Christopher Plummer
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer CC (born December 13, 1929) is 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.[1] 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.
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- Born:
- Dec 13, 1929 In Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 187
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Stage Struck 1958-04-22
- Latest Project:
- Movie Heroes of the Golden Mask 2023-07-13
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Heroes of the Golden Mask | Rizzo (voice) | 2023-07-13 |
| Movie | Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story | Self | 2022-10-18 |
| Movie | Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster | Self | 2021-09-17 |
| Movie | Bondarchuk. Battle | self | 2021-09-30 |
| Movie | The Last Full Measure | Frank Pitsenbarger | 2020-01-23 |
| Series | Departure | Howard Lawson | 2019-07-10 |
| Movie | Knives Out | Harlan Thrombey | 2019-11-27 |
| Movie | Howard Lovecraft and the Kingdom of Madness | Dr. Jeffrey West (voice) | 2018-12-04 |
| Movie | Boundaries | Jack Jaconi | 2018-06-22 |
| Movie | The Exception | Kaiser Wilhelm II | 2017-06-02 |
| Movie | Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom | Dr. West (voice) | 2017-09-23 |
| Movie | The River of My Dreams | Himself | 2017-01-27 |
| Movie | The Man Who Invented Christmas | Scrooge | 2017-10-12 |
| Movie | All the Money in the World | Jean Paul Getty | 2017-12-21 |
| Movie | The Star | King Herod (voice) | 2017-11-15 |
| Movie | Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom | Dr. West (voice) | 2016-08-20 |
| Movie | The Untold Story of The Sound of Music: A Diane Sawyer Special | Self | 2015-03-16 |
| Movie | Danny Collins | Frank Grubman | 2015-03-19 |
| Movie | Remember | Zev Guttman | 2015-10-23 |
| Movie | Pixies | Pixie King (voice) | 2015-06-05 |
| Movie | Elsa & Fred | Fred | 2014-03-07 |
| Movie | The Forger | Joseph Cutter | 2014-09-10 |
| Movie | Hector and the Search for Happiness | Professor Coreman | 2014-08-14 |
| Movie | The Legend of Sarila | Croolik (voice) | 2013-02-21 |
| Movie | Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight | John Marshall Harlan | 2013-10-04 |
| Movie | Behind the Wall: The Making of Skyrim | Self | 2012-06-26 |
| Movie | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage) | 2012-02-04 |
| Movie | Barrymore | John Barrymore | 2012-05-25 |
| Movie | Beginners | Hal Fields | 2011-06-03 |
| Movie | Priest | Monsignor Orelas | 2011-05-05 |
| Movie | Discovering Hamlet | Self | 2011-11-01 |
| Movie | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Henrik Vanger | 2011-12-14 |
| Movie | Madeline's Christmas | Narrator | 2010-10-19 |
| Movie | My Dog Tulip | J.R. Ackerley (voice) | 2010-01-05 |
| Series | Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood | Narrator | 2010-11-01 |
| Movie | The Tempest | Prospero | 2010-11-20 |
| Movie | Caesar and Cleopatra | Caesar | 2009-01-23 |
| Movie | Up | Charles F. Muntz (voice) | 2009-05-28 |
| Movie | The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | Doctor Parnassus | 2009-10-01 |
| Movie | 9 | #1 (voice) | 2009-08-19 |
| Movie | The Last Station | Leo Tolstoy | 2009-09-04 |
| Movie | Emotional Arithmetic | David Winters | 2008-04-18 |
| Series | The Summit | P.J. Aimes | 2008-06-15 |
| Movie | Man in the Chair | Flash Madden | 2007-01-27 |
| Movie | Already Dead | Dr. Heller | 2007-12-11 |
| Movie | Closing the Ring | Jack | 2007-09-14 |
| Movie | Inside Man | Arthur Case | 2006-03-17 |
| Movie | Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film | Self | 2006-03-27 |
| Movie | Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes | Self - Narrator | 2006-10-25 |
| Movie | The Lake House | Simon Wyler | 2006-06-16 |
| Movie | Our Fathers | Cardinal Bernard Law | 2005-05-11 |
| Movie | Must Love Dogs | Bill | 2005-07-21 |
| Movie | Four Minutes | Archie Mason | 2005-10-06 |
| Movie | The New World | Captain Newport | 2005-12-25 |
| Movie | Syriana | Dean Whiting | 2005-11-23 |
| Movie | National Treasure | John Adams Gates | 2004-11-19 |
