Christopher Plummer
Acting
Born: December 13, 1929 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died: February 5, 2021 (aged 91)
Highest Rated
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
Up
2009
Knives Out
2019
A Beautiful Mind
2001
Twelve Monkeys
1995
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011
National Treasure
2004
Inside Man
2006
9
2009
The Sound of Music
1965
Alexander
2004
The Lake House
2006
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
2009
Photos (3)
Movies (167)
Up
Charles Muntz (voice)
Knives Out
Harlan Thrombey
National Treasure
John Adams Gates
The Sound of Music
Captain Georg von Trapp
A Beautiful Mind
Dr. Rosen
Twelve Monkeys
Dr. Goines
9
#1 (voice)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Henrik Vanger
Inside Man
Arthur Case
Alexander
Aristotle
Priest
Monsignor Orelas
The Star
King Herod (voice)
All the Money in the World
Jean Paul Getty
The Insider
Mike Wallace
Malcolm X
Chaplain Gill
Wolf
Raymond Alden
The Lake House
Simon Wyler
An American Tail
Henri (voice)
Syriana
Dean Whiting
Dolores Claiborne
John Mackey
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Doctor Parnassus
Somewhere in Time
William Fawcett 'W.F.' Robinson
Dracula 2000
Matthew Van Helsing
The Man Who Would Be King
Rudyard Kipling
Waterloo
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Chang
Danny Collins
Frank Grubman
The New World
Captain Newport
Dragnet
Reverend Jonathan Whirley
The Forger
Joseph Cutter
The Last Full Measure
Frank Pitsenbarger
Triple Cross
Freddie Chapman
The Night of the Generals
Field Marshal Rommel
Battle of Britain
Squadron Leader Colin Harvey
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Commodus
Remember
Zev Guttman
Must Love Dogs
Bill
Cold Creek Manor
Mr. Massie
The Return of the Pink Panther
Sir Charles Litton
Dreamscape
Bob Blair
Hector and the Search for Happiness
Professor Coreman
The Exception
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Rock-A-Doodle
Grand Duke (voice)
Ordeal by Innocence
Leo Argyle
Hanover Street
Paul Sellinger
The Man Who Invented Christmas
Scrooge
The Scarlet and the Black
Col. Herbert Kappler
Beginners
Hal Fields
The Boss' Wife
Mr. Roalvang
Closing the Ring
Jack
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
The Last Station
Leo Tolstoy
Murder by Decree
Sherlock Holmes
Eyewitness
Joseph
Possessed
Archbishop Hume
Nicholas Nickleby
Ralph Nickleby
The Gospel of John
Narrator (voice)
Nabokov on Kafka
Vladimir Nabokov
The Legend of Sarila
Croolik (voice)
The Amateur
Professor Lakos
The Silent Partner
Reikle
Blizzard
Santa Claus
Secrets
Mel Wexler
Lily in Love
Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova
Howard Lovecraft & The Kingdom Of Madness
Dr. Jeffrey West (voice)
Starcrash
The Emperor
Aces High
Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair
Ararat
David
Our Fathers
Cardinal Bernard Law
Already Dead
Dr. Heller
Lucky Break
Graham Mortimer
The Disappearance
Deverell
Heroes of the Golden Mask
Rizzo (voice)
The Boy in Blue
Knox
Babes in Toyland
Barnaby Crookedman (voice)
Highpoint
James Hatcher
Inside Daisy Clover
Raymond Swan
Harrison Bergeron
John Klaxon
Pixies
Pixie King (voice)
Madeline: Lost in Paris
Narrator (voice)
Agent of Influence
John Watkins
Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom
Dr. West (voice)
Conduct Unbecoming
Major Alastair Wimbourne
Boundaries
Jack
Nosferatu in Venice
Professor Paris Catalano
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Narrator (voice)
Dial M for Murder
Tony Wendice
Souvenir
Ernst Kestner
Desperate Voyage
Jacques Burrifous
Cliffs of Freedom
Thanasi
Crackerjack
Ivan Getz
Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom
Dr. West (voice)
Wind Across the Everglades
Walt Murdock
Elsa & Fred
Fred
Nobody Runs Forever
Sir James Quentin
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
John Marshall Harlan
Where the Heart Is
Shitty
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
Atahualpa
Liar's Edge
Harry Weldon
A Hazard of Hearts
Sir Giles Staverley
On Golden Pond
Norman Thayer
My Dog Tulip
J.R. Ackerley (voice)
Red Blooded American Girl
Dr. John Alcore
International Velvet
John Seaton
The Conspiracy of Fear
Wakeman
The Day That Shook the World
Archduke Ferdinand
The Little Crooked Christmas Tree
Narrator
Oedipus the King
Oedipus
Full Disclosure
Robert Lecker
Man in the Chair
Flash Madden
Stage Struck
Joe Sheridan
Riel
Prime Minister John A. Macdonald
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982
Impolite
Naples O'Rorke
The Dinosaur Hunter
Hump Hinton
American Tragedy
F. Lee Bailey
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
The Grand Duke Ivan
Prototype
Dr. Carl Forrester
The First Circle
Viktor Abakumov
The Clown at Midnight
Mr. Caruthers
Mindfield
Doctor Satorius
A Stranger in the Mirror
Clifton Lawrence
Winchell
Franklin D. Roosevelt
We the Jury
Wilfred Fransiscus
I Love N.Y.
