Christopher Plummer: movies and TV shows
Christopher Plummer has 247 credits in the archive: 199 films and 48 TV series, from 1944 to 2023. Highest rated: Hallmark Hall of Fame (8.8/10).
Career timeline
1944 – 2023 · busiest year: 1991 (9 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Heroes of the Golden Mask | Rizzo (voice) | Film | 6.5 | 93 |
| 2022 | Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story | Self | Film | 10.0 | 92 |
| 2021 | Bondarchuk. Battle | self | Film | — | 91 |
| 2021 | Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster | Self | Film | 6.3 | 91 |
| 2021 | Kalahari: The Flooded Desert | Narrator (voice) | Film | 10.0 | 91 |
| 2021 | Mooseltoe | Mooseking | Film | — | 91 |
| 2020 | The Last Full Measure | Frank Pitsenbarger | Film | 7.3 | 90 |
| 2019 | Knives Out | Harlan Thrombey | Film | 7.8 | 89 |
| 2019 | Departure | Howard Lawson | TV | 6.5 | 89 |
| 2019 | Alan Pakula: Going for Truth | Self | Film | 6.5 | 89 |
| 2019 | Cliffs of Freedom | Thanasi | Film | 6.9 | 89 |
| 2018 | Boundaries | Jack | Film | 5.5 | 88 |
| 2018 | Howard Lovecraft & The Kingdom Of Madness | Dr. Jeffrey West (voice) | Film | 4.7 | 88 |
| 2017 | The Star | King Herod (voice) | Film | 6.5 | 87 |
| 2017 | All the Money in the World | Jean Paul Getty | Film | 6.5 | 87 |
| 2017 | The Exception | Kaiser Wilhelm II | Film | 6.9 | 87 |
| 2017 | The Man Who Invented Christmas | Scrooge | Film | 6.8 | 87 |
| 2017 | The River of My Dreams | Himself | Film | — | 87 |
| 2017 | Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom | Dr. West (voice) | Film | 4.4 | 87 |
| 2016 | Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom | Dr. West (voice) | Film | 4.8 | 86 |
| 2015 | Danny Collins | Frank Grubman | Film | 6.7 | 85 |
| 2015 | Remember | Zev Guttman | Film | 7.4 | 85 |
| 2015 | Pixies | Pixie King (voice) | Film | 5.0 | 85 |
| 2015 | The Untold Story of The Sound of Music: A Diane Sawyer Special | Self | Film | 7.0 | 85 |
| 2014 | Hector and the Search for Happiness | Professor Coreman | Film | 6.7 | 84 |
| 2014 | The Forger | Joseph Cutter | Film | 5.8 | 84 |
| 2014 | Elsa & Fred | Fred | Film | 5.9 | 84 |
| 2013 | The Legend of Sarila | Croolik (voice) | Film | 4.9 | 83 |
| 2013 | Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight | John Marshall Harlan | Film | 6.4 | 83 |
| 2013 | Titans of the Ice Age | Narrator | Film | 7.1 | 83 |
| 2013 | The Captains: Still Kicking | Self | Film | 6.0 | 83 |
| 2012 | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage) | Film | 7.6 | 82 |
| 2012 | Kali, the Little Vampire | Narrator (english version) | Film | 6.5 | 82 |
| 2012 | Barrymore | John Barrymore | Film | 6.4 | 82 |
| 2012 | Barrymore | Film | 6.4 | 82 | |
| 2012 | Behind the Wall: The Making of Skyrim | Self | Film | — | 82 |
| 2011 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Henrik Vanger | Film | 7.4 | 81 |
| 2011 | Priest | Monsignor Orelas | Film | 5.9 | 81 |
| 2011 | Beginners | Hal Fields | Film | 6.8 | 81 |
| 2011 | Discovering Hamlet | Self | Film | 7.5 | 81 |
| 2011 | A Short Film About Making Beginners | Film | — | 81 | |
| 2010 | Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood | Self - Narrator (voice) | TV | 5.4 | 80 |
| 2010 | My Dog Tulip | J.R. Ackerley (voice) | Film | 6.4 | 80 |
| 2010 | The Tempest | Prospero | Film | 8.0 | 80 |
| 2009 | Up | Charles Muntz (voice) | Film | 8.0 | 79 |
