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- Encounter (1953) 1 episode
- Studio One in Hollywood (1953) 1 episode
- Suspense (1953) 1 episode
- Broadway Television Theatre (1953) 1 episode
- The Web (1954) 1 episode
- Ponds Theater (1954) 1 episode
- Kraft Theatre (1955) 1 episode
- Producers' Showcase (1955) 1 episode
- General Electric Theater (1956) 1 episode
- Appointment with Adventure (1956) 1 episode
- The Alcoa Hour (1956) 1 episode
- Eye on New York (1956) 1 episode
- Omnibus (1957-58) 2 episodes
- The DuPont Show of the Month (1957-61) 2 episodes
- Little Moon of Alban (1958)
- Stage Struck (1958)
- Wind Across the Everglades (1958)
- Johnny Belinda (1958)
- A Doll's House (1959)
- The Philadelphia Story (1959)
- Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1960)
- Sunday Showcase (1960) 2 episodes
- Time Remembered (1961)
- Playdate (1961-62) series regular
- Cyrano De Bergerac (1962)
- The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
- Hamlet at Elsinore (1964)
- The Sound of Music (1965)
- Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
- Triple Cross (1966)
- The Night of the Generals (1967)
- Oedipus the King (1968)
- Nobody Runs Forever (1968)
- The Secret of Michelangelo (1968)
- Lock Up Your Daughters! (1969)
- Battle of Britain (1969)
- The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)
- Waterloo (1970)
- BBC Play of the Month (1971) 1 episode
- The Pyx (1973)
- Witness to Yesterday (1974) 1 episode
- The Happy Prince (1974)
- After the Fall (1974)
- The Spiral Staircase (1975)
- The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
- Conduct Unbecoming (1975)
- The Day That Shook the World (1975)
- The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
- Aces High (1976)
- Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (1976) 4 episodes
- The Sunday Drama (1977) 1 episode
- Jesus of Nazareth (1977) 2 episodes
- The Assignment (1977)
- The Disappearance (1977)
- International Velvet (1978)
- The Silent Partner (1978)
- Starcrash (1978)
- Murder by Decree (1979)
- Riel (1979)
- Hanover Street (1979)
- The Shadow Box (1980)
- Somewhere in Time (1980)
- Desperate Voyage (1980)
- When the Circus Came to Town (1981)
- Eyewitness (1981)
- Dial M for Murder (1981)
- The Amateur (1981)
- Highpoint (1982)
- Little Gloria... Happy at Last (1982)
- The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
- The Thorn Birds (1983) 4 episodes
- Parade of Stars (1983)
- Prototype (1983)
- Ordeal by Innocence (1984)
- Dreamscape (1984)
- Lily in Love (1984)
- The Velveteen Rabbit (1985)
- Rumpelstiltskin (1985)
- The Tin Soldier (1986)
- Crossings (1986) 2 episodes
- The Boy in Blue (1986)
- The Boss' Wife (1986)
- An American Tail (1986)
- Spearfield's Daughter (1986)
- The Nightingale (1987)
- I Love N.Y. (1987)
- The Man Who Planted Trees (1987)
- Dragnet (1987)
- The Cosby Show (1987) 1 episode
- A Hazard of Hearts (1987)
- The Gnomes' Great Adventure (1987)
- Gandahar (1988)
- Madeline (1988)
- Vampire in Venice (1988)
- Shadow Dancing (1988)
- Souvenir (1989)
- Mindfield (1989)
- Nabokov on Kafka (1989)
- Kingsgate (1989)
- The Little Crooked Christmas Tree (1990)
- Where the Heart Is (1990)
- A Ghost in Monte Carlo (1990)
- Red Blooded American Girl (1990)
- Madeline's Christmas (1990)
- Madeline's Rescue (1990)
- Counterstrike (1990-93) series regular
- Firehead (1991)
- Young Catherine (1991)
- Madeline and the Bad Hat (1991)
- Money (1991)
- A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz (1991)
- Rock-A-Doodle (1991)
- Madeline and the Gypsies (1991)
- Madeline in London (1991)
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
- Berlin Lady (1991)
- Liar's Edge (1992)
- The First Circle (1992)
- Secrets (1992)
- Impolite (1992)
- Malcolm X (1992)
- A Stranger in the Mirror (1993)
- Madeline (1993-94) series regular
- Wolf (1994)
- Crackerjack (1994)
- Felidae (1994)
- Dolores Claiborne (1995)
- The New Adventures of Madeline (1995) series regular
- Harrison Bergeron (1995)
- The Conspiracy of Fear (1995)
- Twelve Monkeys (1995)
- We the Jury (1996)
- The Arrow (1997)
- Skeletons (1997)
- Babes in Toyland (1997)
- Blackheart (1998)
- Winchell (1998)
- The First Christmas (1998)
- The Clown at Midnight (1999)
- Hidden Agenda (1999)
- Madeline: Lost in Paris (1999)
- The Insider (1999)
- Nuremberg (2000) 1 episode
- The Dinosaur Hunter (2000)
- Possessed (2000)
- American Tragedy (2000)
- Dracula 2000 (2000)
- Leo's Journey (2001)
- On Golden Pond (2001)
- Full Disclosure (2001)
- Lucky Break (2001)
- A Beautiful Mind (2001)
- Night Flight (2002)
- Ararat (2002)
- Agent of Influence (2002)
- Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
- Odd Job Jack (2003) 1 episode
- Blizzard (2003)
- The Visual Bible: The Gospel of John (2003)
- Cold Creek Manor (2003)
- National Treasure (2004)
- Alexander (2004)
- Our Fathers (2005)
- Must Love Dogs (2005)
- Four Minutes (2005)
- Syriana (2005)
- Heidi (2005)
- The New World (2005)
- Inside Man (2006)
- American Experience (2006) 1 episode
- The Lake House (2006)
- Man in the Chair (2007)
- Closing the Ring (2007)
- Emotional Arithmetic (2007)
- Already Dead (2007)
- The Summit (2008) 2 episodes
- Caesar and Cleopatra (2009)
- My Dog Tulip (2009)
- Up (2009)
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
- 9 (2009)
- The Last Station (2009)
- Beginners (2010)
- The Tempest (2010)
- Priest (2011)
- Barrymore (2011)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
- Kali, the Little Vampire (2012)
- The Legend of Sarila (2013)
- Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013)
- Great Performances (2014) 1 episode
- Elsa & Fred (2014)
- Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)
- The Forger (2014)
- Danny Collins (2015)
- Pixies (2015)
- Remember (2015)
- The Exception (2016)
- Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom (2016)
- Boundaries (2017)
- Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom (2017)
- The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
- All the Money in the World (2017)
- The Last Full Measure (2019)
- Knives Out (2019)
Trivia[]
- Ironically has been in both in the roles of son and father to the actors who have portrayed Obi-Wan Kenobi. Sir Alec Guinness who portrayed the character in the original Star Wars trilogy also played the part of in his father in The Fall of the Roman Empire. Ewan McGregor who appeared in the role in the prequel trilogy, played the role of Plummer's son in Beginners.
Quotes[]
- "When I was young, I played the piano and studied classical music and jazz. I wanted to be a concert pianist, and if I'd devoted myself to it, I could have been. But it would have been too much work and a very lonely life."
- "I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill."