Christopher Plummer
Known for Acting · 236 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 (38)
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee
American Experience
1988
as Narrator
The Cosby Show
1984
as Jonathan Lawrence
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
Nature
1982
as Narrator (voice)
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Presenter / Self - Winner / Self - Nominee / Self - Nominee / Presenter
Studio One
1948
as Dick
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Don Juan
Omnibus
1967
as Narrator
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
Omnibus
1952
as Oedipus / Thomas Mendip
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Departure
2019
as Howard Lawson
Film '72
1971
as Self
Suspense
1949
Jesus of Nazareth
1977
as Herod Antipas
Counterstrike
1990
as Alexander Addington
The Thorn Birds
1983
as Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese
Madeline
1988
as Narrator (voice)
DuPont Show of the Month
1957
as Sir Miles Hendon
Nuremberg
2000
as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Dr. Jack Pelletier / Torvald Helmer / Prince Albert / Captain Brassbound / Cyrano de Bergerac
SuperTed
1983
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
2010
as Self - Narrator (voice)
General Electric Theater
1953
as Walter Shelley
The Sunday Drama
1977
as Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
1976
as Roscoe Heyward
The Summit
2008
as P.J. Aimes
NBC Sunday Showcase
1959
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
1982
as Reggie Vanderbilt
Crossings
1986
as Armand DeVilliers
The Arrow
1997
as George Hees
Kraft Television Theatre
1953
Young Catherine
1991
as Sir Charles
Miracle Planet
2005
as Himself - Host
Berlin Lady
1991
as Wilhelm Speer
Movies (198)
Up
2009
as Charles Muntz (voice)
Knives Out
2019
as Harlan Thrombey
The Sound of Music
1965
as Captain Georg von Trapp
A Beautiful Mind
2001
as Dr. Rosen
Priest
2011
as Monsignor Orelas
National Treasure
2004
as John Adams Gates
Twelve Monkeys
1995
as Dr. Goines
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011
as Henrik Vanger
9
2009
as #1 (voice)
Alexander
2004
as Aristotle
Inside Man
2006
as Arthur Case
Malcolm X
1992
as Chaplain Gill
An American Tail
1986
as Henri (voice)
The Lake House
2006
as Simon Wyler
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)
The Insider
1999
as Mike Wallace
Dolores Claiborne
1995
as John Mackey
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
2009
as Doctor Parnassus
Syriana
2005
as Dean Whiting
Wolf
1994
as Raymond Alden
The Star
2017
as King Herod (voice)
The New World
2005
as Captain Newport
All the Money in the World
2017
as Jean Paul Getty
Must Love Dogs
2005
as Bill
Dracula 2000
2000
as Matthew Van Helsing
Somewhere in Time
1980
as William Fawcett 'W.F.' Robinson
Dragnet
1987
as Reverend Jonathan Whirley
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
1991
as Chang
Cold Creek Manor
2003
as Mr. Massie
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964
as Commodus
Waterloo
1970
as Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
Battle of Britain
1969
as Squadron Leader Colin Harvey
Nicholas Nickleby
2002
as Ralph Nickleby
The Exception
2017
as Kaiser Wilhelm II
The Last Full Measure
2020
as Frank Pitsenbarger
The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017
as Scrooge
Dreamscape
1984
as Bob Blair
The Forger
2014
as Joseph Cutter
Beginners
2011
as Hal Fields
Eyewitness
1981
as Joseph
Hanover Street
1979
as Paul Sellinger
Rock-A-Doodle
1991
as Grand Duke (voice)
Hector and the Search for Happiness
2014
as Professor Coreman
Danny Collins
2015
as Frank Grubman
The Return of the Pink Panther
1975
as Sir Charles Litton
Remember
2015
as Zev Guttman
The Man Who Would Be King
1975
as Rudyard Kipling
