Christopher Plummer
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 13, 1929
- Died
- Feb 5, 2021 (aged 91)
- Place of birth
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Credits
- 237
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
2009Movie
Charles Muntz (voice)
Knives Out
2019Movie
Harlan Thrombey
A Beautiful Mind
2001Movie
Dr. Rosen
Twelve Monkeys
1995Movie
Dr. Goines
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011Movie
Henrik Vanger
National Treasure
2004Movie
John Adams Gates
Filmography
Heroes of the Golden Mask
2023Movie
Rizzo (voice)
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
2022Movie
Self
Mooseltoe
2021Movie
Mooseking
Kalahari: The Flooded Desert
2021Movie
Narrator (voice)
Bondarchuk. Battle
2021Movie
self
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
2021Movie
Self
The Last Full Measure
2020Movie
Frank Pitsenbarger
Knives Out
2019Movie
Harlan Thrombey
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019Movie
Self
Departure
2019TV
Howard Lawson
Cliffs of Freedom
2019Movie
Thanasi
Howard Lovecraft & The Kingdom Of Madness
2018Movie
Dr. Jeffrey West (voice)
Boundaries
2018Movie
Jack
All the Money in the World
2017Movie
Jean Paul Getty
The Star
2017Movie
King Herod (voice)
The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017Movie
Scrooge
Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom
2017Movie
Dr. West (voice)
The Exception
2017Movie
Kaiser Wilhelm II
The River of My Dreams
2017Movie
Himself
Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom
2016Movie
Dr. West (voice)
Remember
2015Movie
Zev Guttman
Pixies
2015Movie
Pixie King (voice)
Danny Collins
2015Movie
Frank Grubman
The Untold Story of The Sound of Music: A Diane Sawyer Special
2015Movie
Self
The Forger
2014Movie
Joseph Cutter
Hector and the Search for Happiness
2014Movie
Professor Coreman
Elsa & Fred
2014Movie
Fred
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2013Movie
John Marshall Harlan
The Legend of Sarila
2013Movie
Croolik (voice)
Titans of the Ice Age
2013Movie
Narrator
The Captains: Still Kicking
2013Movie
Self
Kali, the Little Vampire
2012Movie
Narrator (english version)
Behind the Wall: The Making of Skyrim
2012Movie
Self
Barrymore
2012Movie
John Barrymore
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012Movie
(archive footage)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011Movie
Henrik Vanger
Discovering Hamlet
2011Movie
Self
Beginners
2011Movie
Hal Fields
Priest
2011Movie
Monsignor Orelas
A Short Film About Making Beginners
2011Movie
The Tempest
2010Movie
Prospero
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
2010TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
My Dog Tulip
2010Movie
J.R. Ackerley (voice)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
2009Movie
Doctor Parnassus
The Last Station
2009Movie
Leo Tolstoy
9
2009Movie
#1 (voice)
Up
2009Movie
Charles Muntz (voice)
Caesar and Cleopatra
2009Movie
Caesar
The Summit
2008TV
P.J. Aimes
Emotional Arithmetic
2008Movie
David Winters
Already Dead
2007Movie
Dr. Heller
Closing the Ring
2007Movie
Jack
Hamlet {Solo}
2007Movie
Self
Man in the Chair
2007Movie
Flash Madden
Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes
2006Movie
Narrator (voice over)
The Lake House
2006Movie
Simon Wyler
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006Movie
Self
Inside Man
2006Movie
Arthur Case
The New World
2005Movie
Captain Newport
Syriana
2005Movie
Dean Whiting
Four Minutes
2005Movie
Archie Mason
Must Love Dogs
