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".
236 acting credits
Acting · 236
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Golden Globe Awards
1944
American Experience
1988
The Cosby Show
1984
Tony Awards
1956
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Nature
1982
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Studio One
1948
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Omnibus
1967
The Oscars
1953
Up
2009
Omnibus
1952
Departure
2019
Knives Out
2019
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
Film '72
1971
Suspense
1949
The Sound of Music
1965
A Beautiful Mind
2001
Priest
2011
National Treasure
2004
Jesus of Nazareth
1977
Counterstrike
1990
Twelve Monkeys
1995
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011
The Thorn Birds
1983
9
2009
Madeline
1988
Alexander
2004
Inside Man
2006
DuPont Show of the Month
1957
Nuremberg
2000
The Lake House
2006
Malcolm X
1992
An American Tail
1986
Dolores Claiborne
1995
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
The Star
2017
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
2009
Syriana
2005
Somewhere in Time
1980
General Electric Theater
1953
Dracula 2000
2000
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
2010
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
1991
SuperTed
1983
Wolf
1994
The Insider
1999
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
1976
Battle of Britain
1969
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
Dragnet
1987
Hector and the Search for Happiness
2014
The Summit
2008
All the Money in the World
2017
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964
The Last Full Measure
2020
Cold Creek Manor
2003
The Sunday Drama
1977
NBC Sunday Showcase
1959
The New World
2005
The Man Who Would Be King
1975
The Exception
2017
Dreamscape
1984
Night of 100 Stars
1982
Hanover Street
1979
Waterloo
1970
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
1982
Must Love Dogs
2005
Nicholas Nickleby
2002
Danny Collins
2015
The Night of the Generals
1967
The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017
The Arrow
1997
Starcrash
1978
Eyewitness
1981
Remember
2015
Kraft Television Theatre
1953
Young Catherine
1991
The Return of the Pink Panther
1975
Rock-A-Doodle
1991
Crossings
1986
Beginners
2011
The Forger
2014
The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys'
1996
Closing the Ring
2007
The Gospel of John
2003
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2013
Murder by Decree
1979
Elsa & Fred
2014
A Hazard of Hearts
1987
Triple Cross
1966
The Boy in Blue
1986
Winchell
1998
The Last Station
2009
Ordeal by Innocence
1984
Ararat
2002
Boundaries
2018
Souvenir
1989
Oedipus the King
1968
The Scarlet and the Black
1983
The Silent Partner
1978
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
A Stranger in the Mirror
1993
Berlin Lady
1991
International Velvet
1978
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
Wind Across the Everglades
1958
Miracle Planet
2005
The Arrow
1997
The Disappearance
1977
Blackheart
1998
Lucky Break
2001
Harrison Bergeron
1995
Blizzard
2003
Where the Heart Is
1990
Our Fathers
2005
Already Dead
2007
Secrets
1992
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006
Discovering Hamlet
2011
Money
1991
The Boss' Wife
1986
Highpoint
1982
American Tragedy
2000
Possessed
2000
Nobody Runs Forever
1968
Crackerjack
1994
Inside Daisy Clover
1966
The First Circle
1992
Emotional Arithmetic
2008
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
1994
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
2022
Howard Lovecraft & The Kingdom Of Madness
2018
The Amateur
1981
Babes in Toyland
1997
Prototype
1983
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
1969
Nosferatu in Venice
1988
Mindfield
1989
Stage Struck
1958
Riel
1979
Aces High
1976
Lily in Love
1984
Hidden Agenda
1999
The Clown at Midnight
1999
Hamlet at Elsinore
1964
Madeline: Lost in Paris
1999
Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom
2017
Conduct Unbecoming
1975
Heroes of the Golden Mask
2023
Night Flight
2002
Madeline at the Ballet
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Skeletons
1997
Cliffs of Freedom
2019
The Spiral Staircase
1975
The Conspiracy of Fear
1996
On Golden Pond
2001
Bondarchuk. Battle
2021
We the Jury
1996
Impolite
1992
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
2002
Firehead
1991
The Pyx
1973
I Love N.Y.
1987
The Legend of Sarila
2013
Titans of the Ice Age
2013
Pixies
2015
Man in the Chair
2007
Johnny Belinda
1958
My Dog Tulip
2010
Desperate Voyage
1980
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
1990
The Day That Shook the World
1975
Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom
2016
When the Circus Came to Town
1981
Spearfield's Daughter
1986
The Dinosaur Hunter
2000
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
2021
Red Blooded American Girl
1990
The Assignment
1977
The First Emperor of China
1989
A Doll's House
1959
Being Different
1981
Lock Up Your Daughters
1969
The Life of Jesus
2003
Back To "Somewhere In Time"
2000
Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes
2006
Agent of Influence
2002
The Tin Soldier
1986
The Tempest
2010
Caesar and Cleopatra
2009
After the Fall
1974
Kali, the Little Vampire
2012
The River of My Dreams
2017
Liar's Edge
1992
Madeline
1988
Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic
1993
The Happy Prince
1974
Hamlet {Solo}
2007
Rumpelstiltskin
1985
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
1960
Salzburg Sight and Sound
1965
Cyrano De Bergerac
1962
The Shadow Box
1980
Dial M for Murder
1981
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982
Silver Blaze
1977
The Velveteen Rabbit
1985
The Untold Story of The Sound of Music: A Diane Sawyer Special
2015
Little Moon of Alban
1958
The Nightingale
1987
30 Minutes, Mister Plummer
1963
Mooseltoe
2021
Madeline and the Gypsies
1991
Four Minutes
2005
Nabokov on Kafka
1989
Behind the Wall: The Making of Skyrim
2012
Arthur Miller on Home Ground
1979
The First Christmas
1998
Full Disclosure
2001
The Captains: Still Kicking
2013
Barrymore
2012
Shadow Dancing
1988
Trans-Canada Journey
1963
Madeline in London
1991
Madeline's Christmas
1990
Madeline and the Bad Hat
1991
The Little Crooked Christmas Tree
1990
Kalahari: The Flooded Desert
2021
A Short Film About Making Beginners
2011
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
1964
Portraits of Canada
1987
Ted Allan: Minstrel Boy of the 20th Century
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