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Acting

Christopher Plummer

Career: Active from 1958 to 2023, busiest in 1991 with 7 main titles.

Leading roles: 132
top three billing

Average score: 58/100

Highest rated: Up
88/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 139 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Christopher Plummer Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.7, average 5.4
Situational Comedy
1.9, average 2.7
Cringe Humor
1.4, average 2.2
Pop Culture
1.4, average 2.2

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 11
Historical Drama 10
Nostalgic 9
Political Intrigue 9
Suspenseful 7
Psychological Thriller 7
Psychological Drama 6
Coming-of-Age Story 6
Character-Driven Drama 5
Magical Realism 4
Family-Friendly 4
Coming-of-Age 4

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

204

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

2 titles

Madeline at the Ballet

as Narrator (voice)

Ted Allan: Minstrel Boy of the 20th Century

as Narrator (voice)

2020s

4 titles · average score 53

Heroes of the Golden Mask

42

as Rizzo (voice)

Kalahari: The Flooded Desert

as Narrator (voice)

Mooseltoe

as Mooseking

The Last Full Measure

64

as Frank Pitsenbarger

2010s

28 titles · average score 60

Boundaries

53

as Jack

All the Money in the World

70

as Jean Paul Getty

The Man Who Invented Christmas

69

as Scrooge

Danny Collins

67

as Frank Grubman

Remember

67

as Zev Guttman

Pixies

51

as Pixie King (voice)

The Forger

36

as Joseph Cutter

Elsa & Fred

48

as Fred

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

51

as John Marshall Harlan

The Legend of Sarila

36

as Croolik (voice)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

78

as Henrik Vanger

Beginners

78

as Hal Fields

2000s

37 titles · average score 58

88

as Charles Muntz (voice)

63

as #1 (voice)

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

64

as Doctor Parnassus

The Last Station

70

as Leo Tolstoy

Closing the Ring

46

as Jack

The Lake House

56

as Simon Wyler

Inside Man

78

as Arthur Case

The New World

67

as Captain Newport

National Treasure

56

as John Adams Gates

Ararat

62

as David

A Beautiful Mind

77

as Dr. Rosen

Dracula 2000

35

as Matthew Van Helsing

1990s

40 titles · average score 57

The Insider

86

as Mike Wallace

The Clown at Midnight

42

as Mr. Caruthers

Skeletons

47

as Reverend Carlyle

Twelve Monkeys

81

as Dr. Goines

Dolores Claiborne

75

as John Mackey

Crackerjack

39

as Ivan Getz

Wolf

59

as Raymond Alden

Impolite

as Naples O'Rorke

Rock-A-Doodle

39

as Grand Duke (voice)

Young Catherine

66

TV show · as Sir Charles

Counterstrike

71

TV show · as Alexander Addington

Red Blooded American Girl

28

as Dr. John Alcore

1980s

41 titles · average score 59

Nosferatu in Venice

45

as Professor Paris Catalano

Dragnet

55

as Reverend Jonathan Whirley

A Hazard of Hearts

68

as Sir Giles Staverley

An American Tail

63

as Henri (voice)

Dreamscape

65

as Bob Blair

Highpoint

49

as James Hatcher

The Thorn Birds

50

TV show · as Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese

The Scarlet and the Black

78

as Col. Herbert Kappler

Prototype

52

as Dr. Carl Forrester

Eyewitness

59

as Joseph

The Amateur

57

as Professor Lakos

Somewhere in Time

60

as William Fawcett 'W.F.' Robinson

1970s

22 titles · average score 60

Murder by Decree

61

as Sherlock Holmes

Hanover Street

53

as Paul Sellinger

Starcrash

36

as The Emperor

The Silent Partner

76

as Reikle

International Velvet

67

as John Seaton

Jesus of Nazareth

79

TV show · as Herod Antipas

Aces High

64

as Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair

Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers

55

TV show · as Roscoe Heyward

The Man Who Would Be King

86

as Rudyard Kipling

The Return of the Pink Panther

70

as Sir Charles Litton

The Pyx

47

as Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson

Waterloo

51

as Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

1960s

17 titles · average score 61

The Royal Hunt of the Sun

54

as Atahualpa

Lock Up Your Daughters

55

as Lord Foppington

Nobody Runs Forever

55

as Sir James Quentin

Oedipus the King

62

as Oedipus

Omnibus

72

TV show · as Narrator

Triple Cross

53

as Freddie Chapman

Inside Daisy Clover

43

as Raymond Swan

The Sound of Music

78

as Captain Georg von Trapp

The Fall of the Roman Empire

61

as Commodus

Hamlet at Elsinore

78

as Hamlet

Cyrano De Bergerac

as Cyrano de Bergerac

Captain Brassbound's Conversion

as Captain Brassbound

1950s

11 titles · average score 69

A Doll's House

as Torvald

NBC Sunday Showcase

TV show

Wind Across the Everglades

61

as Walt Murdock

Little Moon of Alban

as Kenneth Boyd

as Dr. Jack Pelletier

Stage Struck

56

as Joe Sheridan

DuPont Show of the Month

TV show · as Sir Miles Hendon

General Electric Theater

68

TV show · as Walter Shelley

Kraft Television Theatre

TV show

Omnibus

75

TV show · as Oedipus / Thomas Mendip

Hallmark Hall of Fame

84

TV show · as Captain Brassbound / Prince Albert

1940s

2 titles · average score 63

Suspense

62

TV show

Studio One

65

TV show · as Dick