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 (166)
Knives Out
Harlan Thrombey
Up
Charles Muntz (voice)
A Beautiful Mind
Dr. Rosen
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Henrik Vanger
The Sound of Music
Captain Georg von Trapp
Inside Man
Arthur Case
National Treasure
John Adams Gates
Twelve Monkeys
Dr. Goines
The Return of the Pink Panther
Sir Charles Litton
The Insider
Mike Wallace
Alexander
Aristotle
All the Money in the World
Jean Paul Getty
9
#1 (voice)
The Star
King Herod (voice)
Danny Collins
Frank Grubman
The Lake House
Simon Wyler
Dracula 2000
Matthew Van Helsing
The New World
Captain Newport
The Last Full Measure
Frank Pitsenbarger
Cold Creek Manor
Mr. Massie
Dolores Claiborne
John Mackey
An American Tail
Henri (voice)
Somewhere in Time
William Fawcett 'W.F.' Robinson
Wolf
Raymond Alden
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Chang
Malcolm X
Chaplain Gill
Priest
Monsignor Orelas
Syriana
Dean Whiting
Closing the Ring
Jack
The Man Who Would Be King
Rudyard Kipling
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Doctor Parnassus
The Gospel of John
Narrator (voice)
The Exception
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Must Love Dogs
Bill
The Last Station
Leo Tolstoy
The Legend of Sarila
Croolik (voice)
Battle of Britain
Squadron Leader Colin Harvey
Starcrash
The Emperor
The Forger
Joseph Cutter
Boundaries
Jack
The Night of the Generals
Field Marshal Rommel
Remember
Zev Guttman
Nicholas Nickleby
Ralph Nickleby
Rock-A-Doodle
Grand Duke (voice)
Triple Cross
Freddie Chapman
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Commodus
The Amateur
Professor Lakos
A Hazard of Hearts
Sir Giles Staverley
The Silent Partner
Reikle
Ararat
David
Murder by Decree
Sherlock Holmes
The Day That Shook the World
Archduke Ferdinand
Hanover Street
Paul Sellinger
Elsa & Fred
Fred
Dragnet
Reverend Jonathan Whirley
The Man Who Invented Christmas
Scrooge
Beginners
Hal Fields
Where the Heart Is
Shitty
Waterloo
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
The Boss' Wife
Mr. Roalvang
Hector and the Search for Happiness
Professor Coreman
The Boy in Blue
Knox
Ordeal by Innocence
Leo Argyle
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
The Grand Duke Ivan
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
Babes in Toyland
Barnaby Crookedman (voice)
Heroes of the Golden Mask
Rizzo (voice)
Dial M for Murder
Tony Wendice
Mindfield
Doctor Satorius
Dreamscape
Bob Blair
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
John Marshall Harlan
The Scarlet and the Black
Col. Herbert Kappler
Prototype
Dr. Carl Forrester
Aces High
Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair
Blizzard
Santa Claus
Nosferatu in Venice
Professor Paris Catalano
Inside Daisy Clover
Raymond Swan
Eyewitness
Joseph
Possessed
Archbishop Hume
Our Fathers
Cardinal Bernard Law
Already Dead
Dr. Heller
Red Blooded American Girl
Dr. John Alcore
Pixies
Pixie King (voice)
The Dinosaur Hunter
Hump Hinton
Lucky Break
Graham Mortimer
International Velvet
John Seaton
Conduct Unbecoming
Major Alastair Wimbourne
Wind Across the Everglades
Walt Murdock
Nobody Runs Forever
Sir James Quentin
Highpoint
James Hatcher
Harrison Bergeron
John Klaxon
Skeletons
Reverend Carlyle
Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes
Narrator (voice over)
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
Atahualpa
Kali, the Little Vampire
Narrator (english version)
Oedipus the King
Oedipus
Man in the Chair
Flash Madden
Lock Up Your Daughters
Lord Foppington
Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom
Dr. West (voice)
Howard Lovecraft & The Kingdom Of Madness
Dr. Jeffrey West (voice)
The Clown at Midnight
Mr. Caruthers
Lily in Love
Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova
Full Disclosure
Robert Lecker
We the Jury
Wilfred Fransiscus
Madeline: Lost in Paris
Narrator (voice)
Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom
Dr. West (voice)
Titans of the Ice Age
Narrator
Rumpelstiltskin
Narrator
The First Circle
Viktor Abakumov
When the Circus Came to Town
Duke Royal
Cliffs of Freedom
Thanasi
American Tragedy
F. Lee Bailey
Crackerjack
Ivan Getz
Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic
Narrator
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Narrator (voice)
Emotional Arithmetic
David Winters
Winchell
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Disappearance
Deverell
Kalahari: The Flooded Desert
Narrator (voice)
A Stranger in the Mirror
Clifton Lawrence
The Arrow
George Hees
The Life of Jesus
Narrator
My Dog Tulip
J.R. Ackerley (voice)
The Shadow Box
Brian
The Spiral Staircase
Dr. Joe Sherman
Little Moon of Alban
Kenneth Boyd
The Little Crooked Christmas Tree
Narrator
The Conspiracy of Fear
Wakeman
Caesar and Cleopatra
Caesar
The Happy Prince
The Happy Prince (voice)
A Short Film About Making Beginners
2011
A Doll's House
Torvald
The Pyx
Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson
Impolite
Naples O'Rorke
Hidden Agenda
Ulrich Steiner
I Love N.Y.
