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(237)
Howard Lawson
2019
Self
1961
Self - Nominee
1956
Self - Presenter
1956
Self - Winner
1956
Self - Nominee/Presenter
1956
Jonathan Lawrence
1984
Narrator
1988
Self - Nominee
1944
Narrator
1967
Narrator (voice)
1982
Dick
1948
Charles F. Muntz (voice)
2009
Don Juan
1965
1952
Oedipus
1952
Thomas Mendip
1952
Harlan Thrombey
2019
1949
Self
1948
Dr. Goines
1995
Self
1953
Dr. Rosen
2001
Self - Guest
1968
Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese
1983
John Adams Gates
2004
Henrik Vanger
2011
#1 (voice)
2009
Captain Georg von Trapp
1965
Herod Antipas
1977
Arthur Case
2006
Aristotle
2004
Chaplain Gill
1992
Monsignor Orelas
2011
Matthew Van Helsing
2000
King Herod (voice)
2017
Sir Miles Hendon
1957
Sir David Maxwell Fyfe
2000
John Mackey
1995
Alexander Addington
1990
Simon Wyler
2006
Mike Wallace
1999
Sir Charles Litton
1975
Squadron Leader Colin Harvey
1969
Jean Paul Getty
2017
Reverend Jonathan Whirley
1987
Raymond Alden
1994
Doctor Parnassus
2009
General Chang
1991
Kaiser Wilhelm II
2017
Rudyard Kipling
1975
Scrooge
2017
Henri (voice)
1986
Bob Blair
1984
Dean Whiting
2005
Mr. Massie
2003
Captain Newport
2005
Bill
2005
Self
2019
William Fawcett Robinson
1980
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
1970
Dr. Heller
2007
Commodus
1964
Frank Pitsenbarger
2020
Zev Guttman
2015
Self
2011
Narrator (voice)
1993
Narrator (voice)
2003
Atahualpa
1969
Hal Fields
2011
Professor Coreman
2014
Sherlock Holmes
1979
Jack
2007
Ralph Nickleby
2002
Leo Tolstoy
2009
Ernst Kestner
1989
Fred
2014
Freddie Chapman
1966
'Flash' Harry Peters
2002
Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair
1976
Jack Jaconi
2018
Frank Grubman
2015
(archive footage)
2012
Raymond Swan
1966
Col. Herbert Kappler
1983
Joseph
1981
Brian
1980
Joseph Cutter
2014
The Emperor
1978
Self
1982
Field Marshal Rommel
1967
Dr. West (voice)
2016
Dr. Jack Pelletier
1951
Torvald Helmer
1951
Captain Brassbound
1951
Prince Albert
1951
Cyrano de Bergerac
1951
Archbishop Hume
2000
Croolik (voice)
2013
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1998
John Marshall Harlan
2013
1983
Narrator
2010
Reikle
1978
Professor Lakos
1981
Grand Duke (voice)
1991
David Winters
2008
Narrator (voice)
1986
Rizzo (voice)
2023
Dr. West (voice)
2017
Ivan Getz
1994
Martin Yahl
1991
Walter Shelley
1953
Sir James Quentin
1968
Wakeman
1996
Leo Argyle
1984
Maggiore Alastair Wimbourne
1975
Santa Claus
2003
Lord Foppington
1969
Narrator (voice)
1985
Narrator (voice)
1999
John Klaxon
1995
John Seaton
1978
Narrator (voice)
David
2002
Narrator (voice)
1988
John Barrymore
2012
James Hatcher
1982
Edmund Beaumont
1988
Shitty
1990
Mr. Caruthers
1998
Naples O'Rorke
1992
Paul Sellinger
1979
Roscoe Heyward
1976
Dr. Carl Forrester
1983
Sir Giles Staverley
1987
Self
2006
1959
The Grand Duke Ivan
1990
Graham Mortimer
2001
Norman Thayer
2001
P.J. Aimes
2008
Lord Jack Cruze
1986
Self
2021
Dr. Jeffrey West (voice)
2018
Flash Madden
2007
Jacques Burrifous
1980
Professor Paris Catalano
1988
Captain Brassbound
1960
Sir Charles
1991
Thanasi
2019
Archduke Ferdinand
1975
Kenneth Boyd
1958
Clifton Lawrence
1993
Ulrich Steiner
1999
Armand DeVilliers
1986
Pixie King (voice)
2015
John Watkins
2002
Mr. Roalvang
1986
Reggie Vanderbilt
1982
Harry Weldon
1992
George Hees
1997
Prospero
2010
Doctor Satorius
1989
Self
1996
Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson
1973
Hamlet
1964
George Hees
1997
Narrator (voice)
1987
Sherlock Holmes
1977
Walt Murdock
1958
Oedipus
1968
Self (archive footage)
1994
Narrator (voice)
1991
Dr. Joe Sherman
1975
Narrator (voice)
1991
Barnaby Crookedman (voice)
1997
Mel Wexler
1992
F. Lee Bailey
2000
self
2021
Himself
2017
Dr. John Alcore
1990
Robert Lecker
2001
John Robertson Yeats
1987
Narrator (voice)
1988
Narrator (voice)
1998
Holmes
1998
Caesar
2009
Cardinal Bernard Law
2005
Narrator
1985
Reverend Carlyle
1997
Deverell
1977
Narrator (voice)
2021
Narrator (voice)
1991
J.R. Ackerley (voice)
2010
Duke Royal
1981
Kaptain Behounek
1977
1953
Quentin
1974
Joe Sheridan
1958
Self
2007
Self
2022
Wilhelm Speer
1991
Knox
1986
Himself - Host
2005
Dr. Jack Pelletier
1958
Viktor Abakumov
1992
Hump Hinton
2000
Self (Narrator) (voice)
1981
Torvald
1959
Self
2002
Col. Garland Vaughn
1991
The Happy Prince (voice)
1974
Narrator
2003
Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova
1984
Wilfred Fransiscus
1996
Self - Narrator (voice)
1989
Self
1965
Tony Wendice
1981
Self
2015
Narrator
2013
Himself
1963
Prime Minister John A. Macdonald
1979
Self
2000
Narrator (voice)
1990
Narrator
1993
Archie Mason
2005
Self
2012
Mooseking
2021
Self - Narrator
2006
Narrator (english version)
2012
Vladimir Nabokov
1989
Narrator (voice)
1963
2012
Himself
2013
Narrator
Narrator
1990