| 2009 | 9 | #1 (voice) | Film | 7.0 | 79 |
| 2009 | The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | Doctor Parnassus | Film | 6.4 | 79 |
| 2009 | The Last Station | Leo Tolstoy | Film | 6.4 | 79 |
| 2009 | Caesar and Cleopatra | Caesar | Film | — | 79 |
| 2008 | The Summit | P.J. Aimes | TV | 5.6 | 78 |
| 2008 | Emotional Arithmetic | David Winters | Film | 5.5 | 78 |
| 2007 | Closing the Ring | Jack | Film | 6.2 | 77 |
| 2007 | Already Dead | Dr. Heller | Film | 5.6 | 77 |
| 2007 | Hamlet {Solo} | Self | Film | — | 77 |
| 2007 | Man in the Chair | Flash Madden | Film | 6.5 | 77 |
| 2006 | Inside Man | Arthur Case | Film | 7.4 | 76 |
| 2006 | The Lake House | Simon Wyler | Film | 7.0 | 76 |
| 2006 | Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film | Self | Film | — | 76 |
| 2006 | Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes | Narrator (voice over) | Film | 8.0 | 76 |
| 2005 | Syriana | Dean Whiting | Film | 6.4 | 75 |
| 2005 | The New World | Captain Newport | Film | 6.5 | 75 |
| 2005 | Must Love Dogs | Bill | Film | 5.9 | 75 |
| 2005 | Miracle Planet | Himself - Host | TV | 6.0 | 75 |
| 2005 | Our Fathers | Cardinal Bernard Law | Film | 6.5 | 75 |
| 2005 | Four Minutes | Archie Mason | Film | 4.9 | 75 |
| 2004 | National Treasure | John Adams Gates | Film | 6.7 | 74 |
| 2004 | Alexander | Aristotle | Film | 6.0 | 74 |
| 2003 | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Self | TV | 5.5 | 73 |
| 2003 | Cold Creek Manor | Mr. Massie | Film | 5.4 | 73 |
| 2003 | The Gospel of John | Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.6 | 73 |
| 2003 | Blizzard | Santa Claus | Film | 6.0 | 73 |
| 2003 | The Life of Jesus | Narrator | Film | — | 73 |
| 2002 | Ararat | David | Film | 6.1 | 72 |
| 2002 | Nicholas Nickleby | Ralph Nickleby | Film | 6.9 | 72 |
| 2002 | Agent of Influence | John Watkins | Film | 7.2 | 72 |
| 2002 | Night Flight | 'Flash' Harry Peters | Film | 7.5 | 72 |
| 2002 | Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages | Self | Film | 4.7 | 72 |
| 2001 | A Beautiful Mind | Dr. Rosen | Film | 7.9 | 71 |
| 2001 | Lucky Break | Graham Mortimer | Film | 6.2 | 71 |
| 2001 | Full Disclosure | Robert Lecker | Film | 4.5 | 71 |
| 2001 | On Golden Pond | Norman Thayer | Film | 8.3 | 71 |
| 2000 | Dracula 2000 | Matthew Van Helsing | Film | 5.3 | 70 |
| 2000 | Nuremberg | Sir David Maxwell Fyfe | TV | 7.4 | 70 |
| 2000 | Possessed | Archbishop Hume | Film | 5.4 | 70 |
| 2000 | American Tragedy | F. Lee Bailey | Film | 5.8 | 70 |
| 2000 | The Dinosaur Hunter | Hump Hinton | Film | 6.1 | 70 |
| 2000 | Back To "Somewhere In Time" | Self | Film | 8.0 | 70 |
| 1999 | The Insider | Mike Wallace | Film | 7.5 | 69 |
| 1999 | Madeline: Lost in Paris | Narrator (voice) | Film | 6.8 | 69 |
| 1999 | The Clown at Midnight | Mr. Caruthers | Film | 4.5 | 69 |
| 1999 | Hidden Agenda | Ulrich Steiner | Film | 3.3 | 69 |
| 1998 | Winchell | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Film | 6.3 | 68 |
| 1998 | Blackheart | Holmes | Film | 4.2 | 68 |
| 1998 | The First Christmas | Narrator (voice) | Film | 6.7 | 68 |
| 1997 | Babes in Toyland | Barnaby Crookedman (voice) | Film | 5.3 | 67 |
| 1997 | The Arrow | George Hees | TV | 7.5 | 67 |
| 1997 | Skeletons | Reverend Carlyle | Film | 4.2 | 67 |
| 1997 | The Arrow | George Hees | Film | 7.0 | 67 |
