Christopher Plummer
Born December 13, 1929 (Age: 96)
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Biography
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer CC (December 13, 1929 – February 5, 2021) was a Canadian theatre, film and television actor. He made his film debut in 1958's Stage Struck, and notable film performances include The Night of the Generals, The Return of the Pink Panther, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, The Man Who Would Be King, and The Insider. In a career that spans seven decades and includes substantial roles in each of the dramatic arts, Plummer is probably best known to film audiences as the autocratic widower Captain Georg Johannes von Trapp in the hit 1965 musical film The Sound of Music alongside Julie Andrews. Plummer has also ventured into various television projects, including the legendary miniseries The Thorn Birds. In the 21st century, his film roles include The Insider as Mike Wallace, Inside Man with Denzel Washington, the Disney–Pixar 2009 film Up as Charles Muntz, the Shane Acker production 9 as '1', The Last Station as Leo Tolstoy, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus as Doctor Parnassus, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as Henrik Vanger, and Beginners as Hal. Plummer has won numerous awards and accolades for his work, including an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a SAG Award, and a BAFTA Award. With his win at the age of 82 in 2012 for Beginners, Plummer is the oldest actor and person ever to win an Academy Award. On February 5, 2021, Plummer died at his home in Weston, Connecticut, aged 91, after suffering complications from a fall. His family released a statement announcing that Plummer had "died peacefully at his home in Connecticut with his wife Elaine Taylor at his side".
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer CC (December 13, 1929 – February 5, 2021) was a Canadian theatre, film and television actor. He made his film debut in 1958's Stage Struck, and notable film performances include The Night of the Generals, The Return of the Pink Panther, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, The Man Who Would Be King, and The Insider. In a career that spans seven decades and includes substantial roles in each of the dramatic arts, Plummer is probably best known to film audiences as the autocratic widower Captain Georg Johannes von Trapp in the hit 1965 musical film The Sound of Music alongside Julie Andrews. Plummer has also ventured into various television projects, including the legendary miniseries The Thorn Birds.
In the 21st century, his film roles include The Insider as Mike Wallace, Inside Man with Denzel Washington, the Disney–Pixar 2009 film Up as Charles Muntz, the Shane Acker production 9 as '1', The Last Station as Leo Tolstoy, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus as Doctor Parnassus, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as Henrik Vanger, and Beginners as Hal.
Plummer has won numerous awards and accolades for his work, including an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a SAG Award, and a BAFTA Award. With his win at the age of 82 in 2012 for Beginners, Plummer is the oldest actor and person ever to win an Academy Award.
On February 5, 2021, Plummer died at his home in Weston, Connecticut, aged 91, after suffering complications from a fall. His family released a statement announcing that Plummer had "died peacefully at his home in Connecticut with his wife Elaine Taylor at his side".
