knives Out | Harlan Thrombey | |
| 2019 | The Last Full Measure | Frank Pitsenbarger | |
| 2023 | Heroes of the Golden Masks | Rizzo | Voice, posthumous release |

## Television

Television credits :
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 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" |
| 1957–1958 | Omnibus | Thomas Mendip / Oedipus | 2 episodes |
| 1957–1961 | DuPont Show of the Month | Various roles | 2 episodes |
| 1958 | Little Moon of Alban | Kenneth Boyd | Television film |
| 1959 | Johnny Belinda | Dr. Jack Pelletier | Television film |
| 1959 | A Doll's House | Torvald Helmer | Television film |
| 1959 | The Philadelphia Story | Mike Connor | Television film |
| 1960 | NBC Sunday Showcase | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | 2 episodes |
| 1960 | Captain Brassbound's Conversion | Captain Brassbound | Television film |
| 1961 | Playdate | Himself | 13 episodes |
| 1961 | Time Remembered | Prince Albert | Television film |
| 1962 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac | Television film |
| 1964 | Hamlet at Elsinore | Hamlet | Television film |
| 1968 | The Secret of Michelangelo | Narrator | TV documentary |
| 1971 | Don Juan in Hell | Don Juan | Television film |
| 1974 | Witness to Yesterday | Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington | Episode: "The Duke of Wellington" |
| 1974 | After the Fall | Quentin | Television film |
| 1976 | The Moneychangers | Roscoe Heyward | Miniseries, 4 episodes |
| 1977 | Silver Blaze | Sherlock Holmes | Television film |
| 1977 | Jesus of Nazareth | Herod Antipas | Miniseries, 2 episodes |
| 1979 | Riel | Sir John A. Macdonald | Television film |
| 1980 | Desperate Voyage | Burrifous | Television film |
| 1980 | The Shadow Box | Brian | Television film |
| 1981 | When the Circus Came to Town | Duke Royal | Television film |
| 1981 | Dial M for Murder | Tony Wendice | Television film |
| 1982 | Little Gloria... Happy at Last | Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt | Miniseries, 2 episodes |
| 1983 | The Scarlet and the Black | Colonel Herbert Kappler | Television film |
| 1983 | The Thorn Birds | Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese | Miniseries, 3 episodes |
| 1983 | Prototype | Dr. Carl Forrester | Television film |
| 1985 | Rumpelstiltskin | Narrator | Television film |
| 1985 | The Velveteen Rabbit | Narrator | Television film |
| 1986 | Crossings | Armand DeVilliers | Miniseries, 3 episodes |
| 1986 | Spearfield's Daughter | Lord Jack Cruze | Television film |
| 1987 | A Hazard of Hearts | Sir Giles Staverley | Television film |
| 1987 | The Cosby Show | Jonathan Lawrence | Episode: "Shakespeare" |
| 1987 | The World of David the Gnome | Narrator | English version |
| 1988–1991 | Madeline | Narrator | 6 episodes |
| 1989 | Nabokov on Kafka | Vladimir Nabokov | Television short |
| 1990 | A Ghost in Monte Carlo | The Grand Duke Ivan | Television film |
| 1990–1993 | Counterstrike | Alexander Addington | 65 episodes |
| 1991 | Young Catherine | Sir Charles Williams | Miniseries, 3 episodes |
| 1991 | A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz | Alfred Stieglitz | Television film |
| 1991 | Berlin Lady | Wilhem Speer | 6 episodes |
| 1991 | The First Circle | Victor Abakumov | Television film |
| 1992 | Secrets | Mel Wexler | Television film |
| 1993 | A Stranger in the Mirror | Clifton Lawrence | Television film |
| 1993–1995 | Madeline | Narrator | 33 episodes |
| 1995 | Harrison Bergeron | John Klaxon | Television film |
| 1996 | We the Jury | Wilfred Fransiscus | Television film |
| 1996 | Skeletons | Reverend Carlyle | Television film |
| 1997 | The Arrow | George Hees | Miniseries, 2 episodes |
| 1998 | Winchell | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Television film |
| 2000 | Nuremberg | Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe | Miniseries, 2 episodes |
| 2000 | The Dinosaur Hunter | Hump Hinton | Television film |
| 2000 | Possessed | Archbishop Hume | Television film |
| 2000 | American Tragedy | F. Lee Bailey | 2 episodes |
| 2001 | Leo's Journey | Narrator | Television film |
| 2001 | On Golden Pond | Norman Thayer | Television film |
| 2002 | Night Flight | Harry 'Flash' Peters | Television film |
| 2002 | Agent of Influence | John Watkins | Television film |
| 2003 | Odd Job Jack | Magnus The Maker | Episode: "Holyland" |
| 2005 | Our Fathers | Cardinal Bernard Law | Television film |
| 2005 | Miracle Planet | Narrator | 6 episodes |
| 2005 | Four Minutes | Archie Mason | Television film |
| 2006 | American Experience | Narrator / James Tyrone | Episode: "Eugene O'Neill" |
| 2008 | The Summit | P.J. Aimes | Miniseries, 2 episodes |
| 2013 | Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight | John Marshall Harlan II | Television film |
| 2019–2021 | Departure | Howard Larson | 12 episodes |
| 2020 | Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time | Himself - Video Clue Presenter | 1 episode |

