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