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Christopher Plummer

Known For: Acting
Born: December 13, 1929
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died: February 5, 2021

Christopher Plummer

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,…

Filmography

Heroes of the Golden Mask

2023 · Rizzo (voice)

Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story

Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story

2022 · Self

Mooseltoe

2021 · Mooseking

Kalahari: The Flooded Desert

2021 · Narrator (voice)

Bondarchuk. Battle

2021 · self

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster

2021 · Self

The Last Full Measure

2020 · Frank Pitsenbarger

Knives Out

2019 · Harlan Thrombey

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth

2019 · Self

Departure

2019 · Howard Lawson

Cliffs of Freedom

2019 · Thanasi

Howard Lovecraft & The Kingdom Of Madness

2018 · Dr. Jeffrey West (voice)

Boundaries

2018 · Jack

All the Money in the World

2017 · Jean Paul Getty

The Star

2017 · King Herod (voice)

The Man Who Invented Christmas

2017 · Scrooge

Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom

2017 · Dr. West (voice)

The Exception

2017 · Kaiser Wilhelm II

The River of My Dreams

2017 · Himself

Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom

2016 · Dr. West (voice)

Remember

2015 · Zev Guttman

Pixies

2015 · Pixie King (voice)

Danny Collins

2015 · Frank Grubman

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

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

2015 · Self

The Forger

2014 · Joseph Cutter

Hector and the Search for Happiness

2014 · Professor Coreman

Elsa & Fred

2014 · Fred

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

2013 · John Marshall Harlan

The Legend of Sarila

2013 · Croolik (voice)

Titans of the Ice Age

2013 · Narrator

The Captains: Still Kicking

2013 · Self

Kali, the Little Vampire

2012 · Narrator (english version)

Behind the Wall: The Making of Skyrim

2012 · Self

Barrymore

2012 · John Barrymore, Executive Producer

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

2012 · (archive footage)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

2011 · Henrik Vanger

Discovering Hamlet

2011 · Self

Beginners

2011 · Hal Fields

Priest

2011 · Monsignor Orelas

A Short Film About Making Beginners

A Short Film About Making Beginners

2011

The Tempest

2010 · Prospero

Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood

2010 · Self - Narrator (voice)

My Dog Tulip

2010 · J.R. Ackerley (voice)

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

2009 · Doctor Parnassus

The Last Station

2009 · Leo Tolstoy

9

2009 · #1 (voice)

Up

2009 · Charles Muntz (voice)

Caesar and Cleopatra

2009 · Caesar

The Summit

2008 · P.J. Aimes

Emotional Arithmetic

2008 · David Winters

Already Dead

2007 · Dr. Heller

Closing the Ring

2007 · Jack

Hamlet {Solo}

2007 · Self

Man in the Chair

2007 · Flash Madden

Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes

2006 · Narrator (voice over)

The Lake House

2006 · Simon Wyler

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

2006 · Self

Inside Man

2006 · Arthur Case

The New World

2005 · Captain Newport

Syriana

2005 · Dean Whiting

Four Minutes

2005 · Archie Mason

Must Love Dogs

2005 · Bill

Our Fathers

2005 · Cardinal Bernard Law

Miracle Planet

2005 · Himself - Host

Alexander

2004 · Aristotle

National Treasure

2004 · John Adams Gates

Cold Creek Manor

2003 · Mr. Massie

The Gospel of John

2003 · Narrator (voice)

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

2003 · Self

The Life of Jesus

2003 · Narrator

Blizzard

2003 · Santa Claus

Nicholas Nickleby

2002 · Ralph Nickleby

Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages

2002 · Self

Agent of Influence

2002 · John Watkins

Ararat

2002 · David

Night Flight

2002 · 'Flash' Harry Peters

A Beautiful Mind

2001 · Dr. Rosen

Lucky Break

2001 · Graham Mortimer

Full Disclosure

2001 · Robert Lecker

On Golden Pond

2001 · Norman Thayer

Dracula 2000

2000 · Matthew Van Helsing

American Tragedy

2000 · F. Lee Bailey

Back To "Somewhere In Time"

