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Christopher Plummer
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Christopher Plummer

1929 – 2021 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Active 1944–2023

Christopher Plummer, born in 1929 in Toronto, Canada, is a celebrated actor known for his commanding presence in both film and theater. He appeared in The Man Who Would Be King (1975), where he played the role of Daniel Dravot, alongside Sean Connery, showcasing his ability to embody complex characters. Plummer also stars in The Silent Partner (1978) as the cunning bank manager, a performance that solidified his status in the realm of crime thrillers. His extensive career includes a diverse array of roles, reflecting his versatility and depth as an actor, making him a significant figure in cult cinema.

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Triple Cross

Triple Cross

1966 ★ 6.0
as Freddie Chapman

  The true story of Eddie Chapman, ex-safecracker, master-criminal, & super-spy! During WW2, convicted bank robber Eddie Chapman becomes a triple agent working for both the British and the Germans.

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Filmography

246 credits
2020s 7 credits
2023
Movie ★ 7.0
2022
Movie ★ 10.0
2021
Kalahari: The Flooded Desert as Narrator (voice)
Movie ★ 10.0
2021
Mooseltoe as Mooseking
Movie
2021
Movie
2020
The Last Full Measure as Frank Pitsenbarger
Movie ★ 7.3
2010s 36 credits
2019
Knives Out as Harlan Thrombey
Movie ★ 7.8
2019
Movie ★ 6.9
2019
Movie ★ 6.5
2019
Departure as Howard Lawson
TV ★ 6.5
2018
Boundaries as Jack
Movie ★ 5.6
2018
Movie ★ 4.7
2017
The Exception as Kaiser Wilhelm II
Movie ★ 6.9
2017
Movie
2017
The Star as King Herod (voice)
Movie ★ 6.5
2017
Movie ★ 6.8
2017
All the Money in the World as Jean Paul Getty
Movie ★ 6.5
2017
Movie ★ 4.6
2016
Movie ★ 4.9
2015
Remember as Zev Guttman
Movie ★ 7.4
2015
Danny Collins as Frank Grubman
Movie ★ 6.7
2015
Pixies as Pixie King (voice)
Movie ★ 5.0
2014
The Forger as Joseph Cutter
Movie ★ 5.8
2014
Movie ★ 6.7
2014
Movie ★ 6.0
2013
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight as John Marshall Harlan
Movie ★ 6.4
2013
The Legend of Sarila as Croolik (voice)
Movie ★ 4.7
2013
Movie ★ 7.1
2013
Movie ★ 7.0
2012
Movie ★ 7.6
2012
Barrymore as John Barrymore
Movie ★ 6.4
2012
Kali, the Little Vampire as Narrator (english version)
Movie ★ 6.5
2011
Priest as Monsignor Orelas
Movie ★ 5.9
2011
Movie ★ 7.4
2011
Beginners as Hal Fields
Movie ★ 6.8
2011
Movie ★ 7.5
2010
My Dog Tulip as J.R. Ackerley (voice)
Movie ★ 6.4
2010
The Tempest as Prospero
Movie ★ 8.0
2010
TV ★ 5.4
2000s 43 credits
2009
Movie ★ 6.4
2009
9 as #1 (voice)
Movie ★ 7.0
2009
Up as Charles Muntz (voice)
Movie ★ 8.0
2009
The Last Station as Leo Tolstoy
Movie ★ 6.4
2009
Movie
2008
Emotional Arithmetic as David Winters
Movie ★ 5.5
2008
The Summit as P.J. Aimes
TV ★ 5.6
2007
Already Dead as Dr. Heller
Movie ★ 5.6
