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Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer, CC (born December 13, 1929-February 5, 2021) 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 | Template:Abbr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | Minshū no Teki | The Mako | ||
| The Captive Heart | Patrick Robinson | |||
| A Night in Casablanca | Paul Hoffman | |||
| Night and Day | Sig Richard | |||
| The Jolson Story | Eddie Goodwin | |||
| Deception | Richard Fong | |||
| The Yearling | Dan Mann | |||
| The Razor's Edge | Gene Billings | |||
| 1948 | Corridor of Mirrors | Eric Wheatley | ||
| State of the Union | Van Mayo | |||
| The Snake Pit | Falcon | |||
| The Three Musketeers | Frank Warwick | |||
| 1950 | Cinderella | Lewis von Halliday | Voice | [1] |
| Broken Arrow | Luigi Robinson | |||
| 1951 | Captain Horatio Hornblower | Terence | ||
| The Day the Earth Stood Still | Buzz | |||
| Quo Vadis | Earl | |||
| 1953 | The Robe | Jones | ||
| 1954 | Broken Lance | Larry | ||
| 1955 | East of Eden | Robert | ||
| Rebel Without a Cause | Ray | |||
| 1956 | The Searchers | Chuck Pennick | ||
| Giant | Guiol | |||
| The Ten Commandments | Tommy De Keith | |||
| Baby Doll | Rip Baker | |||
| 1957 | The Wings of Eagles | Jonathan Chapman | ||
| A Face in the Crowd | Chris Lewis | |||
| An Affair to Remember | Det. Holt | |||
| Sayonara | Sir Cang | |||
| 1958 | Stage Struck | Joe Sheridan | ||
| Vertigo | James R. Patrick | |||
| The Big Country | Charles Robinson | |||
| Wind Across the Everglades | Walt Murdock | |||
| 1959 | Sleeping Beauty | Arthur Robinson | Voice | [1] |
| Rio Bravo | Rufus Joness | |||
| The Horse Soldiers | Store Customer | |||
| North by Northwest | Danny Johnson | |||
| Ben-Hur | Josh Howard | |||
| Journey to the Center of the Earth | Adam Johnson | |||
| 1960 | Ocean's 11 | Dr. Pratt | ||
| Spartacus | Chris Anderson | |||
| The Magnificent Seven | Carl Robinson | |||
| 1961 | King of Kings | Ron Frank | ||
| West Side Story | Charles Salt | |||
| 1962 | Sweet Bird of Youth | Roy Forrest | ||
| The Music Man | Larry Miller | |||
| The Manchurian Candidate | Ernest Anderson | |||
| How the West Was Won | Henry Lambert | |||
| 1963 | The Birds | Bill Baker | ||
| Critic's Choice | Howard Pritchard | |||
| Irma la Douce | Al Crowthers | |||
| Cleopatra | Rick Todd | |||
| The Great Escape | Bo Gillis | |||
| 1964 | Seven Days in May | Tony Ryder | ||
| The Fall of the Roman Empire | Commodus | |||
| 1965 | The Greatest Story Ever Told | Reginald Matthews | ||
| The Sound of Music | Captain Georg von Trapp | |||
| The Cincinnati Kid | Max Detweiler | |||
| Doctor Zhivago | Baroness Ebberfeld | |||
| 1966 | Inside Daisy Clover | Raymond Swan | ||
| Triple Cross | Eddie Chapman | |||
| The Bible: In the Beginning... | Eric Rassimov | |||
| Blow-Up | General Dalrymple | |||
| 1967 | The Night of the Generals | Field Marshal Erwin Rommel | ||
| The Dirty Dozen | General Wilhelm Tanz | |||
| In the Heat of the Night | Inspector Morand | |||
| Bonnie and Clyde | Klaus Kahlenberge | |||
| Cool Hand Luke | Otto Köpke | |||
| The Graduate | Herbert von Seidlitz-Gabler | |||
| Oedipus the King | Oedipus | |||
| 1968 | Nobody Runs Forever | Sir James Quentin | ||
| Bullitt | Pham Chinh | |||
| 1969 | Battle of Britain | Squadron Leader Colin Harvey | ||
| The Royal Hunt of the Sun | Atahualpa | |||
| Lock Up Your Daughters! | Lord Foppington | |||
| 1970 | M*A*S*H | Mulholland | Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated — Laurel Award for Top Male Comedic Performance |
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| Patton | Corporal O'Connor | |||
| Kelly's Heroes | Sir William Ponsonby | |||
