Christopher Plummer
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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
Inside Man (2006)
as Arthur Case
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Up (2009)
as Charles Muntz (voice)
Knives Out (2019)
as Harlan Thrombey
National Treasure (2004)
as John Adams Gates
The Sound of Music (1965)
as Captain Georg von Trapp
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
as Dr. Goines
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
as Dr. Rosen
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
as Henrik Vanger
9 (2009)
as #1 (voice)
An American Tail (1986)
as Henri (voice)
Alexander (2004)
as Aristotle
The Star (2017)
as King Herod (voice)
Syriana (2005)
as Dean Whiting
Priest (2011)
as Monsignor Orelas
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
as Doctor Parnassus
The Insider (1999)
as Mike Wallace
Danny Collins (2015)
as Frank Grubman
Ararat (2002)
as David
All the Money in the World (2017)
as Jean Paul Getty
The Lake House (2006)
as Simon Wyler
The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
as Rudyard Kipling
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
as Chang
The New World (2005)
as Captain Newport
Dracula 2000 (2000)
as Matthew Van Helsing
Malcolm X (1992)
as Chaplain Gill
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
as Sir Charles Litton
Dolores Claiborne (1995)
as John Mackey
Remember (2015)
as Zev Guttman
Pixies (2015)
as Pixie King (voice)
Rock-A-Doodle (1991)
as Grand Duke (voice)
Highpoint (1984)
as James Hatcher
Wolf (1994)
as Raymond Alden
Somewhere in Time (1980)
as William Fawcett 'W.F.' Robinson
Winchell (1998)
as Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Legend of Sarila (2013)
as Croolik (voice)
Prototype (1983)
as Dr. Carl Forrester
The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
as Scrooge
The Last Full Measure (2020)
as Frank Pitsenbarger
Possessed (2000)
as Archbishop Hume
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013)
as John Marshall Harlan
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
as Commodus
The Exception (2017)
as Kaiser Wilhelm II
The Forger (2014)
as Joseph Cutter
Dragnet (1987)
as Reverend Jonathan Whirley
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady (1982)
as Self
Rumpelstiltskin (1985)
as Narrator
Bondarchuk. Battle (2021)
as self
The Night of the Generals (1967)
as Field Marshal Rommel
Babes in Toyland (1997)
as Barnaby Crookedman (voice)
Battle of Britain (1969)
as Squadron Leader Colin Harvey
Impolite (1992)
as Naples O'Rorke
Nosferatu in Venice (1988)
as Professor Paris Catalano
Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)
as Professor Coreman
The Amateur (1981)
as Professor Lakos
Eyewitness (1981)
as Joseph
Beginners (2011)
as Hal Fields
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy (1964)
as Narrator (voice)
Red Blooded American Girl (1990)
as Dr. John Alcore
Waterloo (1970)
as Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
Cold Creek Manor (2003)
as Mr. Massie
The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
as Col. Herbert Kappler
Must Love Dogs (2005)
as Bill
Closing the Ring (2007)
as Jack
The First Emperor of China (1989)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Dreamscape (1984)
as Bob Blair
Lily in Love (1984)
as Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova
The Gospel of John (2003)
as Narrator (voice)
Kalahari: The Flooded Desert (2021)
as Narrator (voice)
Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
as Ralph Nickleby
Triple Cross (1966)
as Freddie Chapman
Arthur Miller on Home Ground (1979)
as Self
Hanover Street (1979)
as Paul Sellinger
Starcrash (1978)
as The Emperor
Mindfield (1989)
as Doctor Satorius
Cyrano De Bergerac (1962)
as Cyrano de Bergerac
Salzburg Sight and Sound (1965)
as Self
A Hazard of Hearts (1987)
as Sir Giles Staverley
My Dog Tulip (2010)
as J.R. Ackerley (voice)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)
as (archive footage)
Heroes of the Golden Mask (2023)
as Rizzo (voice)
Kali, the Little Vampire (2012)
as Narrator (english version)
The Little Crooked Christmas Tree (1990)
as Narrator
A Short Film About Making Beginners (2011)
Actor
Ordeal by Innocence (1984)
as Leo Argyle
The Captains: Still Kicking (2013)
as Self
30 Minutes, Mister Plummer (1963)
as Self
Murder by Decree (1979)
as Sherlock Holmes
The Happy Prince (1974)
as The Happy Prince (voice)
The Last Station (2009)
as Leo Tolstoy
Boundaries (2018)
as Jack
The River of My Dreams (2017)
as Himself
Caesar and Cleopatra (2009)
as Caesar
Already Dead (2007)
as Dr. Heller
Nabokov on Kafka (1989)
as Vladimir Nabokov
Lucky Break (2001)
as Graham Mortimer
Blizzard (2003)
as Santa Claus
Madeline: Lost in Paris (1999)
as Narrator (voice)
Where the Heart Is (1990)