## Theatre

Theatre credits :
| Year | Title | Role | Venue |
| 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 | Henry V | Henry V | Stratford Festival, Ontario |
| 1956 | Night of the Auk | Lewis Roheman | Playhouse Theatre, Broadway |
| 1957 | Hamlet | Hamlet | Stratford Festival, Ontario |
| 1957 | Twelfth Night | Sir Andrew Aguecheek | Stratford Festival, Ontario |
| 1958 | Much Ado About Nothing | Benedick | Stratford Festival, Ontario |
| 1958 | Henry IV, Part 1 | Bardolph | Stratford Festival, Ontario |
| 1958 | The Winter's Tale | Leontes | Stratford Festival, Ontario |
| 1958 | J.B. | Nickles | ANTA Playhouse, Broadway |
| 1960 | Romeo and Juliet | Mercutio | Stratford Festival, Ontario |
| 1960 | King John | Philip the Bastard | Stratford Festival, Ontario |
| 1961 | Much Ado About Nothing | Benedick | Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford |
| 1961 | Richard III | Richard III | Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford |
| 1961 | Becket | King Henry | Aldwych Theatre, West End |
| 1962 | Becket | King Henry | Globe Theatre, London |
| 1962 | Macbeth | Macbeth | Stratford Festival, Ontario |
| 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 |
| 1967 | Antony and Cleopatra | Mark Antony | Expo Theatre, Montréal |
| 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 |
| 1981 | Henry V | Henry V | American Shakespeare Festival, Connecticut |
| 1982 | Othello | Iago | Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway |
| 1988 | Macbeth | Macbeth | O'Keefe Centre, Toronto Ontario |
| 1988 | Macbeth | Macbeth | Mark Hellinger Theatre, Broadway |
| 1994 | No Man's Land | Spooner | Roundabout Theater Company, Broadway |
| 1996 | Barrymore | John Barrymore | Stratford Festival, Ontario |
| 1997 | Barrymore | John Barrymore | Music Box Theatre, Broadway |
| 2002 | King Lear | King Lear | Stratford Festival, Ontario |
| 2004 | King Lear | King Lear | Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Broadway |
| 2007 | Inherit the Wind | Henry Drummond | Lyceum Theatre, Broadway |
| 2008 | Caesar and Cleopatra | Julius Caesar | Stratford Festival, Ontario |
| 2010 | The Tempest | Prospero | Stratford Festival, Ontario |

## Video games

Video game credits :
| Year | Title | Voice role | Notes |
| 2000 | Star Trek: Klingon Academy | General Chang | Live action |
| 2009 | Up | Charles Muntz | |
| 2011 | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | Arngeir | |
| 2012 | Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure | Charles Muntz | |