| Waterloo | Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | |||
| 1971 | McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Sid Kleinman | ||
| Dirty Harry | Past | |||
| 1972 | The Poseidon Adventure | Bob Sheldon | ||
| 1973 | Soylent Green | Haig | ||
| The Pyx | Detective Sergeant Jim Henderson | |||
| Westworld | Pilon | |||
| Mean Streets | Mr. Jaffe | |||
| 1974 | Zardoz | Hyde | ||
| Blazing Saddles | Murray | |||
| Chinatown | Jerry Morgan | |||
| The Happy Prince | The Happy Prince | Short film | ||
| After the Fall | Quentin | |||
| The Towering Inferno | Codner | |||
| 1975 | The Spiral Staircase | Dr. Joe Sherman | ||
| The Return of the Pink Panther | Sir Charles Litton | |||
| Nashville | Mike Jones | |||
| Conduct Unbecoming | Major Alastair Wimbourne | |||
| The Man Who Would Be King | Rudyard Kipling | |||
| The Day That Shook the World | Archduke Ferdinand of Austria | |||
| 1976 | Aces High | Captain 'Uncle' Sinclair | ||
| 1977 | The Assignment | Captain Behounek | ||
| The Disappearance | Deverell | |||
| Silver Blaze | Sherlock Holmes | |||
| 1978 | The Silent Partner | Harry Reikle | ||
| International Velvet | John Seaton | |||
| 1979 | Starcrash | The Emperor | ||
| Mad Max | Mel Newman | |||
| Murder by Decree | Sherlock Holmes | |||
| Hanover Street | Paul Sellinger | |||
| 1980 | Caddyshack | Richard Collier | ||
| Somewhere in Time | William Fawcett Robinson | |||
| Altered States | Dr. Gerard Finney | |||
| 1981 | Eyewitness | Joseph | ||
| Excalibur | Richard MacNicol | |||
| Outland | Frenchy | |||
| Time Bandits | Fouche | |||
| The Amateur | Professor Lakos | |||
| Mad Max 2 | Mel Newman | |||
| 1982 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Clark Robinson | ||
| The Thing | Dr. Richard | |||
| Blade Runner | Professor Knight | |||
| Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Tom Stoltz | |||
| The Dark Crystal | Timmy Robinson | |||
| 1984 | This Is Spinal Tap | Reiner | ||
| Once Upon a Time in America | Eli Hamilton | |||
| The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | Lloyd George | |||
| Dreamscape | Bob Blair | |||
| Highpoint | James Hatcher | |||
| The Terminator | Ken Hopper | |||
| Ordeal by Innocence | Leo Argyle | |||
| The Killing Fields | Craig Campbell | |||
| 1985 | Ladyhawke | Jerry Silber | ||
| Lily in Love | Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova | |||
| Return to Oz | Griffiths | |||
| Silverado | W.H. Auden | |||
| Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome | Mel Newman | |||
| Explorers | Dr. Bourdelot | |||
| Legend | Duncan Phillips | |||
| Eleni | Jim Minty | |||
| 1986 | The Boy in Blue | Knox | ||
| At Close Range | Roger Sullivan | |||
| Invaders from Mars | Dan Williams | |||
| The Great Mouse Detective | The Old Man Guy | Voice | [1] | |
| Big Trouble in Little China | Daniel Mull | |||
| Manhunter | Harry Taphorn | |||
| The Mission | Carlos Delgado | |||
| The Boss' Wife | Mr. Roalvang | |||
| An American Tail | Henri | Voice | [1] | |
| The Golden Child | Willis Richard | |||
| Little Shop of Horrors | Carlos Delgado | |||
| Platoon | Tector Crites | |||
| Vampire in Venice | Professor Paris Catalano | |||
| 1987 | Over the Top | Chris Terry | ||
| The Man Who Planted Trees | Narrator | |||
| I Love N.Y. | John Robertson Yeats | |||
| The Untouchables | Jacque Marchant | |||
| Predator | Maxwell Karsey | |||
| Spaceballs | Rob | |||
| Dragnet | Reverend Jonathan Whirley | |||
| The Lost Boys | Jason Winter | |||
| Empire of the Sun | Peter Flynn | |||
| The Gnomes' Great Adventure | Narrator | |||
| 1988 | Light Years | Metamorphis | ||
| Bloodsport | Donald Burton | |||
| Willow | Val Marsh | |||
