Christopher Plummer
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".
Movies
Heroes of the Golden Mask
Rizzo (voice)
Mooseltoe
Mooseking
Kalahari: The Flooded Desert
Narrator (voice)
The Last Full Measure
Frank Pitsenbarger
Knives Out
Harlan Thrombey
Cliffs of Freedom
Thanasi
Howard Lovecraft & The Kingdom Of Madness
Dr. Jeffrey West (voice)
Boundaries
Jack Jaconi
All the Money in the World
Jean Paul Getty
The Star
King Herod (voice)
The Man Who Invented Christmas
Scrooge
Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom
Dr. West (voice)
The Exception
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom
Dr. West (voice)
Remember
Zev Guttman
Pixies
Pixie King (voice)
Danny Collins
Frank Grubman
The Forger
Joseph Cutter
Hector and the Search for Happiness
Professor Coreman
Elsa & Fred
Fred
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
John Marshall Harlan
The Legend of Sarila
Croolik (voice)
Titans of the Ice Age
Narrator
Kali, the Little Vampire
Narrator (english version)
Barrymore
John Barrymore
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Henrik Vanger
Beginners
Hal Fields
Priest
Monsignor Orelas
The Tempest
Prospero
My Dog Tulip
J.R. Ackerley (voice)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Doctor Parnassus
The Last Station
Leo Tolstoy
9
#1 (voice)
Up
Charles F. Muntz (voice)
Caesar and Cleopatra
Caesar
Emotional Arithmetic
David Winters
Already Dead
Dr. Heller
Closing the Ring
Jack
Man in the Chair
Flash Madden
Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes
Narrator (voice over)
The Lake House
Simon Wyler
Inside Man
Arthur Case
The New World
Captain Newport
Syriana
Dean Whiting
Four Minutes
Archie Mason
Must Love Dogs
Bill
Our Fathers
Cardinal Bernard Law
Alexander
Aristotle
National Treasure
John Adams Gates
Cold Creek Manor
Mr. Massie
The Gospel of John
Narrator (voice)
The Life Of Jesus
Narrator
Blizzard
Santa Claus
Nicholas Nickleby
Ralph Nickleby
Agent of Influence
John Watkins
Ararat
David
Night Flight
'Flash' Harry Peters
A Beautiful Mind
Dr. Rosen
Lucky Break
Graham Mortimer
Full Disclosure
Robert Lecker
On Golden Pond
Norman Thayer
Dracula 2000
Matthew Van Helsing
American Tragedy
F. Lee Bailey
Possessed
Archbishop Hume
The Dinosaur Hunter
Hump Hinton
Hidden Agenda
Ulrich Steiner
The Insider
Mike Wallace
Madeline: Lost in Paris
Narrator (voice)
Winchell
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Clown at Midnight
Mr. Caruthers
Blackheart
Holmes
The First Christmas
Narrator (voice)
Babes in Toyland
Barnaby Crookedman (voice)
Skeletons
Reverend Carlyle
The Arrow
George Hees
We the Jury
Wilfred Fransiscus
The Conspiracy of Fear
Wakeman
Twelve Monkeys
Dr. Goines
Harrison Bergeron
John Klaxon
Dolores Claiborne
John Mackey
Crackerjack
Ivan Getz
Wolf
Raymond Alden
A Stranger in the Mirror
Clifton Lawrence
Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic
Narrator
Malcolm X
Chaplain Gill
Impolite
Naples O'Rorke
Secrets
Mel Wexler
The First Circle
Viktor Abakumov
Liar's Edge
Harry Weldon
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Chang
Madeline in London
Narrator (voice)
Madeline and the Gypsies
Narrator (voice)
Rock-A-Doodle
Grand Duke (voice)
Money
Martin Yahl
Madeline and the Bad Hat
Narrator (voice)
Firehead
Col. Garland Vaughn
The Little Crooked Christmas Tree
Narrator
Madeline's Christmas
Narrator (voice)
Red Blooded American Girl
Dr. John Alcore
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
The Grand Duke Ivan
Where the Heart Is
Shitty
Mindfield
Doctor Satorius
Nabokov on Kafka
Vladimir Nabokov
Souvenir
Ernst Kestner
Shadow Dancing
Edmund Beaumont
Madeline
Narrator (voice)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Narrator (voice)
Nosferatu in Venice
Professor Paris Catalano
A Hazard of Hearts
Sir Giles Staverley
Gandahar
Metamorphis (voice: English version)
Dragnet
Reverend Jonathan Whirley
I Love N.Y.
