
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)
- 2021 · Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster as Self
- 2019 · Cliffs of Freedom as Thanasi
- 2017 · Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom as Dr. 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
- 2011 · Discovering Hamlet as Self
- 2010 · The Tempest as Prospero
- 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
- 2005 · Our Fathers as Cardinal Bernard Law
- 2005 · Miracle Planet as Himself - Host
- 2003 · The Life Of Jesus as Narrator
- 2002 · Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages as Self
- 2002 · Agent of Influence as John Watkins
- 2002 · Night Flight as 'Flash' Harry Peters
- 2001 · Lucky Break as Graham Mortimer
- 2001 · Full Disclosure as Robert Lecker
- 2001 · On Golden Pond as Norman Thayer
- 2000 · American Tragedy as F. Lee Bailey
- 2000 · The Dinosaur Hunter as Hump Hinton
- 1999 · Hidden Agenda as Ulrich Steiner
- 1998 · Winchell as Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 1998 · Blackheart as Holmes
- 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
- 1995 · Harrison Bergeron as John Klaxon
- 1994 · Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold as Self (archive footage)
- 1992 · Impolite as Naples O'Rorke
- 1991 · Money as Martin Yahl
- 1991 · Berlin Lady as Wilhelm Speer
- 1989 · Mindfield as Doctor Satorius
- 1989 · Souvenir as Ernst Kestner
- 1988 · Shadow Dancing as Edmund Beaumont
- 1988 · The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind as Narrator (voice)
- 1988 · Nosferatu in Venice as Professor Paris Catalano
- 1987 · A Hazard of Hearts as Sir Giles Staverley
- 1986 · The Boy in Blue as Knox
- 1986 · The Tin Soldier as Narrator (voice)
- 1984 · Lily in Love as Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova
- 1984 · Ordeal by Innocence as Leo Argyle
- 1983 · Prototype as Dr. Carl Forrester
- 1982 · Highpoint as James Hatcher
- 1980 · The Shadow Box as Brian
- 1978 · The Silent Partner as Reikle
- 1978 · International Velvet as John Seaton
- 1977 · The Assignment as Kaptain Behounek
- 1975 · The Day That Shook the World as Archduke Ferdinand
- 1975 · Conduct Unbecoming as Maggiore Alastair Wimbourne
- 1975 · The Spiral Staircase as Dr. Sherman
- 1973 · The Pyx as Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson
- 1969 · Lock Up Your Daughters as Lord Foppington
- 1964 · Hamlet at Elsinore as Hamlet
- 1958 · Wind Across the Everglades as Walt Murdock
- 1958 · Stage Struck as Joe Sheridan
- Future · Madeline at the Ballet as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story as Self
- 2021 · Mooseltoe as Mooseking
- 2021 · Kalahari: 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 · Howard Lovecraft & The Kingdom Of Madness as Dr. Jeffrey West (voice)
- 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 · 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 · Behind the Wall: The Making of Skyrim as Self
- 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 (voice)
- 2010 · My Dog Tulip as J.R. Ackerley (voice)
- 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
- 2007 · Hamlet {Solo} as Self
- 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
- 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 · Blizzard as Santa Claus
- 2002 · Nicholas Nickleby as Ralph Nickleby
- 2002 · Ararat as David
- 2001 · A Beautiful Mind as Dr. Rosen
- 2000 · Dracula 2000 as Matthew Van Helsing
- 2000 · Back To "Somewhere In Time" as Self
- 2000 · Possessed as Archbishop Hume
- 2000 · Nuremberg as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe
- 1999 · The Insider as Mike Wallace
- 1999 · Madeline: Lost in Paris as Narrator (voice)
- 1998 · The Clown at Midnight as Mr. Caruthers
- 1998 · The First Christmas as Narrator (voice)
- 1997 · The Arrow as George Hees
- 1996 · The Conspiracy of Fear as Wakeman
- 1995 · Twelve Monkeys as Dr. Goines
- 1995 · Dolores Claiborne as John Mackey
- 1994 · Crackerjack as Ivan Getz
- 1994 · Wolf as Raymond Alden
- 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 · Secrets as Mel Wexler
- 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 · Madeline and the Bad Hat as Narrator (voice)
- 1991 · Young Catherine as Sir Charles
- 1991 · Firehead as Col. Garland Vaughn
- 1990 · The Little Crooked Christmas Tree as Narrator
- 1990 · Red Blooded American Girl as Dr. John Alcore
- 1990 · Counterstrike as Alexander Addington
- 1990 · A Ghost in Monte Carlo as The Grand Duke Ivan
- 1990 · Where the Heart Is as Shitty
- 1989 · Nabokov on Kafka as Vladimir Nabokov
- 1989 · The First Emperor of China as Narrator
- 1988 · Madeline as Narrator (voice)
- 1988 · American Experience as Narrator
- 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 · Spearfield's Daughter as Lord Jack Cruze
- 1986 · Crossings as Armand DeVilliers
- 1986 · The Boss' Wife as Mr. Roalvang
- 1985 · Rumpelstiltskin as Narrator
- 1985 · The Velveteen Rabbit as Narrator (voice)
- 1984 · The Cosby Show as Jonathan Lawrence
- 1984 · Dreamscape as Bob Blair
- 1983 · SuperTed as
- 1983 · The Thorn Birds as Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese
- 1983 · The Scarlet and the Black as Col. Herbert Kappler
- 1982 · Little Gloria... Happy at Last as Reggie Vanderbilt
- 1982 · Nature as Narrator (voice)
- 1982 · Night of 100 Stars as Self
- 1981 · The Amateur as Professor Lakos
- 1981 · Being Different as Self (Narrator) (voice)
- 1981 · Dial M for Murder as Tony Wendice
- 1981 · Eyewitness as Joseph
- 1981 · When the Circus Came to Town as Duke Royal
- 1980 · Desperate Voyage as Jacques Burrifous
- 1980 · Somewhere in Time as William Fawcett Robinson
- 1979 · Hanover Street as Paul Sellinger
- 1979 · Murder by Decree as Sherlock Holmes
- 1978 · Starcrash as The Emperor
- 1977 · The Disappearance as Deverell
- 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
- 1974 · The Happy Prince as The Happy Prince (voice)
- 1974 · After the Fall as Quentin
- 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
- 1968 · Nobody Runs Forever as Sir James Quentin
- 1968 · The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- 1968 · Oedipus the King as Oedipus
- 1967 · Omnibus as Narrator
- 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
- 1961 · The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- 1960 · Captain Brassbound's Conversion as Captain Brassbound
- 1959 · A Doll's House as Torvald
- 1959 · NBC Sunday Showcase as
- 1958 · Johnny Belinda as Dr. Jack Pelletier
- 1958 · Little Moon of Alban as Kenneth Boyd
- 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
- 1952 · Omnibus as Oedipus
- 1952 · Omnibus as Thomas Mendip
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Dr. Jack Pelletier
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Torvald Helmer
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Captain Brassbound
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Prince Albert
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Cyrano de Bergerac
- 1949 · Suspense as
- 1948 · Studio One as Dick
- 1948 · The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
- Future · TED ALLAN: MINSTREL BOY OF THE 20TH CENTURY as Narrator