2000 · Self

Possessed

2000 · Archbishop Hume

The Dinosaur Hunter

2000 · Hump Hinton

Nuremberg

2000 · Sir David Maxwell Fyfe

Hidden Agenda

1999 · Ulrich Steiner

The Insider

1999 · Mike Wallace

Madeline: Lost in Paris

1999 · Narrator (voice)

The Clown at Midnight

1999 · Mr. Caruthers

Winchell

1998 · Franklin D. Roosevelt

Blackheart

1998 · Holmes

The First Christmas

1998 · Narrator (voice)

Babes in Toyland

1997 · Barnaby Crookedman (voice)

Skeletons

1997 · Reverend Carlyle

The Arrow

1997 · George Hees

The Arrow

1997 · George Hees

The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys'

1996 · Self

We the Jury

1996 · Wilfred Fransiscus

The Conspiracy of Fear

1996 · Wakeman

Twelve Monkeys

1995 · Dr. Goines

Harrison Bergeron

1995 · John Klaxon

Dolores Claiborne

1995 · John Mackey

Crackerjack

1994 · Ivan Getz

Wolf

1994 · Raymond Alden

Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold

1994 · Self (archive footage)

A Stranger in the Mirror

1993 · Clifton Lawrence

Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic

1993 · Narrator

Malcolm X

1992 · Chaplain Gill

Impolite

1992 · Naples O'Rorke

Secrets

1992 · Mel Wexler

The First Circle

1992 · Viktor Abakumov

Liar's Edge

1992 · Harry Weldon

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

1991 · Chang

Madeline in London

Madeline in London

1991 · Narrator (voice)

Madeline and the Gypsies

1991 · Narrator (voice)

Rock-A-Doodle

1991 · Grand Duke (voice)

Money

1991 · Martin Yahl

Madeline and the Bad Hat

Madeline and the Bad Hat

1991 · Narrator (voice)

Young Catherine

1991 · Sir Charles

Firehead

1991 · Col. Garland Vaughn

Berlin Lady

1991 · Wilhelm Speer

The Little Crooked Christmas Tree

1990 · Narrator

Madeline's Christmas

1990 · Narrator (voice)

Red Blooded American Girl

1990 · Dr. John Alcore

Counterstrike

1990 · Alexander Addington

A Ghost in Monte Carlo

1990 · The Grand Duke Ivan

Where the Heart Is

1990 · Shitty

Mindfield

1989 · Doctor Satorius

Nabokov on Kafka

1989 · Vladimir Nabokov

Souvenir

1989 · Ernst Kestner

The First Emperor of China

1989 · Self - Narrator (voice)

Shadow Dancing

1988 · Edmund Beaumont

Madeline

1988 · Narrator (voice)

Madeline

1988 · Narrator (voice)

American Experience

1988 · Narrator

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

1988 · Narrator (voice)

Nosferatu in Venice

1988 · Professor Paris Catalano

A Hazard of Hearts

1987 · Sir Giles Staverley

Dragnet

1987 · Reverend Jonathan Whirley

I Love N.Y.

1987 · John Robertson Yeats

Portraits of Canada

Portraits of Canada

1987 · Narrator (voice)

The Nightingale

1987 · Narrator (voice)

An American Tail

1986 · Henri (voice)

Spearfield's Daughter

1986 · Lord Jack Cruze

Crossings

1986 · Armand DeVilliers

The Boy in Blue

1986 · Knox

The Boss' Wife

1986 · Mr. Roalvang

The Tin Soldier

1986 · Narrator (voice)

Rumpelstiltskin

1985 · Narrator

The Velveteen Rabbit

1985 · Narrator (voice)

Lily in Love

1984 · Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova

The Cosby Show

1984 · Jonathan Lawrence

Dreamscape

1984 · Bob Blair

Ordeal by Innocence

1984 · Leo Argyle

Prototype

1983 · Dr. Carl Forrester

SuperTed

1983

The Thorn Birds

1983 · Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese

The Scarlet and the Black

1983 · Col. Herbert Kappler

Little Gloria... Happy at Last

1982 · Reggie Vanderbilt

Nature

1982 · Narrator (voice)

