Christopher Plummer

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1929-12-13 (92 years old)

Deathday

2021-02-05

Place of Birth

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Christopher Plummer

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 v...

Acting

1995

Twelve Monkeys

as Dr. Goines

2005

Syriana

as Dean Whiting

2006

Inside Man

as Arthur Case

2001

A Beautiful Mind

as Dr. Rosen

1975

The Man Who Would Be King

as Rudyard Kipling

2006

The Lake House

as Simon Wyler

2004

National Treasure

as John Adams Gates

1987

Dragnet

as Reverend Jonathan Whirley

2000

Dracula 2000

as Matthew Van Helsing

1992

Malcolm X

as Chaplain Gill

2004

Alexander

as Aristotle

1994

Wolf

as Raymond Alden

1966

Triple Cross

as Freddie Chapman

1986

An American Tail

as Henri (voice)

1981

The Amateur

as Professor Lakos

2003

The Gospel of John

as Narrator (voice)

1978

Starcrash

as The Emperor

2005

The New World

as Captain Newport

1984

Dreamscape

as Bob Blair

1969

Battle of Britain

as Squadron Leader Colin Harvey

1995

Dolores Claiborne

as John Mackey

2005

1975

The Return of the Pink Panther

as Sir Charles Litton

1995

Harrison Bergeron

as John Klaxon

1981

Eyewitness

as Joseph

1978

1999

The Insider

as Mike Wallace

2009

9

as #1 (voice)

2003

Cold Creek Manor

as Mr. Massie

1970

Waterloo

as Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

1979

Hanover Street

as Paul Sellinger

2008

Emotional Arithmetic

as David Winters

1979

Murder by Decree

as Sherlock Holmes

2021

Kalahari: The Flooded Desert

as Narrator (voice)

1988

Nosferatu in Venice

as Professor Paris Catalano

2007

Already Dead

as Dr. Heller

2007

2009

Up

as Charles F. Muntz (voice)

2001

Lucky Break

as Graham Mortimer

1978

International Velvet

as John Seaton

2002

Nicholas Nickleby

as Ralph Nickleby

1988

Madeline

as Narrator (voice)

-

Madeline at the Ballet

as Narrator (voice)

2009

The Last Station

as Leo Tolstoy

1967

The Night of the Generals

as Field Marshal Rommel

1991

Firehead

as Col. Garland Vaughn

1965

The Sound of Music

as Captain Georg von Trapp

2007

Man in the Chair

as Flash Madden

2005

Our Fathers

as Cardinal Bernard Law

1976

Aces High

as Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair

1983

The Scarlet and the Black

as Col. Herbert Kappler

2011

Priest

as Monsignor Orelas

2002

Ararat

as David

1980

Somewhere in Time

as William Fawcett Robinson

1990

2000

The Dinosaur Hunter

as Hump Hinton

1987

A Hazard of Hearts

as Sir Giles Staverley

1986

The Boss' Wife

as Mr. Roalvang

2000

Possessed

as Archbishop Hume

1965

Inside Daisy Clover

as Raymond Swan

1997

The Arrow

as George Hees

1958

2005

Four Minutes

as Archie Mason

2023

2010

My Dog Tulip

as J.R. Ackerley (voice)

1983

Prototype

as Dr. Carl Forrester

1968

Nobody Runs Forever

as Sir James Quentin

1986

2011

Beginners

as Hal Fields

2000

American Tragedy

as F. Lee Bailey

1973

The Pyx

as Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson

1989

Mindfield

as Doctor Satorius

2012

1975

Conduct Unbecoming

as Maggiore Alastair Wimbourne

1990

A Ghost in Monte Carlo

as The Grand Duke Ivan

1987

The Nightingale

as Narrator (voice)

1994

Crackerjack

as Ivan Getz

1984

Ordeal by Innocence

as Leo Argyle

1984

Lily in Love

as Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova

1958

Stage Struck

as Joe Sheridan

1991

Madeline and the Bad Hat

as Narrator (voice)

1991

Madeline and the Gypsies

as Narrator (voice)

1991

Madeline in London

as Narrator (voice)

1958

Johnny Belinda

as Dr. Jack Pelletier

1975

The Spiral Staircase

as Dr. Sherman

2012

Barrymore

as John Barrymore

2010

The Tempest

as Prospero

1992

Liar's Edge

as Harry Weldon

1991

Money

as Martin Yahl

2013

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

as John Marshall Harlan

1969

Lock Up Your Daughters

as Lord Foppington

1987

I Love N.Y.

as John Robertson Yeats

1992

Secrets

as Mel Wexler

1999

Madeline: Lost in Paris

as Narrator (voice)

1999

Hidden Agenda

as Ulrich Steiner

1998

Winchell

as Franklin D. Roosevelt

2014

The Forger

as Joseph Cutter

2014

1974

The Happy Prince

as The Happy Prince (voice)

1964

2013

The Legend of Sarila

as Croolik (voice)

2002

Agent of Influence

as John Watkins

1997

Skeletons

as Reverend Carlyle

2013

1974

After the Fall

as Quentin

2014

1997

Babes in Toyland

as Barnaby Crookedman (voice)

1989

Nabokov on Kafka

as Vladimir Nabokov

1975

The Day That Shook the World

as Archduke Ferdinand

1980

Desperate Voyage

as Jacques Burrifous

2001

Full Disclosure

as Robert Lecker

1982

Highpoint

as James Hatcher

2015

Remember

as Zev Guttman

1998

The Clown at Midnight

as Mr. Caruthers

1986

Spearfield's Daughter

as Lord Jack Cruze

1998

Blackheart

as Holmes

2015

Danny Collins

as Frank Grubman

2017

The Exception

as Kaiser Wilhelm II

1994

Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold

as Self (archive footage)

2015

Pixies

as Pixie King (voice)

2001

On Golden Pond

as Norman Thayer

2003

1981

Dial M for Murder

as Tony Wendice

2012

Kali, the Little Vampire

as Narrator (english version)

1989

Souvenir

as Ernst Kestner

2021

Mooseltoe

as Mooseking

1985

The Velveteen Rabbit

as Narrator (voice)

1991

Rock-A-Doodle

as Grand Duke (voice)

1990

Red Blooded American Girl

as Dr. John Alcore

1988

Shadow Dancing

as Edmund Beaumont

1998

The First Christmas

as Narrator (voice)

1989

The First Emperor of China

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1977

2020

The Last Full Measure

as Frank Pitsenbarger

2017

The Star

as King Herod (voice)

2018

Boundaries

as Jack Jaconi

1968

2017

All the Money in the World

as Jean Paul Getty

1980

1993

A Stranger in the Mirror

as Clifton Lawrence

1981

Being Different

as Self (Narrator) (voice)

1960

Captain Brassbound's Conversion

as Captain Brassbound

1986

The Tin Soldier

as Narrator (voice)

2002

Night Flight

as 'Flash' Harry Peters

2019

Knives Out

as Harlan Thrombey

1959

A Doll's House

as Torvald

2018

1977

Silver Blaze

as Sherlock Holmes

2019

1977

The Assignment

as Kaptain Behounek

2003

Blizzard

as Santa Claus

1985

Rumpelstiltskin

as Narrator

1992

Impolite

as Naples O'Rorke

2010

Madeline's Christmas

as Narrator (voice)

1958

Little Moon of Alban

as Kenneth Boyd

1963

Trans-Canada Journey

as Narrator (voice)

2007

1979

Riel

as Prime Minister John A. Macdonald

1992

The First Circle

as Viktor Abakumov

1996

We the Jury

as Wilfred Fransiscus

Production

2012

Barrymore

as Executive Producer

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