Christopher Plummer

Acting · 3.8 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

Knives Out

20197.8

20098.0

The Sound of Music

19657.7

Twelve Monkeys

19957.6

A Beautiful Mind

20017.9

Inside Man

20067.4

National Treasure

20046.7

Alexander

20046.0

The Star

20176.5

20097.0

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

20117.4

Priest

20115.9

The Insider

19997.5

The Lake House

20067.0

Malcolm X

19927.6

All the Money in the World

20176.5

An American Tail

19866.8

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

20096.4

The New World

20056.5

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

19917.0

Danny Collins

20156.7

Dracula 2000

20005.2

Rock-A-Doodle

19916.2

Somewhere in Time

19807.5

The Man Who Invented Christmas

20176.8

Nicholas Nickleby

20026.9

Must Love Dogs

20055.9

The Fall of the Roman Empire

19646.5

Wolf

19946.1

Dolores Claiborne

19957.3

Syriana

20056.4

The Return of the Pink Panther

19756.8

Cold Creek Manor

20035.4

Waterloo

19707.1

The Last Full Measure

20207.3

Battle of Britain

19696.8

Remember

20157.4

The Man Who Would Be King

19757.5

Hector and the Search for Happiness

20146.7

The Forger

20145.8

Dragnet

19876.0

The Night of the Generals

19676.8

Beginners

20116.8

Hanover Street

19795.6

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

20127.5

The Gospel of John

20037.6

The Exception

20176.9

Babes in Toyland

19975.3

Closing the Ring

20076.2

The Scarlet and the Black

19837.0

Dreamscape

19846.1

Ararat

20026.1

Triple Cross

19666.1

Starcrash

19784.3

The Last Station

20096.4

Murder by Decree

19796.3

The Amateur

19815.4

Lily in Love

19846.3

Nabokov on Kafka

19897.5

Heroes of the Golden Mask

20236.5

The Silent Partner

19787.1

Aces High

19765.9

Ordeal by Innocence

19845.1

Bondarchuk. Battle

2021

Nosferatu in Venice

19885.8

Pixies

20155.0

Possessed

20005.4

The First Emperor of China

19895.3

Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady

19826.0

Eyewitness

19815.6

Souvenir

19896.0

Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold

199410.0

The Legend of Sarila

20134.9

Boundaries

20185.6

Where the Heart Is

19906.2

The Boss' Wife

19865.0

Our Fathers

20056.5

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

20136.4

Already Dead

20075.6

Blizzard

20036.0

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth

20196.5

Highpoint

19845.1

Winchell

19986.3

Impolite

199210.0

Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom

20174.2

Night of 100 Stars

19825.8

The River of My Dreams

2017

Prototype

19836.3

Discovering Hamlet

20117.5

Red Blooded American Girl

19903.9

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

19888.2

Inside Daisy Clover

19665.6

Kali, the Little Vampire

20126.5

Salzburg Sight and Sound

19659.0

Lucky Break

20016.2

Oedipus the King

19686.0

Harrison Bergeron

19956.8

Hamlet at Elsinore

19648.0

The Boy in Blue

19865.1

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

2006

Elsa & Fred

20145.9

Stage Struck

19586.0

The Pyx

19735.4

Wind Across the Everglades

19586.2

Arthur Miller on Home Ground

197910.0

Hidden Agenda

19993.3

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

1964

American Tragedy

20005.8

The Day That Shook the World

19756.1

Madeline's Christmas

19905.3

Cliffs of Freedom

20197.1

A Hazard of Hearts

19877.8

The Conspiracy of Fear

19968.3

Madeline: Lost in Paris

19996.8

Howard Lovecraft & The Kingdom Of Madness

20184.5

30 Minutes, Mister Plummer

19638.0

Captain Brassbound's Conversion

1960

A Stranger in the Mirror

19933.5

The Disappearance

19775.6

Lock Up Your Daughters

19696.0

Crackerjack

19944.1

International Velvet

19787.4

Nobody Runs Forever

19686.0

My Dog Tulip

20106.4

A Ghost in Monte Carlo

19905.3

Conduct Unbecoming

19755.9

Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom

20164.7

Money

19915.5

Kalahari: The Flooded Desert

202110.0

Dial M for Murder

19816.1

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster

20216.3

After the Fall

19748.0

Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic

19937.7

Spearfield's Daughter

19868.0

The Dinosaur Hunter

20006.1

Skeletons

19974.2

The Life of Jesus

2003

Madeline at the Ballet

20262.0

We the Jury

19967.0

Secrets

19925.0

The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys'

19967.0

The Arrow

19977.0

Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages

20024.7

Mindfield

19894.8

Riel

19796.0

The Royal Hunt of the Sun

19696.1

Emotional Arithmetic

20085.5

Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story

202210.0

Rumpelstiltskin

19853.0

Full Disclosure

20014.5

Titans of the Ice Age

20137.1

A Short Film About Making Beginners

2011

The Assignment

19776.8

The First Circle

19925.0

Back To "Somewhere In Time"

20008.0

On Golden Pond

20018.3

Madeline

19885.5

Man in the Chair

20076.5

Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes

20068.0

The Happy Prince

19746.2

The Captains: Still Kicking

20136.0

Desperate Voyage

19807.3

Night Flight

20027.5

The Clown at Midnight

19994.5

The Shadow Box

19805.0

Caesar and Cleopatra

2009

Madeline in London

1991

Blackheart

19984.2

Trans-Canada Journey

19638.0

Agent of Influence

20027.2

Liar's Edge

19924.5

Hamlet {Solo}

2007

Firehead

19912.9

Being Different

19816.8

Cyrano De Bergerac

19629.0

When the Circus Came to Town

19817.3

The Tempest

20108.0

Portraits of Canada

19877.0

Shadow Dancing

19884.2

Silver Blaze

19778.0

I Love N.Y.

19875.8

The Little Crooked Christmas Tree

19908.0

Madeline and the Bad Hat

1991

Johnny Belinda

1958

A Doll's House

195910.0

The Spiral Staircase

19755.2

Four Minutes

20054.9

The Velveteen Rabbit

19855.8

Behind the Wall: The Making of Skyrim

2012

Madeline and the Gypsies

19916.0

The First Christmas

19986.7

Little Moon of Alban

195810.0

The Nightingale

1987

Mooseltoe

2021

Barrymore

20126.4

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

20157.0

The Tin Soldier

19866.0

Ted Allan: Minstrel Boy of the 20th Century

20268.0