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Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 13, 1929
Died
February 5, 2021
Place of Birth
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Also Known As
- Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer
Christopher Plummer
3.5 Popularity
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
6.8
Rizzo (voice)
Heroes of the Golden Mask
2023
🎬
10.0
Self
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
2022
0.0
Mooseking
Mooseltoe
2021
10.0
Narrator (voice)
Kalahari: The Flooded Desert
2021
0.0
self
Bondarchuk. Battle
2021
7.0
Self
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
2021
7.3
Frank Pitsenbarger
The Last Full Measure
2020
7.8
Harlan Thrombey
Knives Out
2019
6.5
Self
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
6.5
Howard Lawson
Departure
2019
Credits
Heroes of the Golden Mask
as Rizzo (voice)
2023
6.8
🎬
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
as Self
2022
10.0
Mooseltoe
as Mooseking
2021
0.0
Kalahari: The Flooded Desert
as Narrator (voice)
2021
10.0
Bondarchuk. Battle
as self
2021
0.0
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
as Self
2021
7.0
The Last Full Measure
as Frank Pitsenbarger
2020
7.3
Knives Out
as Harlan Thrombey
2019
7.8
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
as Self
2019
6.5
Departure
as Howard Lawson
2019
6.5
Cliffs of Freedom
as Thanasi
2019
6.9
Howard Lovecraft & The Kingdom Of Madness
as Dr. Jeffrey West (voice)
2018
4.8
Boundaries
as Jack Jaconi
2018
5.6
All the Money in the World
as Jean Paul Getty
2017
6.5
The Star
as King Herod (voice)
2017
6.4
The Man Who Invented Christmas
as Scrooge
2017
6.8
Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom
as Dr. West (voice)
2017
4.6
The Exception
as Kaiser Wilhelm II
2017
6.9
The River of My Dreams
as Himself
2017
0.0
Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom
as Dr. West (voice)
2016
4.9
Remember
as Zev Guttman
2015
7.3
Pixies
as Pixie King (voice)
2015
5.0
Danny Collins
as Frank Grubman
2015
6.7
🎬
The Untold Story of The Sound of Music: A Diane Sawyer Special
as Self
2015
7.0
The Forger
as Joseph Cutter
2014
5.8
Hector and the Search for Happiness
as Professor Coreman
2014
6.7
Elsa & Fred
as Fred
2014
6.0
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
as John Marshall Harlan
2013
6.3
The Legend of Sarila
as Croolik (voice)
2013
4.6
Titans of the Ice Age
as Narrator
2013
7.1
The Captains: Still Kicking
as Himself
2013
7.0
Kali, the Little Vampire
as Narrator (english version)
2012
6.5
Behind the Wall: The Making of Skyrim
as Self
2012
0.0
Barrymore
as John Barrymore
2012
6.4
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
2012
7.6
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
as Henrik Vanger
2011
7.4
Discovering Hamlet
as Self
2011
7.0
Beginners
as Hal Fields
2011
6.8
Priest
as Monsignor Orelas
2011
5.8
The Tempest
as Prospero
2010
8.0
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
as Narrator
2010
5.4
My Dog Tulip
as J.R. Ackerley (voice)
2010
6.3
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
as Doctor Parnassus
2009
6.4
The Last Station
as Leo Tolstoy
2009
6.4
9
as #1 (voice)
2009
6.9
Up
as Charles F. Muntz (voice)
2009
8.0
Caesar and Cleopatra
as Caesar
2009
0.0
The Summit
as P.J. Aimes
2008
5.5
Emotional Arithmetic
as David Winters
2008
5.4
Already Dead
as Dr. Heller
2007
5.6
Closing the Ring
as Jack
2007
6.1
Hamlet {Solo}
as Self
2007
0.0
Man in the Chair
as Flash Madden
2007
6.4
Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes
as Narrator (voice over)
2006
8.4
The Lake House
as Simon Wyler
2006
7.0
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
as Self
2006
0.0
Inside Man
as Arthur Case
2006
7.4
The New World
as Captain Newport