2005Movie
Bill
Our Fathers
2005Movie
Cardinal Bernard Law
Miracle Planet
2005TV
Himself - Host
Alexander
2004Movie
Aristotle
National Treasure
2004Movie
John Adams Gates
Cold Creek Manor
2003Movie
Mr. Massie
The Gospel of John
2003Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003TV
Self
The Life of Jesus
2003Movie
Narrator
Blizzard
2003Movie
Santa Claus
Nicholas Nickleby
2002Movie
Ralph Nickleby
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
2002Movie
Self
Agent of Influence
2002Movie
John Watkins
Ararat
2002Movie
David
Night Flight
2002Movie
'Flash' Harry Peters
A Beautiful Mind
2001Movie
Dr. Rosen
Lucky Break
2001Movie
Graham Mortimer
Full Disclosure
2001Movie
Robert Lecker
On Golden Pond
2001Movie
Norman Thayer
Dracula 2000
2000Movie
Matthew Van Helsing
American Tragedy
2000Movie
F. Lee Bailey
Back To "Somewhere In Time"
2000Movie
Self
Possessed
2000Movie
Archbishop Hume
The Dinosaur Hunter
2000Movie
Hump Hinton
Nuremberg
2000TV
Sir David Maxwell Fyfe
Hidden Agenda
1999Movie
Ulrich Steiner
The Insider
1999Movie
Mike Wallace
Madeline: Lost in Paris
1999Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Clown at Midnight
1999Movie
Mr. Caruthers
Winchell
1998Movie
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Blackheart
1998Movie
Holmes
The First Christmas
1998Movie
Narrator (voice)
Babes in Toyland
1997Movie
Barnaby Crookedman (voice)
Skeletons
1997Movie
Reverend Carlyle
The Arrow
1997Movie
George Hees
The Arrow
1997TV
George Hees
The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys'
1996Movie
Self
We the Jury
1996Movie
Wilfred Fransiscus
The Conspiracy of Fear
1996Movie
Wakeman
Twelve Monkeys
1995Movie
Dr. Goines
Harrison Bergeron
1995Movie
John Klaxon
Dolores Claiborne
1995Movie
John Mackey
Crackerjack
1994Movie
Ivan Getz
Wolf
1994Movie
Raymond Alden
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
1994Movie
Self (archive footage)
A Stranger in the Mirror
1993Movie
Clifton Lawrence
Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic
1993Movie
Narrator
Malcolm X
1992Movie
Chaplain Gill
Impolite
1992Movie
Naples O'Rorke
Secrets
1992Movie
Mel Wexler
The First Circle
1992Movie
Viktor Abakumov
Liar's Edge
1992Movie
Harry Weldon
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
1991Movie
Chang
Madeline in London
1991Movie
Narrator (voice)
Madeline and the Gypsies
1991Movie
Narrator (voice)
Rock-A-Doodle
1991Movie
Grand Duke (voice)
Money
1991Movie
Martin Yahl
Madeline and the Bad Hat
1991Movie
Narrator (voice)
Young Catherine
1991TV
Sir Charles
Firehead
1991Movie
Col. Garland Vaughn
Berlin Lady
1991TV
Wilhelm Speer
The Little Crooked Christmas Tree
1990Movie
Narrator
Madeline's Christmas
1990Movie
Narrator (voice)
Red Blooded American Girl
1990Movie
Dr. John Alcore
Counterstrike
1990TV
Alexander Addington
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
1990Movie
The Grand Duke Ivan
Where the Heart Is
1990Movie
Shitty
Mindfield
1989Movie
Doctor Satorius
Nabokov on Kafka
1989Movie
Vladimir Nabokov
Souvenir
1989Movie
Ernst Kestner
The First Emperor of China
1989Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
Shadow Dancing
1988Movie
Edmund Beaumont
Madeline
1988Movie
Narrator (voice)
Madeline
1988TV
Narrator (voice)
American Experience
1988TV
Narrator
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988Movie
Narrator (voice)
Nosferatu in Venice
1988Movie
Professor Paris Catalano
A Hazard of Hearts
1987Movie
Sir Giles Staverley
Dragnet
1987Movie
Reverend Jonathan Whirley
I Love N.Y.
