Christopher Plummer
Acteur·rice
13 décembre 1929
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died 5 février 2021
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
As an actor
Madeline at the Ballet
Narrator (voice)
Ted Allan: Minstrel Boy of the 20th Century
Narrator (voice)
Heroes of the Golden Mask
2023 · Rizzo (voice)
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
2022 · Self
Kalahari: The Flooded Desert
2021 · Narrator (voice)
Mooseltoe
2021 · Mooseking
Bondarchuk. Battle
2021 · self
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
2021 · Self
The Last Full Measure
2020 · Frank Pitsenbarger
Knives Out
2019 · Harlan Thrombey
Cliffs of Freedom
2019 · Thanasi
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019 · Self
Departure
2019 · Howard Lawson
Boundaries
2018 · Jack
Howard Lovecraft & The Kingdom Of Madness
2018 · Dr. Jeffrey West (voice)
The Exception
2017 · Kaiser Wilhelm II
The River of My Dreams
2017 · Himself
The Star
2017 · King Herod (voice)
The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017 · Scrooge
All the Money in the World
2017 · Jean Paul Getty
Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom
2017 · Dr. West (voice)
Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom
2016 · Dr. West (voice)
Remember
2015 · Zev Guttman
Danny Collins
2015 · Frank Grubman
Pixies
2015 · Pixie King (voice)
The Untold Story of The Sound of Music: A Diane Sawyer Special
2015 · Self
The Forger
2014 · Joseph Cutter
Hector and the Search for Happiness
2014 · Professor Coreman
Elsa & Fred
2014 · Fred
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2013 · John Marshall Harlan
The Legend of Sarila
2013 · Croolik (voice)
Titans of the Ice Age
2013 · Narrator
The Captains: Still Kicking
2013 · Self
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012 · (archive footage)
Behind the Wall: The Making of Skyrim
2012 · Self
Barrymore
2012 · John Barrymore
Kali, the Little Vampire
2012 · Narrator (english version)
Priest
2011 · Monsignor Orelas
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011 · Henrik Vanger
Beginners
2011 · Hal Fields
Discovering Hamlet
2011 · Self
A Short Film About Making Beginners
2011
My Dog Tulip
2010 · J.R. Ackerley (voice)
The Tempest
2010 · Prospero
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
2010 · Self - Narrator (voice)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
2009 · Doctor Parnassus
9
2009 · #1 (voice)
Up
2009 · Charles Muntz (voice)
The Last Station
2009 · Leo Tolstoy
Caesar and Cleopatra
2009 · Caesar
Emotional Arithmetic
2008 · David Winters
The Summit
2008 · P.J. Aimes
Already Dead
2007 · Dr. Heller
Closing the Ring
2007 · Jack
Man in the Chair
2007 · Flash Madden
Hamlet {Solo}
2007 · Self
Inside Man
2006 · Arthur Case
The Lake House
2006 · Simon Wyler
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006 · Self
Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes
2006 · Narrator (voice over)
Syriana
2005 · Dean Whiting
The New World
2005 · Captain Newport
Must Love Dogs
2005 · Bill
Our Fathers
2005 · Cardinal Bernard Law
Four Minutes
2005 · Archie Mason
Miracle Planet
2005 · Himself - Host
National Treasure
2004 · John Adams Gates
Alexander
2004 · Aristotle
The Gospel of John
2003 · Narrator (voice)
Cold Creek Manor
2003 · Mr. Massie
The Life of Jesus
2003 · Narrator
Blizzard
2003 · Santa Claus
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · Self
Nicholas Nickleby
2002 · Ralph Nickleby
Ararat
2002 · David
Agent of Influence
2002 · John Watkins
Night Flight
2002 · 'Flash' Harry Peters
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
2002 · Self
A Beautiful Mind
2001 · Dr. Rosen
Lucky Break
2001 · Graham Mortimer
Full Disclosure
2001 · Robert Lecker
On Golden Pond
2001 · Norman Thayer
Dracula 2000
2000 · Matthew Van Helsing
The Dinosaur Hunter
2000 · Hump Hinton
Possessed
2000 · Archbishop Hume
American Tragedy
2000 · F. Lee Bailey
Back To "Somewhere In Time"
2000 · Self
Nuremberg
2000 · Sir David Maxwell Fyfe
The Insider
1999 · Mike Wallace
Madeline: Lost in Paris
1999 · Narrator (voice)
Hidden Agenda
1999 · Ulrich Steiner
The Clown at Midnight
1999 · Mr. Caruthers
Winchell
1998 · Franklin D. Roosevelt
Blackheart
1998 · Holmes
The First Christmas
1998 · Narrator (voice)
The Arrow
1997 · George Hees
Skeletons
1997 · Reverend Carlyle
Babes in Toyland
1997 · Barnaby Crookedman (voice)
The Arrow
1997 · George Hees
The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys'
1996 · Self
The Conspiracy of Fear
1996 · Wakeman
We the Jury
1996 · Wilfred Fransiscus
Twelve Monkeys
1995 · Dr. Goines
Dolores Claiborne
1995 · John Mackey
Harrison Bergeron
1995 · John Klaxon
Wolf
1994 · Raymond Alden
Crackerjack
1994 · Ivan Getz
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
1994 · Self (archive footage)
Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic
1993 · Narrator
A Stranger in the Mirror
1993 · Clifton Lawrence
Malcolm X
1992 · Chaplain Gill
Liar's Edge
1992 · Harry Weldon
Secrets
1992 · Mel Wexler
Impolite
1992 · Naples O'Rorke
The First Circle
1992 · Viktor Abakumov
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
1991 · Chang
Firehead
1991 · Col. Garland Vaughn
Madeline and the Bad Hat
1991 · Narrator (voice)
Madeline and the Gypsies
1991 · Narrator (voice)
Madeline in London
1991 · Narrator (voice)
Money
1991 · Martin Yahl
Rock-A-Doodle
1991 · Grand Duke (voice)
Berlin Lady
1991 · Wilhelm Speer
Young Catherine
1991 · Sir Charles
Where the Heart Is
1990 · Shitty
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
1990 · The Grand Duke Ivan
Red Blooded American Girl
1990 · Dr. John Alcore
The Little Crooked Christmas Tree
1990 · Narrator
Madeline's Christmas
1990 · Narrator (voice)
Counterstrike
1990 · Alexander Addington
Mindfield
1989 · Doctor Satorius
Nabokov on Kafka
1989 · Vladimir Nabokov
Souvenir
1989 · Ernst Kestner
The First Emperor of China
1989 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Nosferatu in Venice
1988 · Professor Paris Catalano
Madeline
1988 · Narrator (voice)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988 · Narrator (voice)
Shadow Dancing
1988 · Edmund Beaumont
Madeline
1988 · Narrator (voice)
American Experience
1988 · Narrator
Dragnet
1987 · Reverend Jonathan Whirley
A Hazard of Hearts
1987 · Sir Giles Staverley
The Nightingale
1987 · Narrator (voice)
I Love N.Y.
