plummer played many historical people in movies, including commodus in "the fall of the roman empire" (1964), arthur wellesley, 1st duke of wellington in "waterloo" (1970), rudyard kipling in "the man who would be king" (1975), mike wallace in "the insider" (1999), leo tolstoy in "the last station" (2009), kaiser wilhelm ii in "the exception" (2016), and j. paul getty in "all the money in the world" (2017).