2007
Movie ★ 6.2
2007
Man in the Chair as Flash Madden
Movie ★ 6.5
2007
Movie
2006
Inside Man as Arthur Case
Movie ★ 7.4
2006
The Lake House as Simon Wyler
Movie ★ 7.0
2006
Movie ★ 8.0
2005
Syriana as Dean Whiting
Movie ★ 6.4
2005
The New World as Captain Newport
Movie ★ 6.5
2005
Movie ★ 6.0
2005
Our Fathers as Cardinal Bernard Law
Movie ★ 6.5
2005
Four Minutes as Archie Mason
Movie ★ 4.9
2005
Miracle Planet as Himself - Host
TV ★ 6.0
2004
National Treasure as John Adams Gates
Movie ★ 6.7
2004
Alexander as Aristotle
Movie ★ 6.0
2003
The Gospel of John as Narrator (voice)
Movie ★ 7.6
2003
Cold Creek Manor as Mr. Massie
Movie ★ 5.4
2003
Movie
2003
Blizzard as Santa Claus
Movie ★ 6.0
2003
TV ★ 5.6
2002
Nicholas Nickleby as Ralph Nickleby
Movie ★ 6.9
2002
Ararat as David
Movie ★ 6.1
2002
Agent of Influence as John Watkins
Movie ★ 7.2
2002
Night Flight as 'Flash' Harry Peters
Movie ★ 6.0
2001
A Beautiful Mind as Dr. Rosen
Movie ★ 7.9
2001
Lucky Break as Graham Mortimer
Movie ★ 6.2
2001
Full Disclosure as Robert Lecker
Movie ★ 4.5
2001
On Golden Pond as Norman Thayer
Movie ★ 8.3
2000
Dracula 2000 as Matthew Van Helsing
Movie ★ 5.2
2000
The Dinosaur Hunter as Hump Hinton
Movie ★ 6.1
2000
Possessed as Archbishop Hume
Movie ★ 5.4
2000
American Tragedy as F. Lee Bailey
Movie ★ 5.8
2000
Movie ★ 8.0
2000
Nuremberg as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe
TV ★ 7.4
1990s 42 credits
1999
The Insider as Mike Wallace
Movie ★ 7.5
1999
Madeline: Lost in Paris as Narrator (voice)
Movie ★ 6.8
1999
Hidden Agenda as Ulrich Steiner
Movie ★ 3.3
1999
The Clown at Midnight as Mr. Caruthers
Movie ★ 4.5
1998
Winchell as Franklin D. Roosevelt
Movie ★ 6.3
1998
Blackheart as Holmes
Movie ★ 4.2
1998
The First Christmas as Narrator (voice)
Movie ★ 6.7
1997
The Arrow as George Hees
Movie ★ 6.9
1997
Skeletons as Reverend Carlyle
Movie ★ 4.2
1997
Babes in Toyland as Barnaby Crookedman (voice)
Movie ★ 5.3
1997
The Arrow as George Hees
TV ★ 7.5
1996
Movie ★ 8.3
1996
We the Jury as Wilfred Fransiscus
Movie ★ 7.0
1995
Twelve Monkeys as Dr. Goines
Movie ★ 7.6
1995
Dolores Claiborne as John Mackey
Movie ★ 7.3
1995
Harrison Bergeron as John Klaxon
Movie ★ 6.8
1994
Wolf as Raymond Alden
Movie ★ 6.1
1994
Crackerjack as Ivan Getz
Movie ★ 4.1
1994
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold as Self (archive footage)
Movie ★ 10.0
1993
Movie ★ 7.7
1993
A Stranger in the Mirror as Clifton Lawrence
Movie ★ 3.5
1992
Malcolm X as Chaplain Gill
Movie ★ 7.6
1992
Liar's Edge as Harry Weldon
Movie ★ 4.5
1992
Secrets as Mel Wexler
Movie ★ 5.0
1992
Impolite as Naples O'Rorke
Movie ★ 10.0
1992
The First Circle as Viktor Abakumov
Movie ★ 5.0
1991
Movie ★ 7.0
1991
Firehead as Col. Garland Vaughn
Movie ★ 2.9
1991
Madeline and the Gypsies as Narrator (voice)
Movie ★ 6.0
1991
Madeline and the Bad Hat as Narrator (voice)
Movie
1991
Madeline in London as Narrator (voice)
Movie
1991
Money as Martin Yahl
Movie ★ 5.5
1991