1987 · John Robertson Yeats
Portraits of Canada
1987 · Narrator (voice)
An American Tail
1986 · Henri (voice)
The Boss' Wife
1986 · Mr. Roalvang
The Boy in Blue
1986 · Knox
Spearfield's Daughter
1986 · Lord Jack Cruze
The Tin Soldier
1986 · Narrator (voice)
Crossings
1986 · Armand DeVilliers
The Velveteen Rabbit
1985 · Narrator (voice)
Rumpelstiltskin
1985 · Narrator
Dreamscape
1984 · Bob Blair
Ordeal by Innocence
1984 · Leo Argyle
Lily in Love
1984 · Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova
The Cosby Show
1984 · Jonathan Lawrence
The Scarlet and the Black
1983 · Col. Herbert Kappler
Prototype
1983 · Dr. Carl Forrester
SuperTed
1983
The Thorn Birds
1983 · Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese
Highpoint
1982 · James Hatcher
Night of 100 Stars
1982 · Self
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982
Nature
1982 · Narrator (voice)
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
1982 · Reggie Vanderbilt
The Amateur
1981 · Professor Lakos
Eyewitness
1981 · Joseph
Dial M for Murder
1981 · Tony Wendice
Being Different
1981 · Self (Narrator) (voice)
When the Circus Came to Town
1981 · Duke Royal
Somewhere in Time
1980 · William Fawcett 'W.F.' Robinson
Desperate Voyage
1980 · Jacques Burrifous
The Shadow Box
1980 · Brian
Hanover Street
1979 · Paul Sellinger
Murder by Decree
1979 · Sherlock Holmes
Riel
1979 · Prime Minister John A. Macdonald
Arthur Miller on Home Ground
1979
Starcrash
1978 · The Emperor
The Silent Partner
1978 · Reikle
International Velvet
1978 · John Seaton
The Disappearance
1977 · Deverell
Silver Blaze
1977 · Sherlock Holmes
The Assignment
1977 · Kaptain Behounek
Jesus of Nazareth
1977 · Herod Antipas
The Sunday Drama
1977 · Sherlock Holmes
Aces High
1976 · Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
1976 · Roscoe Heyward
The Man Who Would Be King
1975 · Rudyard Kipling
The Return of the Pink Panther
1975 · Sir Charles Litton
Conduct Unbecoming
1975 · Major Alastair Wimbourne
The Spiral Staircase
1975 · Dr. Joe Sherman
The Day That Shook the World
1975 · Archduke Ferdinand
The Happy Prince
1974 · The Happy Prince (voice)
After the Fall
1974 · Quentin
The Pyx
1973 · Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson
Film '72
1971 · Self
Waterloo
1970 · Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
Battle of Britain
1969 · Squadron Leader Colin Harvey
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
1969 · Atahualpa
Lock Up Your Daughters
1969 · Lord Foppington
Nobody Runs Forever
1968 · Sir James Quentin
Oedipus the King
1968 · Oedipus
The Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Self - Guest
The Night of the Generals
1967 · Field Marshal Rommel
Omnibus
1967 · Narrator
Triple Cross
1966 · Freddie Chapman
Inside Daisy Clover
1966 · Raymond Swan
The Sound of Music
1965 · Captain Georg von Trapp
Salzburg Sight and Sound
1965 · Self
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Don Juan
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964 · Commodus
Hamlet at Elsinore
1964 · Hamlet
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
1964 · Narrator (voice)
30 Minutes, Mister Plummer
1963 · Himself
Trans-Canada Journey
1963 · Narrator (voice)
Cyrano De Bergerac
1962 · Cyrano de Bergerac
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
1960 · Captain Brassbound
A Doll's House
1959 · Torvald
NBC Sunday Showcase
1959
Wind Across the Everglades
1958 · Walt Murdock
Stage Struck
1958 · Joe Sheridan
Johnny Belinda
1958 · Dr. Jack Pelletier
Little Moon of Alban
1958 · Kenneth Boyd
DuPont Show of the Month
1957 · Sir Miles Hendon
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Presenter, Self - Winner, Self - Nominee, Self - Nominee / Presenter
General Electric Theater
1953 · Walter Shelley
The Oscars
1953 · Self
Kraft Television Theatre
1953
Omnibus
1952 · Oedipus, Thomas Mendip
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Dr. Jack Pelletier, Torvald Helmer, Captain Brassbound, Prince Albert, Cyrano de Bergerac
Suspense
1949
Studio One
1948 · Dick
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Self - Nominee