Actor · Acting

Christopher Plummer

Born 1929-12-13

Died 2021-02-05

📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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".

Filmography 226

Heroes of the Golden Mask

as Rizzo (voice)

Kalahari: The Flooded Desert

as Narrator (voice)

Bondarchuk. Battle

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster

The Last Full Measure

as Frank Pitsenbarger

as Harlan Thrombey

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth

as Howard Lawson

Cliffs of Freedom

Howard Lovecraft & The Kingdom Of Madness

as Dr. Jeffrey West (voice)

All the Money in the World

as Jean Paul Getty

as King Herod (voice)

The Man Who Invented Christmas

Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom

as Dr. West (voice)

as Kaiser Wilhelm II

The River of My Dreams

Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom

as Dr. West (voice)

as Pixie King (voice)

as Frank Grubman

as Joseph Cutter

Hector and the Search for Happiness

as Professor Coreman

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

as John Marshall Harlan

The Legend of Sarila

as Croolik (voice)

Titans of the Ice Age

The Captains: Still Kicking

Kali, the Little Vampire

as Narrator (english version)

Behind the Wall: The Making of Skyrim

as John Barrymore

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

as (archive footage)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

as Henrik Vanger

Discovering Hamlet

as Monsignor Orelas

Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood

as Self - Narrator (voice)

as J.R. Ackerley (voice)

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

as Doctor Parnassus

The Last Station

as Charles Muntz (voice)

Caesar and Cleopatra

Emotional Arithmetic

as David Winters

Closing the Ring

Man in the Chair

as Flash Madden

Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes

as Narrator (voice over)

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

as Captain Newport

as Dean Whiting

as Archie Mason

as Cardinal Bernard Law

as Himself - Host

National Treasure

as John Adams Gates

Cold Creek Manor

The Gospel of John

as Narrator (voice)

The Life of Jesus

Nicholas Nickleby

as Ralph Nickleby

Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages

Agent of Influence

as John Watkins

A Beautiful Mind

as Graham Mortimer

Full Disclosure

as Robert Lecker

as Norman Thayer

as Matthew Van Helsing

American Tragedy

as F. Lee Bailey

Back To "Somewhere In Time"

as Archbishop Hume

The Dinosaur Hunter

as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe

as Ulrich Steiner

as Mike Wallace

Madeline: Lost in Paris

as Narrator (voice)

The Clown at Midnight

as Mr. Caruthers

as Franklin D. Roosevelt

The First Christmas

as Narrator (voice)

Babes in Toyland

as Barnaby Crookedman (voice)

as Reverend Carlyle

The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys'

as Wilfred Fransiscus

The Conspiracy of Fear

Harrison Bergeron

Dolores Claiborne

as Raymond Alden

Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold

as Self (archive footage)

A Stranger in the Mirror

as Clifton Lawrence

Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic

as Chaplain Gill

as Naples O'Rorke

The First Circle

as Viktor Abakumov

as Harry Weldon

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Madeline and the Gypsies

as Narrator (voice)

as Grand Duke (voice)

Young Catherine

as Col. Garland Vaughn

as Wilhelm Speer

The Little Crooked Christmas Tree

Madeline's Christmas

as Narrator (voice)

Red Blooded American Girl

as Dr. John Alcore

as Alexander Addington

A Ghost in Monte Carlo

as The Grand Duke Ivan

Where the Heart Is

as Doctor Satorius

Nabokov on Kafka

as Vladimir Nabokov

as Ernst Kestner

The First Emperor of China

as Self - Narrator (voice)

as Edmund Beaumont

as Narrator (voice)

as Narrator (voice)

American Experience

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

as Narrator (voice)

Nosferatu in Venice

as Professor Paris Catalano

A Hazard of Hearts

as Sir Giles Staverley

as Reverend Jonathan Whirley

as John Robertson Yeats

The Nightingale

as Narrator (voice)

An American Tail

as Henri (voice)

Spearfield's Daughter

as Lord Jack Cruze

as Armand DeVilliers

The Boy in Blue

as Mr. Roalvang

The Tin Soldier

as Narrator (voice)

Rumpelstiltskin

The Velveteen Rabbit

as Narrator (voice)

as Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova

as Jonathan Lawrence

Ordeal by Innocence

as Dr. Carl Forrester

The Thorn Birds

as Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese

The Scarlet and the Black

as Col. Herbert Kappler

Little Gloria... Happy at Last

as Reggie Vanderbilt

as Narrator (voice)

as James Hatcher

Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady

Night of 100 Stars

as Professor Lakos

Being Different

as Self (Narrator) (voice)

Dial M for Murder

as Tony Wendice

When the Circus Came to Town

Desperate Voyage

as Jacques Burrifous

Somewhere in Time

as William Fawcett 'W.F.' Robinson

Arthur Miller on Home Ground

as Paul Sellinger

as Prime Minister John A. Macdonald

Murder by Decree

as Sherlock Holmes

The Silent Partner

International Velvet

The Disappearance

as Kaptain Behounek

Jesus of Nazareth

as Herod Antipas

as Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers

as Roscoe Heyward

as Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair

The Man Who Would Be King

as Rudyard Kipling

The Day That Shook the World

as Archduke Ferdinand

Conduct Unbecoming

as Maggiore Alastair Wimbourne

The Return of the Pink Panther

as Sir Charles Litton

The Spiral Staircase

as Dr. Joe Sherman

The Happy Prince

as The Happy Prince (voice)

as Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson

as Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

The Royal Hunt of the Sun

Battle of Britain

as Squadron Leader Colin Harvey

Lock Up Your Daughters

as Lord Foppington

Nobody Runs Forever

as Sir James Quentin

The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

Oedipus the King

The Night of the Generals

as Field Marshal Rommel

as Freddie Chapman

Inside Daisy Clover

as Raymond Swan

BBC Play of the Month

The Sound of Music

as Captain Georg von Trapp

Salzburg Sight and Sound

An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy

as Narrator (voice)

Hamlet at Elsinore

The Fall of the Roman Empire

The Mike Douglas Show

Wind Across the Everglades

as Walt Murdock

as Joe Sheridan

Little Moon of Alban

as Kenneth Boyd

DuPont Show of the Month

as Sir Miles Hendon

as Self - Presenter

as Self - Winner

as Self - Nominee

as Self - Nominee / Presenter

General Electric Theater

as Walter Shelley

as Thomas Mendip

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Dr. Jack Pelletier

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Prince Albert

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Captain Brassbound

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Torvald Helmer

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Cyrano de Bergerac

The Ed Sullivan Show

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee