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Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer, CC (born December 13, 1929) is a Canadian actor who plays Henrik Vanger in the 2011 movie adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Career
Theatre
Plummer has played most of the great roles in classic repertoire. In 1953, Plummer was the understudy to Tyrone Power in The Dark is Light Enough, in a production by Katharine Cornell in which she also starred. In his biography, Plummer states that Cornell was his 'sponsor.' In 1973, he appeared on Broadway as the swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano, a musical adaptation of Edmond Rostand's 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac by Anthony Burgess (libretto and lyrics) and Michael J. Lewis (music). For that performance, Plummer won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance.
In 1971 he appeared at the National Theatre in the play Amphitryon 38, directed by Sir Laurence Olivier.
In 2004, he appeared in a lauded production of King Lear, directed by Jonathan Miller and performed at Lincoln Center. Plummer's performance as Lear garnered him his sixth Tony nomination.
He returned to Broadway in 2007 as Henry Drummond in a revival of Inherit the Wind, winning a Drama Desk Award nomination as well as his seventh Tony nomination.
Plummer returned to the stage at the Stratford (Canada) Shakespeare Festival in August 2008 in a critically acclaimed performance as Julius Caesar in George Bernard Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra" directed by Tony winner Des McAnuff; this production was videotaped and shown in high-definition in Canadian cinemas on January 31, 2009 (with an encore presentation on February 23, 2009) and broadcast on April 4, 2009 on Bravo! in Canada. Plummer once again returned to the Stratford Festival in the summer of 2010 in The Tempest as the lead character, Prospero.
Film
Plummer's eclectic career on screen began in 1958 when Sidney Lumet cast him as a young writer in Stage Struck. Since then he has appeared in a vast number of notable films which include The Man Who Would Be King, The Fall of the Roman Empire, Jesus of Nazareth, The Return of the Pink Panther, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Battle of Britain, Waterloo, The Silent Partner, Dragnet, Shadow Dancing, Inside Daisy Clover, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Malcolm X, Dolores Claiborne, Wolf, 12 Monkeys, The Insider, Murder by Decree, Somewhere in Time, Syriana, The New World and The Lake House and International Velvet.
One of Plummer's most critically acclaimed roles was that of television journalist Mike Wallace in Michael Mann's Oscar-nominated The Insider, for which he won Boston, Los Angeles, and National Society of Film Critics Awards for 'Best Supporting Actor'; he was also nominated for Chicago and Las Vegas Film Critics Awards, as well as a Satellite Award. Predictions of an Oscar nomination circulated, but such recognition only came in January 2010 when Plummer received his first Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of author Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station. Speaking to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in an interview that aired on March 7, 2010, Plummer appeared slightly irritated that it had taken so long to receive a personal Academy Award nomination, saying, "Well, I said it's about time! I mean, I'm 80 years old, for God's sake. Have mercy." Still, on Oscar night, March 7, 2010, Plummer lost the Best Supporting Actor nomination to Christoph Waltz in the Quentin Tarantino 2009 war film Inglourious Basterds.
Other recent successes include his roles as Dr. Rosen in Ron Howard's Academy Award winning A Beautiful Mind, Arthur Case in Spike Lee's 2006 film Inside Man, and the philosopher Aristotle in Alexander, alongside Colin Farrell. In 2004, Plummer played John Adams Gates in National Treasure.
Plummer has also done some voice work, such as his role of Henri the pigeon in An American Tail, the villainous Grand Duke of Owls in Rock-a-Doodle, the antagonistic Charles Muntz in Up and the elder leader 1 in the Tim Burton-produced action/science fiction film 9.
In 1963, he was the subject of a short National Film Board of Canada documentary, 30 Minutes, Mister Plummer, directed by Anne Claire Poirier.
Television
Among his television appearances, which number almost a hundred, are the Emmy-nominated BBC production Hamlet at Elsinore, the five-time Emmy winning The Thorn Birds, the Emmy-winning Nuremberg, the Emmy-winning Little Moon of Alban and the Emmy-winning Moneychangers.
He co-starred in American Tragedy as F. Lee Bailey (for which he received a Golden Globe Nomination), and appeared in Four Minute Mile, Miracle Planet, and a documentary by Ric Burns about Eugene O'Neill. He received an Emmy nomination for his performance in Our Fathers and reunited with Julie Andrews for a television production of On Golden Pond. He also played Herod Antipas in the miniseries, Jesus of Nazareth and was the narrator for The Gospel of John. He also co-starred with Gregory Peck in The Scarlet and The Black.
He narrated the animated television series Madeline as well as the animated television series David the Gnome.