| Killer Klowns from Outer Space | John Licassi | |||
| Young Guns | Terence O'Quinn | |||
| Mac and Me | George Swift | |||
| Earth Girls Are Easy | John Travis | |||
| Shadow Dancing | Edmund Beaumont | |||
| The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Narrator | Documentary | ||
| They Live | Roddy Rossall Flower | |||
| Dangerous Liaisons | Harry Kurtz | |||
| 1989 | Souvenir | Ernst Kestner | ||
| Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | Weller | |||
| Leviathan | Michael Crenna | |||
| Renegades | Gary Johnson | |||
| Lock Up | Jordan Pesce | |||
| Next of Kin | Paul Hadley | |||
| Mindfield | Doctor Satorius | |||
| Always | Phil Lewis | |||
| Tango & Cash | Doug Warren | |||
| 1990 | Where the Heart Is | Jerry | ||
| Spaced Invaders | Fred Alexander | |||
| Total Recall | Marshall Cox | |||
| Young Guns II | Terence O'Quinn | |||
| Flatliners | Joel Bont | |||
| Goodfellas | Kimberly Platt | |||
| Red Blooded American Girl | Dr. John Alcore | |||
| Dances with Wolves | Kirk Horton | |||
| Predator 2 | Maxwell Karsey | |||
| The Nutcracker Prince | The Stone Calf | Voice | [1] | |
| Hamlet | Trevor Postlethwaite | |||
| 1991 | Firehead | Colonel Garland Vaughn | ||
| The Doors | Hutshing | |||
| Out for Justice | Ed McCord | |||
| Money | Martin Yahl | |||
| Thelma & Louise | Marco Beghe | |||
| Backdraft | Clint Robinson | |||
| Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | Liam Newman | |||
| Terminator 2: Judgment Day | Ken Hopper | |||
| Point Break | Jack Pettiet | |||
| Rock-a-Doodle | The Grand Duke of Owls | Voice | [1] | |
| Dragon and Slippers | Pelican | Voice | ||
| Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | General Chang | |||
| The Last Boy Scout | Paymer | |||
| JFK | Walter Sanderson | |||
| 1992 | Liar's Edge | Harry Weldon | ||
| Wayne's World | Meat DiLeo | |||
| Sister Act | Jim Boyd | |||
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Candy Affleck | |||
| Unforgiven | Larry Turner | |||
| Honeymoon in Vegas | Pat Gillian | |||
| Impolite | Naples O'Rorke | |||
| The Last of the Mohicans | Willy Malkin | |||
| Malcolm X | Chaplain Gill | |||
| 1993 | The Vanishing | Jeff Hearn | ||
| Falling Down | Tuesday Morrison | |||
| Benny & Joon | Bill Yardley | |||
| Once Upon a Forest | Sheldon | Voice | [1] | |
| Son of the Pink Panther | Sir Charles Litton | |||
| Demolition Man | Nigel Colson | |||
| Six Degrees of Separation | Kelly Abrams | |||
| Tombstone | Geoffrey R. Miller | |||
| 1994 | Maverick | Dub Perlich | ||
| Speed | Alan Morton | |||
| Wolf | Raymond Alden | |||
| Wyatt Earp | Rex Kehler | |||
| Blown Away | Mike Jones | |||
| The Client | Ron Macy | |||
| Airheads | Joe Hun | |||
| The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Ken Holmes | |||
| Crackerjack | Ivan Getz | |||
| Natural Born Killers | Grand Gammon | |||
| Timecop | Brad Faraci | |||
| Disclosure | Nicholas Dougals | |||
| 1995 | Just Cause | Richard Brown | ||
| Outbreak | Dale White | |||
| Dolores Claiborne | Detective John Mackey | |||
| Rob Roy | Billy Ford | |||
| French Kiss | Major Salt | |||
| Die Hard with a Vengeance | Benjamin Iwabi | |||
| Braveheart | Jimbo Scott | |||
| Species | Colonel Briggs | |||
| Showgirls | Julio Ruiz | |||
| The American President | Henry Hayward | |||
| Heat | Leland Dye | |||
| 12 Monkeys | Dr. Goines | |||
| 1996 | Broken Arrow | Frank Mickey | ||
| The Rock | Bill Walter | |||
| A Time to Kill | Randall Katt | |||
| Chain Reaction | Nicky Nunley | |||
| The Glimmer Man | Jonathan Heald | |||
| The Long Kiss Goodnight | Emmett Smith | |||
| Larger Than Life | Harve Higle | |||
| The Conspiracy of Fear | Joseph Wakeman | |||
| 1997 | Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery | Burt Thomas | ||
