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:
- 206
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Madeline at the Ballet
- Latest Project:
- Movie Heroes of the Golden Mask 2023-07-13
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Madeline at the Ballet | Narrator (voice) | 2026 |
| Movie | Heroes of the Golden Mask | Rizzo (voice) | 2023-07-13 |
| Movie | Bondarchuk. Battle | self | 2021-09-30 |
| Movie | The Last Full Measure | Frank Pitsenbarger | 2020-01-23 |
| Movie | Knives Out | Harlan Thrombey | 2019-11-27 |
| Movie | Alan Pakula: Going for Truth | Self | 2019-10-12 |
| Movie | Boundaries | Jack Jaconi | 2018-06-22 |
| Movie | Howard Lovecraft & The Kingdom Of Madness | Dr. Jeffrey West (voice) | 2018-12-04 |
| Movie | The River of My Dreams | Himself | 2017-01-27 |
| Movie | The Exception | Kaiser Wilhelm II | 2017-06-02 |
| Movie | Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom | Dr. West (voice) | 2017-09-23 |
| Movie | The Star | King Herod (voice) | 2017-11-15 |
| Movie | The Man Who Invented Christmas | Scrooge | 2017-10-12 |
| 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 | Remember | Zev Guttman | 2015-10-23 |
| 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 | Pixies | Pixie King (voice) | 2015-06-05 |
| 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 Captains: Still Kicking | Himself | 2013-01-08 |
| Movie | Titans of the Ice Age | Narrator | 2013-02-15 |
| Movie | The Legend of Sarila | Croolik (voice) | 2013-02-21 |
| 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 | Barrymore | John Barrymore | 2012-05-25 |
| Movie | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Henrik Vanger | 2011-12-14 |
| Movie | Priest | Monsignor Orelas | 2011-05-05 |
| Movie | Beginners | Hal Fields | 2011-06-03 |
| Movie | Discovering Hamlet | Self | 2011-11-01 |
| Movie | My Dog Tulip | J.R. Ackerley (voice) | 2010-01-05 |
| Movie | The Tempest | Prospero | 2010-11-20 |
| Series | Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood | Narrator | 2010-11-01 |
| Movie | Up | Charles F. Muntz (voice) | 2009-05-28 |
| Movie | Caesar and Cleopatra | Caesar | 2009-01-23 |
| Movie | 9 | #1 (voice) | 2009-08-19 |
| Movie | The Last Station | Leo Tolstoy | 2009-09-04 |
| Movie | The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | Doctor Parnassus | 2009-10-01 |
| Series | The Summit | P.J. Aimes | 2008-06-15 |
| Movie | Emotional Arithmetic | David Winters | 2008-04-18 |
| Movie | Man in the Chair | Flash Madden | 2007-01-27 |
| Movie | Closing the Ring | Jack | 2007-09-14 |
| Movie | Already Dead | Dr. Heller | 2007-12-11 |
| Movie | Inside Man | Arthur Case | 2006-03-17 |
| Movie | Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film | Self | 2006-03-27 |
| Movie | The Lake House | Simon Wyler | 2006-06-16 |
| Movie | Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes | Narrator (voice over) | 2006-10-25 |
| Series | Miracle Planet | Himself - Host | 2005-04-22 |
| Movie | Our Fathers | Cardinal Bernard Law | 2005-05-11 |
| Movie | Must Love Dogs | Bill | 2005-07-21 |
| Movie | Syriana | Dean Whiting | 2005-11-23 |
| Movie | Four Minutes | Archie Mason | 2005-10-06 |
| Movie | The New World | Captain Newport | 2005-12-25 |
| Movie | Alexander | Aristotle | 2004-11-21 |
| Movie | National Treasure | John Adams Gates | 2004-11-19 |
| Movie | Blizzard | Santa Claus | 2003-05-15 |
| Movie | The Life Of Jesus | Narrator | 2003-06-01 |
| Movie | The Gospel of John | Narrator (voice) | 2003-09-11 |
| Movie | Cold Creek Manor | Mr. Massie | 2003-09-19 |
| 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 | On Golden Pond | Norman Thayer | 2001-04-29 |
| Movie | A Beautiful Mind | Dr. Rosen | 2001-12-14 |
| Movie | Full Disclosure | Robert Lecker | 2001-05-15 |
| Movie | Lucky Break | Graham Mortimer | 2001-08-24 |
| 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 | Dracula 2000 | Matthew Van Helsing | 2000-12-22 |
| Movie | American Tragedy | F. Lee Bailey | 2000-11-12 |
| Movie | Madeline: Lost in Paris | Narrator (voice) | 1999-08-02 |
| Movie | The Insider | Mike Wallace | 1999-10-28 |
| 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 |
| Series | The Arrow | George Hees | 1997-01-12 |
| 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 | We the Jury | Wilfred Fransiscus | 1996-10-16 |
| Movie | The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys' | Self | 1996-11-05 |
| Movie | Twelve Monkeys | Dr. Goines | 1995-12-29 |
| Movie | Dolores Claiborne | John Mackey | 1995-03-24 |
| Movie | Harrison Bergeron | John Klaxon | 1995-08-13 |
| 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 | 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 | Impolite | Naples O'Rorke | 1992-09-16 |
| Series | Young Catherine | Sir Charles | 1991-02-17 |
| Movie | Firehead | Col. Garland Vaughn | 1991-01-25 |
| Series | Berlin Lady | Wilhelm Speer | 1991-01-01 |
| Movie | Madeline and the Bad Hat | Narrator (voice) | 1991-03-03 |
| Movie | Madeline in London | Narrator (voice) | 1991-11-28 |
