Christopher Plummer - biography

“The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird.  We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.”

“I’m too old-fashioned to use a computer.  I’m too old-fashioned to use a quill.”

“Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.”

“They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.”

“In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.”

“It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice.  So I had to work like hell to flatten those R’s.”

“Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early ’50s.  Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.”

“I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days.”

“The part of Mike Wallace drew me to the movie because I thought, what an outrageous part to play.”

“I couldn’t believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal.”

“I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like.  And I’m one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.”

“Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.”

Christopher Plummer has appeared in the following films:
Stage Struck (1958)
Wind Across the Everglades (1958)
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Triple Cross (1966)
Oedipus the King (1967)
The Night of the Generals (1967)
Nobody Runs Forever (1968)
Battle of Britain (1969)
Lock Up Your Daughters! (1969)
The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)
Waterloo (1970)
The Pyx (1973)
Conduct Unbecoming (1975)
The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
Sarajevski atentat (1975)
The Spiral Staircase (1975)
Aces High (1976)
The Disappearance (1977)
The Assignment (1977)
International Velvet (1978)
Starcrash (1978)
The Silent Partner (1978)
Hanover Street (1979)
Murder by Decree (1979)
Somewhere in Time (1980)
Eyewitness (1981)
The Amateur (1981)
Highpoint (1982)
Ordeal by Innocence (1984)
Dreamscape (1984)
Lily in Love (1984)
An American Tail (1986)
The Boss’ Wife (1986)
The Boy in Blue (1986)
Dragnet (1987)
L’Homme qui plantait des arbres (1987)
I Love N.Y. (1987)
The Gnomes’ Great Adventure (1987)
Nosferatu a Venezia (1988)
Shadow Dancing (1988)
Souvenir (1989)
Kingsgate (1989)
Mindfield (1989)
Where the Heart Is (1990)
Money (1991)
Rock-A-Doodle (1991)
Firehead (1991)
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Liar’s Edge (1992)
Wolf (1994)
Crackerjack (1994)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Dolores Claiborne (1995)
Babes in Toyland (1997)
Blackheart (1998)
The First Christmas (1998)
Madeline: Lost in Paris (1999)
The Insider (1999)
Hidden Agenda (1999)
The Clown at Midnight (1999)
Dracula 2001 (2000)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Lucky Break (2001)
Ararat (2002)
Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
Cold Creek Manor (2003)
The Visual Bible: The Gospel of John (2003)
Alexander (2004)
National Treasure (2004)
Syriana (2005)
The New World (2005)
Must Love Dogs (2005)
Inside Man (2006)
The Lake House (2006)
Closing the Ring (2007)
Already Dead (2007)
Emotional Arithmetic (2007)
Man in the Chair (2007)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
The Last Station (2009)
9 (2009)
Beginners (2010)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Priest (2011)
Barrymore (2011)