| Movie | Alexander | Aristotle | 2004-11-21 |
| Movie | Cold Creek Manor | Mr. Massie | 2003-09-19 |
| Movie | Blizzard | Santa Claus | 2003-05-15 |
| Movie | The Gospel of John | Narrator (voice) | 2003-09-11 |
| Movie | Night Flight | 'Flash' Harry Peters | 2002-02-02 |
| Movie | Ararat | David | 2002-05-20 |
| Movie | Nicholas Nickleby | Ralph Nickleby | 2002-12-27 |
| Movie | Agent of Influence | John Watkins | 2002-06-30 |
| Movie | Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages | Self | 2002-11-07 |
| Movie | On Golden Pond | Norman Thayer | 2001-04-29 |
| Movie | Full Disclosure | Robert Lecker | 2001-05-15 |
| Movie | Lucky Break | Graham Mortimer | 2001-08-24 |
| Movie | A Beautiful Mind | Dr. Rosen | 2001-12-14 |
| Movie | The Dinosaur Hunter | Hump Hinton | 2000-08-05 |
| Movie | 1939-1945: The Seven Years That Shook the World | 2000-01-01 | |
| Series | Nuremberg | Sir David Maxwell Fyfe | 2000-07-16 |
| Movie | Possessed | Archbishop Hume | 2000-10-22 |
| Movie | American Tragedy | F. Lee Bailey | 2000-11-12 |
| Movie | Dracula 2000 | Matthew Van Helsing | 2000-12-22 |
| Movie | The Insider | Mike Wallace | 1999-10-28 |
| Movie | Madeline: Lost in Paris | Narrator (voice) | 1999-08-02 |
| Movie | Hidden Agenda | Ulrich Steiner | 1999-11-02 |
| Movie | The First Christmas | Narrator (voice) | 1998-01-01 |
| Movie | Blackheart | Holmes | 1998-01-01 |
| Movie | The Clown at Midnight | Mr. Caruthers | 1998-01-01 |
| Movie | Winchell | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1998-11-21 |
| Movie | The Arrow | George Hees | 1997-01-12 |
| Movie | Skeletons | Reverend Carlyle | 1997-04-04 |
| Movie | Babes in Toyland | Barnaby Crookedman (voice) | 1997-10-14 |
| Movie | The Conspiracy of Fear | Wakeman | 1996-01-01 |
| Movie | The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys' | Self | 1996-11-05 |
| Movie | Dolores Claiborne | John Mackey | 1995-03-24 |
| Movie | Harrison Bergeron | John Klaxon | 1995-08-13 |
| Movie | Twelve Monkeys | Dr. Goines | 1995-12-29 |
| Movie | Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold | Self (archive footage) | 1994-02-01 |
| Movie | Wolf | Raymond Alden | 1994-06-17 |
| Movie | Crackerjack | Ivan Getz | 1994-08-18 |
| Movie | Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic | Narrator | 1993-01-01 |
| Movie | A Stranger in the Mirror | Clifton Lawrence | 1993-10-24 |
| Movie | Malcolm X | Chaplain Gill | 1992-11-18 |
| Movie | Secrets | Mel Wexler | 1992-04-06 |
| Movie | Liar's Edge | Harry Weldon | 1992-02-14 |
| Movie | Impolite | Naples O'Rorke | 1992-09-16 |
| Movie | Money | Martin Yahl | 1991-04-06 |
| Movie | Madeline and the Bad Hat | Narrator (voice) | 1991-03-03 |
| Movie | Firehead | Col. Garland Vaughn | 1991-01-25 |
| Movie | Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead | Howard | 1991-06-07 |
| Series | Young Catherine | Sir Charles | 1991-02-17 |
| Movie | Madeline in London | Narrator (voice) | 1991-11-28 |
| Movie | Rock-A-Doodle | Grand Duke (voice) | 1991-08-02 |
| Movie | Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | General Chang | 1991-12-06 |
| Movie | Madeline and the Gypsies | Narrator (voice) | 1991-10-14 |
| Movie | Where the Heart Is | Shitty | 1990-02-23 |
| Movie | The Gnomes' Great Adventure | Narrator | 1990-01-01 |
| Movie | A Ghost in Monte Carlo | The Grand Duke Ivan | 1990-04-02 |
| Series | Counterstrike | Alexander Addington | 1990-07-01 |
| Movie | Red Blooded American Girl | Dr. John Alcore | 1990-10-04 |
| Movie | The First Emperor of China | Narrator | 1989-01-01 |
| Movie | Souvenir | Ernst Kestner | 1989-01-06 |
| Movie | Mindfield | Doctor Satorius | 1989-12-15 |
| Series | Madeline | Narrator | 1988-09-09 |
| Movie | Nosferatu in Venice | Professor Paris Catalano | 1988-09-10 |
| Movie | Madeline | Narrator (voice) | 1988-11-07 |
| Movie | The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Narrator (voice) | 1988-10-01 |
| Movie | Shadow Dancing | Edmund Beaumont | 1988-12-02 |
| Movie | The Nightingale | Narrator (voice) | 1987-01-01 |
| Movie | I Love N.Y. | John Robertson Yeats | 1987-05-04 |
