Christopher Plummer

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: Acting

Born: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1929-12-13

Died: 2021-02-05

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1966	Triple Cross	Freddie Chapman	60
2	1967	The Night of the Generals	Field Marshal Rommel	68
3	1969	Battle of Britain	Squadron Leader Colin Harvey	69
4	1970	Waterloo	Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington	71
5	1975	The Return of the Pink Panther	Sir Charles Litton	68
6	1975	The Man Who Would Be King	Rudyard Kipling	75
7	1978	International Velvet	John Seaton	74
8	1978	The Silent Partner	Reikle	70
9	1978	Starcrash	The Emperor	42
10	1979	Murder by Decree	Sherlock Holmes	64
11	1979	Hanover Street	Paul Sellinger	56
12	1981	Eyewitness	Joseph	56
13	1981	The Amateur	Professor Lakos	54
14	1984	Dreamscape	Bob Blair	61
15	1986	An American Tail	Henri (voice)	67
16	1987	Dragnet	Reverend Jonathan Whirley	60
17	1988	Nosferatu in Venice	Professor Paris Catalano	61
18	1988	Madeline	Narrator (voice)	55
19	1991	Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country	General Chang	70
20	1992	Malcolm X	Chaplain Gill	75
21	1994	Wolf	Raymond Alden	61
22	1995	Dolores Claiborne	John Mackey	73
23	1995	Harrison Bergeron	John Klaxon	68
24	1995	Twelve Monkeys	Dr. Goines	76
25	1996	The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys'	Self	69
26	1999	The Insider	Mike Wallace	75
27	2000	Dracula 2000	Matthew Van Helsing	52
28	2001	Lucky Break	Graham Mortimer	62
29	2001	A Beautiful Mind	Dr. Rosen	79
30	2002	Nicholas Nickleby	Ralph Nickleby	69
31	2003	The Gospel of John	Narrator (voice)	75
32	2003	Cold Creek Manor	Mr. Massie	54
33	2004	National Treasure	John Adams Gates	66
34	2004	Alexander	Aristotle	59
35	2005	Must Love Dogs	Bill	59
36	2005	Syriana	Dean Whiting	64
37	2005	The New World	Captain Newport	65
38	2006	Inside Man	Arthur Case	74
39	2006	The Lake House	Simon Wyler	70
40	2007	Closing the Ring	Jack	61
41	2007	Already Dead	Dr. Heller	55
42	2008	Emotional Arithmetic	David Winters	54
43	2009	Up	Charles F. Muntz (voice)	80
44	2009	9	#1 (voice)	69
45	2009	The Last Station	Leo Tolstoy	63
46	2009	The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus	Doctor Parnassus	64
47	2021	Kalahari: The Flooded Desert	Narrator (voice)	100
48		Madeline at the Ballet	Narrator (voice)	20
49	1963	30 Minutes, Mister Plummer	Himself	0
50	1964	Hamlet at Elsinore	Hamlet	78
51	1969	Lock Up Your Daughters	Lord Foppington	45
52	1969	The Royal Hunt of the Sun	Atahualpa	59
53	1974	After the Fall	Quentin	0
54	1974	The Happy Prince	The Happy Prince (voice)	55
55	1975	The Day That Shook the World	Archduke Ferdinand	59
56	1980	Desperate Voyage	Jacques Burrifous	75
57	1981	Dial M for Murder	Tony Wendice	63
58	1982	Highpoint	James Hatcher	48
59	1985	The Velveteen Rabbit	Narrator (voice)	58
60	1986	Spearfield's Daughter	Lord Jack Cruze	0
61	1987	I Love N.Y.	John Robertson Yeats	50
62	1988	The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind	Narrator (voice)	80
63	1989	Souvenir	Ernst Kestner	55
64	1989	Nabokov on Kafka	Vladimir Nabokov	60
65	1991	Money	Martin Yahl	49
66	1992	Secrets	Mel Wexler	38
67	1994	Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold	Self (archive footage)	0
68	1996	The Conspiracy of Fear	Wakeman	75
69	1997	Skeletons	Reverend Carlyle	41
70	1997	Babes in Toyland	Barnaby Crookedman (voice)	49
71	1998	The Clown at Midnight	Mr. Caruthers	45
72	1998	Blackheart	Holmes	40
73	1998	Winchell	Franklin D. Roosevelt	61
74	1999	Madeline: Lost in Paris	Narrator (voice)	67
75	1999	Hidden Agenda	Ulrich Steiner	27
76	2001	On Golden Pond	Norman Thayer	90
77	2001	Full Disclosure	Robert Lecker	34
78	2002	Agent of Influence	John Watkins	70
79	2003	The Life Of Jesus	Narrator	0
80	2011	Discovering Hamlet	Self	70
81	2012	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Hard Copy		70
82	2012	Kali, the Little Vampire	Narrator (english version)	63
83	2013	Titans of the Ice Age	Narrator	71
84	2013	The Legend of Sarila	Croolik (voice)	46
85	2013	Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight	John Marshall Harlan	63
86	2014	Elsa & Fred	Fred	60
87	2014	Hector and the Search for Happiness	Professor Coreman	67
88	2014	The Forger	Joseph Cutter	58
89	2015	The Untold Story of The Sound of Music: A Diane Sawyer Special	Self	70
90	2015	Danny Collins	Frank Grubman	68
91	2015	Pixies	Pixie King (voice)	45
92	2015	Remember	Zev Guttman	74
93	2017	The Exception	Kaiser Wilhelm II	69
94	2021	Mooseltoe	Mooseking	0
95	2022	Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story	Self	100
96		TED ALLAN: MINSTREL BOY OF THE 20TH CENTURY	Narrator	0