Plummer has also written for the stage, television and the concert-hall. Plummer and Sir Neville Marriner rearranged Shakespeare’s Henry V with Sir William Walton’s music as a concert piece. They recorded the work with Marriner's chamber orchestra the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
He performed it and other works with the New York Philharmonic and symphony orchestras of London, Washington, D.C., Cleveland, Ohio, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Toronto, Vancouver and Halifax. With Marriner he made his Carnegie Hall debut in his own arrangements of Mendelssohn's incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Filmography
Film
| 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 | |
| 1966 | 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 | Detective Sergeant Jim Henderson | |
| 1974 | After the Fall | Quentin | |
| 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 Ferdinand of Austria | |
| 1976 | Aces High | Captain 'Uncle' Sinclair | |
| 1977 | The Assignment | Captain Behounek | |
| 1977 | The Disappearance | Deverell | |
| 1977 | Silver Blaze | Sherlock Holmes | |
| 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) | [1] |
| 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 (voice) | |
| 1987 | The Gnomes' Great Adventure | Narrator (voice) | |
| 1988 | Light Years | Metamorphis | |
| 1988 | Shadow Dancing | Edmund Beaumont | |
| 1988 | The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Narrator (voice) | Documentary |
| 1989 | Souvenir | Ernst Kestner | |
| 1989 | Mindfield | Doctor 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) | [1] |
| 1991 | Dragon and Slippers | Pelican (voice) | |
| 1991 | Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | General Chang | |
| 1992 | Impolite | Naples O'Rorke | |
| 1992 | Malcolm X | Chaplain Gill | |
| 1992 | Liar's Edge | Harry Weldon | |
| 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) | [1] |
| 1998 | Hidden Agenda | Ulrich Steiner | |
| 1998 | The First Christmas | Narrator (voice) | |
| 1998 | Blackheart | Holmes | |
| 1998 | The Clown at Midnight | Mr. Caruthers | |
| 1999 | Madeline: Lost in Paris | Narrator (voice) | [1] |
| 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 | Blizzard | Santa Claus | |
| 2003 | The Gospel of John | Narrator (voice) | |
| 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 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) | [1] |
| 2009 | My Dog Tulip | J.R. Ackerley (voice) | [1] |
| 2009 | 9 | 1 (voice) | [1] |
| 2009 | The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | Doctor Parnassus | |
| 2009 | The Last Station | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 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) | [1] |
| 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) | [1] |
| 2015 | Remember | Zev Guttman | |
| 2016 | The Exception | Kaiser Wilhelm | |
| 2016 | Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom | Dr. West (voice) | [1] |
| 2017 | Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom | Dr. West / The Pixie King (voice) | |
| 2017 | The Man Who Invented Christmas | Ebenezer Scrooge | |
| 2017 | The Star | King Herod (voice) | [1] |
| 2017 | All the Money in the World | J. Paul Getty | |
| 2018 | Boundaries | Jack Jaconi | |
| 2018 | Howard Lovecraft and the Kingdom of Madness | Dr. Jeffrey West (voice) | [1] |
| 2019 | Cliffs of Freedom | Thanasi | |
| 2019 | The Last Full Measure | Frank Pitsenbarger | In post-production |
| 2019 | Knives Out | Harlem Thrombey | In post-production |
Television
| 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 | Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf / Sir Miles Hendon | 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 | Host |
| 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 (voice) | Television 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 | Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers | Roscoe Heyward | 4 episodes |
| 1977 | Jesus of Nazareth | Herod Antipas | 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 |
| 1982 | Little Gloria... Happy at Last | Reggie Vanderbilt | 2 episodes |
| 1983 | The Scarlet and the Black | Colonel Herbert Kappler | Television film |
| 1983 | The Thorn Birds | Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese | 3 episodes |
| 1983 | Prototype | Dr. Carl Forrester | Television film |
| 1985 | Rumpelstiltskin | Narrator (voice) | Television film |
| 1986 | Crossings | Armand DeVilliers | 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 (voice) | English version |
| 1988–1991 | Madeline | Narrator (voice) | 6 episodes |
| 1989 | Nabokov on Kafka | Vladimir Nabokov | Television short |
| 1990 | A Ghost in Monte Carlo | The Grand Duke Ivan | Television film |
| 1990 | The Little Crooked Christmas Tree | Television short | |
| 1990–1993 | Counterstrike | Alexander Addington | 65 episodes |
| 1991 | Young Catherine | Sir Charles | 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 |
| 1993–1995 | Madeline | Narrator (voice) | 33 episodes[1] |
| 1993 | A Stranger in the Mirror | Clifton Lawrence | Television film |
| 1995 | Harrison Bergeron | John Klaxon | Television film |
| 1996 | We the Jury | Wilfred Fransiscus | Television film |
| 1996 | Skeletons | R. Carlyle | Television film |
| 1997 | The Arrow | George Hees | 2 episodes |
| 1998 | Winchell | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Television film |
| 2000 | Nuremberg | Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe | 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 | 'Flash' Harry 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 (voice) | 6 episodes |
| 2006 | American Experience | Narrator / James Tyrone | Episode: "Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film" |
| 2008 | The Summit | P.J. Aimes | 2 episodes |
| 2013 | Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight | John Marshall Harlan II | Television film |
| 2019 | Departure | Howard/Howard Lawson | 6 episodes |
Stage
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | J.B. | Nickles | |
| 1974 | Cyrano | Cyrano de Bergerac | |
| 1982 | Othello | Iago | |
| 1994 | No Man's Land | Spooner | |
| 1997 | Barrymore | John Barrymore | |
| 2004 | King Lear | King Lear | |
| 2007 | Inherit the Wind | Henry Drummond |
Video games
| Year | Title | Voice role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Star Trek: Klingon Academy | General Chang | |
| 2009 | Up | Charles Muntz (voice) | |
| 2011 | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | Arngeir (voice) | [1] |
| 2017 | The Long Dark | Narrator |