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:
- 154
- 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 | The Last Full Measure | Frank Pitsenbarger | 2020-01-23 |
| Movie | Knives Out | Harlan Thrombey | 2019-11-27 |
| Movie | Boundaries | Jack Jaconi | 2018-06-22 |
| Movie | The River of My Dreams | Himself | 2017-01-27 |
| Movie | Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom | Dr. West (voice) | 2017-09-23 |
| Movie | The Exception | Kaiser Wilhelm II | 2017-06-02 |
| Movie | The Man Who Invented Christmas | Scrooge | 2017-10-12 |
| Movie | The Star | King Herod (voice) | 2017-11-15 |
| Movie | All the Money in the World | Jean Paul Getty | 2017-12-21 |
| Movie | Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom | Dr. West (voice) | 2016-08-20 |
| Movie | Danny Collins | Frank Grubman | 2015-03-19 |
| Movie | Pixies | Pixie King (voice) | 2015-06-05 |
| Movie | Remember | Zev Guttman | 2015-10-23 |
| Movie | Elsa & Fred | Fred | 2014-03-07 |
| Movie | Hector and the Search for Happiness | Professor Coreman | 2014-08-14 |
| Movie | The Forger | Joseph Cutter | 2014-09-10 |
| Movie | The Legend of Sarila | Croolik (voice) | 2013-02-21 |
| Movie | Titans of the Ice Age | Narrator | 2013-02-15 |
| Movie | Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight | John Marshall Harlan | 2013-10-04 |
| Movie | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage) | 2012-02-04 |
| Movie | Kali, the Little Vampire | Narrator (english version) | 2012-11-01 |
| Movie | Priest | Monsignor Orelas | 2011-05-05 |
| Movie | Beginners | Hal Fields | 2011-06-03 |
| Movie | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Henrik Vanger | 2011-12-14 |
| Movie | Discovering Hamlet | Self | 2011-11-01 |
| Series | Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood | Narrator | 2010-11-01 |
| Movie | My Dog Tulip | J.R. Ackerley (voice) | 2010-01-05 |
| Movie | The Tempest | Prospero | 2010-11-20 |
| Movie | Up | Charles F. Muntz (voice) | 2009-05-28 |
| Movie | 9 | #1 (voice) | 2009-08-19 |
| Movie | Caesar and Cleopatra | Caesar | 2009-01-23 |
| Movie | The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | Doctor Parnassus | 2009-10-01 |
| 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 | Closing the Ring | Jack | 2007-09-14 |
| Movie | Inside Man | Arthur Case | 2006-03-17 |
| Movie | Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes | Self - Narrator | 2006-10-25 |
| Movie | The Lake House | Simon Wyler | 2006-06-16 |
| Movie | Must Love Dogs | Bill | 2005-07-21 |
| Movie | Our Fathers | Cardinal Bernard Law | 2005-05-11 |
| Movie | Four Minutes | Archie Mason | 2005-10-06 |
| Movie | Syriana | Dean Whiting | 2005-11-23 |
| Movie | The New World | Captain Newport | 2005-12-25 |
| Movie | National Treasure | John Adams Gates | 2004-11-19 |
| Movie | Blizzard | Santa Claus | 2003-05-15 |
| Movie | The Gospel of John | Narrator (voice) | 2003-09-11 |
| Movie | Cold Creek Manor | Mr. Massie | 2003-09-19 |
| Movie | Ararat | David | 2002-05-20 |
| Movie | Agent of Influence | John Watkins | 2002-06-30 |
| Movie | Nicholas Nickleby | Ralph Nickleby | 2002-12-27 |
| Movie | On Golden Pond | Norman Thayer | 2001-04-29 |
| Movie | Lucky Break | Graham Mortimer | 2001-08-24 |
| Movie | Full Disclosure | Robert Lecker | 2001-05-15 |
| Movie | The Dinosaur Hunter | Hump Hinton | 2000-08-05 |
| 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 | Madeline: Lost in Paris | Narrator (voice) | 1999-08-02 |
| Movie | Hidden Agenda | Ulrich Steiner | 1999-11-02 |
| Movie | The Insider | Mike Wallace | 1999-10-28 |
| Movie | Blackheart | Holmes | 1998-01-01 |
| Movie | The First Christmas | Narrator (voice) | 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 | Babes in Toyland | Barnaby Crookedman (voice) | 1997-10-14 |
