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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".

Heroes of the Golden Mask

2023

as Rizzo (voice)

Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story

2022

as Self

Mooseltoe

2021

as Mooseking

The Flooded Desert

2021

as Narrator (voice)

Bondarchuk. Battle

2021

as self

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster

2021

as Self

The Last Full Measure

2020

as Frank Pitsenbarger

Knives Out

2019

as Harlan Thrombey

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth

2019

as Self

Departure

2019

as Howard Lawson

Cliffs of Freedom

2019

as Thanasi

Howard Lovecraft and the Kingdom of Madness

2018

as Dr. Jeffrey West (voice)

Boundaries

2018

as Jack Jaconi

All the Money in the World

2017

as Jean Paul Getty

The Star

2017

as King Herod (voice)

The Man Who Invented Christmas

2017

as Scrooge

Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom

2017

as Dr. West (voice)

The Exception

2017

as Kaiser Wilhelm II

The River of My Dreams

2017

as Himself

Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom

2016

as Dr. West (voice)

Remember

2015

as Zev Guttman

Pixies

2015

as Pixie King (voice)

Danny Collins

2015

as Frank Grubman

The Untold Story of The Sound of Music: A Diane Sawyer Special

2015

as Self

The Forger

2014

as Joseph Cutter

Hector and the Search for Happiness

2014

as Professor Coreman

Elsa & Fred

2014

as Fred

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

2013

as John Marshall Harlan

The Legend of Sarila

2013

as Croolik (voice)

Titans of the Ice Age

2013

as Narrator

The Captains: Still Kicking

2013

as Himself

Kali, the Little Vampire

2012

as Narrator (english version)

Behind the Wall: The Making of Skyrim

2012

as Self

Barrymore

2012

as John Barrymore

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Hard Copy

2012

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

2012

as (archive footage)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

2011

as Henrik Vanger

Discovering Hamlet

2011

as Self

Beginners

2011

as Hal Fields

Priest

2011

as Monsignor Orelas

The Tempest

2010

as Prospero

Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood

2010

as Narrator

Madeline's Christmas

2010

as Narrator

My Dog Tulip

2010

as J.R. Ackerley (voice)

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

2009

as Doctor Parnassus

The Last Station

2009

as Leo Tolstoy

9

2009

as #1 (voice)

Up

2009

as Charles F. Muntz (voice)

Caesar and Cleopatra

2009

as Caesar

The Summit

2008

as P.J. Aimes

Emotional Arithmetic

2008

as David Winters

Already Dead

2007

as Dr. Heller

Closing the Ring

2007

as Jack

Man in the Chair

2007

as Flash Madden

Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes

2006

as Self - Narrator

The Lake House

2006

as Simon Wyler

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

2006

as Self

Inside Man

2006

as Arthur Case

The New World

2005

as Captain Newport

Syriana

2005

as Dean Whiting

Four Minutes

2005

as Archie Mason

Must Love Dogs

2005

as Bill

Our Fathers

2005

as Cardinal Bernard Law

Miracle Planet

2005

as Himself - Host

Alexander

2004

as Aristotle

National Treasure

2004

as John Adams Gates

Cold Creek Manor

2003

as Mr. Massie

The Gospel of John

2003

as Narrator (voice)

The Life Of Jesus

2003

as Narrator

Blizzard

2003

as Santa Claus

Nicholas Nickleby

2002

as Ralph Nickleby

Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages

2002

as Self

Agent of Influence

2002

as John Watkins

Ararat

2002

as David

Night Flight

2002

as 'Flash' Harry Peters

A Beautiful Mind

2001

as Dr. Rosen

Lucky Break

2001

as Graham Mortimer

Full Disclosure

2001

as Robert Lecker

On Golden Pond

2001

as Norman Thayer

Dracula 2000

2000

as Matthew Van Helsing

American Tragedy

2000

as F. Lee Bailey

Possessed

2000

as Archbishop Hume

The Dinosaur Hunter

2000

as Hump Hinton

Nuremberg

2000

as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe

Hidden Agenda

1999

as Ulrich Steiner

The Insider

1999

as Mike Wallace

Madeline: Lost in Paris

1999

as Narrator (voice)

Winchell

1998

as Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Clown at Midnight

1998

as Mr. Caruthers

Blackheart

1998

as Holmes

The First Christmas

1998

as Narrator (voice)

Babes in Toyland

1997

as Barnaby Crookedman (voice)

Skeletons

1997

as Reverend Carlyle

The Arrow

1997

as George Hees

The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys'

1996

as Self

The Conspiracy of Fear

1996

as Wakeman

Twelve Monkeys

1995

as Dr. Goines

Harrison Bergeron

1995

as John Klaxon

Dolores Claiborne

1995

as John Mackey

Crackerjack

1994

as Ivan Getz

Wolf

1994

as Raymond Alden

Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold

1994

as Self (archive footage)

A Stranger in the Mirror

1993

as Clifton Lawrence

Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic

1993

as Narrator

Malcolm X

1992

as Chaplain Gill

Impolite

1992

as Naples O'Rorke

Secrets

1992

as Mel Wexler

Liar's Edge

1992

as Harry Weldon

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

1991

as General Chang

Madeline in London

1991

as Narrator (voice)

Madeline and the Gypsies

1991

as Narrator (voice)

Rock-A-Doodle

1991

as Grand Duke (voice)

Money

1991

as Martin Yahl

Madeline and the Bad Hat

1991

as Narrator (voice)