| Movie | Money | Martin Yahl | 1991-04-06 |
| Movie | Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | Chang | 1991-12-06 |
| Movie | Madeline and the Gypsies | Narrator (voice) | 1991-10-14 |
| Movie | Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead | Howard | 1991-06-07 |
| Movie | Rock-A-Doodle | Grand Duke (voice) | 1991-08-02 |
| Movie | The Gnomes' Great Adventure | Narrator | 1990-01-01 |
| Movie | Where the Heart Is | Shitty | 1990-02-23 |
| Movie | Red Blooded American Girl | Dr. John Alcore | 1990-10-04 |
| Movie | Madeline's Christmas | Narrator (voice) | 1990-11-22 |
| Series | Counterstrike | Alexander Addington | 1990-07-01 |
| Movie | A Ghost in Monte Carlo | The Grand Duke Ivan | 1990-04-02 |
| Movie | The First Emperor of China | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1989-01-01 |
| Movie | Mindfield | Doctor Satorius | 1989-12-15 |
| Movie | Souvenir | Ernst Kestner | 1989-01-06 |
| Movie | Nabokov on Kafka | Vladimir Nabokov | 1989-08-06 |
| Movie | The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Narrator (voice) | 1988-10-01 |
| Movie | Nosferatu in Venice | Professor Paris Catalano | 1988-09-10 |
| Series | American Experience | Narrator | 1988-10-04 |
| Movie | Shadow Dancing | Edmund Beaumont | 1988-12-02 |
| Series | Madeline | Narrator | 1988-11-07 |
| Movie | Madeline | Narrator (voice) | 1988-11-07 |
| Movie | The Nightingale | Narrator (voice) | 1987-01-01 |
| Movie | I Love N.Y. | John Robertson Yeats | 1987-05-04 |
| Movie | A Hazard of Hearts | Sir Giles Staverley | 1987-12-27 |
| Movie | The Man Who Planted Trees | Narrator (voice: English version) | 1987-05-13 |
| Movie | Dragnet | Reverend Jonathan Whirley | 1987-06-26 |
| Movie | The Tin Soldier | Narrator (voice) | 1986-01-01 |
| Movie | The Boy in Blue | Knox | 1986-01-17 |
| Movie | The Boss' Wife | Mr. Roalvang | 1986-01-01 |
| Movie | Spearfield's Daughter | Lord Jack Cruze | 1986-05-25 |
| Movie | An American Tail | Henri (voice) | 1986-11-21 |
| Series | Crossings | Armand DeVilliers | 1986-02-23 |
| Movie | The Velveteen Rabbit | Narrator (voice) | 1985-04-02 |
| Series | The World of David the Gnome | Narrator (voice) | 1985-10-26 |
| Movie | Rumpelstiltskin | Narrator | 1985-12-14 |
| Movie | Ordeal by Innocence | Leo Argyle | 1984-06-22 |
| Series | The Cosby Show | Unknown | 1984-09-20 |
| Movie | Dreamscape | Bob Blair | 1984-08-15 |
| Movie | Lily in Love | Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova | 1984-10-17 |
| 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 |
| Series | SuperTed | Unknown | 1983-10-04 |
| 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 |
| Series | Nature | Unknown | 1982-10-10 |
| Movie | When the Circus Came to Town | Duke Royal | 1981-01-20 |
| Movie | Eyewitness | Joseph | 1981-02-13 |
| Movie | The Amateur | Professor Lakos | 1981-12-11 |
| Movie | Dial M for Murder | Tony Wendice | 1981-04-09 |
| Movie | Being Different | Self (Narrator) (voice) | 1981-08-21 |
| 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 | Murder by Decree | Sherlock Holmes | 1979-02-01 |
| Movie | Riel | Prime Minister John A. Macdonald | 1979-04-11 |
| Movie | Hanover Street | Paul Sellinger | 1979-05-18 |
| Movie | Starcrash | The Emperor | 1978-12-21 |
| Movie | International Velvet | John Seaton | 1978-07-19 |
| Movie | The Silent Partner | Reikle | 1978-09-07 |
| Movie | Silver Blaze | Sherlock Holmes | 1977-01-20 |
| Movie | The Assignment | Kaptain Behounek | 1977-07-11 |
| Series | Jesus of Nazareth | Herod Antipas | 1977-03-27 |
| 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. Joe Sherman | 1975-01-31 |
| Movie | The Return of the Pink Panther | Sir Charles Litton | 1975-05-21 |
| Movie | Conduct Unbecoming | Maggiore Alastair Wimbourne | 1975-10-04 |
| 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 | 1974-12-10 |
| 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 | The Royal Hunt of the Sun | Atahualpa | 1969-10-05 |
| Movie | Lock Up Your Daughters | Lord Foppington | 1969-03-29 |
| 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 | 1966-02-10 |
| Movie | The Sound of Music | Captain Georg von Trapp | 1965-03-29 |
| Movie | Hamlet at Elsinore | Hamlet | 1964-04-15 |
| Movie | The Fall of the Roman Empire | Commodus | 1964-03-24 |
| Movie | 30 Minutes, Mister Plummer | Himself | 1963-01-01 |
| Movie | Captain Brassbound's Conversion | Captain Brassbound | 1960-03-02 |
| Movie | Johnny Belinda | Dr. Jack Pelletier | 1958-10-13 |
| Movie | Stage Struck | Joe Sheridan | 1958-04-22 |
| Movie | Wind Across the Everglades | Walt Murdock | 1958-09-11 |
| Series | General Electric Theater | Unknown | 1953-02-01 |
| Series | The Oscars | Christopher Plummer | 1953-03-19 |
| Series | Omnibus | Unknown | 1952-11-09 |
| Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |
| Series | Suspense | Unknown | 1949-01-06 |
| Series | Studio One | Unknown | 1948-11-07 |
| Series | The Ed Sullivan Show | Unknown | 1948-06-20 |