John Robertson Yeats
The Nightingale
Narrator (voice)
An American Tail
Henri (voice)
Spearfield's Daughter
Lord Jack Cruze
The Boy in Blue
Knox
The Boss' Wife
Mr. Roalvang
The Tin Soldier
Narrator (voice)
Rumpelstiltskin
Narrator
The Velveteen Rabbit
Narrator (voice)
Lily in Love
Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova
Dreamscape
Bob Blair
Ordeal by Innocence
Leo Argyle
Prototype
Dr. Carl Forrester
The Scarlet and the Black
Col. Herbert Kappler
Highpoint
James Hatcher
The Amateur
Professor Lakos
Dial M for Murder
Tony Wendice
Eyewitness
Joseph
When the Circus Came to Town
Duke Royal
Desperate Voyage
Jacques Burrifous
Somewhere in Time
William Fawcett Robinson
The Shadow Box
Brian
Hanover Street
Paul Sellinger
Riel
Prime Minister John A. Macdonald
Murder by Decree
Sherlock Holmes
Starcrash
The Emperor
The Silent Partner
Reikle
International Velvet
John Seaton
The Disappearance
Deverell
The Assignment
Kaptain Behounek
Silver Blaze
Sherlock Holmes
Aces High
Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair
The Man Who Would Be King
Rudyard Kipling
The Day That Shook the World
Archduke Ferdinand
Conduct Unbecoming
Maggiore Alastair Wimbourne
The Return of the Pink Panther
Sir Charles Litton
The Spiral Staircase
Dr. Joe Sherman
After the Fall
Quentin
The Happy Prince
The Happy Prince (voice)
The Pyx
Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson
Waterloo
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
Atahualpa
Battle of Britain
Squadron Leader Colin Harvey
Lock Up Your Daughters
Lord Foppington
Nobody Runs Forever
Sir James Quentin
Oedipus the King
Oedipus
The Night of the Generals
Field Marshal Rommel
Triple Cross
Freddie Chapman
Inside Daisy Clover
Raymond Swan
The Sound of Music
Captain Georg von Trapp
Hamlet at Elsinore
Hamlet
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Commodus
Trans-Canada Journey
Narrator (voice)
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
Captain Brassbound
A Doll's House
Torvald
Johnny Belinda
Dr. Jack Pelletier
Wind Across the Everglades
Walt Murdock
Stage Struck
Joe Sheridan
Little Moon of Alban
Kenneth Boyd
Madeline at the Ballet
Narrator (voice)
TED ALLAN: MINSTREL BOY OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Narrator
TV Series
Departure
Howard Lawson
9 Episodes
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
Narrator
7 Episodes
The Summit
P.J. Aimes
2 Episodes
Nuremberg
Sir David Maxwell Fyfe
2 Episodes
The Arrow
George Hees
2 Episodes
Young Catherine
Sir Charles
2 Episodes
Berlin Lady
Wilhelm Speer
1 Episode
Counterstrike
Alexander Addington
66 Episodes
Madeline
Narrator (voice)
39 Episodes
American Experience
Narrator
1 Episode
Crossings
Armand DeVilliers
3 Episodes
The Cosby Show
Jonathan Lawrence
1 Episode
SuperTed
12 Episodes
The Thorn Birds
Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese
4 Episodes
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
Reggie Vanderbilt
2 Episodes
Nature
Narrator (voice)
2 Episodes
Jesus of Nazareth
Herod Antipas
4 Episodes
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
Roscoe Heyward
4 Episodes
Omnibus
Narrator
1 Episode
BBC Play of the Month
Don Juan
1 Episode
NBC Sunday Showcase
1 Episode
DuPont Show of the Month
Sir Miles Hendon
1 Episode
Kraft Television Theatre
1 Episode
General Electric Theater
Walter Shelley
1 Episode
Omnibus
2 Episodes
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dr. Jack Pelletier
1 Episode
Suspense
2 Episodes
Studio One
Dick
1 Episode