Christopher Plummer
Known for Acting · 237 credits
- Born
- 1929-12-13
- Died
- 2021-02-05
- Place of birth
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Also known as
- Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer
Biography
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
TV Shows (39)
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Presenter / Self - Winner / Self - Nominee / Self - Nominee / Presenter
American Experience
1988
as Narrator
The Cosby Show
1984
as Jonathan Lawrence
Nature
1982
as Narrator (voice)
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Don Juan
American Playhouse
1982
as Alfred Stieglitz
Studio One
1948
as Dick
Omnibus
1967
as Narrator
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Film '72
1971
as Self
Omnibus
1952
as Oedipus / Thomas Mendip
Departure
2019
as Howard Lawson
Counterstrike
1990
as Alexander Addington
Jesus of Nazareth
1977
as Herod Antipas
The Thorn Birds
1983
as Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese
Suspense
1949
Madeline
1988
as Narrator (voice)
DuPont Show of the Month
1957
as Sir Miles Hendon
The Sunday Drama
1977
as Sherlock Holmes
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Dr. Jack Pelletier / Prince Albert / Captain Brassbound / Torvald Helmer / Cyrano de Bergerac
Nuremberg
2000
as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe
SuperTed
1983
NBC Sunday Showcase
1959
The Summit
2008
as P.J. Aimes
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
2010
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
1976
as Roscoe Heyward
General Electric Theater
1953
as Walter Shelley
Kraft Television Theatre
1953
Miracle Planet
2005
as Himself - Host
Crossings
1986
as Armand DeVilliers
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
1982
as Reggie Vanderbilt
The Arrow
1997
as George Hees
Young Catherine
1991
as Sir Charles
Berlin Lady
1991
as Wilhelm Speer
Movies (198)
Up
2009
as Charles Muntz (voice)
Knives Out
2019
as Harlan Thrombey
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011
as Henrik Vanger
A Beautiful Mind
2001
as Dr. Rosen
National Treasure
2004
as John Adams Gates
The Sound of Music
1965
as Captain Georg von Trapp
Alexander
2004
as Aristotle
Twelve Monkeys
1995
as Dr. Goines
9
2009
as #1 (voice)
Danny Collins
2015
as Frank Grubman
Inside Man
2006
as Arthur Case
The Star
2017
as King Herod (voice)
All the Money in the World
2017
as Jean Paul Getty
The Last Full Measure
2020
as Frank Pitsenbarger
Priest
2011
as Monsignor Orelas
The Lake House
2006
as Simon Wyler
An American Tail
1986
as Henri (voice)
Nabokov on Kafka
1989
as Vladimir Nabokov
Malcolm X
1992
as Chaplain Gill
Syriana
2005
as Dean Whiting
Babes in Toyland
1997
as Barnaby Crookedman (voice)
Beginners
2011
as Hal Fields
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
2009
as Doctor Parnassus
The Insider
1999
as Mike Wallace
Impolite
1992
as Naples O'Rorke
Hector and the Search for Happiness
2014
as Professor Coreman
Rock-A-Doodle
1991
as Grand Duke (voice)
Somewhere in Time
1980
as William Fawcett 'W.F.' Robinson
Possessed
2000
as Archbishop Hume
Prototype
1983
as Dr. Carl Forrester
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
1991
as Chang
The New World
2005
as Captain Newport
Dracula 2000
2000
as Matthew Van Helsing
Bondarchuk. Battle
2021
as self
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)
Cold Creek Manor
2003
as Mr. Massie
The Legend of Sarila
2013
as Croolik (voice)
Dolores Claiborne
1995
as John Mackey
The Exception
2017
as Kaiser Wilhelm II
Wolf
1994
as Raymond Alden
The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017
as Scrooge
Ordeal by Innocence
1984
as Leo Argyle
The River of My Dreams
2017
as Himself
Battle of Britain
1969
as Squadron Leader Colin Harvey
Dragnet
1987
as Reverend Jonathan Whirley
Red Blooded American Girl
1990
as Dr. John Alcore
Remember
2015
as Zev Guttman
