Christopher Plummer
Plummer was in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). He was also in Spike Lee's drama biographical movie Malcolm X (1992), Mike Nichols' horror drama Wolf (1994), Taylor Hackford's psychological drama Dolores Claiborne (1995), and Terry Gilliam's science fiction drama 12 Monkeys (1995). One of Plummer's most well known roles was as journalist Mike Wallace in Michael Mann's The Insider (1999). Plummer later played Dr. Rosen in Ron Howard's Academy Award-winning movie A Beautiful Mind (2001). He played Uncle Ralph in the 2002 movie version of Charles Dickens novel Nicholas Nickleby. He also played the philosopher Aristotle in Alexander (2004). Plummer was wanted for the role of Gandalf for The Lord of the Rings movie series. He did not want the role.