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Filmography
Mooseltoe
2021
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as Mooseking
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Age: 91
The Last Full Measure
2020
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as Frank Pitsenbarger
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Age: 90
Knives Out
2019
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as Harlan Thrombey
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Age: 89
Howard Lovecraft & The Kingdom Of Madness
2018
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as Dr. Jeffrey West (voice)
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Age: 88
Boundaries
2018
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as Jack Jaconi
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Age: 88
All the Money in the World
2017
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as Jean Paul Getty
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Age: 88
The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017
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as Scrooge
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Age: 87
Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom
2017
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as Dr. West (voice)
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Age: 87
The Exception
2017
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as Kaiser Wilhelm II
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Age: 87
Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom
2016
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as Dr. West (voice)
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Age: 86
Remember
2015
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as Zev Guttman
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Age: 85
Pixies
2015
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as Pixie King (voice)
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Age: 85
Danny Collins
2015
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as Frank Grubman
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Age: 85
Hector and the Search for Happiness
2014
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as Professor Coreman
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Age: 84
The Legend of Sarila
2013
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as Croolik (voice)
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Age: 83
Behind the Wall: The Making of Skyrim
2012
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as Self
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Age: 82
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011
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as Henrik Vanger
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Age: 82
Discovering Hamlet
2011
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as Self
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Age: 81
Beginners
2011
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as Hal Fields
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Age: 81
Priest
2011
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as Monsignor Orelas
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Age: 81
No Image
A Short Film About Making Beginners
2011
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as
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Age: 81
My Dog Tulip
2010
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as J.R. Ackerley (voice)
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Age: 80
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
2009
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as Doctor Parnassus
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Age: 79
9
2009
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as #1 (voice)
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Age: 79
Up
2009
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as Muntz (voice)
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Age: 79
Caesar and Cleopatra
2009
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as Caesar
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Age: 79
Hamlet {Solo}
2007
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as Self
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Age: 77
Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes
2006
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as Narrator (voice over)
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Age: 76
The Lake House
2006
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as Simon Wyler
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Age: 76
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006
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as Self
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Age: 76
The New World
2005
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as Captain Newport
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Age: 76
Syriana
2005
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as Dean Whiting
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Age: 75
Must Love Dogs
2005
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as Bill
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Age: 75
Alexander
2004
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as Aristotle
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Age: 74
National Treasure
2004
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as John Adams Gates
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Age: 74
Cold Creek Manor
2003
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as Mr. Massie
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Age: 73
The Gospel of John
2003
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 73
Nicholas Nickleby
2002
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as Ralph Nickleby
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Age: 73
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
2002
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as Self
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Age: 72
Agent of Influence
2002
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as John Watkins
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Age: 72
Ararat
2002
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as David
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Age: 72
No Image
Night Flight
2002
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as 'Flash' Harry Peters
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Age: 72
A Beautiful Mind
2001
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as Dr. Rosen
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Age: 72
Dracula 2000
2000
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as Matthew Van Helsing
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Age: 71
American Tragedy
2000
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as F. Lee Bailey
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Age: 70
Back To "Somewhere In Time"
2000
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as Self
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Age: 70
Possessed
2000
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as Archbishop Hume
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Age: 70
The Dinosaur Hunter
2000
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as Hump Hinton
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Age: 70
The Insider
1999
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as Mike Wallace
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Age: 69
Winchell
1998
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as Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Age: 68
Blackheart
1998
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as Holmes
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Age: 68
The Clown at Midnight
1998
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as Mr. Caruthers
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Age: 68
The First Christmas
1998
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 68
Babes in Toyland
1997
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as Barnaby Crookedman (voice)
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Age: 67
Skeletons
1997
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as Reverend Carlyle
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Age: 67
The Arrow
1997
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as George Hees
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Age: 67
The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys'
1996
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as Self
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Age: 66
We the Jury
1996
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as Wilfred Fransiscus
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Age: 66
The Conspiracy of Fear
1996
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as Wakeman
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Age: 66
Twelve Monkeys
1995
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as Dr. Goines
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Age: 66
Dolores Claiborne
1995
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as John Mackey
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Age: 65
Wolf
1994
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as Raymond Alden
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Age: 64
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
1994
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 64
A Stranger in the Mirror
1993
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as Clifton Lawrence
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Age: 63
Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic
1993
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as Narrator
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Age: 63
Malcolm X
1992
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as Chaplain Gill
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Age: 62
Impolite
1992
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as Naples O'Rorke
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Age: 62
Secrets
1992
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as Mel Wexler
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Age: 62
The First Circle
1992
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as Viktor Abakumov
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Age: 62
Liar's Edge
1992
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as Harry Weldon
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Age: 62
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
1991
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as Chang
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Age: 61
No Image
Madeline in London
1991
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 61
Madeline and the Gypsies
1991
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 61
Rock-A-Doodle
1991
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as Grand Duke (voice)
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Age: 61
Money
1991
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as Martin Yahl
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Age: 61
No Image
Madeline and the Bad Hat
1991
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 61
Firehead
1991
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as Col. Garland Vaughn
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Age: 61
The Little Crooked Christmas Tree
1990
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as Narrator
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Age: 60
Madeline's Christmas
1990
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 60
Red Blooded American Girl
1990
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as Dr. John Alcore
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Age: 60
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
1990
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as The Grand Duke Ivan
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Age: 60
Where the Heart Is
1990
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as Shitty
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Age: 60
Mindfield
1989
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as Doctor Satorius
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Age: 60
Nabokov on Kafka
1989
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as Vladimir Nabokov
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Age: 59
Souvenir
1989
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as Ernst Kestner
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Age: 59
The First Emperor of China
1989
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as Self - Narrator (voice)
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Age: 59
Shadow Dancing
1988
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as Edmund Beaumont
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Age: 58
Madeline
1988
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 58
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 58
Nosferatu in Venice
1988
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as Professor Paris Catalano
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Age: 58
A Hazard of Hearts
1987
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as Sir Giles Staverley
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Age: 58
Dragnet
1987
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as Reverend Jonathan Whirley
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Age: 57
I Love N.Y.