as Shitty
The Silent Partner (1978)
as Reikle
Portraits of Canada (1987)
as Narrator (voice)
Madeline's Christmas (1990)
as Narrator (voice)
Trans-Canada Journey (1963)
as Narrator (voice)
Night of 100 Stars (1982)
as Self
Madeline in London (1991)
as Narrator (voice)
Aces High (1976)
as Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair
Crackerjack (1994)
as Ivan Getz
Elsa & Fred (2014)
as Fred
Dial M for Murder (1981)
as Tony Wendice
Inside Daisy Clover (1966)
as Raymond Swan
The Boy in Blue (1986)
as Knox
Hamlet at Elsinore (1964)
as Hamlet
The Clown at Midnight (1999)
as Mr. Caruthers
Madeline and the Gypsies (1991)
as Narrator (voice)
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster (2021)
as Self
The Dinosaur Hunter (2000)
as Hump Hinton
The Life of Jesus (2003)
as Narrator
Harrison Bergeron (1995)
as John Klaxon
Wind Across the Everglades (1958)
as Walt Murdock
The Boss' Wife (1986)
as Mr. Roalvang
The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)
as Atahualpa
A Ghost in Monte Carlo (1990)
as The Grand Duke Ivan
The Arrow (1997)
as George Hees
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth (2019)
as Self
Secrets (1992)
as Mel Wexler
Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom (2016)
as Dr. West (voice)
Howard Lovecraft & The Kingdom Of Madness (2018)
as Dr. Jeffrey West (voice)
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold (1994)
as Self (archive footage)
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film (2006)
as Self
Conduct Unbecoming (1975)
as Major Alastair Wimbourne
International Velvet (1978)
as John Seaton
Nobody Runs Forever (1968)
as Sir James Quentin
Skeletons (1997)
as Reverend Carlyle
Our Fathers (2005)
as Cardinal Bernard Law
I Love N.Y. (1987)
as John Robertson Yeats
Oedipus the King (1968)
as Oedipus
Madeline at the Ballet (—)
as Narrator (voice)
When the Circus Came to Town (1981)
as Duke Royal
Cliffs of Freedom (2019)
as Thanasi
A Stranger in the Mirror (1993)
as Clifton Lawrence
The Day That Shook the World (1975)
as Archduke Ferdinand
Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes (2006)
as Narrator (voice over)
Titans of the Ice Age (2013)
as Narrator
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988)
as Narrator (voice)
The Disappearance (1977)
as Deverell
Lock Up Your Daughters (1969)
as Lord Foppington
Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom (2017)
as Dr. West (voice)
Full Disclosure (2001)
as Robert Lecker
The Pyx (1973)
as Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson
Back To "Somewhere In Time" (2000)
as Self
Stage Struck (1958)
as Joe Sheridan
We the Jury (1996)
as Wilfred Fransiscus
Discovering Hamlet (2011)
as Self
Little Moon of Alban (1958)
as Kenneth Boyd
Blackheart (1998)
as Holmes
The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys' (1996)
as Self
American Tragedy (2000)
as F. Lee Bailey
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story (2022)
as Self
Emotional Arithmetic (2008)
as David Winters
Agent of Influence (2002)
as John Watkins
Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1960)
as Captain Brassbound
Firehead (1991)
as Col. Garland Vaughn
The Conspiracy of Fear (1996)
as Wakeman
Spearfield's Daughter (1986)
as Lord Jack Cruze
The First Circle (1992)
as Viktor Abakumov
The Spiral Staircase (1975)
as Dr. Joe Sherman
Man in the Chair (2007)
as Flash Madden
Riel (1979)
as Prime Minister John A. Macdonald
Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic (1993)
as Narrator
The Tempest (2010)
as Prospero
Being Different (1981)
as Self (Narrator) (voice)
Shadow Dancing (1988)
as Edmund Beaumont
The Assignment (1977)
as Kaptain Behounek
A Doll's House (1959)
as Torvald
Night Flight (2002)
as 'Flash' Harry Peters
The Tin Soldier (1986)
as Narrator (voice)
After the Fall (1974)
as Quentin
The Untold Story of The Sound of Music: A Diane Sawyer Special (2015)
as Self
Silver Blaze (1977)
as Sherlock Holmes
The Shadow Box (1980)
as Brian
Behind the Wall: The Making of Skyrim (2012)
as Self
On Golden Pond (2001)
as Norman Thayer
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages (2002)
as Self
Hidden Agenda (1999)
as Ulrich Steiner
Hamlet {Solo} (2007)
as Self
Mooseltoe (2021)
as Mooseking
Souvenir (1989)
as Ernst Kestner
Desperate Voyage (1980)
as Jacques Burrifous
Money (1991)
as Martin Yahl
The Nightingale (1987)
as Narrator (voice)
Madeline and the Bad Hat (1991)
as Narrator (voice)
The First Christmas (1998)
as Narrator (voice)
The Velveteen Rabbit (1985)
as Narrator (voice)
Madeline (1988)
as Narrator (voice)
Johnny Belinda (1958)
as Dr. Jack Pelletier
Barrymore (2012)
as John Barrymore
Four Minutes (2005)
as Archie Mason
Liar's Edge (1992)
as Harry Weldon
Ted Allan: Minstrel Boy of the 20th Century (—)
as Narrator (voice)