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