Christopher Plummer
176 movies · 28 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 13, 1929
- Died
- Feb 5, 2021 (age 91)
- 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.
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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".
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Known for
Christopher Plummer: movies and TV shows
Acting (204)
- Upcoming Madeline at the Ballet
as Narrator (voice)
- Upcoming Ted Allan: Minstrel Boy of the 20th Century
as Narrator (voice)
- 2023 Heroes of the Golden Mask
as Rizzo (voice)
- 2021 Mooseltoe
as Mooseking
- 2021 Kalahari: The Flooded Desert
as Narrator (voice)
- 2020 The Last Full Measure
as Frank Pitsenbarger
- 2019 Knives Out
as Harlan Thrombey
- 2019
- 2019 Cliffs of Freedom
as Thanasi
- 2018 Howard Lovecraft & The Kingdom Of Madness
as Dr. Jeffrey West (voice)
- 2018 Boundaries
as Jack
- 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 Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom
as Dr. West (voice)
- 2017 The Exception
as Kaiser Wilhelm II
- 2016 Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom
as Dr. West (voice)
- 2015 Remember
as Zev Guttman
- 2015 Pixies
as Pixie King (voice)
- 2015 Danny Collins
as Frank Grubman
- 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 Titans of the Ice Age
as Narrator
- 2012 Kali, the Little Vampire
as Narrator (english version)
- 2012 Barrymore
as John Barrymore
- 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
- 2011
- 2010 The Tempest
as Prospero
- 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 Muntz (voice)
- 2009 Caesar and Cleopatra
as Caesar
- 2008
- 2008 Emotional Arithmetic
as David Winters
- 2007 Already Dead
as Dr. Heller
- 2007 Closing the Ring
as Jack
- 2007 Man in the Chair
as Flash Madden
- 2006 Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes
as Narrator (voice over)
- 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
- 2005 Our Fathers
as Cardinal Bernard Law
- 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 The Life of Jesus
as Narrator
- 2003 Blizzard
as Santa Claus
- 2002 Nicholas Nickleby
as Ralph Nickleby
- 2002 Agent of Influence
as John Watkins
- 2002 Ararat
as David
- 2002 Night Flight
as 'Flash' Harry Peters
- 2001 A Beautiful Mind
as Dr. Rosen
- 2001 Lucky Break
as Graham Mortimer
- 2001 Full Disclosure
as Robert Lecker
- 2001 On Golden Pond
as Norman Thayer
- 2000 Dracula 2000
as Matthew Van Helsing
- 2000 American Tragedy
as F. Lee Bailey
- 2000 Possessed
as Archbishop Hume
- 2000 The Dinosaur Hunter
as Hump Hinton
- 2000
- 1999 Hidden Agenda
as Ulrich Steiner
- 1999 The Insider
as Mike Wallace
- 1999 Madeline: Lost in Paris
as Narrator (voice)
- 1999 The Clown at Midnight
as Mr. Caruthers
- 1998 Winchell
as Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 1998 Blackheart
as Holmes
- 1998 The First Christmas
as Narrator (voice)
- 1997 Babes in Toyland
as Barnaby Crookedman (voice)
- 1997 Skeletons
as Reverend Carlyle
- 1997 The Arrow
as George Hees
- 1997
- 1996 We the Jury
as Wilfred Fransiscus
- 1996 The Conspiracy of Fear
as Wakeman
- 1995 Twelve Monkeys
as Dr. Goines
- 1995 Harrison Bergeron
as John Klaxon
- 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 Impolite
as Naples O'Rorke
- 1992 Secrets
as Mel Wexler
- 1992 The First Circle
as Viktor Abakumov
- 1992 Liar's Edge
as Harry Weldon
- 1991
- 1991 Madeline in London
as Narrator (voice)
- 1991 Madeline and the Gypsies
as Narrator (voice)
- 1991 Rock-A-Doodle
as Grand Duke (voice)
- 1991 Money
as Martin Yahl
- 1991 Madeline and the Bad Hat
as Narrator (voice)
- 1991
- 1991 Firehead
as Col. Garland Vaughn
- 1991
- 1990 The Little Crooked Christmas Tree
as Narrator
- 1990 Madeline's Christmas
as Narrator (voice)
- 1990 Red Blooded American Girl
as Dr. John Alcore
- 1990
- 1990 A Ghost in Monte Carlo
as The Grand Duke Ivan
- 1990 Where the Heart Is
as Shitty
- 1989 Mindfield
as Doctor Satorius
- 1989 Nabokov on Kafka
as Vladimir Nabokov
- 1989 Souvenir
as Ernst Kestner
- 1988 Shadow Dancing
as Edmund Beaumont
- 1988 Madeline
as Narrator (voice)
- 1988
- 1988
- 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
- 1987 Dragnet
as Reverend Jonathan Whirley
- 1987 I Love N.Y.
