Cast
Christopher Plummer
Acting
Cast
Christopher Plummer
Known for
Acting
Born
1929-12-13
From
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died
2021-02-05
Also known as Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer
Biography
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".
Up
as Charles Muntz (voice)
Knives Out
as Harlan Thrombey
Priest
as Monsignor Orelas
A Beautiful Mind
as Dr. Rosen
The Sound of Music
as Captain Georg von Trapp
9
as #1 (voice)
National Treasure
as John Adams Gates
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
as Henrik Vanger
Twelve Monkeys
as Dr. Goines
Alexander
as Aristotle
Inside Man
as Arthur Case
Malcolm X
as Chaplain Gill
Dolores Claiborne
as John Mackey
The Insider
as Mike Wallace
The Lake House
as Simon Wyler
An American Tail
as Henri (voice)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
Dracula 2000
as Matthew Van Helsing
Syriana
as Dean Whiting
Must Love Dogs
as Bill
Wolf
as Raymond Alden
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
as Doctor Parnassus
The New World
as Captain Newport
All the Money in the World
as Jean Paul Getty
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
as Chang
The Star
as King Herod (voice)
The Exception
as Kaiser Wilhelm II
Dragnet
as Reverend Jonathan Whirley
Battle of Britain
as Squadron Leader Colin Harvey
Somewhere in Time
as William Fawcett 'W.F.' Robinson
Cold Creek Manor
as Mr. Massie
Danny Collins
as Frank Grubman
The Fall of the Roman Empire
as Commodus
The Forger
as Joseph Cutter
Beginners
as Hal Fields
The Last Full Measure
as Frank Pitsenbarger
Dreamscape
as Bob Blair
Nicholas Nickleby
as Ralph Nickleby
Rock-A-Doodle
as Grand Duke (voice)
Waterloo
as Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
Hector and the Search for Happiness
as Professor Coreman
Remember
as Zev Guttman
Starcrash
as The Emperor
The Return of the Pink Panther
as Sir Charles Litton
The Man Who Invented Christmas
as Scrooge
Money
as Martin Yahl
Eyewitness
as Joseph
The Arrow
as George Hees
Closing the Ring
as Jack
The Man Who Would Be King
as Rudyard Kipling
The Gospel of John
as Narrator (voice)
Night Flight
as 'Flash' Harry Peters
Madeline: Lost in Paris
as Narrator (voice)
The Day That Shook the World
as Archduke Ferdinand
The Last Station
as Leo Tolstoy
The Night of the Generals
as Field Marshal Rommel
A Hazard of Hearts
as Sir Giles Staverley
Triple Cross
as Freddie Chapman
The Scarlet and the Black
as Col. Herbert Kappler
Hanover Street
as Paul Sellinger
Johnny Belinda
as Dr. Jack Pelletier
The Silent Partner
as Reikle
Boundaries
as Jack
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
Elsa & Fred
as Fred
Highpoint
as James Hatcher
Possessed
as Archbishop Hume
Oedipus the King
as Oedipus
Souvenir
as Ernst Kestner
Firehead
as Col. Garland Vaughn
Our Fathers
as Cardinal Bernard Law
The Boss' Wife
as Mr. Roalvang
Nosferatu in Venice
as Professor Paris Catalano
The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys'
as Self
Lucky Break
as Graham Mortimer
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
as John Marshall Harlan
Blizzard
as Santa Claus
Babes in Toyland
as Barnaby Crookedman (voice)
Ordeal by Innocence
as Leo Argyle
Aces High
as Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair
Stage Struck
as Joe Sheridan
Emotional Arithmetic
as David Winters
The Amateur
as Professor Lakos
Lily in Love
as Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova
Murder by Decree
as Sherlock Holmes
Where the Heart Is
as Shitty
Heroes of the Golden Mask
as Rizzo (voice)
The First Circle
as Viktor Abakumov
Pixies
as Pixie King (voice)
Winchell
as Franklin D. Roosevelt
Secrets
as Mel Wexler
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Narrator (voice)
Howard Lovecraft & The Kingdom Of Madness
as Dr. Jeffrey West (voice)
Prototype
as Dr. Carl Forrester
Riel
as Prime Minister John A. Macdonald
Skeletons
as Reverend Carlyle
Discovering Hamlet
as Self
Blackheart
as Holmes
Ararat
as David
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
as Self
Cliffs of Freedom
as Thanasi