| Con Air | Orion Summers | |||
| Contact | Tom Miller | |||
| Conspiracy Theory | Gil Rinkins | |||
| The Full Monty | The Homeless Guy | |||
| L.A. Confidential | Otto Nielsen | |||
| Babes in Toyland | Barnaby Crookedman | Voice | [1] | |
| Kiss the Girls | Jerry Kovacovich | |||
| Starship Troopers | Corky MacPherson | |||
| The Man Who Knew Too Little | Paul Scarne | |||
| The Postman | Davey Carr | |||
| 1998 | Hidden Agenda | Ulrich Steiner | ||
| The First Christmas | Narrator | |||
| Blackheart | Holmes | |||
| Fallen | Gregory Dun | |||
| Dark City | Rufus Highfield | |||
| The Big Lebowski | Philip Bugin | |||
| The Man in the Iron Mask | Edward Sarsgaard | |||
| City of Angels | Otto Ganz | |||
| Hope Floats | Michael J. Ray | |||
| The Negotiator | Doug Lee | |||
| Ronin | Sean Harris | |||
| Pratical Magic | George P. Wallace | |||
| Soldier | W.S. Anderson | |||
| The Siege | Lance Pai | |||
| Meet Joe Black | Jeffery Miller | |||
| You've Got Mail | Jean Randolph | |||
| The Thin Red Line | Capt. Nick Penn | |||
| The Clown at Midnight | Mr. Caruthers | |||
| 1999 | The Matrix | Eric Kluster | ||
| Entrapment | Phil Young | |||
| Wild Wild West | Sam von Brian | |||
| Deep Blue Sea | Stellan Rapaport | |||
| The Iron Giant | Emmett Johnson | Voice | [1] | |
| Madeline: Lost in Paris | Narrator | [1] | ||
| Fight Club | Walter Alberto Pillipini | |||
| The Insider | Mike Wallace | |||
| Sleepy Hollow | Casper Griffiths | |||
| 2000 | Gladiator | Dr. Wally | ||
| The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle | Louis Gara | |||
| X-Men | Og | |||
| Space Cowboys | Conard Brean | |||
| Get Carter | Louis Gara | |||
| Proof of Life | Paul Vitti | |||
| Dude, Where's My Car? | Simon Silver | |||
| Dracula 2000 | Abraham Van Helsing | |||
| 2001 | The Pledge | James Heaven | ||
| Sweet November | Brody Thomas | |||
| Monkeybone | Harold Grisham | |||
| Exit Wounds | Duane Bloom | |||
| Driven | Max Kenny | |||
| Full Disclosure | Robert Lecker | |||
| Swordfish | Kirk Martin Pagan | |||
| Planet of the Apes | Shen Warner | |||
| Original Sin | Harry Cudney | |||
| Lucky Break | Graham Mortimer | |||
| Rat Race | Don Griffin | |||
| Training Day | Ben Ford | |||
| Bandits | Fred Blake | |||
| From Hell | Patrick Connors | |||
| The Affair of the Necklace | Victor Tellegio | |||
| Vanilla Sky | Billy McDonnen | |||
| The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | The Lord Pope | |||
| A Beautiful Mind | Dr. Rosen | |||
| 2002 | Rollerball | Merlin Hart | ||
| Return to Neverland | Jeff Bowman | Voice | [1] | |
| Cinderella II: Dreams Come True | Lewis von Halliday | Voice, Direct-to-video | [1] | |
| Showtime | Ben Whittaker | |||
| Ararat | David | |||
| Minority Report | Frank Silva | |||
| Phone Booth | Rudy Mangano | |||
| The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | The Lord Pope | |||
| Nicholas Nickleby | Ralph Nickleby | |||
| 2003 | X2 | Og | ||
| Blizzard | Santa Claus | |||
| Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines | Ken Hopper | |||
| Matchstick Men | Steve Rockwell | |||
| Cold Creek Manor | Mr. Massie | |||
| The Rundown | Jon Reyes | |||
| The Gospel of John | Narrator | |||
| Mystic River | Cayden Robbins | |||
| Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Ian Carbunkle | |||
| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | The Lord Pope | |||
| 2004 | Taking Lives | Ethan Martinez | ||
| Troy | Garrett Pitt | |||
| The Day After Tomorrow | Glenn Britton | |||
| Paparazzi | Kevin Hollander | |||
| Alien vs. Predator | Raoul Flanagan | |||
| Howl's Moving Castle | Basil Wallace | Voice; English dub | [1] | |
| National Treasure | John Adams Gates | |||