1987
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as John Robertson Yeats
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Age: 57
No Image
Portraits of Canada
1987
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 57
The Nightingale
1987
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 57
An American Tail
1986
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as Henri (voice)
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Age: 56
Spearfield's Daughter
1986
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as Lord Jack Cruze
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Age: 56
The Boy in Blue
1986
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as Knox
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Age: 56
The Velveteen Rabbit
1985
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 55
Dreamscape
1984
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as Bob Blair
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Age: 54
The Amateur
1981
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as Professor Lakos
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Age: 51
Being Different
1981
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as Self (Narrator) (voice)
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Age: 51
Dial M for Murder
1981
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as Tony Wendice
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Age: 51
Eyewitness
1981
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as Joseph
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Age: 51
When the Circus Came to Town
1981
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as Duke Royal
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Age: 51
Desperate Voyage
1980
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as Jacques Burrifous
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Age: 50
Somewhere in Time
1980
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as William Fawcett Robinson
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Age: 50
The Shadow Box
1980
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as Brian
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Age: 50
Hanover Street
1979
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as Paul Sellinger
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Age: 49
Starcrash
1978
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as The Emperor
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Age: 49
The Silent Partner
1978
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as Reikle
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Age: 48
International Velvet
1978
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as John Seaton
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Age: 48
Silver Blaze
1977
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as Sherlock Holmes
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Age: 47
The Man Who Would Be King
1975
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as Rudyard Kipling
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Age: 45
The Return of the Pink Panther
1975
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as Sir Charles Litton
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Age: 45
After the Fall
1974
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as Quentin
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Age: 44
The Happy Prince
1974
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as The Happy Prince (voice)
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Age: 44
The Pyx
1973
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as Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson
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Age: 43
Waterloo
1970
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as Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
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Age: 40
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
1969
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as Atahualpa
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Age: 39
Battle of Britain
1969
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as Squadron Leader Colin Harvey
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Age: 39
Lock Up Your Daughters
1969
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as Lord Foppington
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Age: 39
The Sound of Music
1965
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as Captain Georg von Trapp
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Age: 35
Salzburg Sight and Sound
1965
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as Self
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Age: 35
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
1964
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 34
Hamlet at Elsinore
1964
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as Hamlet
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Age: 34
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964
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as Commodus
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Age: 34
No Image
Trans-Canada Journey
1963
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 33
No Image
30 Minutes, Mister Plummer
1963
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as Himself
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Age: 33
No Image
Cyrano De Bergerac
1962
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as Cyrano de Bergerac
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Age: 32
No Image
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
1960
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as Captain Brassbound
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Age: 30
A Doll's House
1959
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as Torvald
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Age: 29
No Image
Johnny Belinda
1958
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as Dr. Jack Pelletier
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Age: 28
Wind Across the Everglades
1958
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as Walt Murdock
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Age: 28
Stage Struck
1958
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as Joe Sheridan
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Age: 28
Little Moon of Alban
1958
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as Kenneth Boyd
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Age: 28