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. 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:
- 194
- First Appeared:
- Movie Bondarchuk. Battle 2021-09-30
- Latest Project:
- In the series The Ed Sullivan Show 1948-06-20
Known For
Filmography
| 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 | Cliffs of Freedom | Thanasi | 2019-03-01 |
| Movie | Alan Pakula: Going for Truth | Self | 2019-10-12 |
| Series | Departure | Howard Lawson | 2019-07-10 |
| Movie | Boundaries | Jack Jaconi | 2018-06-22 |
| Movie | Howard Lovecraft and the Kingdom of Madness | Dr. West (Voice) | 2018-12-04 |
| Movie | Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom | Dr. West (voice) | 2017-09-23 |
| Movie | The River of My Dreams | Himself | 2017-01-27 |
| 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 | John Paul Getty | 2017-12-21 |
| Movie | Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom | Dr. West (voice) | 2016-08-20 |
| Movie | Remember | Zev Gutman | 2015-10-23 |
| Movie | Pixies | Pixie King (voice) | 2015-06-05 |
| Movie | Danny Collins | Frank Grubman | 2015-03-19 |
| Movie | The Untold Story of The Sound of Music: A Diane Sawyer Special | Himself | 2015-03-16 |
| Movie | The Forger | Joseph Cutter | 2014-09-10 |
| Movie | Hector and the Search for Happiness | Professor Coreman | 2014-08-14 |
| Movie | Elsa & Fred | Fred Bancroft | 2014-03-07 |
| Movie | Titans of the Ice Age | Narrator | 2013-02-15 |
| Movie | Still Kicking | Himself | 2013-01-08 |
| Movie | The Legend of Sarila | Croolik (voice) | 2013-02-21 |
| Movie | Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight | John Marshall Harlan | 2013-10-04 |
| 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 | Beginners | Hal Fields | 2011-06-09 |
| Movie | Priest | Monsignor Orelas | 2011-05-05 |
| Movie | The Tempest | Prospero | 2010-11-20 |
| Series | Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood | Narrator | 2010-11-01 |
| Movie | My Dog Tulip | J.R. Ackerley (voice) | 2010-01-05 |
| Movie | Caesar and Cleopatra | Caesar | 2009-01-23 |
| Movie | Up | Charles F. Muntz (voice) | 2009-05-28 |
| 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 | Already Dead | Dr. Heller | 2007-12-11 |
| Movie | Closing the Ring | Jack | 2007-09-14 |
| Movie | Man in the Chair | Flash Madden | 2007-01-27 |
| Movie | Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes | Kommentator | 2006-10-25 |
| Movie | The Lake House | Simon Wyler | 2006-06-16 |
| Movie | Inside Man | Arthur Case | 2006-03-17 |
| 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 | Four Minutes | Archie Mason | 2005-10-06 |
| Movie | Syriana | Dean Whiting | 2005-11-23 |
| 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 | Cold Creek Manor | Mr. Massie | 2003-09-19 |
| Movie | The Gospel of John | Narrator (voice) | 2003-09-11 |
| Movie | Blizzard | Santa Claus | 2003-05-15 |
| Movie | Nicholas Nickleby | Ralph Nickleby | 2002-12-27 |
| Movie | Agent of Influence | John Watkins | 2002-06-30 |
| Movie | Ararat | David | 2002-05-20 |
| Movie | Night Flight | 2002-02-02 | |
| Movie | On Golden Pond | Norman Thayer | 2001-04-29 |
| Movie | Lucky Break | Graham Mortimer | 2001-08-24 |
| Movie | A Beautiful Mind | Dr. Rosen | 2001-12-14 |
| Movie | Full Disclosure | Robert Lecker | 2001-05-15 |
| Movie | Dracula 2000 | Matthew Van Helsing | 2000-12-22 |