Young Catherine

1991

as Sir Charles

Firehead

1991

as Col. Garland Vaughn

Berlin Lady

1991

as Wilhelm Speer

The Little Crooked Christmas Tree

1990

as Narrator

Red Blooded American Girl

1990

as Dr. John Alcore

Counterstrike

1990

as Alexander Addington

A Ghost in Monte Carlo

1990

as The Grand Duke Ivan

Where the Heart Is

1990

as Shitty

Mindfield

1989

as Doctor Satorius

Nabokov on Kafka

1989

as Vladimir Nabokov

Souvenir

1989

as Ernst Kestner

The First Emperor of China

1989

as Narrator

Shadow Dancing

1988

as Edmund Beaumont

Madeline

1988

as Narrator (voice)

American Experience

1988

as Narrator

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

1988

as Narrator (voice)

Nosferatu in Venice

1988

as Professor Paris Catalano

Madeline

1988

as Narrator (voice)

A Hazard of Hearts

1987

as Sir Giles Staverley

Dragnet

1987

as Reverend Jonathan Whirley

I Love N.Y.

1987

as John Robertson Yeats

The Nightingale

1987

as Narrator (voice)

An American Tail

1986

as Henri (voice)

Spearfield's Daughter

1986

as Lord Jack Cruze

Crossings

1986

as Armand DeVilliers

The Boy in Blue

1986

as Knox

The Boss' Wife

1986

as Mr. Roalvang

The Tin Soldier

1986

as Narrator (voice)

Rumpelstiltskin

1985

as Narrator

The Velveteen Rabbit

1985

as Narrator (voice)

Lily in Love

1984

as Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova

The Cosby Show

1984

as Jonathan Lawrence

Dreamscape

1984

as Bob Blair

Ordeal by Innocence

1984

as Leo Argyle

Prototype

1983

as Dr. Carl Forrester

SuperTed

1983

The Thorn Birds

1983

as Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese

The Scarlet and the Black

1983

as Col. Herbert Kappler

Little Gloria... Happy at Last

1982

as Reggie Vanderbilt

Nature

1982

as Narrator (voice)

Highpoint

1982

as James Hatcher

Night of 100 Stars

1982

as Self

The Amateur

1981

as Professor Lakos

Being Different

1981

as Self (Narrator) (voice)

Dial M for Murder

1981

as Tony Wendice

Eyewitness

1981

as Joseph

When the Circus Came to Town

1981

as Duke Royal

Desperate Voyage

1980

as Jacques Burrifous

Somewhere in Time

1980

as William Fawcett Robinson

The Shadow Box

1980

as Brian

Hanover Street

1979

as Paul Sellinger

Murder by Decree

1979

as Sherlock Holmes

Starcrash

1978

as The Emperor

The Silent Partner

1978

as Reikle

International Velvet

1978

as John Seaton

The Disappearance

1977

as Deverell

The Assignment

1977

as Kaptain Behounek

Jesus Of Nazareth

1977

as Herod Antipas

Jesus of Nazareth

1977

as Herod Antipas

Silver Blaze

1977

as Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers

1976

as Roscoe Heyward

Aces High

1976

as Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair

The Man Who Would Be King

1975

as Rudyard Kipling

The Day That Shook the World

1975

as Archduke Ferdinand

The Return of the Pink Panther

1975

as Sir Charles Litton

The Spiral Staircase

1975

as Dr. Sherman

Conduct Unbecoming

1975

as Maggiore Alastair Wimbourne

The Happy Prince

1974

as The Happy Prince (voice)

After the Fall

1974

as Quentin

The Pyx

1973

as Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson

Waterloo

1970

as Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

The Royal Hunt of the Sun

1969

as Atahualpa

Battle of Britain

1969

as Squadron Leader Colin Harvey

Lock Up Your Daughters

1969

as Lord Foppington

Nobody Runs Forever

1968

as Sir James Quentin

Oedipus the King

1968

as Oedipus

The Night of the Generals

1967

as Field Marshal Rommel

Triple Cross

1966

as Freddie Chapman

Inside Daisy Clover

1965

as Raymond Swan

The Sound of Music

1965

as Captain Georg von Trapp

Salzburg Sight and Sound

1965

as Self

Hamlet at Elsinore

1964

as Hamlet

The Fall of the Roman Empire

1964

as Commodus

Trans-Canada Journey

1963

as Narrator (voice)

30 Minutes, Mister Plummer

1963

as Himself

Captain Brassbound's Conversion

1960

as Captain Brassbound

A Doll's House

1959

as Torvald

NBC Sunday Showcase

1959

Johnny Belinda

1958

as Dr. Jack Pelletier

Wind Across the Everglades

1958

as Walt Murdock

Stage Struck

1958

as Joe Sheridan

Little Moon of Alban

1958

as Kenneth Boyd

DuPont Show of the Month

1957

as Sir Miles Hendon

Tony Awards

1956

as Self - Nominee

Tony Awards

1956

as Self - Presenter

Tony Awards

1956

as Self - Winner

Tony Awards

1956

as Self - Nominee/Presenter

The Oscars

1953

as Self

General Electric Theater

1953

as Walter Shelley

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Dr. Jack Pelletier

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Torvald Helmer

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Captain Brassbound

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Prince Albert

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Cyrano de Bergerac

Suspense

1949

Studio One

1948

as Dick

Madeline at the Ballet

as Narrator (voice)

TED ALLAN: MINSTREL BOY OF THE 20TH CENTURY

as Narrator