| Alexander | Aristotle | |||
| The Aviator | Matt Baldwin | |||
| Flight of the Phoenix | Anthony Brown | |||
| 2005 | Elektra | Kurt Max Lee | ||
| Constantine | Quinn Swinton | |||
| The Amityvile Horror | Jimmy Donaldson | |||
| Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Vince Washington | |||
| Must Love Dogs | Bill Nolan | |||
| Syriana | Dean Whiting | |||
| Two for the Money | Novak German | |||
| V for Vendetta | Rainbow | |||
| The New World | Captain Newport | |||
| 2006 | Little Miss Sunshine | Ty Bettany | ||
| Firewall | Matthew Holmes | |||
| Inside Man | Arthur Case | |||
| The Sentiel | Ducky Starr | |||
| Poseidon | Josh Bennett | |||
| X-Men: The Last Stand | Og | |||
| The Lake House | Simon Wyler | |||
| Beerfest | Eric Faxon | |||
| Children of Men | Pam Westwick | |||
| The Departed | Shay Wahlberg | |||
| Man of the Year | Lewis Roberts | |||
| The Fountain | Cliff Margolis | |||
| Blood Diamond | Finney | |||
| The Good Shepherd | Oleg Ivanir | |||
| 2007 | Cinderella III: A Twist in Time | Lewis von Halliday | Voice, Direct-to-video | [1] |
| Reno 911!: Miami | Patton Rudd | |||
| 300 | Butler West | |||
| Stardust | Mark Cox | |||
| Juno | Jason Wilson | |||
| Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams | Arthur Robinson | Voice, Direct-to-video | [1] | |
| Closing the Ring | Jack Etty | |||
| Emotional Arithmetic | David Winters | |||
| American Gangster | Clarence Smith | |||
| Lions for Lambs | Derek Dunn | |||
| Beowulf | Sebastian Hiller | Voice | [1] | |
| The Golden Compass | Kristin Highmore | |||
| Man in the Chair | Flash Madden | |||
| I Am Legend | Dash Patton | |||
| Alien vs. Predator: Requiem | Raoul Flanagan | |||
| Already Dead | Dr. Heller | |||
| 2008 | Fool's Gold | Malcolm Hart | ||
| Speed Racer | Roger Gurry | |||
| Get Smart | Ken Warburton | |||
| Wanted | Marc O'Hara | |||
| Meet Dave | Ed O'Malley | |||
| Mirrors | Julian Buzzington | |||
| Appaloosa | Rex Spall | |||
| The Day the Earth Stood Still | Dr. Cleese | |||
| Marley & Me | Ben Henry | |||
| 2009 | Caesar and Cleopatra | Julius Caesar | Also executive producer | |
| Watchmen | Sid | |||
| X-Men Origins: Wolverine | Og | |||
| Up | Charles F. Muntz | Voice | [1] | |
| Terminator Salvation | Ken Hopper | |||
| My Dog Tulip | J.R. Ackerley | Voice | [1] | |
| Public Enemies | Spencer Lang | |||
| 9 | 1 | Voice | [1] | |
| All About Steve | Howard David | |||
| Fame | Kelsey McGill | |||
| Whip It | Daniel Wilson | |||
| Where the Wild Things Are | James Whitaker | Voice | [1] | |
| Ninja Assassin | David Williams | |||
| Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva | Lincoln | Voice; English dub | [1] | |
| The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | Doctor Parnassus | |||
| The Last Station | Leo Tolstoy | |||
| 2010 | The Book of Eli | William Marshall | ||
| Edge of Darkness | Godfrey | |||
| The Wolfman | Art Simmons | |||
| Shutter Island | Sir Walter Loxley | |||
| Cop Out | Adam Norton | |||
| Hot Tub Time Machine | Clark Chase | |||
| Date Night | Ray Burr | |||
| Robin Hood | Simon von McSorley | |||
| Maramaduke | Sam Wayans | Voice | [1] | |
| The Karate Kid | Robert Mark Smith | |||
| Jonah Hex | John Hayward | |||
| Knight and Day | Todd O'Neill | |||
| Predators | Walton Thomas | |||
| Inception | Wally Page | |||
| Beginners | Hal Fields | |||
| Gulliver's Travels | Jack Miller | |||
| 2011 | Unknown | Oliver Cornwell | ||
| Paul | Bill Weaver | |||
| Sucker Punch | Oscar Nava | |||
| Priest | Monsignor Orelas | |||
| X-Men: First Class | Og | |||
| Horrible Bosses | Lindsay Foxx | |||
| Cowboys & Aliens | Toby Russell | |||
| The Help | Brian Jackman | |||
| Barrymore | John Barrymore | |||