97	1958	Little Moon of Alban	Kenneth Boyd	0
98	1958	Stage Struck	Joe Sheridan	59
99	1958	Wind Across the Everglades	Walt Murdock	61
100	1958	Johnny Belinda	Dr. Jack Pelletier	0
101	1959	A Doll's House	Torvald	100
102	1960	Captain Brassbound's Conversion	Captain Brassbound	0
103	1963	Trans-Canada Journey	Narrator (voice)	0
104	1964	The Fall of the Roman Empire	Commodus	65
105	1965	Salzburg Sight and Sound	Self	80
106	1965	The Sound of Music	Captain Georg von Trapp	77
107	1965	Inside Daisy Clover	Raymond Swan	57
108	1968	Oedipus the King	Oedipus	55
109	1968	Nobody Runs Forever	Sir James Quentin	60
110	1973	The Pyx	Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson	51
111	1975	The Spiral Staircase	Dr. Sherman	49
112	1975	Conduct Unbecoming	Maggiore Alastair Wimbourne	59
113	1976	Aces High	Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair	59
114	1977	Silver Blaze	Sherlock Holmes	0
115	1977	The Assignment	Kaptain Behounek	60
116	1977	The Disappearance	Deverell	56
117	1980	The Shadow Box	Brian	52
118	1980	Somewhere in Time	William Fawcett Robinson	75
119	1981	When the Circus Came to Town	Duke Royal	60
120	1981	Being Different	Self (Narrator) (voice)	57
121	1982	Night of 100 Stars	Self	67
122	1983	The Scarlet and the Black	Col. Herbert Kappler	70
123	1983	Prototype	Dr. Carl Forrester	58
124	1984	Ordeal by Innocence	Leo Argyle	49
125	1984	Lily in Love	Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova	60
126	1985	Rumpelstiltskin	Narrator	30
127	1986	The Boss' Wife	Mr. Roalvang	49
128	1986	The Tin Soldier	Narrator (voice)	60
129	1986	The Boy in Blue	Knox	49
130	1987	The Nightingale	Narrator (voice)	0
131	1987	A Hazard of Hearts	Sir Giles Staverley	81
132	1988	Shadow Dancing	Edmund Beaumont	30
133	1989	The First Emperor of China	Self - Narrator (voice)	43
134	1989	Mindfield	Doctor Satorius	44
135	1990	Where the Heart Is	Shitty	61
136	1990	A Ghost in Monte Carlo	The Grand Duke Ivan	57
137	1990	Red Blooded American Girl	Dr. John Alcore	36
138	1990	The Little Crooked Christmas Tree	Narrator	0
139	1991	Firehead	Col. Garland Vaughn	23
140	1991	Madeline and the Bad Hat	Narrator (voice)	0
141	1991	Rock-A-Doodle	Grand Duke (voice)	62
142	1991	Madeline and the Gypsies	Narrator (voice)	0
143	1991	Madeline in London	Narrator (voice)	0
144	1992	Liar's Edge	Harry Weldon	34
145	1992	Impolite	Naples O'Rorke	0
146	1993	Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic	Narrator	74
147	1993	A Stranger in the Mirror	Clifton Lawrence	30
148	1994	Crackerjack	Ivan Getz	39
149	1997	The Arrow	George Hees	70
150	1998	The First Christmas	Narrator (voice)	50
151	2000	The Dinosaur Hunter	Hump Hinton	55
152	2000	Possessed	Archbishop Hume	54
153	2000	Back To "Somewhere In Time"	Self	0
154	2000	American Tragedy	F. Lee Bailey	48
155	2002	Night Flight	'Flash' Harry Peters	60
156	2002	Ararat	David	61
157	2002	Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages	Self	60
158	2003	Blizzard	Santa Claus	58
159	2005	Our Fathers	Cardinal Bernard Law	64
160	2005	Four Minutes	Archie Mason	44
161	2006	Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film	Self	0
162	2006	Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes	Self - Narrator	85
163	2007	Man in the Chair	Flash Madden	64
164	2007	Hamlet {Solo}	Self	0
165	2009	Caesar and Cleopatra	Caesar	0
166	2010	My Dog Tulip	J.R. Ackerley (voice)	65
167	2010	Madeline's Christmas	Narrator (voice)	49
168	2010	The Tempest	Prospero	80
169	2011	Priest	Monsignor Orelas	58
170	2011	Beginners	Hal Fields	68
171	2011	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Henrik Vanger	74
172	2012	Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen	(archive footage)	76
173	2012	Barrymore	John Barrymore	64
174	2012	Behind the Wall: The Making of Skyrim	Self	0
175	2013	The Captains: Still Kicking	Himself	70
176	2016	Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom	Dr. West (voice)	48
177	2017	The River of My Dreams	Himself	0
178	2017	Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom	Dr. West (voice)	48
179	2017	The Man Who Invented Christmas	Scrooge	68
180	2017	The Star	King Herod (voice)	64
181	2017	All the Money in the World	Jean Paul Getty	65
182	2018	Boundaries	Jack Jaconi	56
183	2018	Howard Lovecraft & The Kingdom Of Madness	Dr. Jeffrey West (voice)	47
184	2019	Cliffs of Freedom	Thanasi	69
185	2019	Alan Pakula: Going for Truth	Self	65
186	2019	Knives Out	Harlan Thrombey	78
187	2020	The Last Full Measure	Frank Pitsenbarger	73
188	2021	Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster	Self	70
189	2021	Bondarchuk. Battle	self	0
190	2023	Heroes of the Golden Mask	Rizzo (voice)	68

