Christopher Plummer
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer CC (December 13, 1929 – February 5, 2021) was a Canadian theatre, film and television actor. He made his film debut in 1958's Stage Struck, and notable film performances include The Night of the Generals, The Return of the Pink Panther, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, The Man Who Would Be King, and The Insider. In a career that spans seven decades and includes substantial roles in each of the dramatic arts, Plummer is probably best known to film audiences as the autocratic widower Captain Georg Johannes von Trapp in the hit 1965 musical film The Sound of Music alongside Julie Andrews. Plummer has also ventured into various television projects, including the legendary miniseries The Thorn Birds. In the 21st century, his film roles include The Insider as Mike Wallace, Inside Man with Denzel Washington, the Disney–Pixar 2009 film Up as Charles Muntz, the Shane Acker production 9 as '1', The Last Station as Leo Tolstoy, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus as Doctor Parnassus, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as Henrik Vanger, and Beginners as Hal. Plummer has won numerous awards and accolades for his work, including an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a SAG Award, and a BAFTA Award. With his win at the age of 82 in 2012 for Beginners, Plummer is the oldest actor and person ever to win an Academy Award. On February 5, 2021, Plummer died at his home in Weston, Connecticut, aged 91, after suffering complications from a fall. His family released a statement announcing that Plummer had "died peacefully at his home in Connecticut with his wife Elaine Taylor at his side".
Known For
Credits
- 2023 · Heroes of the Golden Mask as Rizzo (voice)
- 2022 · Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story as Self
- 2021 · Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster as Self
- 2019 · Cliffs of Freedom as Thanasi
- 2018 · Howard Lovecraft and the Kingdom of Madness as Dr. Jeffrey West (voice)
- 2016 · Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom as Dr. West (voice)
- 2015 · Pixies as Pixie King (voice)
- 2013 · Titans of the Ice Age as Narrator
- 2012 · Behind the Wall: The Making of Skyrim as Self
- 2011 · Discovering Hamlet as Self
- 2010 · The Tempest as Prospero
- 2010 · My Dog Tulip as J.R. Ackerley (voice)
- 2008 · Emotional Arithmetic as David Winters
- 2007 · Man in the Chair as Flash Madden
- 2006 · Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes as Self - Narrator
- 2006 · Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film as Self
- 2002 · Agent of Influence as John Watkins
- 2001 · Full Disclosure as Robert Lecker
- 2001 · On Golden Pond as Norman Thayer
- 2000 · The Dinosaur Hunter as Hump Hinton
- 1999 · Hidden Agenda as Ulrich Steiner
- 1999 · Madeline: Lost in Paris as Narrator (voice)
- 1998 · The Clown at Midnight as Mr. Caruthers
- 1998 · Blackheart as Holmes
- 1997 · The Arrow as George Hees
- 1994 · Crackerjack as Ivan Getz
- 1992 · Secrets as Mel Wexler
- 1991 · Madeline and the Bad Hat as Narrator (voice)
- 1991 · Young Catherine as Sir Charles
- 1991 · Berlin Lady as Wilhelm Speer
- 1990 · Red Blooded American Girl as Dr. John Alcore
- 1989 · Mindfield as Doctor Satorius
- 1989 · Nabokov on Kafka as Vladimir Nabokov
- 1989 · The First Emperor of China as Narrator
- 1988 · The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind as Narrator (voice)
- 1987 · A Hazard of Hearts as Sir Giles Staverley
- 1986 · Spearfield's Daughter as Lord Jack Cruze
- 1986 · The Boy in Blue as Knox
- 1985 · The Velveteen Rabbit as Narrator (voice)
- 1984 · Lily in Love as Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova
- 1982 · Little Gloria... Happy at Last as Reggie Vanderbilt
- 1982 · Highpoint as James Hatcher
- 1981 · The Amateur as Professor Lakos
- 1981 · Being Different as Self (Narrator) (voice)
- 1981 · Dial M for Murder as Tony Wendice
- 1981 · When the Circus Came to Town as Duke Royal
- 1980 · Desperate Voyage as Jacques Burrifous
- 1978 · International Velvet as John Seaton
- 1977 · The Disappearance as Deverell
