Christopher Plummer Movies

Want to know the best Christopher Plummer movies?  How about the worst Christopher Plummer movies?  Curious about Christopher Plummer box office grosses or which Christopher Plummer movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Christopher Plummer movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Christopher Plummer (1929-2021) was a Canadian Oscar® winning actor.  His movie career spanned over 8 decades. He currently holds the record for oldest actor to win an Oscar (82 when he won for 2010’s Beginnings) and oldest actor to receive an Oscar nomination (88 when got a nomination for 2017’s All The Money In The World).  His IMDb page shows 217 acting credits from 1953 to 2021. This page ranks Christopher Plummer movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.  His many television appearances, shorts, uncredited and movies not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings.  This page was requested but sadly we have forgotten who made the request.

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Christopher Plummer in his most famous movie…..1965’s The Sound Of Music

Christopher Plummer Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews, and awards.

Christopher Plummer Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Christopher Plummer movies by co-stars of his movies
  • Sort Christopher Plummer movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Christopher Plummer movies by yearly domestic box office rank
  • Sort Christopher Plummer movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Christopher Plummer movie received.
  • Sort Christopher Plummer movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
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Christopher Plummer in 1978’s The Silent Partner…..a forgotten gem that has a great Plummer performance.

Possibly Interesting Facts About Christopher Plummer

1. Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1929.

2. Christopher Plummer did an apprenticeship with the Canadian Repertory Company…..appearing in over 75 stage roles.  He made his Broadway debut in 1953’s The Starcross Story.  That was the good news…the bad news was it closed on opening night.

3. Christopher Plummer was the understudy for Tyrone Power in the play….The Dark is Light Enough.

4. Christopher Plummer’s The Sound of Music (1965) is the third biggest box office hit of all-time when looking at all-time adjusted box office grosses.

5. Christopher Plummer did not like The Sound of Music.  He referred to it as “The Sound Of Mucus”. Why you wonder?  Well here are his own words.  ““Because it was so awful and sentimental and gooey,”…and “You had to work terribly hard to try and infuse some minuscule bit of humor into it.”

6. Christoper Plummer has received 2 Oscar® nominations:  He was nominated for Best Actor for 2009’s The Last Station…and he won the Best Supporting Actor for 2013’s Beginners.  At age 82, he is the oldest person to receive an Academy Award®.

7. Christopher Plummer turned down the role of Gandalf in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, and admits to regretting that decision.

8. Christopher Plummer has been married three times.  He has one daughter….actress Amanda Plummer.

9.  Christopher Plummer has worked with both Obi-Wan Kenobis on film. Alec Guinness played his father in 1964’s The Fall of the Roman Empire 46 years later Plummer played father to Ewan McGregor in 2010’s Beginners.

10. Check out Christopher Plummer‘s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

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51 thoughts on “Christopher Plummer Movies”

  1. Christopher Plummer was the # 30 most connected actor of the 1990’s, # 35 of the 1980’s and # 44 of the 1970’s (3 decades in the top 100).

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  3. So # 3 on the 2020 Oracle of Bacon list has passed. It’s sort of like when Dennis Hopper was so high ranked but he was about 17 years younger.

    We were at the movies to see Supernova (what a snoozefest) and during the coming attractions my wife is reading her phone and that’s when we found out about Chris. My wife dislikes trailers.

    Chris and Tammy Grimes’ daughter Amanda is # 609 on the list.

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    1. Hank Aaron, Cloris Leachman, Cicely Tyson and Christopher Plummer all just died in their sleep or seems like it (natural causes aka old age).

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