Highpoint

1982 · James Hatcher

Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady

1982

Night of 100 Stars

1982 · Self

The Amateur

1981 · Professor Lakos

Being Different

1981 · Self (Narrator) (voice)

Dial M for Murder

1981 · Tony Wendice

Eyewitness

1981 · Joseph

When the Circus Came to Town

1981 · Duke Royal

Desperate Voyage

1980 · Jacques Burrifous

Somewhere in Time

1980 · William Fawcett 'W.F.' Robinson

The Shadow Box

1980 · Brian

Arthur Miller on Home Ground

1979

Hanover Street

1979 · Paul Sellinger

Riel

1979 · Prime Minister John A. Macdonald

Murder by Decree

1979 · Sherlock Holmes

Starcrash

1978 · The Emperor

The Silent Partner

1978 · Reikle

International Velvet

1978 · John Seaton

The Disappearance

1977 · Deverell

The Assignment

1977 · Kaptain Behounek

The Sunday Drama

The Sunday Drama

1977 · Sherlock Holmes

Jesus of Nazareth

1977 · Herod Antipas

Silver Blaze

1977 · Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers

1976 · Roscoe Heyward

Aces High

1976 · Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair

The Man Who Would Be King

1975 · Rudyard Kipling

The Day That Shook the World

1975 · Archduke Ferdinand

Conduct Unbecoming

1975 · Major Alastair Wimbourne

The Return of the Pink Panther

1975 · Sir Charles Litton

The Spiral Staircase

1975 · Dr. Joe Sherman

After the Fall

1974 · Quentin

The Happy Prince

1974 · The Happy Prince (voice)

The Pyx

1973 · Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson

Film '72

1971 · Self

Waterloo

1970 · Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

The Royal Hunt of the Sun

1969 · Atahualpa

Battle of Britain

1969 · Squadron Leader Colin Harvey

Lock Up Your Daughters

1969 · Lord Foppington

Nobody Runs Forever

1968 · Sir James Quentin

The Dick Cavett Show

1968 · Self - Guest

Oedipus the King

1968 · Oedipus

Omnibus

1967 · Narrator

The Night of the Generals

1967 · Field Marshal Rommel

Triple Cross

1966 · Freddie Chapman

Inside Daisy Clover

1966 · Raymond Swan

BBC Play of the Month

1965 · Don Juan

The Sound of Music

1965 · Captain Georg von Trapp

Salzburg Sight and Sound

1965 · Self

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

1964 · Narrator (voice)

Hamlet at Elsinore

1964 · Hamlet

The Fall of the Roman Empire

1964 · Commodus

Trans-Canada Journey

Trans-Canada Journey

1963 · Narrator (voice)

30 Minutes, Mister Plummer

30 Minutes, Mister Plummer

1963 · Himself

Cyrano De Bergerac

Cyrano De Bergerac

1962 · Cyrano de Bergerac

The Mike Douglas Show

1961 · Self

Captain Brassbound's Conversion

Captain Brassbound's Conversion

1960 · Captain Brassbound

A Doll's House

1959 · Torvald

NBC Sunday Showcase

NBC Sunday Showcase

1959

Johnny Belinda

1958 · Dr. Jack Pelletier

Wind Across the Everglades

1958 · Walt Murdock

Stage Struck

1958 · Joe Sheridan

Little Moon of Alban

1958 · Kenneth Boyd

DuPont Show of the Month

1957 · Sir Miles Hendon

Tony Awards

1956 · Self - Presenter, Self - Winner, Self - Nominee, Self - Nominee / Presenter

Kraft Television Theatre

Kraft Television Theatre

1953

The Oscars

1953 · Self

General Electric Theater

1953 · Walter Shelley

Omnibus

1952 · , Oedipus, Thomas Mendip

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951 · Dr. Jack Pelletier, Prince Albert, Captain Brassbound, Torvald Helmer, Cyrano de Bergerac

Suspense

1949

Studio One

1948 · Dick

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948 · Self

Golden Globe Awards

1944 · Self - Nominee

Madeline at the Ballet

Madeline at the Ballet

— · Narrator (voice)

Ted Allan: Minstrel Boy of the 20th Century

Ted Allan: Minstrel Boy of the 20th Century

— · Narrator (voice)

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