| 1996 | The Conspiracy of Fear | Wakeman | Film | 8.3 | 66 |
| 1996 | The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys' | Self | Film | 7.0 | 66 |
| 1996 | We the Jury | Wilfred Fransiscus | Film | 7.0 | 66 |
| 1995 | Twelve Monkeys | Dr. Goines | Film | 7.6 | 65 |
| 1995 | Dolores Claiborne | John Mackey | Film | 7.3 | 65 |
| 1995 | Harrison Bergeron | John Klaxon | Film | 6.8 | 65 |
| 1994 | Wolf | Raymond Alden | Film | 6.1 | 64 |
| 1994 | Crackerjack | Ivan Getz | Film | 4.1 | 64 |
| 1994 | Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold | Self (archive footage) | Film | 10.0 | 64 |
| 1993 | A Stranger in the Mirror | Clifton Lawrence | Film | 3.5 | 63 |
| 1993 | Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic | Narrator | Film | 7.7 | 63 |
| 1992 | Malcolm X | Chaplain Gill | Film | 7.6 | 62 |
| 1992 | Impolite | Naples O'Rorke | Film | 10.0 | 62 |
| 1992 | The First Circle | Viktor Abakumov | Film | 5.0 | 62 |
| 1992 | Secrets | Mel Wexler | Film | 5.0 | 62 |
| 1992 | Liar's Edge | Harry Weldon | Film | 4.5 | 62 |
| 1991 | Rock-A-Doodle | Grand Duke (voice) | Film | 6.2 | 61 |
| 1991 | Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | Chang | Film | 7.0 | 61 |
| 1991 | Young Catherine | Sir Charles | TV | 5.9 | 61 |
| 1991 | Madeline in London | Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 61 |
| 1991 | Berlin Lady | Wilhelm Speer | TV | 10.0 | 61 |
| 1991 | Firehead | Col. Garland Vaughn | Film | 2.9 | 61 |
| 1991 | Money | Martin Yahl | Film | 5.5 | 61 |
| 1991 | Madeline and the Gypsies | Narrator (voice) | Film | 6.0 | 61 |
| 1991 | Madeline and the Bad Hat | Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 61 |
| 1990 | Counterstrike | Alexander Addington | TV | 7.0 | 60 |
| 1990 | Red Blooded American Girl | Dr. John Alcore | Film | 3.9 | 60 |
| 1990 | A Ghost in Monte Carlo | The Grand Duke Ivan | Film | 5.3 | 60 |
| 1990 | Madeline's Christmas | Narrator (voice) | Film | 5.3 | 60 |
| 1990 | Where the Heart Is | Shitty | Film | 6.2 | 60 |
| 1990 | The Little Crooked Christmas Tree | Narrator | Film | 8.0 | 60 |
| 1989 | Nabokov on Kafka | Vladimir Nabokov | Film | 7.5 | 59 |
| 1989 | Souvenir | Ernst Kestner | Film | 6.0 | 59 |
| 1989 | The First Emperor of China | Self - Narrator (voice) | Film | 5.3 | 59 |
| 1989 | Mindfield | Doctor Satorius | Film | 4.8 | 59 |
| 1988 | American Experience | Narrator | TV | 6.5 | 58 |
| 1988 | Madeline | Narrator (voice) | TV | 5.8 | 58 |
| 1988 | Nosferatu in Venice | Professor Paris Catalano | Film | 5.8 | 58 |
| 1988 | The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Narrator (voice) | Film | 8.2 | 58 |
| 1988 | Shadow Dancing | Edmund Beaumont | Film | 4.2 | 58 |
| 1988 | Madeline | Narrator (voice) | Film | 5.5 | 58 |
| 1987 | Dragnet | Reverend Jonathan Whirley | Film | 6.0 | 57 |
| 1987 | A Hazard of Hearts | Sir Giles Staverley | Film | 7.9 | 57 |
| 1987 | Portraits of Canada | Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.0 | 57 |
| 1987 | I Love N.Y. | John Robertson Yeats | Film | 5.8 | 57 |
| 1987 | The Nightingale | Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 57 |
| 1986 | An American Tail | Henri (voice) | Film | 6.8 | 56 |
| 1986 | The Boss' Wife | Mr. Roalvang | Film | 5.0 | 56 |
| 1986 | Crossings | Armand DeVilliers | TV | 4.7 | 56 |
| 1986 | The Boy in Blue | Knox | Film | 5.1 | 56 |
