Christopher Plummer

Acting · 3.7 popularity

Age

Movies

198

Born: December 13, 1929 – February 5, 2021
From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Biography

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".

Works

198 films

20098.0

Knives Out

20197.8

The Sound of Music

19657.7

Twelve Monkeys

19957.6

A Beautiful Mind

20017.9

Inside Man

20067.4

National Treasure

20046.7

20097.0

The Star

20176.5

Alexander

20046.0

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

20117.4

Priest

20115.9

The Insider

19997.5

The Lake House

20067.0

Malcolm X

19927.6

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

20096.4

All the Money in the World

20176.5

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

19917.0

An American Tail

19866.8

The New World

20056.5

The Man Who Invented Christmas

20176.8

Dracula 2000

20005.2

Danny Collins

20156.7

Somewhere in Time

19807.5

The Fall of the Roman Empire

19646.5

The Return of the Pink Panther

19756.8

Rock-A-Doodle

19916.2

Syriana

20056.4

Wolf

19946.1

Dolores Claiborne

19957.3

Waterloo

19707.1

The Man Who Would Be King

19757.5

Nicholas Nickleby

20026.9

The Last Full Measure

20207.3

Must Love Dogs

20055.9

Dragnet

19876.0

Battle of Britain

19696.8

Beginners

20116.8

Cold Creek Manor

20035.4

The Night of the Generals

19676.8

The Forger

20145.8

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

20127.5

Hector and the Search for Happiness

20146.7

The Exception

20176.9

The Gospel of John

20037.6

Remember

20157.4

Dreamscape

19846.1

Ararat

20026.1

Starcrash

19784.3

Hanover Street

19795.6

The Scarlet and the Black

19837.0

Triple Cross

19666.1

Nabokov on Kafka

19897.5

The Amateur

19815.4

Closing the Ring

20076.2

Murder by Decree

19796.3

The Last Station

20096.4

Babes in Toyland

19975.3

Heroes of the Golden Mask

20236.5

Aces High

19765.9

Nosferatu in Venice

19885.8

Bondarchuk. Battle

2021

Lily in Love

19846.3

Possessed

20005.4

The Silent Partner

19787.1

Pixies

20155.0

Ordeal by Innocence

19845.1

Night of 100 Stars

19825.8

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth

20196.5

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

20136.4

Blizzard

20036.0

Boundaries

20185.6

Eyewitness

19815.6

Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom

20174.2

Red Blooded American Girl

19903.9

Elsa & Fred

20145.9

Souvenir

19896.0

Winchell

19986.3

The Boss' Wife

19865.0

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

19888.2

The First Emperor of China

19895.3

The Legend of Sarila

20134.9

Highpoint

19845.1

Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady

19826.0

Inside Daisy Clover

19665.6

Impolite

199210.0

Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold

199410.0

Arthur Miller on Home Ground

197910.0

Already Dead

20075.6

Prototype

19836.3

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

2006

Harrison Bergeron

19956.8

Hamlet at Elsinore

19648.0

Wind Across the Everglades

19586.2

American Tragedy

20005.8

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster

20216.3

Lucky Break

20016.2

A Hazard of Hearts

19877.8

Our Fathers

20056.5

Cliffs of Freedom

20197.1

Where the Heart Is

19906.2

The Disappearance

19775.6

The Boy in Blue

19865.1

Oedipus the King

19686.0

Kali, the Little Vampire

20126.5

Howard Lovecraft & The Kingdom Of Madness

20184.5

Salzburg Sight and Sound

19659.0

The Pyx

19735.4

Captain Brassbound's Conversion

1960

Crackerjack

19944.1

Madeline: Lost in Paris

19996.8

My Dog Tulip

20106.4

The River of My Dreams

2017

Nobody Runs Forever

19686.0

Spearfield's Daughter

19868.0

Secrets

19925.0

A Ghost in Monte Carlo

19905.3

Conduct Unbecoming

19755.9

A Stranger in the Mirror

19933.5

Lock Up Your Daughters

19696.0

The Conspiracy of Fear

19968.3

Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom

20164.7

Skeletons

19974.2

Kalahari: The Flooded Desert

202110.0

Mindfield

19894.8

The Arrow

19977.0

We the Jury

19967.0

Madeline at the Ballet

20262.0

Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages

20024.7

Dial M for Murder

19816.1

The Royal Hunt of the Sun

19696.1

The First Circle

19925.0

International Velvet

19787.4

Stage Struck

19586.0

Titans of the Ice Age

20137.1

The Dinosaur Hunter

20006.1

Discovering Hamlet

20117.5

Rumpelstiltskin

19853.0

30 Minutes, Mister Plummer

19638.0

Hidden Agenda

19993.3

Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic

19937.7

The Clown at Midnight

19994.5

Emotional Arithmetic

20085.5

Madeline's Christmas

19905.3

The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys'

19967.0

A Short Film About Making Beginners

2011

Trans-Canada Journey

19638.0

Riel

19796.0

The Day That Shook the World

19756.1

Full Disclosure

20014.5

Night Flight

20027.5

An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy

1964

The Little Crooked Christmas Tree

19908.0

Caesar and Cleopatra

2009

On Golden Pond

20018.3

The Captains: Still Kicking

20136.0

Madeline in London

1991

The Life of Jesus

2003

When the Circus Came to Town

19817.3

Agent of Influence

20027.2

Desperate Voyage

19807.3

After the Fall

19748.0

Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes

20068.0

Back To "Somewhere In Time"

20008.0

Money

19915.5

Blackheart

19984.2

The Shadow Box

19805.0

Johnny Belinda

1958

Cyrano De Bergerac

19629.0

Firehead

19912.9

Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story

202210.0

Hamlet {Solo}

2007

Madeline and the Bad Hat

1991

The Happy Prince

19746.2

Madeline

19885.5

Man in the Chair

20076.5

A Doll's House

195910.0

Silver Blaze

19778.0

Portraits of Canada

19877.0

Liar's Edge

19924.5

The Tempest

20108.0

I Love N.Y.

19875.8

Four Minutes

20054.9

Madeline and the Gypsies

19916.0

Behind the Wall: The Making of Skyrim

2012

The Spiral Staircase

19755.2

Being Different

19816.8

The First Christmas

19986.7

Little Moon of Alban

195810.0

Shadow Dancing

19884.2

The Assignment

19776.8

The Velveteen Rabbit

19855.8

The Untold Story of The Sound of Music: A Diane Sawyer Special

20157.0

Barrymore

20126.4

Mooseltoe

2021

The Tin Soldier

19866.0

The Nightingale

1987

Ted Allan: Minstrel Boy of the 20th Century

20268.0