Christopher Plummer

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1929-12-13

Deathday 2021-02-05 (91 years old)

Place of Birth Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Also Known As 크리스토퍼 플러머, クリストファー・プラマー, 克里斯托弗·普卢默, Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer, Κρίστοφερ Πλάμερ, 克里斯多夫·普拉瑪

Christopher 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".

Known For

Actor

Madeline at the Ballet

as Narrator (voice)

2023
2021
Mooseltoe

as Mooseking

2021
The Flooded Desert

as Narrator (voice)

2021
2020
The Last Full Measure

as Frank Pitsenbarger

2019
Knives Out

as Harlan Thrombey

2019
2019
Departure

as Howard Lawson

2018
2018
Boundaries

as Jack Jaconi

2017
All the Money in the World

as Jean Paul Getty

2017
The Star

as King Herod (voice)

2017
The Exception

as Kaiser Wilhelm II

2017
2015
Remember

as Zev Guttman

2015
Pixies

as Pixie King (voice)

2015
Danny Collins

as Frank Grubman

2014
The Forger

as Joseph Cutter

2014
2014
Elsa & Fred

as Fred

2013
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

as John Marshall Harlan

2013
The Legend of Sarila

as Croolik (voice)

2013
2012
Kali, the Little Vampire

as Narrator (english version)

2012
Barrymore

as John Barrymore

2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

as (archive footage)

2011
2011
2011
Beginners

as Hal Fields

2011
Priest

as Monsignor Orelas

2010
The Tempest

as Prospero

2010
2010
My Dog Tulip

as J.R. Ackerley (voice)

2009
2009
The Last Station

as Leo Tolstoy

2009
9

as #1 (voice)

2009
Up

as Charles F. Muntz (voice)

2009
2008
Emotional Arithmetic

as David Winters

2008
The Summit

as P.J. Aimes

2007
Already Dead

as Dr. Heller

2007
2007
Man in the Chair

as Flash Madden

2006
The Lake House

as Simon Wyler

2006
Inside Man

as Arthur Case

2005
The New World

as Captain Newport

2005
Syriana

as Dean Whiting

2005
Four Minutes

as Archie Mason

2005
2005
Our Fathers

as Cardinal Bernard Law

2005
Miracle Planet

as Himself - Host

2004
Alexander

as Aristotle

2004
National Treasure

as John Adams Gates

2003
Cold Creek Manor

as Mr. Massie

2003
The Gospel of John

as Narrator (voice)

2003
The Life Of Jesus

as Narrator

2003
Blizzard

as Santa Claus

2002
Nicholas Nickleby

as Ralph Nickleby

2002
Agent of Influence

as John Watkins

2002
Ararat

as David

2002
Night Flight

as 'Flash' Harry Peters

2001
A Beautiful Mind

as Dr. Rosen

2001
Lucky Break

as Graham Mortimer

2001
Full Disclosure

as Robert Lecker

2001
On Golden Pond

as Norman Thayer

2000
Dracula 2000

as Matthew Van Helsing

2000
American Tragedy

as F. Lee Bailey

2000
Possessed

as Archbishop Hume

2000
The Dinosaur Hunter

as Hump Hinton

2000
Nuremberg

as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe

1999
Hidden Agenda

as Ulrich Steiner

1999
The Insider

as Mike Wallace

1999
Madeline: Lost in Paris

as Narrator (voice)

1998
Winchell

as Franklin D. Roosevelt

1998
The Clown at Midnight

as Mr. Caruthers

1998
Blackheart

as Holmes

1998
The First Christmas

as Narrator (voice)

1997
Babes in Toyland

as Barnaby Crookedman (voice)

1997
Skeletons

as Reverend Carlyle

1997
The Arrow

as George Hees

1996
1995
Twelve Monkeys

as Dr. Goines

1995
Harrison Bergeron

as John Klaxon

1995
Dolores Claiborne

as John Mackey

1994
Crackerjack

as Ivan Getz

1994
Wolf

as Raymond Alden

1994
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold

as Self (archive footage)

1993
A Stranger in the Mirror

as Clifton Lawrence

1992
Malcolm X

as Chaplain Gill

1992
Impolite

as Naples O'Rorke

1992
Secrets

as Mel Wexler

1992
Liar's Edge

as Harry Weldon

1991
Madeline in London

as Narrator (voice)

1991
Madeline and the Gypsies

as Narrator (voice)

1991
Rock-A-Doodle

as Grand Duke (voice)

1991
Money

as Martin Yahl

1991
Madeline and the Bad Hat

as Narrator (voice)

