Cast & creator
Christopher Plummer
Best known for The Mike Douglas Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Golden Globe Awards
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".
Also known as: Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer
199
film credits
48
television credits
246
1944–2023 · acting roles
6.5
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (247)
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The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
2003
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
American Playhouse
Alfred Stieglitz
1982
American Experience
Narrator
1988
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
1956Tony Awards
Self - Winner
1956Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
1956Tony Awards
Self - Nominee / Presenter
1956
The Cosby Show
Jonathan Lawrence
1984
Nature
Narrator (voice)
1982
Studio One
Dick
1948
BBC Play of the Month
Don Juan
1965
Omnibus
Narrator
1967
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948Film '72
Self
1971
Omnibus
1952Omnibus
Oedipus
1952Omnibus
Thomas Mendip
1952
The Oscars
Self
1953
Up
Charles Muntz (voice)
2009
Knives Out
Harlan Thrombey
2019
Suspense
1949
National Treasure
John Adams Gates
2004
Twelve Monkeys
Dr. Goines
1995
Departure
Howard Lawson
2019
The Sound of Music
Captain Georg von Trapp
1965
A Beautiful Mind
Dr. Rosen
2001
Inside Man
Arthur Case
2006
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Henrik Vanger
2011
Counterstrike
Alexander Addington
1990
Jesus of Nazareth
Herod Antipas
1977
DuPont Show of the Month
Sir Miles Hendon
1957
9
#1 (voice)
2009
The Thorn Birds
Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese
1983
Alexander
Aristotle
2004
All the Money in the World
Jean Paul Getty
2017
Priest
Monsignor Orelas
2011
The Lake House
Simon Wyler
2006
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Doctor Parnassus
2009The Sunday Drama
Sherlock Holmes
1977
The Insider
Mike Wallace
1999
The Star
King Herod (voice)
2017
Madeline
Narrator (voice)
1988
The New World
Captain Newport
2005
Danny Collins
Frank Grubman
2015
Malcolm X
Chaplain Gill
1992
Nuremberg
Sir David Maxwell Fyfe
2000
An American Tail
Henri (voice)
1986
Dracula 2000
Matthew Van Helsing
2000
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dr. Jack Pelletier
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame
Torvald Helmer
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame
Captain Brassbound
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame
Prince Albert
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame
Cyrano de Bergerac
1951
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Chang
1991
The Last Full Measure
Frank Pitsenbarger
2020
Dolores Claiborne
John Mackey
1995
Somewhere in Time
William Fawcett 'W.F.' Robinson
1980
Wolf
Raymond Alden
1994
Cold Creek Manor
Mr. Massie
2003
SuperTed
1983
Battle of Britain
Squadron Leader Colin Harvey
1969
General Electric Theater
Walter Shelley
1953
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
Self - Narrator (voice)
2010
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Commodus
1964NBC Sunday Showcase
1959
The Exception
Kaiser Wilhelm II
2017
The Night of the Generals
Field Marshal Rommel
1967
The Forger
Joseph Cutter
2014
The Summit
P.J. Aimes
2008
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
Roscoe Heyward
1976
Syriana
Dean Whiting
2005
Must Love Dogs
Bill
2005
The Man Who Would Be King
Rudyard Kipling
1975
The Return of the Pink Panther
Sir Charles Litton
1975
The Man Who Invented Christmas
Scrooge
2017
Nicholas Nickleby
Ralph Nickleby
2002
The Last Station
Leo Tolstoy
2009
Waterloo
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
1970
Dragnet
Reverend Jonathan Whirley
1987
Remember
Zev Guttman
2015
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
2012
The Gospel of John
Narrator (voice)
2003Kraft Television Theatre
1953
Hector and the Search for Happiness
Professor Coreman
2014
Rock-A-Doodle
Grand Duke (voice)
1991
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
Reggie Vanderbilt
1982
Closing the Ring
Jack
2007
Harrison Bergeron
John Klaxon
1995
Crossings
Armand DeVilliers
1986
Beginners
Hal Fields
2011
The Silent Partner
Reikle
1978
The Arrow
George Hees
1997
Murder by Decree
Sherlock Holmes
1979
The Legend of Sarila
Croolik (voice)
2013
Triple Cross
Freddie Chapman
1966
Night of 100 Stars
Self
1982
Hanover Street
Paul Sellinger
1979
Dreamscape
Bob Blair
1984
Inside Daisy Clover
Raymond Swan
1966
Miracle Planet
Himself - Host
2005
Ararat
David
2002
Pixies
Pixie King (voice)
2015
The Scarlet and the Black
Col. Herbert Kappler
1983
The Boy in Blue
Knox
1986
Heroes of the Golden Mask
Rizzo (voice)
2023
Our Fathers
Cardinal Bernard Law
2005
The Amateur
Professor Lakos
1981
Eyewitness
Joseph
1981
Elsa & Fred
Fred
2014
Nosferatu in Venice
Professor Paris Catalano
1988
Starcrash
The Emperor
1978
Dial M for Murder
Tony Wendice
1981
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Self
2021
Ordeal by Innocence
Leo Argyle
1984
Already Dead
Dr. Heller
2007
Where the Heart Is
Shitty
1990
A Hazard of Hearts
Sir Giles Staverley
1987
Boundaries
Jack
2018
Highpoint
James Hatcher
1984
Babes in Toyland
Barnaby Crookedman (voice)
1997
Madeline: Lost in Paris
Narrator (voice)
1999
Young Catherine
Sir Charles