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Winner	72
2	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee	72
3	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
4	1948	Studio One	Dick	50
5	1949	Suspense		49
6	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Dr. Jack Pelletier	86
7	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Torvald Helmer	86
8	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Prince Albert	86
9	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Captain Brassbound	86
10	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Cyrano de Bergerac	86
11	1952	Omnibus		60
12	1952	Omnibus	Oedipus	60
13	1952	Omnibus	Thomas Mendip	60
14	1953	General Electric Theater	Walter Shelley	63
15	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
16	1953	Kraft Television Theatre		0
17	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Nominee	51
18	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	51
19	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Winner	51
20	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Nominee/Presenter	51
21	1957	DuPont Show of the Month	Sir Miles Hendon	68
22	1959	NBC Sunday Showcase		43
23	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
24	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Don Juan	50
25	1967	Omnibus	Narrator	72
26	1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest	67
27	1976	Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers	Roscoe Heyward	30
28	1977	Jesus of Nazareth	Herod Antipas	78
29	1982	Nature	Narrator (voice)	81
30	1982	Little Gloria... Happy at Last	Reggie Vanderbilt	68
31	1983	The Thorn Birds	Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese	72
32	1983	SuperTed		68
33	1984	The Cosby Show	Jonathan Lawrence	70
34	1986	Crossings	Armand DeVilliers	48
35	1988	Madeline	Narrator (voice)	58
36	1988	American Experience	Narrator	74
37	1990	Counterstrike	Alexander Addington	70
38	1991	Berlin Lady	Wilhelm Speer	0
39	1991	Young Catherine	Sir Charles	62
40	1997	The Arrow	George Hees	100
41	2000	Nuremberg	Sir David Maxwell Fyfe	74
42	2005	Miracle Planet	Himself - Host	0
43	2008	The Summit	P.J. Aimes	55
44	2010	Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood	Narrator	47
45	2019	Departure	Howard Lawson	66

Christopher Plummer

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