1991
Firehead

as Col. Garland Vaughn

1991
Young Catherine

as Sir Charles

1991
Berlin Lady

as Wilhelm Speer

1990
Red Blooded American Girl

as Dr. John Alcore

1990
A Ghost in Monte Carlo

as The Grand Duke Ivan

1990
1990
Counterstrike

as Alexander Addington

1989
Mindfield

as Doctor Satorius

1989
Nabokov on Kafka

as Vladimir Nabokov

1989
Souvenir

as Ernst Kestner

1988
Shadow Dancing

as Edmund Beaumont

1988
Madeline

as Narrator (voice)

1988
Nosferatu in Venice

as Professor Paris Catalano

1988
1988
Madeline

as Narrator (voice)

1987
A Hazard of Hearts

as Sir Giles Staverley

1987
Dragnet

as Reverend Jonathan Whirley

1987
I Love N.Y.

as John Robertson Yeats

1987
The Nightingale

as Narrator (voice)

1986
An American Tail

as Henri (voice)

1986
Spearfield's Daughter

as Lord Jack Cruze

1986
1986
The Boss' Wife

as Mr. Roalvang

1986
The Tin Soldier

as Narrator (voice)

1986
Crossings

as Armand DeVilliers

1985
Rumpelstiltskin

as Narrator

1985
The Velveteen Rabbit

as Narrator (voice)

1984
Lily in Love

as Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova

1984
Dreamscape

as Bob Blair

1984
Ordeal by Innocence

as Leo Argyle

1984
The Cosby Show

as Jonathan Lawrence

1983
Prototype

as Dr. Carl Forrester

1983
The Scarlet and the Black

as Col. Herbert Kappler

1983
The Thorn Birds

as Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese

1982
Highpoint

as James Hatcher

1982
1982
Little Gloria... Happy at Last

as Reggie Vanderbilt

1982
Nature

as Narrator (voice)

1981
The Amateur

as Professor Lakos

1981
Being Different

as Self (Narrator) (voice)

1981
Dial M for Murder

as Tony Wendice

1981
Eyewitness

as Joseph

1980
Desperate Voyage

as Jacques Burrifous

1980
Somewhere in Time

as William Fawcett Robinson

1980
1979
Hanover Street

as Paul Sellinger

1979
Murder by Decree

as Sherlock Holmes

1978
Starcrash

as The Emperor

1978
1978
International Velvet

as John Seaton

1977
The Disappearance

as Deverell

1977
The Assignment

as Kaptain Behounek

1977
Silver Blaze

as Sherlock Holmes

1977
Jesus of Nazareth

as Herod Antipas

1976
Aces High

as Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair

1976
1975
The Man Who Would Be King

as Rudyard Kipling

1975
The Day That Shook the World

as Archduke Ferdinand

1975
The Return of the Pink Panther

as Sir Charles Litton

1975
The Spiral Staircase

as Dr. Sherman

1975
Conduct Unbecoming

as Maggiore Alastair Wimbourne

1974
The Happy Prince

as The Happy Prince (voice)

1974
After the Fall

as Quentin

1973
The Pyx

as Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson

1970
Waterloo

as Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

1969
1969
Battle of Britain

as Squadron Leader Colin Harvey

1969
Lock Up Your Daughters

as Lord Foppington

1968
Nobody Runs Forever

as Sir James Quentin

1968
Oedipus the King

as Oedipus

1968
The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

1967
The Night of the Generals

as Field Marshal Rommel

1966
Triple Cross

as Freddie Chapman

1965
Inside Daisy Clover

as Raymond Swan

1965
The Sound of Music

as Captain Georg von Trapp

1964
1963
Trans-Canada Journey

as Narrator (voice)

1960
Captain Brassbound's Conversion

as Captain Brassbound

1959
A Doll's House

as Torvald

1958
Johnny Belinda

as Dr. Jack Pelletier

1958
1958
Stage Struck

as Joe Sheridan

1958
Little Moon of Alban

as Kenneth Boyd

1957
DuPont Show of the Month

as Sir Miles Hendon

1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee

1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter

1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Winner

1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee/Presenter

1953
The Oscars

as Self

1953
General Electric Theater

as Walter Shelley

1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Dr. Jack Pelletier

1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Torvald Helmer

1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Prince Albert

1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Captain Brassbound

1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Cyrano de Bergerac

1948
Studio One

as Dick

1948
The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self / Mark Anthony

Producer

2012
Barrymore

as Executive Producer