John Robertson Yeats
Titans of the Ice Age
Narrator
Caesar and Cleopatra
Caesar
The Shadow Box
Brian
The Arrow
George Hees
Arthur Miller on Home Ground
1979
Lock Up Your Daughters
Lord Foppington
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
Narrator (voice)
The Pyx
Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson
Four Minutes
Archie Mason
Hidden Agenda
Ulrich Steiner
Madeline's Christmas
Narrator (voice)
Skeletons
Reverend Carlyle
Rumpelstiltskin
Narrator
Money
Martin Yahl
Spearfield's Daughter
Lord Jack Cruze
Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes
Narrator (voice over)
Emotional Arithmetic
David Winters
The Spiral Staircase
Dr. Joe Sherman
Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic
Narrator
The Happy Prince
The Happy Prince (voice)
Kali, the Little Vampire
Narrator (english version)
After the Fall
Quentin
Shadow Dancing
Edmund Beaumont
Hamlet at Elsinore
Hamlet
The Velveteen Rabbit
Narrator (voice)
Firehead
Col. Garland Vaughn
The Tin Soldier
Narrator (voice)
Madeline and the Gypsies
Narrator (voice)
Madeline
Narrator (voice)
The Assignment
Kaptain Behounek
The Tempest
Prospero
Blackheart
Holmes
A Doll's House
Torvald
The Life of Jesus
Narrator
Little Moon of Alban
Kenneth Boyd
Kalahari: The Flooded Desert
Narrator (voice)
When the Circus Came to Town
Duke Royal
Silver Blaze
Sherlock Holmes
Mooseltoe
Mooseking
The Nightingale
Narrator (voice)
Barrymore
John Barrymore
The First Christmas
Narrator (voice)
TV Shows (32)
American Playhouse
Alfred Stieglitz · 1 eps
Nature
Narrator (voice) · 2 eps
American Experience
Narrator · 1 eps
The Cosby Show
Jonathan Lawrence · 1 eps
BBC Play of the Month
Don Juan · 1 eps
Omnibus
Narrator · 1 eps
Studio One
Dick · 1 eps
Omnibus
2 eps
Omnibus
Oedipus · 1 eps
Omnibus
Thomas Mendip · 1 eps
Suspense
2 eps
Departure
Howard Lawson · 9 eps
The Thorn Birds
Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese · 4 eps
Jesus of Nazareth
Herod Antipas · 4 eps
Madeline
Narrator (voice) · 39 eps
Counterstrike
Alexander Addington · 66 eps
DuPont Show of the Month
Sir Miles Hendon · 1 eps
SuperTed
12 eps
Nuremberg
Sir David Maxwell Fyfe · 2 eps
General Electric Theater
Walter Shelley · 1 eps
The Summit
P.J. Aimes · 2 eps
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
Roscoe Heyward · 4 eps
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
Reggie Vanderbilt · 2 eps
Crossings
Armand DeVilliers · 3 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dr. Jack Pelletier · 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Prince Albert · 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Captain Brassbound · 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Torvald Helmer · 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Cyrano de Bergerac · 1 eps
The Arrow
George Hees · 2 eps
Young Catherine
Sir Charles · 2 eps
Berlin Lady
Wilhelm Speer · 1 eps
Self / Appearances (29)
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee · 2 eps
The Mike Douglas Show
Self · 1 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter · 3 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Winner · 2 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee · 2 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee / Presenter · 1 eps
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self · 1 eps
The Oscars
Self · 1 eps
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self · 1 eps
Miracle Planet
Himself - Host · 5 eps
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
Self - Narrator (voice) · 7 eps
Discovering Hamlet
Self
Bondarchuk. Battle
self
Night of 100 Stars
Self
The First Emperor of China
Self - Narrator (voice)
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Self
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
Self
Salzburg Sight and Sound
Self
The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys'
Self
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Self
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
Self
Hamlet {Solo}
Self
Being Different
Self (Narrator) (voice)
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
Self (archive footage)
Back To "Somewhere In Time"
Self
The River of My Dreams
Himself
The Captains: Still Kicking
Self
Behind the Wall: The Making of Skyrim
Self