Christopher 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. 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
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
0Tony Awards
1956
0Tony Awards
1956
0Tony Awards
1956
0Tony Awards
1956
American Experience
1988
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Cosby Show
1984
American Playhouse
1982
Nature
1982
Filmography
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self · 1961
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self · 2003
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest · 1968
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter · 1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner · 1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee · 1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee / Presenter · 1956
American Experience
as Narrator · 1988
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee · 1944
The Cosby Show
as Jonathan Lawrence · 1984
American Playhouse
as Alfred Stieglitz · 1982
Nature
as Narrator (voice) · 1982
Studio One
as Dick · 1948
BBC Play of the Month
as Don Juan · 1965
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self · 1948
Omnibus
as Narrator · 1967
Film '72
as Self · 1971
Up
as Charles Muntz (voice) · 2009
Omnibus
· 1952
Omnibus
as Oedipus · 1952
Omnibus
as Thomas Mendip · 1952
Knives Out
as Harlan Thrombey · 2019
The Oscars
as Self · 1953
Suspense
· 1949
National Treasure
as John Adams Gates · 2004
Departure
as Howard Lawson · 2019
Twelve Monkeys
as Dr. Goines · 1995
A Beautiful Mind
as Dr. Rosen · 2001
The Sound of Music
as Captain Georg von Trapp · 1965
Inside Man
as Arthur Case · 2006
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
as Henrik Vanger · 2011
Counterstrike
as Alexander Addington · 1990
The Thorn Birds
as Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese · 1983
9
as #1 (voice) · 2009
Jesus of Nazareth
as Herod Antipas · 1977
The Lake House
as Simon Wyler · 2006
All the Money in the World
as Jean Paul Getty · 2017
Alexander
as Aristotle · 2004
Priest
as Monsignor Orelas · 2011
The Insider
as Mike Wallace · 1999
The Star
as King Herod (voice) · 2017
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
as Doctor Parnassus · 2009
DuPont Show of the Month
as Sir Miles Hendon · 1957
The Sunday Drama
as Sherlock Holmes · 1977
Madeline
as Narrator (voice) · 1988
The New World
as Captain Newport · 2005
Danny Collins
as Frank Grubman · 2015
Malcolm X
as Chaplain Gill · 1992
An American Tail
as Henri (voice) · 1986
Dracula 2000
as Matthew Van Helsing · 2000
Nuremberg
as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe · 2000
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
as Chang · 1991
Somewhere in Time
as William Fawcett 'W.F.' Robinson · 1980
The Exception
as Kaiser Wilhelm II · 2017
The Last Full Measure
as Frank Pitsenbarger · 2020
Dolores Claiborne
as John Mackey · 1995
The Forger
as Joseph Cutter · 2014
Syriana
as Dean Whiting · 2005
Battle of Britain
as Squadron Leader Colin Harvey · 1969
The Fall of the Roman Empire
as Commodus · 1964
Cold Creek Manor
as Mr. Massie · 2003
The Man Who Would Be King
as Rudyard Kipling · 1975
Wolf
as Raymond Alden · 1994
The Return of the Pink Panther
as Sir Charles Litton · 1975
SuperTed
· 1983
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Dr. Jack Pelletier · 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Torvald Helmer · 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Prince Albert · 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Captain Brassbound · 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Cyrano de Bergerac · 1951
The Night of the Generals
as Field Marshal Rommel · 1967
The Summit
as P.J. Aimes · 2008
Must Love Dogs
as Bill · 2005
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
as Roscoe Heyward · 1976
The Man Who Invented Christmas
as Scrooge · 2017
Rock-A-Doodle
as Grand Duke (voice) · 1991
NBC Sunday Showcase
· 1959
