Christopher Plummer
Acting
🎂 1929-12-13
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".
Cast credits(235)
Narrator (voice)
1982
Self
1948
Self
1961
Self - Guest
1968
Narrator (voice)
1988
Jonathan Lawrence
1984
Self - Winner
1944
Self - Nominee
1944
Don Juan
1965
1949
Dick
1948
Narrator
1967
1952
Oedipus
1952
Thomas Mendip
1952
Self - Nominee
1956
Self - Presenter
1956
Self - Winner
1956
Self - Nominee/Presenter
1956
Howard Lawson
2019
Self
1953
Herod Antipas
1977
Narrator
1988
Sir Miles Hendon
1957
Dr. Jack Pelletier
1951
Prince Albert
1951
Captain Brassbound
1951
Torvald Helmer
1951
Cyrano de Bergerac
1951
Sir David Maxwell Fyfe
2000
1983
1959
Charles F. Muntz (voice)
2009
Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese
1983
Narrator
2010
Harlan Thrombey
2019
Alexander Addington
1990
Dr. Rosen
2001
#1 (voice)
2009
Henrik Vanger
2011
John Adams Gates
2004
Dr. Goines
1995
Aristotle
2004
Himself - Host
2005
Arthur Case
2006
Sir Charles
1991
Captain Georg von Trapp
1965
Monsignor Orelas
2011
Walter Shelley
1953
P.J. Aimes
2008
Chaplain Gill
1992
Atahualpa
1969
William Fawcett Robinson
1980
Simon Wyler
2006
Dean Whiting
2005
Matthew Van Helsing
2000
General Chang
1991
Mike Wallace
1999
Commodus
1964
Bob Blair
1984
Reverend Jonathan Whirley
1987
Armand DeVilliers
1986
Henri (voice)
1986
King Herod (voice)
2017
Raymond Alden
1994
Captain Newport
2005
Squadron Leader Colin Harvey
1969
Scrooge
2017
John Mackey
1995
Doctor Parnassus
2009
Ralph Nickleby
2002
Bill
2005
The Emperor
1978
Kaiser Wilhelm II
2017
Jean Paul Getty
2017
Frank Pitsenbarger
2020
Frank Grubman
2015
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
1970
Grand Duke (voice)
1991
Sir Charles Litton
1975
Paul Sellinger
1979
Dr. Jeffrey West (voice)
2018
George Hees
1997
Archbishop Hume
2000
Roscoe Heyward
1976
Professor Coreman
2014
Rudyard Kipling
1975
Hal Fields
2011
Field Marshal Rommel
1967
Mr. Massie
2003
Jack
2007
Sherlock Holmes
1979
Leo Tolstoy
2009
Reggie Vanderbilt
1982
Joseph Cutter
2014
Zev Guttman
2015
Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair
1976
(archive footage)
2012
Narrator (voice)
2003
Professor Lakos
1981
Fred
2014
Raymond Swan
1965
Reikle
1978
Jack Jaconi
2018
Self
2019
Leo Argyle
1984
Joseph
1981
John Marshall Harlan
2013
Professor Paris Catalano
1988
Col. Herbert Kappler
1983
F. Lee Bailey
2000
1953
Wilhelm Speer
1991
Freddie Chapman
1966
Sir Giles Staverley
1987
Maggiore Alastair Wimbourne
1975
Pixie King (voice)
2015
Shitty
1990
Self
1982
Mr. Roalvang
1986
Thanasi
2019
George Hees
1997
Ulrich Steiner
1999
Ivan Getz
1994
David
2002
Rizzo (voice)
2023
John Klaxon
1995
Narrator (voice)
1999
Narrator (voice)
1988
Graham Mortimer
2001
Walt Murdock
1958
Santa Claus
2003
Flash Madden
2007
Croolik (voice)
2013
Barnaby Crookedman (voice)
1997
Self
2002
Dr. West (voice)
2017
Archduke Ferdinand
1975
Sir James Quentin
1968
Doctor Satorius
1989
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1998
Brian
1980
Himself
2013
Mr. Caruthers
1998
Knox
1986
Duke Royal
1981
Deverell
1977
Clifton Lawrence
1993
Self
2011
Sherlock Holmes
1977
Narrator
2013
John Watkins
2002
Self
2021
Harry Weldon
1992
The Grand Duke Ivan
1990
Self
2006
John Seaton
1978
Self (Narrator) (voice)
1981
Self (archive footage)
1994
Dr. West (voice)
2016
David Winters
2008
Jacques Burrifous
1980
Joe Sheridan
1958
'Flash' Harry Peters
2002
Reverend Carlyle
1997
Naples O'Rorke
1992
Dr. Heller
2007
Col. Garland Vaughn
1991
Self - Narrator
2006
Norman Thayer
2001
Self - Narrator (voice)
1989
Robert Lecker
2001
Mel Wexler
1992
Narrator
1990
James Hatcher
1982
Martin Yahl
1991
Narrator (voice)
2010
Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova
1984
Vladimir Nabokov
1989
Narrator
2003
John Robertson Yeats
1987
Self
2000
Hamlet
1964
Tony Wendice
1981
Dr. John Alcore
1990
Oedipus
1968
Self
2022
Prospero
2010
Holmes
1998
Hump Hinton
2000
Dr. Carl Forrester
1983
Ernst Kestner
1989
Self
1996
Wakeman
1996
Narrator (voice)
1986
Cardinal Bernard Law
2005
Narrator (voice)
Kaptain Behounek
1977
Narrator (voice)
1988
Self
1965
Narrator (english version)
2012
Kenneth Boyd
1958
Self
2012
Lord Foppington
1969
Quentin
1974
2012
Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson
1973
Dr. Sherman
1975
Self
2007
The Happy Prince (voice)
1974
Narrator
1985
Torvald
1959
Captain Brassbound
1960
Dr. Jack Pelletier
1958
Self
2015
Narrator (voice)
2021
John Barrymore
2012
Narrator
1993
Narrator (voice)
1991
Caesar
2009
Narrator (voice)
1963
J.R. Ackerley (voice)
2010
Himself
1963
Archie Mason
2005
Mooseking
2021
Narrator (voice)
1985
Narrator (voice)
1987
Narrator (voice)
1991
Himself
2017
Narrator (voice)
1991
Lord Jack Cruze
1986
Narrator (voice)
1998
Narrator
self
2021
Edmund Beaumont
1988