Rock-A-Doodle as Grand Duke (voice)
Movie ★ 6.2
1991
Berlin Lady as Wilhelm Speer
TV ★ 10.0
1991
Young Catherine as Sir Charles
TV ★ 5.9
1990
Movie ★ 6.2
1990
A Ghost in Monte Carlo as The Grand Duke Ivan
Movie ★ 5.3
1990
Red Blooded American Girl as Dr. John Alcore
Movie ★ 3.9
1990
Movie ★ 8.0
1990
Madeline's Christmas as Narrator (voice)
Movie ★ 5.3
1990
Counterstrike as Alexander Addington
TV ★ 7.0
1980s 44 credits
1989
Mindfield as Doctor Satorius
Movie ★ 4.8
1989
Nabokov on Kafka as Vladimir Nabokov
Movie ★ 7.5
1989
Souvenir as Ernst Kestner
Movie ★ 6.0
1989
The First Emperor of China as Self - Narrator (voice)
Movie ★ 5.3
1988
Nosferatu in Venice as Professor Paris Catalano
Movie ★ 5.9
1988
Madeline as Narrator (voice)
Movie ★ 5.5
1988
Movie ★ 8.2
1988
Shadow Dancing as Edmund Beaumont
Movie ★ 4.2
1988
Madeline as Narrator (voice)
TV ★ 5.8
1988
TV ★ 6.6
1987
Dragnet as Reverend Jonathan Whirley
Movie ★ 6.0
1987
A Hazard of Hearts as Sir Giles Staverley
Movie ★ 7.9
1987
The Nightingale as Narrator (voice)
Movie
1987
I Love N.Y. as John Robertson Yeats
Movie ★ 5.8
1987
Portraits of Canada as Narrator (voice)
Movie ★ 7.0
1986
An American Tail as Henri (voice)
Movie ★ 6.8
1986
The Boss' Wife as Mr. Roalvang
Movie ★ 5.0
1986
Movie ★ 5.1
1986
Spearfield's Daughter as Lord Jack Cruze
Movie ★ 8.0
1986
The Tin Soldier as Narrator (voice)
Movie ★ 6.0
1986
Crossings as Armand DeVilliers
TV ★ 4.7
1985
The Velveteen Rabbit as Narrator (voice)
Movie ★ 5.8
1985
Rumpelstiltskin as Narrator
Movie ★ 3.0
1984
Dreamscape as Bob Blair
Movie ★ 6.1
1984
Ordeal by Innocence as Leo Argyle
Movie ★ 5.1
1984
Lily in Love as Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova
Movie ★ 6.3
1984
The Cosby Show as Jonathan Lawrence
TV ★ 7.0
1983
The Scarlet and the Black as Col. Herbert Kappler
Movie ★ 7.0
1983
Prototype as Dr. Carl Forrester
Movie ★ 6.3
1983
TV ★ 6.8
1983
The Thorn Birds as Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese
TV ★ 7.2
1982
Highpoint as James Hatcher
Movie ★ 5.1
1982
Movie ★ 6.8
1982
Nature as Narrator (voice)
TV ★ 7.9
1982
TV ★ 5.8
1981
The Amateur as Professor Lakos
Movie ★ 5.4
1981
Eyewitness as Joseph
Movie ★ 5.6
1981
Dial M for Murder as Tony Wendice
Movie ★ 6.1
1981
Being Different as Self (Narrator) (voice)
Movie ★ 6.8
1981
Movie ★ 7.3
1980
Somewhere in Time as William Fawcett 'W.F.' Robinson
Movie ★ 7.5
1980
Desperate Voyage as Jacques Burrifous
Movie ★ 7.3
1980
Movie ★ 5.0
1970s 24 credits
1979
Hanover Street as Paul Sellinger
Movie ★ 5.6
1979
Murder by Decree as Sherlock Holmes
Movie ★ 6.3
1979
Riel as Prime Minister John A. Macdonald
Movie ★ 8.0
1979
Movie ★ 10.0
1978
Starcrash as The Emperor
Movie ★ 4.2
1978
Movie ★ 7.1
1978
International Velvet as John Seaton
Movie ★ 7.4
1977
Movie ★ 5.6
1977
Silver Blaze as Sherlock Holmes
Movie ★ 8.0
1977
The Assignment as Kaptain Behounek
Movie ★ 6.8
1977
Jesus of Nazareth as Herod Antipas
TV ★ 7.8
1977
The Sunday Drama as Sherlock Holmes