- 1975 · The Day That Shook the World as Archduke Ferdinand
- 1974 · After the Fall as Quentin
- 1973 · The Pyx as Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson
- 1968 · Nobody Runs Forever as Sir James Quentin
- 1968 · Oedipus the King as Oedipus
- 1964 · Hamlet at Elsinore as Hamlet
- 1960 · Captain Brassbound's Conversion as Captain Brassbound
- Future · Madeline at the Ballet as Narrator (voice)
- 2021 · Mooseltoe as Mooseking
- 2021 · The Flooded Desert as Narrator (voice)
- 2021 · Bondarchuk. Battle as self
- 2020 · The Last Full Measure as Frank Pitsenbarger
- 2019 · Knives Out as Harlan Thrombey
- 2019 · Alan Pakula: Going for Truth as Self
- 2019 · Departure as Howard Lawson
- 2018 · Boundaries as Jack Jaconi
- 2017 · All the Money in the World as Jean Paul Getty
- 2017 · The Star as King Herod (voice)
- 2017 · The Man Who Invented Christmas as Scrooge
- 2017 · Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom as Dr. West (voice)
- 2017 · The Exception as Kaiser Wilhelm II
- 2017 · The River of My Dreams as Himself
- 2015 · Remember as Zev Guttman
- 2015 · Danny Collins as Frank Grubman
- 2015 · The Untold Story of The Sound of Music: A Diane Sawyer Special as Self
- 2014 · The Forger as Joseph Cutter
- 2014 · Hector and the Search for Happiness as Professor Coreman
- 2014 · Elsa & Fred as Fred
- 2013 · Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight as John Marshall Harlan
- 2013 · The Legend of Sarila as Croolik (voice)
- 2013 · The Captains: Still Kicking as Himself
- 2012 · Kali, the Little Vampire as Narrator (english version)
- 2012 · Barrymore as John Barrymore
- 2012 · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Hard Copy as
- 2012 · Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
- 2011 · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as Henrik Vanger
- 2011 · Beginners as Hal Fields
- 2011 · Priest as Monsignor Orelas
- 2010 · Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood as Narrator
- 2010 · Madeline's Christmas as Narrator
- 2009 · The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus as Doctor Parnassus
- 2009 · The Last Station as Leo Tolstoy
- 2009 · 9 as #1 (voice)
- 2009 · Up as Charles F. Muntz (voice)
- 2009 · Caesar and Cleopatra as Caesar
- 2008 · The Summit as P.J. Aimes
- 2007 · Already Dead as Dr. Heller
- 2007 · Closing the Ring as Jack
- 2006 · The Lake House as Simon Wyler
- 2006 · Inside Man as Arthur Case
- 2005 · The New World as Captain Newport
- 2005 · Syriana as Dean Whiting
- 2005 · Four Minutes as Archie Mason
- 2005 · Must Love Dogs as Bill
- 2005 · Our Fathers as Cardinal Bernard Law
- 2005 · Miracle Planet as Himself - Host
- 2004 · Alexander as Aristotle
- 2004 · National Treasure as John Adams Gates
- 2003 · Cold Creek Manor as Mr. Massie
- 2003 · The Gospel of John as Narrator (voice)
- 2003 · The Life Of Jesus as Narrator
- 2003 · Blizzard as Santa Claus
- 2002 · Nicholas Nickleby as Ralph Nickleby
- 2002 · Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages as Self
- 2002 · Ararat as David
- 2002 · Night Flight as 'Flash' Harry Peters
- 2001 · A Beautiful Mind as Dr. Rosen
- 2001 · Lucky Break as Graham Mortimer
- 2000 · Dracula 2000 as Matthew Van Helsing
- 2000 · American Tragedy as F. Lee Bailey
- 2000 · Possessed as Archbishop Hume
- 2000 · Nuremberg as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe
- 1999 · The Insider as Mike Wallace
- 1998 · Winchell as Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 1998 · The First Christmas as Narrator (voice)
- 1997 · Babes in Toyland as Barnaby Crookedman (voice)
- 1997 · Skeletons as Reverend Carlyle
- 1997 · The Arrow as George Hees
- 1996 · The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys' as Self
- 1996 · The Conspiracy of Fear as Wakeman
- 1995 · Twelve Monkeys as Dr. Goines
- 1995 · Harrison Bergeron as John Klaxon
- 1995 · Dolores Claiborne as John Mackey
- 1994 · Wolf as Raymond Alden
- 1994 · Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold as Self (archive footage)
- 1993 · A Stranger in the Mirror as Clifton Lawrence
- 1993 · Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic as Narrator
- 1992 · Malcolm X as Chaplain Gill