| Movie | The Man Who Planted Trees | Narrator (voice: English version) | 1987-05-13 |
| Movie | A Hazard of Hearts | Sir Giles Staverley | 1987-12-27 |
| Movie | Dragnet | Reverend Jonathan Whirley | 1987-06-23 |
| Movie | The Boy in Blue | Knox | 1986-01-17 |
| Movie | The Tin Soldier | Narrator (voice) | 1986-01-01 |
| Movie | The Boss' Wife | Mr. Roalvang | 1986-01-01 |
| Series | Crossings | Armand DeVilliers | 1986-02-23 |
| Movie | An American Tail | Henri (voice) | 1986-11-21 |
| Movie | The Velveteen Rabbit | Narrator (voice) | 1985-04-02 |
| Movie | Rumpelstiltskin | Narrator | 1985-12-14 |
| Series | The World of David the Gnome | Narrator (voice) | 1985-10-26 |
| Movie | Ordeal by Innocence | Leo Argyle | 1984-06-22 |
| Movie | Lily in Love | Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova | 1984-10-17 |
| Movie | Dreamscape | Bob Blair | 1984-08-15 |
| Movie | The Scarlet and the Black | Col. Herbert Kappler | 1983-02-02 |
| Series | The Thorn Birds | Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese | 1983-03-27 |
| Movie | Prototype | Dr. Carl Forrester | 1983-12-07 |
| Movie | Night of 100 Stars | Self | 1982-03-08 |
| Series | Little Gloria... Happy at Last | Reggie Vanderbilt | 1982-10-24 |
| Movie | Highpoint | James Hatcher | 1982-08-20 |
| Movie | When the Circus Came to Town | Duke Royal | 1981-01-20 |
| Movie | Dial M for Murder | Tony Wendice | 1981-04-09 |
| Movie | Eyewitness | Joseph | 1981-02-13 |
| Movie | Being Different | Self (Narrator) (voice) | 1981-08-21 |
| Movie | The Amateur | Professor Lakos | 1981-12-11 |
| Movie | The Shadow Box | Brian | 1980-09-30 |
| Movie | Desperate Voyage | Jacques Burrifous | 1980-11-29 |
| Movie | Somewhere in Time | William Fawcett Robinson | 1980-10-02 |
| Movie | Murder by Decree | Sherlock Holmes | 1979-02-01 |
| Movie | Hanover Street | Paul Sellinger | 1979-05-18 |
| Movie | International Velvet | John Seaton | 1978-07-19 |
| Movie | The Silent Partner | Reikle | 1978-09-07 |
| Movie | Starcrash | The Emperor | 1978-12-21 |
| Movie | Silver Blaze | Sherlock Holmes | 1977-01-20 |
| Series | Jesus of Nazareth | Herod Antipas | 1977-03-27 |
| Movie | The Assignment | Kaptain Behounek | 1977-07-11 |
| Movie | The Disappearance | Deverell | 1977-11-30 |
| Movie | Aces High | Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair | 1976-05-19 |
| Series | Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers | Roscoe Heyward | 1976-12-04 |
| Movie | The Spiral Staircase | Dr. Sherman | 1975-01-31 |
| Movie | Conduct Unbecoming | Maggiore Alastair Wimbourne | 1975-01-01 |
| Movie | The Return of the Pink Panther | Sir Charles Litton | 1975-05-21 |
| Movie | The Day That Shook the World | Archduke Ferdinand | 1975-10-31 |
| Movie | The Man Who Would Be King | Rudyard Kipling | 1975-12-03 |
| Movie | After the Fall | Quentin | 1974-01-02 |
| Movie | The Happy Prince | The Happy Prince (voice) | 1974-12-02 |
| Movie | The Pyx | Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson | 1973-09-08 |
| Movie | Waterloo | Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington | 1970-10-26 |
| Movie | Lock Up Your Daughters | Lord Foppington | 1969-03-29 |
| Movie | The Royal Hunt of the Sun | Atahualpa | 1969-10-05 |
| Movie | Battle of Britain | Squadron Leader Colin Harvey | 1969-09-15 |
| Movie | Oedipus the King | Oedipus | 1968-06-01 |
| Movie | Nobody Runs Forever | Sir James Quentin | 1968-08-22 |
| Movie | The Night of the Generals | Field Marshal Rommel | 1967-01-29 |
| Movie | Triple Cross | Freddie Chapman | 1966-12-09 |
| Movie | Inside Daisy Clover | Raymond Swan | 1965-12-22 |
| Movie | The Sound of Music | Captain Georg von Trapp | 1965-03-29 |
| Movie | The Fall of the Roman Empire | Commodus | 1964-03-24 |
| Movie | Hamlet at Elsinore | Hamlet | 1964-04-15 |
| Movie | 30 Minutes, Mister Plummer | Himself | 1963-01-01 |
| Movie | Captain Brassbound's Conversion | Captain Brassbound | 1960-03-02 |
| Movie | Stage Struck | Joe Sheridan | 1958-04-22 |
| Movie | Johnny Belinda | Dr. Jack Pelletier | 1958-10-13 |
| Movie | Wind Across the Everglades | Walt Murdock | 1958-09-11 |