American Tragedy
as F. Lee Bailey
On Golden Pond
as Norman Thayer
Hidden Agenda
as Ulrich Steiner
Red Blooded American Girl
as Dr. John Alcore
The Spiral Staircase
as Dr. Joe Sherman
International Velvet
as John Seaton
Inside Daisy Clover
as Raymond Swan
Harrison Bergeron
as John Klaxon
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
as Self
The Boy in Blue
as Knox
The Legend of Sarila
as Croolik (voice)
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
as Self
The Dinosaur Hunter
as Hump Hinton
Conduct Unbecoming
as Maggiore Alastair Wimbourne
Crackerjack
as Ivan Getz
The Disappearance
as Deverell
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
as The Grand Duke Ivan
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
as Self
Wind Across the Everglades
as Walt Murdock
Man in the Chair
as Flash Madden
A Stranger in the Mirror
as Clifton Lawrence
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
as Atahualpa
Titans of the Ice Age
as Narrator
Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom
as Dr. West (voice)
Silver Blaze
as Sherlock Holmes
Full Disclosure
as Robert Lecker
Already Dead
as Dr. Heller
We the Jury
as Wilfred Fransiscus
Spearfield's Daughter
as Lord Jack Cruze
Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom
as Dr. West (voice)
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
as Self
The Clown at Midnight
as Mr. Caruthers
Hamlet at Elsinore
as Hamlet
The Tempest
as Prospero
Mindfield
as Doctor Satorius
Madeline at the Ballet
as Narrator (voice)
Arthur Miller on Home Ground
The Shadow Box
as Brian
The First Emperor of China
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Madeline in London
as Narrator (voice)
The Happy Prince
as The Happy Prince (voice)
The Conspiracy of Fear
as Wakeman
Impolite
as Naples O'Rorke
I Love N.Y.
as John Robertson Yeats
The Life of Jesus
as Narrator
The Assignment
as Kaptain Behounek
Bondarchuk. Battle
as self
A Doll's House
as Torvald
The Captains: Still Kicking
as Self
Kali, the Little Vampire
as Narrator (english version)
Hamlet {Solo}
as Self
Lock Up Your Daughters
as Lord Foppington
The Pyx
as Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson
After the Fall
as Quentin
Desperate Voyage
as Jacques Burrifous
Dial M for Murder
as Tony Wendice
My Dog Tulip
as J.R. Ackerley (voice)
Barrymore
as John Barrymore
Nobody Runs Forever
as Sir James Quentin
Shadow Dancing
as Edmund Beaumont
Back To "Somewhere In Time"
as Self
Agent of Influence
as John Watkins
Rumpelstiltskin
as Narrator
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
as Self (archive footage)
The Nightingale
as Narrator (voice)
The Untold Story of The Sound of Music: A Diane Sawyer Special
as Self
The First Christmas
as Narrator (voice)
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
as Narrator (voice)
The River of My Dreams
as Himself
The Tin Soldier
as Narrator (voice)
Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes
as Narrator (voice over)
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
Madeline
as Narrator (voice)
Little Moon of Alban
as Kenneth Boyd
Liar's Edge
as Harry Weldon
Caesar and Cleopatra
as Caesar
Being Different
as Self (Narrator) (voice)
Four Minutes
as Archie Mason
Madeline and the Gypsies
as Narrator (voice)
Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic
as Narrator
Cyrano De Bergerac
as Cyrano de Bergerac
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
as Captain Brassbound
The Velveteen Rabbit
as Narrator (voice)
Behind the Wall: The Making of Skyrim
as Self
Ted Allan: Minstrel Boy of the 20th Century
as Narrator (voice)
Salzburg Sight and Sound
as Self
When the Circus Came to Town
as Duke Royal
Madeline and the Bad Hat
as Narrator (voice)
30 Minutes, Mister Plummer
as Himself
The Little Crooked Christmas Tree
as Narrator
Nabokov on Kafka
as Vladimir Nabokov
Madeline's Christmas
as Narrator (voice)
A Short Film About Making Beginners
Mooseltoe
as Mooseking
Kalahari: The Flooded Desert
as Narrator (voice)
Trans-Canada Journey
as Narrator (voice)
Portraits of Canada
as Narrator (voice)