| Movie | Skeletons | Reverend Carlyle | 1997-04-04 |
| 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 | Crackerjack | Ivan Getz | 1994-08-18 |
| Movie | Wolf | Raymond Alden | 1994-06-17 |
| Movie | Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic | Narrator | 1993-01-01 |
| Movie | A Stranger in the Mirror | Clifton Lawrence | 1993-10-24 |
| Movie | Liar's Edge | Harry Weldon | 1992-02-14 |
| Movie | The First Circle | Viktor Abakumov | 1992-02-25 |
| Movie | Secrets | Mel Wexler | 1992-04-06 |
| Movie | Malcolm X | Chaplain Gill | 1992-11-18 |
| Movie | Young Catherine | Sir Charles | 1991-01-01 |
| Movie | La dame de Berlin | Wilhelm Speer | 1991-01-01 |
| Movie | Firehead | Col. Garland Vaughn | 1991-01-25 |
| Movie | Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | General Chang | 1991-12-06 |
| Movie | Money | Martin Yahl | 1991-04-06 |
| Movie | Rock-A-Doodle | Grand Duke (voice) | 1991-08-02 |
| Movie | Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead | Howard | 1991-06-07 |
| Movie | Where the Heart Is | Shitty | 1990-02-23 |
| Movie | A Ghost in Monte Carlo | The Grand Duke Ivan | 1990-04-02 |
| Movie | The Gnomes' Great Adventure | Narrator | 1990-01-01 |
| Series | Counterstrike | 1990-07-01 | |
| Movie | Red Blooded American Girl | Dr. John Alcore | 1990-10-04 |
| Movie | Souvenir | Ernst Kestner | 1989-01-06 |
| Movie | The First Emperor of China | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1989-01-01 |
| Movie | Mindfield | Doctor Satorius | 1989-12-15 |
| Movie | Nosferatu in Venice | Professor Paris Catalano | 1988-09-10 |
| Movie | The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Narrator (voice) | 1988-10-01 |
| Movie | Shadow Dancing | Edmund Beaumont | 1988-12-02 |
| Movie | I Love N.Y. | John Robertson Yeats | 1987-05-04 |
| Movie | The Man Who Planted Trees | Narrator (voice) | 1987-05-13 |
| Movie | Dragnet | Reverend Jonathan Whirley | 1987-06-23 |
| Movie | A Hazard of Hearts | Sir Giles Staverley | 1987-12-27 |
| Movie | The Boy in Blue | Knox | 1986-01-17 |
| 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 |
| Series | The World of David the Gnome | 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 |
| Movie | Prototype | Dr. Carl Forrester | 1983-12-07 |
| Movie | Night of 100 Stars | Self | 1982-03-08 |
| Movie | Highpoint | James Hatcher | 1982-08-20 |
| Movie | Little Gloria... Happy at Last | Reggie Vanderbilt | 1982-10-24 |
| Movie | Dial M for Murder | Tony Wendice | 1981-04-09 |
| Movie | The Shadow Box | Brian | 1980-09-30 |
| Movie | Somewhere in Time | William Fawcett Robinson | 1980-10-02 |
| Movie | Desperate Voyage | Jacques Burrifous | 1980-11-29 |
| Movie | Riel | Prime Minister John A. Macdonald | 1979-04-11 |
| 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 |
| Series | Jesus of Nazareth | Herod Antipas | 1977-03-27 |
| Movie | The Disappearance | Deverell | 1977-11-30 |
| Series | Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers | Roscoe Heyward | 1976-12-04 |
| Movie | Aces High | Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair | 1976-05-19 |
| Movie | Conduct Unbecoming | Maggiore Alastair Wimbourne | 1975-10-04 |
| Movie | The Spiral Staircase | Dr. Sherman | 1975-01-31 |
| 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 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 | Battle of Britain | Squadron Leader Colin Harvey | 1969-09-15 |
| Movie | The Royal Hunt of the Sun | Atahualpa | 1969-10-05 |
| 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 | Inside Daisy Clover | Raymond Swan | 1966-02-10 |
| Movie | The Sound of Music | Captain Georg von Trapp | 1965-03-29 |
| Movie | The Fall of the Roman Empire | Commodus | 1964-03-24 |
| Movie | 30 Minutes, Mister Plummer | Himself | 1963-01-01 |
| 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 |