| 1986 | Spearfield's Daughter | Lord Jack Cruze | Film | 8.0 | 56 |
| 1986 | The Tin Soldier | Narrator (voice) | Film | 6.0 | 56 |
| 1985 | Rumpelstiltskin | Narrator | Film | 3.0 | 55 |
| 1985 | The Velveteen Rabbit | Narrator (voice) | Film | 5.8 | 55 |
| 1984 | The Cosby Show | Jonathan Lawrence | TV | 7.0 | 54 |
| 1984 | Lily in Love | Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova | Film | 6.3 | 54 |
| 1984 | Dreamscape | Bob Blair | Film | 6.1 | 54 |
| 1984 | Ordeal by Innocence | Leo Argyle | Film | 5.1 | 54 |
| 1983 | The Thorn Birds | Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese | TV | 7.2 | 53 |
| 1983 | SuperTed | TV | 6.8 | 53 | |
| 1983 | Prototype | Dr. Carl Forrester | Film | 6.3 | 53 |
| 1983 | The Scarlet and the Black | Col. Herbert Kappler | Film | 7.0 | 53 |
| 1982 | Nature | Narrator (voice) | TV | 7.9 | 52 |
| 1982 | American Playhouse | Alfred Stieglitz | TV | 6.6 | 52 |
| 1982 | Highpoint | James Hatcher | Film | 5.1 | 52 |
| 1982 | Night of 100 Stars | Self | Film | 5.8 | 52 |
| 1982 | Little Gloria... Happy at Last | Reggie Vanderbilt | TV | 5.8 | 52 |
| 1982 | Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady | Film | 6.0 | 52 | |
| 1981 | The Amateur | Professor Lakos | Film | 5.4 | 51 |
| 1981 | Eyewitness | Joseph | Film | 5.6 | 51 |
| 1981 | Being Different | Self (Narrator) (voice) | Film | 6.8 | 51 |
| 1981 | When the Circus Came to Town | Duke Royal | Film | 7.3 | 51 |
| 1981 | Dial M for Murder | Tony Wendice | Film | 6.1 | 51 |
| 1980 | Somewhere in Time | William Fawcett 'W.F.' Robinson | Film | 7.5 | 50 |
| 1980 | The Shadow Box | Brian | Film | 5.0 | 50 |
| 1980 | Desperate Voyage | Jacques Burrifous | Film | 7.3 | 50 |
| 1979 | Hanover Street | Paul Sellinger | Film | 5.6 | 49 |
| 1979 | Murder by Decree | Sherlock Holmes | Film | 6.4 | 49 |
| 1979 | Arthur Miller on Home Ground | Film | 10.0 | 49 | |
| 1979 | Riel | Prime Minister John A. Macdonald | Film | 6.0 | 49 |
| 1978 | Starcrash | The Emperor | Film | 4.2 | 48 |
| 1978 | The Silent Partner | Reikle | Film | 7.1 | 48 |
| 1978 | International Velvet | John Seaton | Film | 7.4 | 48 |
| 1977 | Jesus of Nazareth | Herod Antipas | TV | 7.8 | 47 |
| 1977 | The Sunday Drama | Sherlock Holmes | TV | 5.0 | 47 |
| 1977 | The Disappearance | Deverell | Film | 5.6 | 47 |
| 1977 | The Assignment | Kaptain Behounek | Film | 6.8 | 47 |
| 1977 | Silver Blaze | Sherlock Holmes | Film | 8.0 | 47 |
| 1976 | Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers | Roscoe Heyward | TV | 4.0 | 46 |
| 1976 | Aces High | Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair | Film | 5.9 | 46 |
| 1975 | The Man Who Would Be King | Rudyard Kipling | Film | 7.5 | 45 |
| 1975 | The Return of the Pink Panther | Sir Charles Litton | Film | 6.8 | 45 |
| 1975 | Conduct Unbecoming | Major Alastair Wimbourne | Film | 5.9 | 45 |
| 1975 | The Day That Shook the World | Archduke Ferdinand | Film | 6.1 | 45 |
| 1975 | The Spiral Staircase | Dr. Joe Sherman | Film | 5.2 | 45 |
| 1974 | The Happy Prince | The Happy Prince (voice) | Film | 6.2 | 44 |
| 1974 | After the Fall | Quentin | Film | 8.0 | 44 |
| 1973 | The Pyx | Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson | Film | 5.4 | 43 |
| 1971 | Film '72 | Self | TV | 4.7 | 41 |
| 1970 | Waterloo | Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington | Film | 7.1 | 40 |