Ararat
2002
as David
The Boss' Wife
1986
as Mr. Roalvang
Boundaries
2018
as Jack
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964
as Commodus
The Man Who Would Be King
1975
as Rudyard Kipling
The Forger
2014
as Joseph Cutter
Caesar and Cleopatra
2009
as Caesar
Must Love Dogs
2005
as Bill
Madeline: Lost in Paris
1999
as Narrator (voice)
Nicholas Nickleby
2002
as Ralph Nickleby
The Return of the Pink Panther
1975
as Sir Charles Litton
The First Emperor of China
1989
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Waterloo
1970
as Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
Inside Daisy Clover
1966
as Raymond Swan
Lily in Love
1984
as Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova
Kali, the Little Vampire
2012
as Narrator (english version)
Winchell
1998
as Franklin D. Roosevelt
Pixies
2015
as Pixie King (voice)
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
1990
as The Grand Duke Ivan
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
1964
as Narrator (voice)
Salzburg Sight and Sound
1965
as Self
Highpoint
1982
as James Hatcher
Nosferatu in Venice
1988
as Professor Paris Catalano
Elsa & Fred
2014
as Fred
The Night of the Generals
1967
as Field Marshal Rommel
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
as Self
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982
Mindfield
1989
as Doctor Satorius
Oedipus the King
1968
as Oedipus
Agent of Influence
2002
as John Watkins
Our Fathers
2005
as Cardinal Bernard Law
The Last Station
2009
as Leo Tolstoy
The Dinosaur Hunter
2000
as Hump Hinton
Closing the Ring
2007
as Jack
Dreamscape
1984
as Bob Blair
Hanover Street
1979
as Paul Sellinger
The Boy in Blue
1986
as Knox
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2013
as John Marshall Harlan
Nobody Runs Forever
1968
as Sir James Quentin
Lock Up Your Daughters
1969
as Lord Foppington
The Happy Prince
1974
as The Happy Prince (voice)
Skeletons
1997
as Reverend Carlyle
American Tragedy
2000
as F. Lee Bailey
The Gospel of John
2003
as Narrator (voice)
The Disappearance
1977
as Deverell
Madeline's Christmas
1990
as Narrator (voice)
The Amateur
1981
as Professor Lakos
Conduct Unbecoming
1975
as Major Alastair Wimbourne
The Day That Shook the World
1975
as Archduke Ferdinand
Secrets
1992
as Mel Wexler
Murder by Decree
1979
as Sherlock Holmes
My Dog Tulip
2010
as J.R. Ackerley (voice)
Cyrano De Bergerac
1962
as Cyrano de Bergerac
Souvenir
1989
as Ernst Kestner
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
as Narrator (voice)
Hamlet at Elsinore
1964
as Hamlet
The Clown at Midnight
1999
as Mr. Caruthers
30 Minutes, Mister Plummer
1963
as Himself
Cliffs of Freedom
2019
as Thanasi
The Spiral Staircase
1975
as Dr. Joe Sherman
Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom
2016
as Dr. West (voice)
Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom
2017
as Dr. West (voice)
The Scarlet and the Black
1983
as Col. Herbert Kappler
Titans of the Ice Age
2013
as Narrator
Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self
A Hazard of Hearts
1987
as Sir Giles Staverley
Wind Across the Everglades
1958
as Walt Murdock
Aces High
1976
as Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair
Starcrash
1978
as The Emperor
The Conspiracy of Fear
1996
as Wakeman
Four Minutes
2005
as Archie Mason
Crackerjack
1994
as Ivan Getz
The Silent Partner
1978
as Reikle
About 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… With 237 credits spanning from 1944 to 2023, Christopher Plummer has appeared in 198 films and 39 TV shows.
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- Up (2009) — as Charles Muntz (voice)
- Knives Out (2019) — as Harlan Thrombey
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) — as Henrik Vanger
- A Beautiful Mind (2001) — as Dr. Rosen
- National Treasure (2004) — as John Adams Gates
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