| Movie | American Tragedy | F. Lee Bailey | 2000-11-12 |
| Movie | Possessed | Archbishop Hume | 2000-10-22 |
| Movie | The Dinosaur Hunter | Hump Hinton | 2000-08-05 |
| Series | Nuremberg | Sir David Maxwell Fyfe | 2000-07-16 |
| Movie | Hidden Agenda | Ulrich Steiner | 1999-11-02 |
| Movie | The Insider | Mike Wallace | 1999-10-28 |
| Movie | Madeline: Lost in Paris | Narrator | 1999-08-02 |
| Movie | The First Christmas | Narrator | 1998-01-01 |
| Movie | Winchell | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1998-11-21 |
| Movie | The Clown at Midnight | Mr. Caruthers | 1998-01-01 |
| Movie | Blackheart | Holmes | 1998-01-01 |
| Movie | Babes in Toyland | Barnaby Crookedman (voice) | 1997-10-14 |
| Movie | Skeletons | Reverend Carlyle | 1997-04-04 |
| Movie | The Arrow | George Hees | 1997-01-12 |
| Movie | The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys' | Himself | 1996-11-05 |
| Movie | The Conspiracy of Fear | Wakeman | 1996-01-01 |
| Movie | Twelve Monkeys | Dr. Goines | 1995-12-29 |
| Movie | Harrison Bergeron | John Klaxon | 1995-08-13 |
| Movie | Dolores Claiborne | John Mackey | 1995-03-24 |
| 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 | A Stranger in the Mirror | Clifton Lawrence | 1993-10-24 |
| Movie | Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic | Narrator | 1993-01-01 |
| Movie | Malcolm X | Chaplain Gill | 1992-11-18 |
| Movie | Impolite | Naples O'Rorke | 1992-09-16 |
| Movie | Secrets | Mel Wexler | 1992-04-06 |
| Movie | Liar's Edge | Harry Weldon | 1992-02-14 |
| Series | Berlin Lady | Wilhelm Speer | 1991-01-01 |
| Movie | Firehead | Col. Garland Vaughn | 1991-01-25 |
| Series | Young Catherine | Sir Charles | 1991-02-17 |
| Movie | Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead | Howard | 1991-06-07 |
| Movie | Money | Martin Yahl | 1991-04-06 |
| Movie | Rock-A-Doodle | Grand Duke (voice) | 1991-08-02 |
| Movie | Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | General Chang | 1991-12-06 |
| Movie | Red Blooded American Girl | Dr. John Alcore | 1990-10-04 |
| Series | Counterstrike | 1990-07-01 | |
| Movie | A Ghost in Monte Carlo | The Grand Duke Ivan | 1990-04-02 |
| Movie | Where the Heart Is | Shitty | 1990-02-23 |
| Movie | The Gnomes' Great Adventure | Narrator | 1990-01-01 |
| Movie | The Little Crooked Christmas Tree | Narrator | 1990-12-01 |
| Movie | Mindfield | Doctor Satorius | 1989-12-15 |
| Movie | Nabokov on Kafka | Vladimir Nabokov | 1989-08-06 |
| Movie | Souvenir | Ernst Kestner | 1989-01-06 |
| Movie | The First Emperor of China | Narrator | 1989-01-01 |
| Movie | Nosferatu in Venice | Professor Paris Catalano | 1988-09-10 |
| Series | Madeline | 1988-09-09 | |
| Movie | Shadow Dancing | Edmund Beaumont | 1988-12-02 |
| Movie | The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Narrator (voice) | 1988-10-01 |
| Series | American Experience | Narrator | 1988-10-04 |
| Movie | A Hazard of Hearts | Sir Giles Staverley | 1987-12-27 |
| Movie | Dragnet | Reverend Jonathan Whirley | 1987-06-23 |
| Movie | The Man Who Planted Trees | Narrator (voice: English version) | 1987-05-13 |
| Movie | I Love N.Y. | John Robertson Yeats | 1987-05-04 |
| Movie | The Nightingale | Narrator (voice) | 1987-01-01 |
| Movie | The Tin Soldier | Narrator (voice) | 1986-01-01 |
| Movie | The Boss' Wife | Mr. Roalvang | 1986-01-01 |
| Movie | The Boy in Blue | Knox | 1986-01-17 |