| 1969 | Battle of Britain | Squadron Leader Colin Harvey | Film | 6.9 | 39 |
| 1969 | Lock Up Your Daughters | Lord Foppington | Film | 6.0 | 39 |
| 1969 | The Royal Hunt of the Sun | Atahualpa | Film | 6.1 | 39 |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Guest | TV | 6.8 | 38 |
| 1968 | Oedipus the King | Oedipus | Film | 6.0 | 38 |
| 1968 | Nobody Runs Forever | Sir James Quentin | Film | 6.0 | 38 |
| 1967 | Omnibus | Narrator | TV | 7.2 | 37 |
| 1967 | The Night of the Generals | Field Marshal Rommel | Film | 6.8 | 37 |
| 1966 | Triple Cross | Freddie Chapman | Film | 6.1 | 36 |
| 1966 | Inside Daisy Clover | Raymond Swan | Film | 5.6 | 36 |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Don Juan | TV | 5.3 | 35 |
| 1965 | The Sound of Music | Captain Georg von Trapp | Film | 7.7 | 35 |
| 1965 | Salzburg Sight and Sound | Self | Film | 9.0 | 35 |
| 1964 | The Fall of the Roman Empire | Commodus | Film | 6.5 | 34 |
| 1964 | An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy | Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 34 |
| 1964 | Hamlet at Elsinore | Hamlet | Film | 7.8 | 34 |
| 1963 | 30 Minutes, Mister Plummer | Himself | Film | 8.0 | 33 |
| 1963 | Trans-Canada Journey | Narrator (voice) | Film | 8.0 | 33 |
| 1962 | Cyrano De Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac | Film | 9.0 | 32 |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self | TV | 5.8 | 31 |
| 1960 | Captain Brassbound's Conversion | Captain Brassbound | Film | — | 30 |
| 1959 | NBC Sunday Showcase | TV | 5.0 | 29 | |
| 1959 | A Doll's House | Torvald | Film | 10.0 | 29 |
| 1958 | Wind Across the Everglades | Walt Murdock | Film | 6.2 | 28 |
| 1958 | Stage Struck | Joe Sheridan | Film | 6.0 | 28 |
| 1958 | Little Moon of Alban | Kenneth Boyd | Film | 10.0 | 28 |
| 1958 | Johnny Belinda | Dr. Jack Pelletier | Film | — | 28 |
| 1957 | DuPont Show of the Month | Sir Miles Hendon | TV | 7.4 | 27 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Presenter | TV | — | 26 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Winner | TV | — | 26 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | TV | — | 26 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Nominee / Presenter | TV | — | 26 |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self | TV | 7.0 | 23 |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater | Walter Shelley | TV | 6.8 | 23 |
| 1953 | Kraft Television Theatre | TV | 10.0 | 23 | |
| 1952 | Omnibus | TV | 6.3 | 22 | |
| 1952 | Omnibus | Oedipus | TV | 6.3 | 22 |
| 1952 | Omnibus | Thomas Mendip | TV | 6.3 | 22 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Dr. Jack Pelletier | TV | 8.8 | 21 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Torvald Helmer | TV | 8.8 | 21 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Captain Brassbound | TV | 8.8 | 21 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Prince Albert | TV | 8.8 | 21 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Cyrano de Bergerac | TV | 8.8 | 21 |
| 1949 | Suspense | TV | 5.1 | 19 | |
| 1948 | The Ed Sullivan Show | Self | TV | 6.8 | 18 |
| 1948 | Studio One | Dick | TV | 5.4 | 18 |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee | TV | 7.1 | 14 |
| Madeline at the Ballet | Narrator (voice) | Film | 2.0 | — | |
| Ted Allan: Minstrel Boy of the 20th Century | Narrator (voice) | Film | 8.0 | — |