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 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".
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1929-12-13
Place of birth
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Cast
Twelve Monkeys
1995
7.60
Syriana
2005
6.42
Inside Man
2006
7.39
A Beautiful Mind
2001
7.86
The Man Who Would Be King
1975
7.48
The Lake House
2006
7.04
National Treasure
2004
6.64
Dragnet
1987
5.98
Dracula 2000
2000
5.25
Malcolm X
1992
7.53
Alexander
2004
5.94
Wolf
1994
6.10
Triple Cross
1966
6.00
An American Tail
1986
6.72
The Amateur
1981
5.50
The Gospel of John
2003
7.60
Starcrash
1978
4.20
The New World
2005
6.50
Dreamscape
1984
6.09
Battle of Britain
1969
6.80
Dolores Claiborne
1995
7.26
Must Love Dogs
2005
5.90
The Return of the Pink Panther
1975
6.79
Harrison Bergeron
1995
6.90
Eyewitness
1981
5.58
The Silent Partner
1978
7.00
The Insider
1999
7.45
9
2009
6.93
Cold Creek Manor
2003
5.40
Waterloo
1970
7.10
Hanover Street
1979
5.60
Emotional Arithmetic
2008
5.40
Murder by Decree
1979
6.40
Kalahari: The Flooded Desert
2021
10.00
Nosferatu in Venice
1988
6.20
Already Dead
2007
5.50
Closing the Ring
2007
6.10
Up
2009
7.96
Lucky Break
2001
6.20
International Velvet
1978
7.40
Nicholas Nickleby
2002
6.90
Madeline
1988
5.50
The Last Station
2009
6.37
The Night of the Generals
1967
6.80
Firehead
1991
2.30
The Sound of Music
1965
7.73
Man in the Chair
2007
7.06
Our Fathers
2005
6.40
Aces High
1976
5.90
The Scarlet and the Black
1983
7.00
Priest
2011
5.82
Ararat
2002
6.10
Somewhere in Time
1980
7.50
Where the Heart Is
1990
6.02
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964
6.49
The Dinosaur Hunter
2000
5.50
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011
7.37
A Hazard of Hearts
1987
8.10
The Boss' Wife
1986
5.00
Possessed
2000
5.49
Inside Daisy Clover
1965
5.70
The Arrow
1997
7.00
Wind Across the Everglades
1958
6.10
Four Minutes
2005
4.40
Heroes of the Golden Mask
2023
7.60
My Dog Tulip
2010
6.67
Prototype
1983
5.80
Nobody Runs Forever
1968
6.00
The Boy in Blue
1986
4.70
Beginners
2011
6.85
American Tragedy
2000
10.00
The Pyx
1973
5.30
Mindfield
1989
4.43
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
7.50
Conduct Unbecoming
1975
6.20
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
1990
5.70
The Nightingale
1987
0.00
Crackerjack
1994
3.80
Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic
1993
7.40
Ordeal by Innocence
1984
4.90
Lily in Love
1984
6.00
Stage Struck
1958
6.00
Madeline and the Bad Hat
1991
0.00
Madeline and the Gypsies
1991
0.00
Madeline in London
1991
0.00
Johnny Belinda
1958
0.00
The Spiral Staircase
1975
4.90
Barrymore
2012
6.40
The Tempest
2010
8.00
Liar's Edge
1992
4.00
Money
1991
6.20
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
1969
5.90
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2013
6.40
Lock Up Your Daughters
1969
4.50
Discovering Hamlet
2011
7.00
I Love N.Y.
1987
5.00
Secrets
1992
3.80
Madeline: Lost in Paris
1999
6.70
Hidden Agenda
1999
3.00
Winchell
1998
6.38
The Forger
2014
5.79
The Happy Prince
1974
5.50
Hamlet at Elsinore
1964
7.80
The Legend of Sarila
2013
4.60
Agent of Influence
2002
7.00
Skeletons
1997
4.50
Titans of the Ice Age
2013
7.10
After the Fall
1974
0.00
Elsa & Fred
2014
5.90
Babes in Toyland
1997
5.00
Nabokov on Kafka
1989
6.00
The Day That Shook the World
1975
5.90
Desperate Voyage
1980
7.50
Full Disclosure
2001
4.00
Highpoint
1982
4.80
Remember
2015
7.35
The Clown at Midnight
1998
4.60
Spearfield's Daughter
1986
0.00
Blackheart
1998
4.00
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
2022
10.00
Danny Collins
2015
6.80
The Exception
2017
6.95
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
1994
0.00
Pixies
2015
4.50
On Golden Pond
2001
9.00
The Life Of Jesus
2003
0.00
Dial M for Murder
1981
6.30
Kali, the Little Vampire
2012
6.29
Souvenir
1989
5.50
Mooseltoe
2021
0.00
The Conspiracy of Fear
1996
10.00
The Velveteen Rabbit
1985
5.80
30 Minutes, Mister Plummer
1963
0.00
The River of My Dreams
2017
0.00
Rock-A-Doodle
1991
6.20
Red Blooded American Girl
1990
3.90
Shadow Dancing
1988
3.00
The First Emperor of China
1989
4.30
The First Christmas
1998
5.00
The Disappearance
1977
5.60
Caesar and Cleopatra
2009
0.00
The Last Full Measure
2020
7.32
The Star
2017
6.36
Boundaries
2018
5.70
The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017
6.82
Oedipus the King
1968
4.70
All the Money in the World
2017
6.48
The Shadow Box
1980
5.20
A Stranger in the Mirror
1993
3.70
Being Different
1981
5.70
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
1960
0.00
The Tin Soldier
1986
6.00
The Captains: Still Kicking
2013
7.00
Night Flight
2002
6.00
Knives Out
2019
7.84
A Doll's House
1959
10.00
Silver Blaze
1977
0.00
Cliffs of Freedom
2019
7.30
The Assignment
1977
6.00
Blizzard
2003
5.90
Rumpelstiltskin
1985
3.00
Impolite
1992
0.00
Madeline's Christmas
2010
4.90
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
6.50
Little Moon of Alban
1958
0.00
Salzburg Sight and Sound
1965
8.00
When the Circus Came to Town
1981
6.00
Trans-Canada Journey
1963
0.00
Bondarchuk. Battle
2021
0.00
Night of 100 Stars
1982
6.50
Back To "Somewhere In Time"
2000
0.00