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