2005
6.5
Syriana
as Dean Whiting
2005
6.4
Four Minutes
as Archie Mason
2005
4.2
Must Love Dogs
as Bill
2005
5.9
Our Fathers
as Cardinal Bernard Law
2005
6.4
Miracle Planet
as Himself - Host
2005
0.0
Alexander
as Aristotle
2004
6.0
National Treasure
as John Adams Gates
2004
6.6
Cold Creek Manor
as Mr. Massie
2003
5.4
The Gospel of John
as Narrator (voice)
2003
7.5
🎬
The Life Of Jesus
as Narrator
2003
0.0
Blizzard
as Santa Claus
2003
5.9
Nicholas Nickleby
as Ralph Nickleby
2002
6.9
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
as Self
2002
6.0
Agent of Influence
as John Watkins
2002
7.0
Ararat
as David
2002
6.1
Night Flight
as 'Flash' Harry Peters
2002
6.0
A Beautiful Mind
as Dr. Rosen
2001
7.9
Lucky Break
as Graham Mortimer
2001
6.1
Full Disclosure
as Robert Lecker
2001
3.4
On Golden Pond
as Norman Thayer
2001
8.3
Dracula 2000
as Matthew Van Helsing
2000
5.2
American Tragedy
as F. Lee Bailey
2000
4.8
Back To "Somewhere In Time"
as Self
2000
0.0
Possessed
as Archbishop Hume
2000
5.4
The Dinosaur Hunter
as Hump Hinton
2000
5.9
Nuremberg
as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe
2000
7.4
Hidden Agenda
as Ulrich Steiner
1999
2.4
The Insider
as Mike Wallace
1999
7.5
Madeline: Lost in Paris
as Narrator (voice)
1999
6.7
Winchell
as Franklin D. Roosevelt
1998
6.1
The First Christmas
as Narrator (voice)
1998
5.0
The Clown at Midnight
as Mr. Caruthers
1998
4.4
Blackheart
as Holmes
1998
3.5
Babes in Toyland
as Barnaby Crookedman (voice)
1997
5.0
Skeletons
as Reverend Carlyle
1997
3.9
The Arrow
as George Hees
1997
6.7
The Arrow
as George Hees
1997
7.5
The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys'
as Self
1996
6.9
We the Jury
as Wilfred Fransiscus
1996
6.8
The Conspiracy of Fear
as Wakeman
1996
7.5
Twelve Monkeys
as Dr. Goines
1995
7.6
Harrison Bergeron
as John Klaxon
1995
6.7
Dolores Claiborne
as John Mackey
1995
7.3
Crackerjack
as Ivan Getz
1994
3.8
Wolf
as Raymond Alden
1994
6.1
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
as Self (archive footage)
1994
0.0
A Stranger in the Mirror
as Clifton Lawrence
1993
2.6
Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic
as Narrator
1993
7.4
Malcolm X
as Chaplain Gill
1992
7.5
Impolite
as Naples O'Rorke
1992
0.0
Secrets
as Mel Wexler
1992
3.8
The First Circle
as Viktor Abakumov
1992
4.8
Liar's Edge
as Harry Weldon
1992
3.2
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
as Chang
1991
7.0
🎬
Madeline in London
as Narrator (voice)
1991
0.0
Madeline and the Gypsies
as Narrator (voice)
1991
6.0
Rock-A-Doodle
as Grand Duke (voice)
1991
6.2
Money
as Martin Yahl
1991
4.9
🎬
Madeline and the Bad Hat
as Narrator (voice)
1991
0.0
Young Catherine
as Sir Charles
1991
5.7
Firehead
as Col. Garland Vaughn
1991
2.3
Berlin Lady
as Wilhelm Speer
1991
0.0
The Little Crooked Christmas Tree
as Narrator
1990
0.0
Madeline's Christmas
as Narrator (voice)
1990
5.2
Red Blooded American Girl
as Dr. John Alcore
1990
3.4
Counterstrike
as Alexander Addington
1990
7.0
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
as The Grand Duke Ivan
1990
5.0
Where the Heart Is
as Shitty
1990
6.1
Mindfield
as Doctor Satorius
1989
4.2
Nabokov on Kafka
as Vladimir Nabokov
1989
6.0
Souvenir
as Ernst Kestner
1989
5.5
The First Emperor of China
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1989
4.3
Shadow Dancing
as Edmund Beaumont
1988
2.8
Madeline
as Narrator (voice)
1988
5.5
Madeline
as Narrator (voice)
1988
5.8
American Experience
as Narrator
1988
6.9
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Narrator (voice)
1988
8.0
Nosferatu in Venice
as Professor Paris Catalano
1988
5.8
A Hazard of Hearts
as Sir Giles Staverley
1987
7.8
Gandahar
as Metamorphis (voice: English version)
1987
6.9
Dragnet
as Reverend Jonathan Whirley
1987
6.0
I Love N.Y.
