Christopher Plummer (1929-2021)
82.6 TOPICAL actor score · #83 of 1,977 actors
Christopher Plummer (1929-2021) has a TOPICAL actor score of 82.6 - one of the 100 best actors of all time by TOPICAL's score. Their strongest parts are career standing and credits. They've won 3 acting honours from 3 nominations, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Their best ten-year run was 2001-2010. Best films: Up (2009), The Sound of Music (1965), The Insider (1999).
Why this score
Each bar: better than this % of the 1,977 actors we rank. How the score works.
Acting honours81
Prime85
Their movies88
Credits95
Career standing98
- Acting honours3 wins, 3 nominations - incl. Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor; Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play; Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical
- Prime2001-2010
- Credits121 films and shows · billed in the top 8 of 26 scored films (9 as a lead)
- Known inWikipedia articles in 104 languages
“His accolades included an Academy Award, two Tony Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards, making him the only Canadian recipient of the "Triple Crown of Acting".”
Wikipedia · read the article - AI legacy read: 10/10
Christopher Plummer's scored films
| TOPICAL rank | Film | Year | Billed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 137 | Up | 2009 | 2 |
| 171 | The Sound of Music | 1965 | 2 |
| 179 | A Beautiful Mind | 2001 | 5 |
| 324 | The Insider | 1999 | 3 |
| 450 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | 2011 | 3 |
| 501 | Twelve Monkeys | 1995 | 4 |
| 505 | The Man Who Would Be King | 1975 | 3 |
| 1,008 | Inside Man | 2006 | 4 |
| 1,416 | Beginners | 2010 | 2 |
| 1,441 | Syriana | 2005 | 7 |
| 2,339 | All the Money in the World | 2017 | 3 |
| 2,372 | The Fall of the Roman Empire | 1964 | 5 |
| 2,395 | The Last Station | 2009 | 2 |
| 2,505 | The New World | 2006 | 3 |
| 2,514 | 9 | 2009 | 2 |
| 2,638 | The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | 2009 | 1 |
| 2,920 | Waterloo | 1970 | 2 |
| 2,994 | The Lake House | 2006 | 3 |
| 3,411 | The Return of the Pink Panther | 1975 | 2 |
| 3,414 | Somewhere in Time | 1980 | 3 |
| 3,998 | An American Tail | 1986 | 5 |
| 4,232 | Wolf | 1994 | 6 |
| 4,390 | National Treasure | 2004 | 7 |
| 4,462 | Inside Daisy Clover | 1965 | 2 |
| 5,028 | Alexander | 2004 | 8 |
| 5,708 | Rock-A-Doodle | 1991 | 3 |