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