as John Robertson Yeats
1987
5.0
The Nightingale
as Narrator (voice)
1987
0.0
An American Tail
as Henri (voice)
1986
6.7
Spearfield's Daughter
as Lord Jack Cruze
1986
0.0
Crossings
as Armand DeVilliers
1986
4.2
The Boy in Blue
as Knox
1986
4.8
The Tin Soldier
as Narrator (voice)
1986
6.0
The Boss' Wife
as Mr. Roalvang
1986
4.8
Rumpelstiltskin
as Narrator
1985
3.0
The Velveteen Rabbit
as Narrator (voice)
1985
5.8
Lily in Love
as Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova
1984
6.0
The Cosby Show
as Jonathan Lawrence
1984
7.0
Dreamscape
as Bob Blair
1984
6.1
Ordeal by Innocence
as Leo Argyle
1984
4.9
Prototype
as Dr. Carl Forrester
1983
5.8
SuperTed
1983
6.8
The Thorn Birds
as Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese
1983
7.2
The Scarlet and the Black
as Col. Herbert Kappler
1983
7.0
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
as Reggie Vanderbilt
1982
5.4
Nature
as Narrator (voice)
1982
7.8
Highpoint
as James Hatcher
1982
4.8
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
1982
6.7
The Amateur
as Professor Lakos
1981
5.2
Being Different
as Self (Narrator) (voice)
1981
5.7
Dial M for Murder
as Tony Wendice
1981
5.9
Eyewitness
as Joseph
1981
5.6
When the Circus Came to Town
as Duke Royal
1981
6.0
Desperate Voyage
as Jacques Burrifous
1980
7.5
Somewhere in Time
as William Fawcett Robinson
1980
7.5
The Shadow Box
as Brian
1980
4.6
Hanover Street
as Paul Sellinger
1979
5.5
Riel
as Prime Minister John A. Macdonald
1979
6.0
Murder by Decree
as Sherlock Holmes
1979
6.4
Starcrash
as The Emperor
1978
4.2
The Silent Partner
as Reikle
1978
7.0
International Velvet
as John Seaton
1978
7.4
The Disappearance
as Deverell
1977
5.4
The Assignment
as Kaptain Behounek
1977
6.0
Jesus of Nazareth
as Herod Antipas
1977
7.8
Silver Blaze
as Sherlock Holmes
1977
0.0
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
as Roscoe Heyward
1976
2.3
Aces High
as Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair
1976
5.9
The Man Who Would Be King
as Rudyard Kipling
1975
7.5
The Day That Shook the World
as Archduke Ferdinand
1975
5.9
Conduct Unbecoming
as Maggiore Alastair Wimbourne
1975
5.7
The Return of the Pink Panther
as Sir Charles Litton
1975
6.8
The Spiral Staircase
as Dr. Joe Sherman
1975
4.9
After the Fall
as Quentin
1974
0.0
The Happy Prince
as The Happy Prince (voice)
1974
5.5
The Pyx
as Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson
1973
5.0
Waterloo
as Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
1970
7.1
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
as Atahualpa
1969
5.9
Battle of Britain
as Squadron Leader Colin Harvey
1969
6.9
Lock Up Your Daughters
as Lord Foppington
1969
4.5
Nobody Runs Forever
as Sir James Quentin
1968
6.0
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
6.8
Oedipus the King
as Oedipus
1968
5.5
Omnibus
as Narrator
1967
7.2
The Night of the Generals
as Field Marshal Rommel
1967
6.8
Triple Cross
as Freddie Chapman
1966
6.0
Inside Daisy Clover
as Raymond Swan
1966
5.6
BBC Play of the Month
as Don Juan
1965
5.0
The Sound of Music
as Captain Georg von Trapp
1965
7.7
Salzburg Sight and Sound
as Self
1965
8.0
Hamlet at Elsinore
as Hamlet
1964
7.8
The Fall of the Roman Empire
as Commodus
1964
6.5
🎬
Trans-Canada Journey
as Narrator (voice)
1963
0.0
🎬
30 Minutes, Mister Plummer
as Himself
1963
0.0
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
🎬
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
as Captain Brassbound
1960
0.0
A Doll's House
as Torvald
1959
10.0
🎬
NBC Sunday Showcase
1959
4.3
🎬
Johnny Belinda
as Dr. Jack Pelletier
1958
0.0
Wind Across the Everglades
as Walt Murdock
1958
5.9
Stage Struck
as Joe Sheridan
1958
5.9
Little Moon of Alban
as Kenneth Boyd
1958
0.0
DuPont Show of the Month
as Sir Miles Hendon
1957
6.8
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee/Presenter
1956
5.9
🎬
Kraft Television Theatre
1953
0.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
General Electric Theater
as Walter Shelley
1953
6.4
Omnibus
1952
6.0
Omnibus
as Oedipus
1952
6.0
Omnibus
as Thomas Mendip
1952
6.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Dr. Jack Pelletier
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Prince Albert
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Captain Brassbound
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Torvald Helmer
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Cyrano de Bergerac
1951
8.6
Suspense
1949
4.9
Studio One
as Dick
1948
5.0
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
🎬
TED ALLAN: MINSTREL BOY OF THE 20TH CENTURY
as Narrator
N/A
0.0
🎬
Madeline at the Ballet
as Narrator (voice)
N/A
2.0