- 1992 · Impolite as Naples O'Rorke
- 1992 · Liar's Edge as Harry Weldon
- 1991 · Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country as General Chang
- 1991 · Madeline in London as Narrator (voice)
- 1991 · Madeline and the Gypsies as Narrator (voice)
- 1991 · Rock-A-Doodle as Grand Duke (voice)
- 1991 · Money as Martin Yahl
- 1991 · Firehead as Col. Garland Vaughn
- 1990 · The Little Crooked Christmas Tree as Narrator
- 1990 · Counterstrike as Alexander Addington
- 1990 · A Ghost in Monte Carlo as The Grand Duke Ivan
- 1990 · Where the Heart Is as Shitty
- 1989 · Souvenir as Ernst Kestner
- 1988 · Shadow Dancing as Edmund Beaumont
- 1988 · Madeline as Narrator (voice)
- 1988 · American Experience as Narrator
- 1988 · Nosferatu in Venice as Professor Paris Catalano
- 1988 · Madeline as Narrator (voice)
- 1987 · Dragnet as Reverend Jonathan Whirley
- 1987 · I Love N.Y. as John Robertson Yeats
- 1987 · The Nightingale as Narrator (voice)
- 1986 · An American Tail as Henri (voice)
- 1986 · Crossings as Armand DeVilliers
- 1986 · The Boss' Wife as Mr. Roalvang
- 1986 · The Tin Soldier as Narrator (voice)
- 1985 · Rumpelstiltskin as Narrator
- 1984 · The Cosby Show as Jonathan Lawrence
- 1984 · Dreamscape as Bob Blair
- 1984 · Ordeal by Innocence as Leo Argyle
- 1983 · Prototype as Dr. Carl Forrester
- 1983 · SuperTed as
- 1983 · The Thorn Birds as Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese
- 1983 · The Scarlet and the Black as Col. Herbert Kappler
- 1982 · Nature as Narrator (voice)
- 1982 · Night of 100 Stars as Self
- 1981 · Eyewitness as Joseph
- 1980 · Somewhere in Time as William Fawcett Robinson
- 1980 · The Shadow Box as Brian
- 1979 · Hanover Street as Paul Sellinger
- 1979 · Murder by Decree as Sherlock Holmes
- 1978 · Starcrash as The Emperor
- 1978 · The Silent Partner as Reikle
- 1977 · The Assignment as Kaptain Behounek
- 1977 · Jesus of Nazareth as Herod Antipas
- 1977 · Jesus Of Nazareth as Herod Antipas
- 1977 · Silver Blaze as Sherlock Holmes
- 1976 · Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers as Roscoe Heyward
- 1976 · Aces High as Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair
- 1975 · The Man Who Would Be King as Rudyard Kipling
- 1975 · The Return of the Pink Panther as Sir Charles Litton
- 1975 · The Spiral Staircase as Dr. Sherman
- 1975 · Conduct Unbecoming as Maggiore Alastair Wimbourne
- 1974 · The Happy Prince as The Happy Prince (voice)
- 1970 · Waterloo as Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
- 1969 · The Royal Hunt of the Sun as Atahualpa
- 1969 · Battle of Britain as Squadron Leader Colin Harvey
- 1969 · Lock Up Your Daughters as Lord Foppington
- 1968 · The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- 1967 · The Night of the Generals as Field Marshal Rommel
- 1966 · Triple Cross as Freddie Chapman
- 1965 · Inside Daisy Clover as Raymond Swan
- 1965 · The Sound of Music as Captain Georg von Trapp
- 1965 · Salzburg Sight and Sound as Self
- 1964 · The Fall of the Roman Empire as Commodus
- 1963 · Trans-Canada Journey as Narrator (voice)
- 1963 · 30 Minutes, Mister Plummer as Himself
- 1959 · A Doll's House as Torvald
- 1959 · NBC Sunday Showcase as
- 1958 · Little Moon of Alban as Kenneth Boyd
- Future · TED ALLAN: MINSTREL BOY OF THE 20TH CENTURY as Narrator
- 1958 · Johnny Belinda as Dr. Jack Pelletier
- 1958 · Wind Across the Everglades as Walt Murdock
- 1958 · Stage Struck as Joe Sheridan
- 1957 · DuPont Show of the Month as Sir Miles Hendon
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Winner
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Nominee/Presenter
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1953 · General Electric Theater as Walter Shelley
- 1952 · Omnibus as
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Dr. Jack Pelletier
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Torvald Helmer
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Prince Albert
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Captain Brassbound
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Cyrano de Bergerac
- 1949 · Suspense as
- 1948 · Studio One as Dick
- 1948 · The Ed Sullivan Show as Self / Mark Anthony