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 2010
General Electric Theater
as Walter Shelley · 1953
The Legend of Sarila
as Croolik (voice) · 2013
Dragnet
as Reverend Jonathan Whirley · 1987
Hector and the Search for Happiness
as Professor Coreman · 2014
Beginners
as Hal Fields · 2011
Nicholas Nickleby
as Ralph Nickleby · 2002
Hanover Street
as Paul Sellinger · 1979
The Last Station
as Leo Tolstoy · 2009
Murder by Decree
as Sherlock Holmes · 1979
Remember
as Zev Guttman · 2015
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
as Reggie Vanderbilt · 1982
The Gospel of John
as Narrator (voice) · 2003
Closing the Ring
as Jack · 2007
Waterloo
as Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington · 1970
Crossings
as Armand DeVilliers · 1986
Harrison Bergeron
as John Klaxon · 1995
Kraft Television Theatre
· 1953
Triple Cross
as Freddie Chapman · 1966
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage) · 2012
The Arrow
as George Hees · 1997
The Silent Partner
as Reikle · 1978
Miracle Planet
as Himself - Host · 2005
Ararat
as David · 2002
Starcrash
as The Emperor · 1978
Dreamscape
as Bob Blair · 1984
The Scarlet and the Black
as Col. Herbert Kappler · 1983
Inside Daisy Clover
as Raymond Swan · 1966
Nosferatu in Venice
as Professor Paris Catalano · 1988
Where the Heart Is
as Shitty · 1990
Pixies
as Pixie King (voice) · 2015
Heroes of the Golden Mask
as Rizzo (voice) · 2023
A Hazard of Hearts
as Sir Giles Staverley · 1987
The Boy in Blue
as Knox · 1986
Young Catherine
as Sir Charles · 1991
Eyewitness
as Joseph · 1981
Madeline: Lost in Paris
as Narrator (voice) · 1999
Night of 100 Stars
as Self · 1982
Aces High
as Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair · 1976
Elsa & Fred
as Fred · 2014
Ordeal by Innocence
as Leo Argyle · 1984
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
as John Marshall Harlan · 2013
Dial M for Murder
as Tony Wendice · 1981
Blizzard
as Santa Claus · 2003
Our Fathers
as Cardinal Bernard Law · 2005
Already Dead
as Dr. Heller · 2007
Boundaries
as Jack · 2018
Prototype
as Dr. Carl Forrester · 1983
Highpoint
as James Hatcher · 1984
The Amateur
as Professor Lakos · 1981
Possessed
as Archbishop Hume · 2000
Babes in Toyland
as Barnaby Crookedman (voice) · 1997
Bondarchuk. Battle
as self · 2021
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
as The Grand Duke Ivan · 1990
Red Blooded American Girl
as Dr. John Alcore · 1990
Berlin Lady
as Wilhelm Speer · 1991
Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom
as Dr. West (voice) · 2016
Crackerjack
as Ivan Getz · 1994
The Boss' Wife
as Mr. Roalvang · 1986
Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom
as Dr. West (voice) · 2017
Winchell
as Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1998
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
as Self · 2021
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
as Self · 2019
Wind Across the Everglades
as Walt Murdock · 1958
Rumpelstiltskin
as Narrator · 1985
The First Emperor of China
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 1989
Cliffs of Freedom
as Thanasi · 2019
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
as Atahualpa · 1969
Howard Lovecraft & The Kingdom Of Madness
as Dr. Jeffrey West (voice) · 2018
The Clown at Midnight
as Mr. Caruthers · 1999
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
as Self (archive footage) · 1994
Emotional Arithmetic
as David Winters · 2008
Lucky Break
as Graham Mortimer · 2001
The Conspiracy of Fear
as Wakeman · 1996
Conduct Unbecoming
as Major Alastair Wimbourne · 1975
Nobody Runs Forever
as Sir James Quentin · 1968
Impolite
as Naples O'Rorke · 1992
International Velvet
as John Seaton · 1978
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
as Narrator (voice) · 1964
The Dinosaur Hunter
as Hump Hinton · 2000
Oedipus the King
as Oedipus · 1968
A Stranger in the Mirror
as Clifton Lawrence · 1993
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
as Self · 1982
The Day That Shook the World