| The Thing | Eric Boyle | |||
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Henrik Vanger | |||
| Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Max | |||
| 2012 | This Means War | Warren Harris | ||
| Wrath of the Titans | Ben Cross | |||
| Battleship | Stacey | |||
| Ted | Braddy | |||
| Savages | Dan Hayek | |||
| The Watch | Erin Peterson | |||
| The Bourne Legacy | Scott Marshall | |||
| Argo | Rodrigo Goldenberg | |||
| Lincoln | Boris Pace | |||
| The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | The Lord Pope | |||
| Django Unchained | Leonardo | |||
| 2013 | Broken City | Dr. Pepper | ||
| Identity Thief | Ben Kevin | |||
| The Legend of Sarila | Croolik | Voice | [1] | |
| Jack the Giant Slayer | Ewan Moritz | |||
| 21 & Over | Eddy Keltz | |||
| 42 | Max Clark | |||
| The Intership | Josh Novak | |||
| My Little Pony: Equestria Girls | The Big Bull | Voice | [1] | |
| The Way, Way Back | River Faxon | |||
| R.I.P.D. | Ryan Bacon | |||
| The Wolverine | Og | |||
| Riddick | Raoul Urban | |||
| Rush | Christian Stinton | |||
| Out of the Furnace | Michael Robinson | |||
| The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | The Lord Pope | |||
| Grudge Match | James Hunt | |||
| 2014 | The Monuments Men | Justus von Handtke | ||
| Non-Stop | Jim Roach | |||
| Elsa & Fred | Fred Barcroft | |||
| A Million Ways to Die in the West | Jason | |||
| X-Men: Days of Future Past | Og | |||
| Edge of Tomorrow | Doug Davis | |||
| Hector and the Search for Happiness | Professor Coreman | |||
| If I Stay | Jamie O'Brien | |||
| Birdman | Zach Watts | |||
| The Forger | Joseph Cutter | |||
| The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | The Lord Pope | |||
| Kingsman: The Secret Service | Taron Scott | |||
| 2015 | Danny Collins | Frank Grubman | ||
| Hot Pursuit | Matthew Jones | |||
| Mad Max: Fury Road | Mel Newman | |||
| San Andreas | Brad Johnson | |||
| Pixies | Pixie King | Voice | [1] | |
| Terminator Genisys | Ken Hopper | |||
| Ted 2 | Braddy | |||
| Everest | Clive Reilly | |||
| Remember | Zev Guttman / Otto Wallisch | |||
| Bridge of Spies | Noah Matthews | |||
| Creed | Gabriel Anthony Duran | |||
| The Revenant | Duane Dove | |||
| 2016 | Deadpool | Shoggoth Davik | ||
| X-Men: Apocalypse | Og | |||
| The Exception | Kaiser Wilhelm | |||
| Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom | Dr. West | Voice | [1] | |
| 2017 | Going in Style | Ron Braff | ||
| Elegy | Narrator | Short film | [2] | |
| Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom | Dr. West, Pixie King | |||
| Blade Runner 2049 | Professor Knight | |||
| The Man Who Invented Christmas | Ebenezer Scrooge | |||
| The Star | King Herod | Voice | [1] | |
| The Post | Pat Greenwood | |||
| All the Money in the World | J. Paul Getty | |||
| 2018 | Boundaries | Jack Jaconi | ||
| Teen Titans Go! To the Movies | Phil Marshall | Voice | [1] | |
| Windows | Aaron Anderson | |||
| Bohemian Rhapsody | Luke Lambert | |||
| Howard Lovecraft and the Kingdom of Madness | Dr. Jeffrey West | Voice | [1] | |
| 2019 | Cliffs of Freedom | Thanasi | ||
| Ad Astra | Psill | |||
| Terminator: Dark Fate | Ken Hopper | |||
| Ford v Ferrari | Alex Feild | |||
| Knives Out | Harlan Thrombey | |||
| The Last Full Measure | Frank Pitsenbarger | |||
| 2020 | Underwater | Vincent Stewart | ||
| 2021 | The Loud House Movie | Garry Anderson | Voice, posthumous release | [1] |
| 2023 | Elemental | The Evil Genius | Voice, posthumous release | [1] |
| Heroes of the Golden Masks | Rizzo | Voice, posthumous release; final film role | [1] |
Television[]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Template:Abbr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | Broadway Television Theatre | Michael O'Leary | Episode: "Dark Victory" | |