as John Robertson Yeats
- 1987 Portraits of Canada
as Narrator (voice)
- 1987 The Nightingale
as Narrator (voice)
- 1986 An American Tail
as Henri (voice)
- 1986 Spearfield's Daughter
as Lord Jack Cruze
- 1986
- 1986 The Boy in Blue
as Knox
- 1986 The Boss' Wife
as Mr. Roalvang
- 1986 The Tin Soldier
as Narrator (voice)
- 1985 Rumpelstiltskin
as Narrator
- 1985 The Velveteen Rabbit
as Narrator (voice)
- 1984 Lily in Love
as Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova
- 1984
- 1984 Highpoint
as James Hatcher
- 1984 Dreamscape
as Bob Blair
- 1984 Ordeal by Innocence
as Leo Argyle
- 1983 Prototype
as Dr. Carl Forrester
- 1983
- 1983
- 1983 The Scarlet and the Black
as Col. Herbert Kappler
- 1982
- 1982
- 1982
- 1981 The Amateur
as Professor Lakos
- 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 'W.F.' Robinson
- 1980 The Shadow Box
as Brian
- 1979 Hanover Street
as Paul Sellinger
- 1979 Riel
as Prime Minister John A. Macdonald
- 1979 Murder by Decree
as Sherlock Holmes
- 1978 Starcrash
as The Emperor
- 1978 The Silent Partner
as Reikle
- 1978 International Velvet
as John Seaton
- 1977 The Disappearance
as Deverell
- 1977 The Assignment
as Kaptain Behounek
- 1977
- 1977
- 1977 Silver Blaze
as Sherlock Holmes
- 1976
- 1976 Aces High
as Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair
- 1975 The Man Who Would Be King
as Rudyard Kipling
- 1975 The Day That Shook the World
as Archduke Ferdinand
- 1975 Conduct Unbecoming
as Major Alastair Wimbourne
- 1975 The Return of the Pink Panther
as Sir Charles Litton
- 1975 The Spiral Staircase
as Dr. Joe Sherman
- 1974 After the Fall
as Quentin
- 1974 The Happy Prince
as The Happy Prince (voice)
- 1973 The Pyx
as Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson
- 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
- 1969 Lock Up Your Daughters
as Lord Foppington
- 1968 Nobody Runs Forever
as Sir James Quentin
- 1968 Oedipus the King
as Oedipus
- 1967
- 1967 The Night of the Generals
as Field Marshal Rommel
- 1966 Triple Cross
as Freddie Chapman
- 1966 Inside Daisy Clover
as Raymond Swan
- 1965
- 1965 The Sound of Music
as Captain Georg von Trapp
- 1964 An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
as Narrator (voice)
- 1964 Hamlet at Elsinore
as Hamlet
- 1964 The Fall of the Roman Empire
as Commodus
- 1963 Trans-Canada Journey
as Narrator (voice)
- 1962 Cyrano De Bergerac
as Cyrano de Bergerac
- 1960 Captain Brassbound's Conversion
as Captain Brassbound
- 1959 A Doll's House
as Torvald
- 1959
- 1958 Johnny Belinda
as Dr. Jack Pelletier
- 1958 Wind Across the Everglades
as Walt Murdock
- 1958 Stage Struck
as Joe Sheridan
- 1958 Little Moon of Alban
as Kenneth Boyd
- 1957
- 1953
+ 4 more credits
Behind the camera (1)
- 2012 Barrymore
Executive Producer
Talk shows and appearances (33)
- 2022
- 2021
- 2021
- 2019
- 2017
- 2015
- 2013
- 2012
- 2011
- 2010 Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
7 episodes
- 2007
- 2006
- 2005 Miracle Planet
5 episodes
- 2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show
1 episode
- 2002
- 2000
- 1996
- 1994
- 1989
- 1982
- 1982
- 1981
- 1979
- 1971 Film '72
3 episodes
- 1968 The Dick Cavett Show
1 episode
- 1965
- 1963
- 1961 The Mike Douglas Show
1 episode
- 1956 Tony Awards
8 episodes
- 1953 The Oscars
1 episode
- 1952 Omnibus
4 episodes
- 1948 The Ed Sullivan Show
1 episode
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards
2 episodes