TV ★ 5.0
1976
Aces High as Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair
Movie ★ 5.9
1976
TV ★ 4.0
1975
Movie ★ 7.5
1975
The Return of the Pink Panther as Sir Charles Litton
Movie ★ 6.8
1975
Conduct Unbecoming as Maggiore Alastair Wimbourne
Movie ★ 5.9
1975
The Spiral Staircase as Dr. Joe Sherman
Movie ★ 5.2
1975
The Day That Shook the World as Archduke Ferdinand
Movie ★ 6.1
1974
The Happy Prince as The Happy Prince (voice)
Movie ★ 6.2
1974
After the Fall as Quentin
Movie ★ 8.0
1973
The Pyx as Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson
Movie ★ 5.4
1971
Film '72 as Self
TV ★ 4.7
1970
Waterloo as Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
Movie ★ 7.1
1960s 21 credits
1969
Battle of Britain as Squadron Leader Colin Harvey
Movie ★ 6.9
1969
Movie ★ 6.1
1969
Lock Up Your Daughters as Lord Foppington
Movie ★ 6.0
1968
Nobody Runs Forever as Sir James Quentin
Movie ★ 6.0
1968
Movie ★ 6.0
1968
The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
TV ★ 6.8
1967
The Night of the Generals as Field Marshal Rommel
Movie ★ 6.8
1967
Omnibus as Narrator
TV ★ 7.2
1966
Triple Cross as Freddie Chapman
Movie ★ 6.1
1966
Inside Daisy Clover as Raymond Swan
Movie ★ 5.6
1965
The Sound of Music as Captain Georg von Trapp
Movie ★ 7.7
1965
Movie ★ 9.0
1965
TV ★ 5.3
1964
Movie ★ 6.5
1964
Movie ★ 7.8
1963
Movie ★ 8.0
1963
Trans-Canada Journey as Narrator (voice)
Movie ★ 8.0
1962
Cyrano De Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac
Movie ★ 9.0
1961
TV ★ 5.8
1960
Captain Brassbound's Conversion as Captain Brassbound
Movie
1950s 22 credits
1959
A Doll's House as Torvald
Movie ★ 10.0
1959
TV ★ 5.0
1958
Movie ★ 6.2
1958
Stage Struck as Joe Sheridan
Movie ★ 6.0
1958
Johnny Belinda as Dr. Jack Pelletier
Movie
1958
Little Moon of Alban as Kenneth Boyd
Movie ★ 10.0
1957
DuPont Show of the Month as Sir Miles Hendon
TV ★ 7.4
1956
Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
TV
1956
Tony Awards as Self - Winner
TV
1956
Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
TV
1956
Tony Awards as Self - Nominee / Presenter
TV
1953
General Electric Theater as Walter Shelley
TV ★ 6.8
1953
The Oscars as Self
TV ★ 7.0
1952
TV ★ 6.3
1952
Omnibus as Oedipus
TV ★ 6.3
1952
Omnibus as Thomas Mendip
TV ★ 6.3
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Dr. Jack Pelletier
TV ★ 8.8
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Torvald Helmer
TV ★ 8.8
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Captain Brassbound
TV ★ 8.8
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Prince Albert
TV ★ 8.8
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Cyrano de Bergerac
TV ★ 8.8
1940s 4 credits
1949
TV ★ 5.1
1948
Studio One as Dick
TV ★ 5.4
1948
TV ★ 6.8
1944
Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
TV ★ 7.2
s 2 credits
Madeline at the Ballet as Narrator (voice)
Movie ★ 2.0
Movie ★ 8.0
Crew Credits
2010s 1 credit
2012
Barrymore Executive Producer
Movie ★ 6.4