| 1955 | Kraft Television Theatre | Robert Carr | Episode: "The King's Bounty" | |
| Producers' Showcase | Christian de Neuvillette | Episode: "Cyrano de Bergerac" | ||
| 1956 | General Electric Theater | Walter Shelley | Episode: "A Letter from the Queen" | |
| 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 | Various roles | 2 episodes | |
| 1958 | Little Moon of Alban | Kenneth Boyd | Television film | |
| 1959 | Johnny Belinda | Dr. Jack Pelletier | Television film | |
| A Doll's House | Torvald Helmer | Television film | ||
| The Philadelphia Story | Mike Connor | Television film | ||
| 1960 | NBC Sunday Showcase | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | 2 episodes | |
| Captain Brassbound's Conversion | Captain Brassbound | Television film | ||
| 1961 | Playdate | Himself | 13 episodes | |
| 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 | TV documentary | |
| 1971 | Don Juan in Hell | Don Juan | Television film | |
| 1974 | Witness to Yesterday | Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington | Episode: "The Duke of Wellington" | |
| After the Fall | Quentin | Television film | ||
| 1976 | The Moneychangers | Roscoe Heyward | Miniseries, 4 episodes | |
| 1977 | Silver Blaze | Sherlock Holmes | Television film | |
| Jesus of Nazareth | Herod Antipas | Miniseries, 2 episodes | ||
| 1979 | Riel | Sir John A. Macdonald | Television film | |
| 1980 | Desperate Voyage | Burrifous | Television film | |
| The Shadow Box | Brian | Television film | ||
| 1981 | When the Circus Came to Town | Duke Royal | Television film | |
| 1981 | Dial M for Murder | Tony Wendice | Television film | |
| 1982 | Little Gloria... Happy at Last | Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt | Miniseries, 2 episodes | |
| The Scarlet and the Black | Colonel Herbert Kappler | Television film | ||
| The Thorn Birds | Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese | Miniseries, 3 episodes | ||
| 1984 | Prototype | Dr. Carl Forrester | Television film | |
| 1985 | Rumpelstiltskin | Narrator | Television film | |
| The Velveteen Rabbit | Narrator | Television film | ||
| 1986 | Crossings | Armand DeVilliers | Miniseries, 3 episodes | |
| Spearfield's Daughter | Lord Jack Cruze | Television film | ||
| 1987 | A Hazard of Hearts | Sir Giles Staverley | Television film | |
| The Cosby Show | Jonathan Lawrence | Episode: "Shakespeare" | ||
| The World of David the Gnome | Narrator | English version | ||
| 1988–1991 | Madeline | Narrator | 6 episodes | |
| 1989 | Nabokov on Kafka | Vladimir Nabokov | Television short | |
| 1990 | A Ghost in Monte Carlo | The Grand Duke Ivan | Television film | |
| 1990–1993 | Counterstrike | Alexander Addington | 65 episodes | |
| 1991 | Young Catherine | Sir Charles Williams | Miniseries, 3 episodes | |
| A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz | Alfred Stieglitz | Television film | ||
| Berlin Lady | Wilhem Speer | 6 episodes | ||
| The First Circle | Victor Abakumov | Television film | ||
| 1992 | Secrets | Mel Wexler | Television film | |
| 1993 | A Stranger in the Mirror | Clifton Lawrence | Television film | |
| 1993–1995 | Madeline | Narrator | 33 episodes | [1] |
| 1995 | Harrison Bergeron | John Klaxon | Television film | |
| 1996 | We the Jury | Wilfred Fransiscus | Television film | |
| Skeletons | Reverend Carlyle | Television film | ||
| 1997 | The Arrow | George Hees | Miniseries, 2 episodes | |
| 1998 | Winchell | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Television film | |
| 2000 | Nuremberg | Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe | Miniseries, 2 episodes | |
