Christopher Plummer
Acting
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".
Born: December 13, 1929
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Known For
Kalahari: The Flooded Desert
The Okavango River empties into desert; wildlife such as fish eagles, Nile crocodiles, lions and sitatunga antelope.
A Doll's House
A wealthy woman's attempts to help her financially troubled husband go unrewarded.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes
The documentary of the Nuremberg War Trials of 21 Nazi dignitaries held after World War II.
On Golden Pond
Character-driven story about an elderly man coming to terms with his age, and the nearing of death; a middle-aged woman attempting to enter into a father-daughter relationship with her dad, whom she has never known closely; and a young teenager dealing with parental divorce. Ethel and Norman Thayer are an old couple living "On Golden Pond". Their daughter, Chelsea, is 42 years old, and has never been married. She is dating a 45 year old dentist, and brings him up to Golden Pond to meet her parents. Her boyfriend, Bill, has a 14 year old son named Billy, who comes along. Young Billy has been virtually raised by his mother, who is newly divorced from his father. The troubled child is left with the elderly Thayers for some time, as his father and Chelsea take off for a tour of Europe.
The Tempest
Featuring a mesmerizing performance by Christopher Plummer as Prospero, Shakespeare's The Tempest is brought from the stage of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival to the cinematic screen.
Filmography
as Rizzo (voice)
as Mooseking
as Narrator (voice)
as self
as Frank Pitsenbarger
as Harlan Thrombey
as Self
as Howard Lawson
as Thanasi
as Dr. Jeffrey West (voice)
as Jack Jaconi
as Jean Paul Getty
as King Herod (voice)
as Scrooge
as Dr. West (voice)
as Kaiser Wilhelm II
as Himself
as Dr. West (voice)
as Zev Guttman
as Pixie King (voice)
as Frank Grubman
as Joseph Cutter
as Professor Coreman
as Fred
as John Marshall Harlan
as Croolik (voice)
as Narrator
as Himself
as Narrator (english version)
as John Barrymore
as (archive footage)
as Henrik Vanger
as Self
as Hal Fields
as Monsignor Orelas
as Prospero
as Narrator
as J.R. Ackerley (voice)
as Doctor Parnassus
as Leo Tolstoy
as #1 (voice)
as Muntz (voice)
as Caesar
as P.J. Aimes
as David Winters
as Dr. Heller
as Jack
as Self
as Flash Madden
as Narrator (voice over)
as Simon Wyler
as Arthur Case
as Captain Newport
as Dean Whiting
as Archie Mason
as Bill
as Cardinal Bernard Law
as Himself - Host
as Aristotle
as John Adams Gates
as Mr. Massie
as Narrator (voice)
as Santa Claus
as Ralph Nickleby
as John Watkins
as David
as 'Flash' Harry Peters
as Dr. Rosen
as Graham Mortimer
as Robert Lecker
as Norman Thayer
as Matthew Van Helsing
as F. Lee Bailey
as Self
as Archbishop Hume
as Hump Hinton
as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe
as Ulrich Steiner
as Mike Wallace
as Narrator (voice)
as Franklin D. Roosevelt
as Narrator (voice)
as Mr. Caruthers
as Holmes
as Barnaby Crookedman (voice)
as Reverend Carlyle
as George Hees
as George Hees
as Wilfred Fransiscus
as Wakeman
as Dr. Goines
as John Klaxon
as John Mackey
as Ivan Getz
as Raymond Alden
as Self (archive footage)
as Clifton Lawrence
as Narrator
as Chaplain Gill
as Naples O'Rorke
as Mel Wexler
as Viktor Abakumov
as Harry Weldon
as Narrator (voice)
as Grand Duke (voice)
as Martin Yahl
as Sir Charles
as Col. Garland Vaughn
as Wilhelm Speer
as Narrator
as Narrator (voice)
as Dr. John Alcore
as Alexander Addington
as The Grand Duke Ivan
as Shitty
as Doctor Satorius
as Vladimir Nabokov
as Ernst Kestner
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Edmund Beaumont
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator
as Narrator (voice)
as Professor Paris Catalano
as Sir Giles Staverley
as Reverend Jonathan Whirley
as John Robertson Yeats
as Narrator (voice)
as Henri (voice)
as Lord Jack Cruze
as Armand DeVilliers
as Knox
as Narrator (voice)
as Mr. Roalvang
as Narrator
as Narrator (voice)
as Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova
as Jonathan Lawrence
as Bob Blair
as Leo Argyle
as Dr. Carl Forrester
as Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese
as Col. Herbert Kappler
as Reggie Vanderbilt
as Narrator (voice)
as James Hatcher
as Self
as Professor Lakos
as Self (Narrator) (voice)
as Tony Wendice
as Joseph
as Duke Royal
as Jacques Burrifous
as William Fawcett Robinson
as Brian
as Paul Sellinger
as Prime Minister John A. Macdonald
as Sherlock Holmes
as The Emperor
as Reikle
as John Seaton
as Deverell
as Kaptain Behounek
as Herod Antipas
as Sherlock Holmes
as Roscoe Heyward
as Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair
as Rudyard Kipling
as Archduke Ferdinand
as Maggiore Alastair Wimbourne
as Sir Charles Litton
as Dr. Joe Sherman
as Quentin
as The Happy Prince (voice)
as Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson
as Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
as Atahualpa
as Squadron Leader Colin Harvey
as Lord Foppington
as Sir James Quentin
as Self - Guest
as Oedipus
as Narrator
as Field Marshal Rommel
as Freddie Chapman
as Raymond Swan
as Don Juan
as Captain Georg von Trapp
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as Hamlet
as Commodus
as Self
as Torvald
as Walt Murdock
as Joe Sheridan
as Kenneth Boyd
as Sir Miles Hendon
as Self
as Walter Shelley
as Oedipus
as Thomas Mendip
as Dr. Jack Pelletier
as Prince Albert
as Captain Brassbound
as Torvald Helmer
as Cyrano de Bergerac
as Dick
as Self
as Self - Nominee