| Series | Crossings | Armand DeVilliers | 1986-02-23 |
| Movie | An American Tail | Henri (voice) | 1986-11-21 |
| Movie | Rumpelstiltskin | Narrator | 1985-12-14 |
| Series | The World of David the Gnome | 1985-10-26 | |
| Movie | The Velveteen Rabbit | Narrator | 1985-04-02 |
| Movie | Lily in Love | Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova | 1984-10-17 |
| Series | The Cosby Show | Unknown | 1984-09-20 |
| Movie | Dreamscape | Bob Blair | 1984-08-15 |
| Movie | Ordeal by Innocence | Leo Argyle | 1984-06-22 |
| Movie | The Scarlet and the Black | Col. Herbert Kappler | 1983-02-02 |
| Series | The Thorn Birds | Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese | 1983-03-27 |
| Series | SuperTed | Unknown | 1983-10-04 |
| Movie | Prototype | Dr. Carl Forrester | 1983-12-07 |
| Series | Little Gloria... Happy at Last | Reggie Vanderbilt | 1982-10-24 |
| Series | Nature | Unknown | 1982-10-10 |
| Movie | Highpoint | James Hatcher | 1982-08-20 |
| Movie | Night of 100 Stars | 1982-03-08 | |
| Movie | The Amateur | Professor Lakos | 1981-12-11 |
| Movie | Being Different | Narrator (voice) | 1981-08-21 |
| Movie | Dial M for Murder | Tony Wendice | 1981-04-09 |
| Movie | Eyewitness | Joseph | 1981-02-13 |
| Movie | The Shadow Box | Brian | 1980-09-30 |
| Movie | Desperate Voyage | Burrifous | 1980-11-29 |
| Movie | Somewhere in Time | William Fawcett Robinson | 1980-10-02 |
| Movie | Hanover Street | Paul Sellinger | 1979-05-18 |
| Movie | Murder by Decree | Sherlock Holmes | 1979-02-01 |
| Movie | Starcrash | The Emperor | 1978-12-21 |
| Movie | The Silent Partner | Reikle | 1978-09-07 |
| Movie | International Velvet | John Seaton | 1978-07-19 |
| Movie | The Disappearance | 1977-11-30 | |
| Movie | The Assignment | Kaptain Behounek | 1977-07-11 |
| Series | Jesus of Nazareth | Herod Antipas | 1977-03-27 |
| Movie | Silver Blaze | Sherlock Holmes | 1977-01-20 |
| Series | Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers | Roscoe Heyward | 1976-12-04 |
| Movie | Aces High | Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair | 1976-05-19 |
| Movie | The Man Who Would Be King | Rudyard Kipling | 1975-12-03 |
| Movie | The Day That Shook the World | Archduke Ferdinand | 1975-10-31 |
| Movie | The Return of the Pink Panther | Sir Charles Litton | 1975-05-21 |
| Movie | The Spiral Staircase | Dr. Joe Sherman | 1975-01-31 |
| Movie | Conduct Unbecoming | Maggiore Alastair Wimbourne | 1975-01-01 |
| Movie | The Happy Prince | The Happy Prince (voice) | 1974-12-02 |
| Movie | After the Fall | 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 | Nobody Runs Forever | Sir James Quentin | 1968-08-22 |
| Series | The Dick Cavett Show | Himself - Guest | 1968-06-06 |
| Movie | Oedipus the King | Oedipus | 1968-06-01 |
| 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 | 1965-12-22 |
| 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 Conversation | Captain Brassbound | 1960-03-02 |
| Movie | A Doll's House | Torvald Helmer | 1959-11-15 |
| Movie | Johnny Belinda | Dr. Jack Pelletier | 1958-10-13 |
| Movie | Wind Across the Everglades | Walt Murdock | 1958-09-11 |
| Movie | Stage Struck | Joe Sheridan | 1958-04-22 |
| Series | Tony Awards | Presenter | 1956-04-01 |
| Series | General Electric Theater | Unknown | 1953-02-01 |
| 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 |