Money
1991
as Martin Yahl
Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self
The Gospel of John
2003
as Narrator (voice)
The Night of the Generals
1967
as Field Marshal Rommel
The Last Station
2009
as Leo Tolstoy
The Silent Partner
1978
as Reikle
Starcrash
1978
as The Emperor
Boundaries
2018
as Jack
The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys'
1996
as Self
Triple Cross
1966
as Freddie Chapman
Closing the Ring
2007
as Jack
The Scarlet and the Black
1983
as Col. Herbert Kappler
Ordeal by Innocence
1984
as Leo Argyle
Oedipus the King
1968
as Oedipus
Elsa & Fred
2014
as Fred
Souvenir
1989
as Ernst Kestner
Lucky Break
2001
as Graham Mortimer
Murder by Decree
1979
as Sherlock Holmes
The Boy in Blue
1986
as Knox
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2013
as John Marshall Harlan
The Boss' Wife
1986
as Mr. Roalvang
Blizzard
2003
as Santa Claus
Secrets
1992
as Mel Wexler
Blackheart
1998
as Holmes
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
as Self
A Hazard of Hearts
1987
as Sir Giles Staverley
Ararat
2002
as David
The Arrow
1997
as George Hees
Winchell
1998
as Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Day That Shook the World
1975
as Archduke Ferdinand
Heroes of the Golden Mask
2023
as Rizzo (voice)
The First Circle
1992
as Viktor Abakumov
Where the Heart Is
1990
as Shitty
Wind Across the Everglades
1958
as Walt Murdock
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
as Narrator (voice)
A Stranger in the Mirror
1993
as Clifton Lawrence
The Disappearance
1977
as Deverell
Our Fathers
2005
as Cardinal Bernard Law
American Tragedy
2000
as F. Lee Bailey
Babes in Toyland
1997
as Barnaby Crookedman (voice)
International Velvet
1978
as John Seaton
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006
as Self
Night Flight
2002
as 'Flash' Harry Peters
Stage Struck
1958
as Joe Sheridan
Skeletons
1997
as Reverend Carlyle
The Legend of Sarila
2013
as Croolik (voice)
Hidden Agenda
1999
as Ulrich Steiner
Emotional Arithmetic
2008
as David Winters
Harrison Bergeron
1995
as John Klaxon
The Spiral Staircase
1975
as Dr. Joe Sherman
Possessed
2000
as Archbishop Hume
Highpoint
1982
as James Hatcher
Johnny Belinda
1958
as Dr. Jack Pelletier
Madeline: Lost in Paris
1999
as Narrator (voice)
Crackerjack
1994
as Ivan Getz
Howard Lovecraft & The Kingdom Of Madness
2018
as Dr. Jeffrey West (voice)
Impolite
1992
as Naples O'Rorke
Lily in Love
1984
as Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
2002
as Self
Aces High
1976
as Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair
The Amateur
1981
as Professor Lakos
Already Dead
2007
as Dr. Heller
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
2022
as Self
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
1990
as The Grand Duke Ivan
Cliffs of Freedom
2019
as Thanasi
Inside Daisy Clover
1966
as Raymond Swan
Discovering Hamlet
2011
as Self
Nosferatu in Venice
1988
as Professor Paris Catalano
The Clown at Midnight
1999
as Mr. Caruthers
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
1969
as Atahualpa
Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom
2016
as Dr. West (voice)
Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom
2017
as Dr. West (voice)
Red Blooded American Girl
1990
as Dr. John Alcore
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 236 credits spanning from 1944 to 2023, Christopher Plummer has appeared in 198 films and 38 TV shows.
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Most Popular Christopher Plummer Movies
- Up (2009) — as Charles Muntz (voice)
- Knives Out (2019) — as Harlan Thrombey
- The Sound of Music (1965) — as Captain Georg von Trapp
- A Beautiful Mind (2001) — as Dr. Rosen
- Priest (2011) — as Monsignor Orelas
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