John Robertson Yeats
Stage Struck
Joe Sheridan
Money
Martin Yahl
Hamlet at Elsinore
Hamlet
Spearfield's Daughter
Lord Jack Cruze
The Velveteen Rabbit
Narrator (voice)
On Golden Pond
Norman Thayer
The Tempest
Prospero
Firehead
Col. Garland Vaughn
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
Narrator (voice)
Barrymore
John Barrymore
Agent of Influence
John Watkins
Liar's Edge
Harry Weldon
Nabokov on Kafka
Vladimir Nabokov
Secrets
Mel Wexler
Desperate Voyage
Jacques Burrifous
Riel
Prime Minister John A. Macdonald
After the Fall
Quentin
Souvenir
Ernst Kestner
The Tin Soldier
Narrator (voice)
Four Minutes
Archie Mason
Silver Blaze
Sherlock Holmes
Madeline and the Gypsies
Narrator (voice)
Blackheart
Holmes
Madeline's Christmas
Narrator (voice)
Mooseltoe
Mooseking
Shadow Dancing
Edmund Beaumont
Madeline
Narrator (voice)
The Assignment
Kaptain Behounek
The First Christmas
Narrator (voice)
The Nightingale
Narrator (voice)
TV Shows (32)
Nature
Narrator (voice) · 2 eps
American Experience
Narrator · 1 eps
The Cosby Show
Jonathan Lawrence · 1 eps
American Playhouse
Alfred Stieglitz · 1 eps
BBC Play of the Month
Don Juan · 1 eps
Studio One
Dick · 1 eps
Omnibus
Narrator · 1 eps
Suspense
2 eps
Omnibus
2 eps
Omnibus
Oedipus · 1 eps
Omnibus
Thomas Mendip · 1 eps
Departure
Howard Lawson · 9 eps
The Thorn Birds
Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese · 4 eps
Counterstrike
Alexander Addington · 66 eps
Jesus of Nazareth
Herod Antipas · 4 eps
Nuremberg
Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe · 2 eps
DuPont Show of the Month
Sir Miles Hendon · 1 eps
Madeline
Narrator (voice) · 39 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dr. Jack Pelletier · 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Torvald Helmer · 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Captain Brassbound · 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Prince Albert · 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Cyrano de Bergerac · 1 eps
The Summit
P.J. Aimes · 2 eps
SuperTed
12 eps
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
Roscoe Heyward · 4 eps
General Electric Theater
Walter Shelley · 1 eps
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
Reggie Vanderbilt · 2 eps
Young Catherine
Sir Charles · 2 eps
Crossings
Armand DeVilliers · 3 eps
The Arrow
George Hees · 2 eps
Berlin Lady
Wilhelm Speer · 1 eps
Self / Appearances (31)
The Mike Douglas Show
Self · 1 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee · 2 eps
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self · 1 eps
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest · 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 Oscars
Self · 1 eps
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self · 1 eps
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
Self - Narrator (voice) · 7 eps
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Self
Miracle Planet
Himself - Host · 5 eps
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Self
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
Self
Night of 100 Stars
Self
Bondarchuk. Battle
self
The First Emperor of China
Self - Narrator (voice)
Arthur Miller on Home Ground
Self
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
Self (archive footage)
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
Self
The River of My Dreams
Himself
Discovering Hamlet
Self
Salzburg Sight and Sound
Self
The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys'
Self
Being Different
Self (Narrator) (voice)
The Captains: Still Kicking
Self
Hamlet {Solo}
Self
Back To "Somewhere In Time"
Self
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
Self
Behind the Wall: The Making of Skyrim
Self