as Archduke Ferdinand · 1975
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
as Self · 2022
A Doll's House
as Torvald · 1959
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
as Self · 2006
Mindfield
as Doctor Satorius · 1989
The Life of Jesus
as Narrator · 2003
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
as Self · 2002
A Short Film About Making Beginners
· 2011
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Narrator (voice) · 1988
Lily in Love
as Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova · 1984
My Dog Tulip
as J.R. Ackerley (voice) · 2010
Salzburg Sight and Sound
as Self · 1965
Hamlet at Elsinore
as Hamlet · 1964
30 Minutes, Mister Plummer
as Self · 1963
Back To "Somewhere In Time"
as Self · 2000
Madeline at the Ballet
as Narrator (voice)
Arthur Miller on Home Ground
as Self · 1979
Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes
as Narrator (voice over) · 2006
Hidden Agenda
as Ulrich Steiner · 1999
The First Circle
as Viktor Abakumov · 1992
Man in the Chair
as Flash Madden · 2007
The Disappearance
as Deverell · 1977
The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys'
as Self · 1996
On Golden Pond
as Norman Thayer · 2001
Skeletons
as Reverend Carlyle · 1997
The River of My Dreams
as Himself · 2017
Lock Up Your Daughters
as Lord Foppington · 1969
Titans of the Ice Age
as Narrator · 2013
Secrets
as Mel Wexler · 1992
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
as Captain Brassbound · 1960
The Captains: Still Kicking
as Self · 2013
When the Circus Came to Town
as Duke Royal · 1981
We the Jury
as Wilfred Fransiscus · 1996
Discovering Hamlet
as Self · 2011
Agent of Influence
as John Watkins · 2002
Kali, the Little Vampire
as Narrator (english version) · 2012
Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic
as Narrator · 1993
The Happy Prince
as The Happy Prince (voice) · 1974
The Spiral Staircase
as Dr. Joe Sherman · 1975
Stage Struck
as Joe Sheridan · 1958
The Shadow Box
as Brian · 1980
Kalahari: The Flooded Desert
as Narrator (voice) · 2021
Money
as Martin Yahl · 1991
I Love N.Y.
as John Robertson Yeats · 1987
Souvenir
as Ernst Kestner · 1989
Night Flight
as 'Flash' Harry Peters · 2002
Cyrano De Bergerac
as Cyrano de Bergerac · 1962
Nabokov on Kafka
as Vladimir Nabokov · 1989
Caesar and Cleopatra
as Caesar · 2009
American Tragedy
as F. Lee Bailey · 2000
The Arrow
as George Hees · 1997
The Tempest
as Prospero · 2010
Four Minutes
as Archie Mason · 2005
Madeline and the Bad Hat
as Narrator (voice) · 1991
Little Moon of Alban
as Kenneth Boyd · 1958
The Untold Story of The Sound of Music: A Diane Sawyer Special
as Self · 2015
Madeline and the Gypsies
as Narrator (voice) · 1991
After the Fall
as Quentin · 1974
Full Disclosure
as Robert Lecker · 2001
Desperate Voyage
as Jacques Burrifous · 1980
The Pyx
as Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson · 1973
Behind the Wall: The Making of Skyrim
as Self · 2012
Being Different
as Self (Narrator) (voice) · 1981
Liar's Edge
as Harry Weldon · 1992
Blackheart
as Holmes · 1998
Spearfield's Daughter
as Lord Jack Cruze · 1986
Firehead
as Col. Garland Vaughn · 1991
Trans-Canada Journey
as Narrator (voice) · 1963
Shadow Dancing
as Edmund Beaumont · 1988
The Little Crooked Christmas Tree
as Narrator · 1990
The Assignment
as Kaptain Behounek · 1977
Madeline in London
as Narrator (voice) · 1991
The First Christmas
as Narrator (voice) · 1998
Hamlet {Solo}
as Self · 2007
Madeline's Christmas
as Narrator (voice) · 1990
Silver Blaze
as Sherlock Holmes · 1977
Ted Allan: Minstrel Boy of the 20th Century
as Narrator (voice)
Madeline
as Narrator (voice) · 1988
The Velveteen Rabbit
as Narrator (voice) · 1985
Johnny Belinda
as Dr. Jack Pelletier · 1958
Riel
as Prime Minister John A. Macdonald · 1979
The Tin Soldier
as Narrator (voice) · 1986
Barrymore
as John Barrymore · 2012
The Nightingale
as Narrator (voice) · 1987
Portraits of Canada
as Narrator (voice) · 1987
Mooseltoe
as Mooseking · 2021