1991
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
Self
1982
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
John Marshall Harlan
2013
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Self
2019
Crackerjack
Ivan Getz
1994
Possessed
Archbishop Hume
2000
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
The Grand Duke Ivan
1990
Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom
Dr. West (voice)
2017
Prototype
Dr. Carl Forrester
1983
The Boss' Wife
Mr. Roalvang
1986
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
Atahualpa
1969
The Conspiracy of Fear
Wakeman
1996
Bondarchuk. Battle
self
2021
Red Blooded American Girl
Dr. John Alcore
1990
Blizzard
Santa Claus
2003
Winchell
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1998
Man in the Chair
Flash Madden
2007
The Day That Shook the World
Archduke Ferdinand
1975
Conduct Unbecoming
Major Alastair Wimbourne
1975
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
Self
2006
Lucky Break
Graham Mortimer
2001
Aces High
Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair
1976
Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom
Dr. West (voice)
2016
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
Self
2002
Cliffs of Freedom
Thanasi
2019
Howard Lovecraft & The Kingdom Of Madness
Dr. Jeffrey West (voice)
2018
A Stranger in the Mirror
Clifton Lawrence
1993
The Clown at Midnight
Mr. Caruthers
1999Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
Self
2022
The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys'
Self
1996
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Narrator (voice)
1988
The Life of Jesus
Narrator
2003
Impolite
Naples O'Rorke
1992
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
Self (archive footage)
1994
Rumpelstiltskin
Narrator
1985
Back To "Somewhere In Time"
Self
2000
Oedipus the King
Oedipus
1968
The First Emperor of China
Self - Narrator (voice)
1989
Arthur Miller on Home Ground
Self
1979
Wind Across the Everglades
Walt Murdock
1958
When the Circus Came to Town
Duke Royal
1981
A Doll's House
Torvald
1959
Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes
Narrator (voice over)
2006Captain Brassbound's Conversion
Captain Brassbound
1960
Nobody Runs Forever
Sir James Quentin
1968
Skeletons
Reverend Carlyle
1997
Stage Struck
Joe Sheridan
1958
The Dinosaur Hunter
Hump Hinton
2000
Lock Up Your Daughters
Lord Foppington
1969
International Velvet
John Seaton
1978
Hamlet at Elsinore
Hamlet
1964A Short Film About Making Beginners
2011
The First Circle
Viktor Abakumov
1992
Emotional Arithmetic
David Winters
2008
On Golden Pond
Norman Thayer
2001
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
Narrator (voice)
1964
Berlin Lady
Wilhelm Speer
1991
Lily in Love
Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova
1984
Salzburg Sight and Sound
Self
1965
Souvenir
Ernst Kestner
1989
My Dog Tulip
J.R. Ackerley (voice)
2010
Titans of the Ice Age
Narrator
2013
Mindfield
Doctor Satorius
1989
We the Jury
Wilfred Fransiscus
1996
Secrets
Mel Wexler
1992
The River of My Dreams
Himself
2017
The Disappearance
Deverell
1977
The Happy Prince
The Happy Prince (voice)
197430 Minutes, Mister Plummer
Self
1963
The Shadow Box
Brian
1980
The Spiral Staircase
Dr. Joe Sherman
1975
The Captains: Still Kicking
Self
2013
Hidden Agenda
Ulrich Steiner
1999
Little Moon of Alban
Kenneth Boyd
1958
Kali, the Little Vampire
Narrator (english version)
2012
Money
Martin Yahl
1991Madeline at the Ballet
Narrator (voice)
Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic
Narrator
1993
Discovering Hamlet
Self
2011
Madeline and the Gypsies
Narrator (voice)
1991
Liar's Edge
Harry Weldon
1992Night Flight
'Flash' Harry Peters
2002
Agent of Influence
John Watkins
2002
Nabokov on Kafka
Vladimir Nabokov
1989
I Love N.Y.
John Robertson Yeats
1987Madeline and the Bad Hat
Narrator (voice)
1991
After the Fall
Quentin
1974The Untold Story of The Sound of Music: A Diane Sawyer Special
Self
2015
Kalahari: The Flooded Desert
Narrator (voice)
2021
The Tempest
Prospero
2010
Four Minutes
Archie Mason
2005
Blackheart
Holmes
1998
The Pyx
Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson
1973
Full Disclosure
Robert Lecker
2001
The Arrow
George Hees
1997
Spearfield's Daughter
Lord Jack Cruze
1986
Desperate Voyage
Jacques Burrifous
1980
American Tragedy
F. Lee Bailey
2000
Caesar and Cleopatra
Caesar
2009Cyrano De Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac
1962
Firehead
Col. Garland Vaughn
1991
Riel
Prime Minister John A. Macdonald
1979
Shadow Dancing
Edmund Beaumont
1988Madeline in London
Narrator (voice)
1991
Behind the Wall: The Making of Skyrim
Self
2012
The First Christmas
Narrator (voice)
1998
Madeline's Christmas
Narrator (voice)
1990
Barrymore
John Barrymore
2012Barrymore
Executive Producer
2012
The Tin Soldier
Narrator (voice)
1986
Madeline
Narrator (voice)
1988
Being Different
Self (Narrator) (voice)
1981
The Velveteen Rabbit
Narrator (voice)
1985Ted Allan: Minstrel Boy of the 20th Century
Narrator (voice)
The Assignment
Kaptain Behounek
1977
Hamlet {Solo}
Self
2007Trans-Canada Journey
Narrator (voice)
1963
Silver Blaze
Sherlock Holmes
1977
The Nightingale
Narrator (voice)
1987
The Little Crooked Christmas Tree
Narrator
1990
Mooseltoe
Mooseking
2021Johnny Belinda
Dr. Jack Pelletier
1958Portraits of Canada
Narrator (voice)
1987