| The Dinosaur Hunter | Hump Hinton | Television film | ||
| Possessed | Archbishop Hume | Television film | ||
| American Tragedy | F. Lee Bailey | 2 episodes | ||
| 2001 | Leo's Journey | Narrator | Television film | |
| On Golden Pond | Norman Thayer | Television film | ||
| 2002 | Night Flight | Harry 'Flash' Peters | Television film | |
| Agent of Influence | John Watkins | Television film | ||
| 2003 | Odd Job Jack | Magnus The Maker | Episode: "Holyland" | |
| 2005 | Our Fathers | Cardinal Bernard Law | Television film | |
| Miracle Planet | Narrator | 6 episodes | ||
| Four Minutes | Archie Mason | Television film | ||
| 2006 | American Experience | Narrator / James Tyrone | Episode: "Eugene O'Neill" | |
| 2008 | The Summit | P.J. Aimes | Miniseries, 2 episodes | |
| 2013 | Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight | John Marshall Harlan II | Television film | |
| 2019–2021 | Departure | Howard Larson | 12 episodes | |
| 2020 | Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time | Himself - Video Clue Presenter | 1 episode |
Theatre[]
| Year | Title | Role | Venue | Template:Abbr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | The Starcross Story | George Phillips | Royale Theatre, Broadway | |
| 1954 | Home is the Hero | Manchester Monagham | Booth Theatre, Broadway | |
| 1955 | The Dark is Light Enough | Count Peter Zichy | ANTA Theatre, Broadway | |
| 1955 | The Lark | Warwick | Longacre Theatre, Broadway | |
| 1956 | Henry V | Henry V | Stratford Film Festival | |
| 1956 | Night of the Auk | Lewis Roheman | Playhouse Theatre, Broadway | |
| 1958 | J.B. | Nickles | ANTA Playhouse, Broadway | |
| 1963 | The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui | Arturo Ui | Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, Broadway | |
| 1965 | The Royal Hunt of the Sun | Francisco Pizarro | ANTA Theatre, Broadway | |
| 1971 | Amphitryon 38 | Jean Giraudoux | National Theatre, London Directed by Laurence Olivier |
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| 1973 | The Good Doctor | Performer | Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Broadway | |
| 1974 | Cyrano | Cyrano de Bergerac | Palace Theatre, Broadway | |
| 1978 | Drinks Before Dinner | Edgar | The Public Theatre, Off-Broadway | |
| 1982 | Othello | Iago | Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway | |
| 1988 | Macbeth | Macbeth | Mark Hellinger Theatre, Broadway | |
| 1994 | No Man's Land | Spooner | Roundabout Theater Company, Broadway | [3] |
| 1997 | Barrymore | John Barrymore | Music Box Theatre, Broadway | [4] |
| 2004 | King Lear | King Lear | Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Broadway | [5] |
| 2007 | Inherit the Wind | Henry Drummond | Lyceum Theatre, Broadway | [6] |
| 2008 | Caesar and Cleopatra | Julius Caesar | Stratford Festival | |
| 2010 | The Tempest | Prospero | Stratford Festival |
Video games[]
| Year | Title | Voice role | Notes | Template:Abbr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Star Trek: Klingon Academy | General Chang | Live action | |
| 2007 | Professor Layton and the Curious Village | Lincoln | [1] | |
| Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box | [1] | |||
| 2008 | Professor Layton and the Unwound Future | [1] | ||
| 2009 | Up | Charles F. Muntz | ||
| Professor Layton and the Last Specter | Lincoln | [1] | ||
| 2011 | Professor Layton and the Last Specter | [1] | ||
| The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | Arngeir | [1] | ||
| 2012 | Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure | Charles F. Muntz | ||
| 2013 | Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy | Lincoln | [1] |
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