1987Movie
John Robertson Yeats
Portraits of Canada
1987Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Nightingale
1987Movie
Narrator (voice)
An American Tail
1986Movie
Henri (voice)
Spearfield's Daughter
1986Movie
Lord Jack Cruze
Crossings
1986TV
Armand DeVilliers
The Boy in Blue
1986Movie
Knox
The Boss' Wife
1986Movie
Mr. Roalvang
The Tin Soldier
1986Movie
Narrator (voice)
Rumpelstiltskin
1985Movie
Narrator
The Velveteen Rabbit
1985Movie
Narrator (voice)
Lily in Love
1984Movie
Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova
The Cosby Show
1984TV
Jonathan Lawrence
Highpoint
1984Movie
James Hatcher
Dreamscape
1984Movie
Bob Blair
Ordeal by Innocence
1984Movie
Leo Argyle
Prototype
1983Movie
Dr. Carl Forrester
SuperTed
1983TV
The Thorn Birds
1983TV
Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese
The Scarlet and the Black
1983Movie
Col. Herbert Kappler
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
1982TV
Reggie Vanderbilt
Nature
1982TV
Narrator (voice)
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982Movie
Self
Night of 100 Stars
1982Movie
Self
American Playhouse
1982TV
Alfred Stieglitz
The Amateur
1981Movie
Professor Lakos
Being Different
1981Movie
Self (Narrator) (voice)
Dial M for Murder
1981Movie
Tony Wendice
Eyewitness
1981Movie
Joseph
When the Circus Came to Town
1981Movie
Duke Royal
Desperate Voyage
1980Movie
Jacques Burrifous
Somewhere in Time
1980Movie
William Fawcett 'W.F.' Robinson
The Shadow Box
1980Movie
Brian
Arthur Miller on Home Ground
1979Movie
Self
Hanover Street
1979Movie
Paul Sellinger
Riel
1979Movie
Prime Minister John A. Macdonald
Murder by Decree
1979Movie
Sherlock Holmes
Starcrash
1978Movie
The Emperor
The Silent Partner
1978Movie
Reikle
International Velvet
1978Movie
John Seaton
The Disappearance
1977Movie
Deverell
The Assignment
1977Movie
Kaptain Behounek
The Sunday Drama
1977TV
Sherlock Holmes
Jesus of Nazareth
1977TV
Herod Antipas
Silver Blaze
1977Movie
Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
1976TV
Roscoe Heyward
Aces High
1976Movie
Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair
The Man Who Would Be King
1975Movie
Rudyard Kipling
The Day That Shook the World
1975Movie
Archduke Ferdinand
Conduct Unbecoming
1975Movie
Major Alastair Wimbourne
The Return of the Pink Panther
1975Movie
Sir Charles Litton
The Spiral Staircase
1975Movie
Dr. Joe Sherman
After the Fall
1974Movie
Quentin
The Happy Prince
1974Movie
The Happy Prince (voice)
The Pyx
1973Movie
Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson
Film '72
1971TV
Self
Waterloo
1970Movie
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
1969Movie
Atahualpa
Battle of Britain
1969Movie
Squadron Leader Colin Harvey
Lock Up Your Daughters
1969Movie
Lord Foppington
Nobody Runs Forever
1968Movie
Sir James Quentin
The Dick Cavett Show
1968TV
Self - Guest
Oedipus the King
1968Movie
Oedipus
Omnibus
1967TV
Narrator
The Night of the Generals
1967Movie
Field Marshal Rommel
Triple Cross
1966Movie
Freddie Chapman
Inside Daisy Clover
1966Movie
Raymond Swan
BBC Play of the Month
1965TV
Don Juan
The Sound of Music
1965Movie
Captain Georg von Trapp
Salzburg Sight and Sound
1965Movie
Self
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
1964Movie
Narrator (voice)
Hamlet at Elsinore
1964Movie
Hamlet
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964Movie
Commodus
Trans-Canada Journey
1963Movie
Narrator (voice)
30 Minutes, Mister Plummer
1963Movie
Self
Cyrano De Bergerac
1962Movie
Cyrano de Bergerac
The Mike Douglas Show
1961TV
Self
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
1960Movie
Captain Brassbound
A Doll's House
1959Movie
Torvald
NBC Sunday Showcase
1959TV
Johnny Belinda
1958Movie
Dr. Jack Pelletier
Wind Across the Everglades
1958Movie
Walt Murdock
Stage Struck
1958Movie
Joe Sheridan
Little Moon of Alban
1958Movie
Kenneth Boyd
DuPont Show of the Month
1957TV
Sir Miles Hendon
Tony Awards
1956TV
Self - Presenter, Self - Winner, Self - Nominee, Self - Nominee / Presenter
Kraft Television Theatre
1953TV
The Oscars
1953TV
Self
General Electric Theater
1953TV
Walter Shelley
Omnibus
1952TV
Oedipus, Thomas Mendip
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951TV
Dr. Jack Pelletier, Torvald Helmer, Prince Albert, Captain Brassbound, Cyrano de Bergerac
Suspense
1949TV
Studio One
1948TV
Dick
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948TV
Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944TV
Self - Nominee
Madeline at the Ballet
Movie
Narrator (voice)
Ted Allan: Minstrel Boy of the 20th Century
Movie
Narrator (voice)