
Christopher Plummer
Born: 1929-12-13
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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".
Known For

Knives Out

Up

The Sound of Music

A Beautiful Mind

Twelve Monkeys

National Treasure

Little Moon of Alban

9

Inside Man

Priest

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

A Ghost in Monte Carlo

Madeline: Lost in Paris

Nicholas Nickleby

Alexander

The Tempest

Syriana

Silver Blaze

The Pyx

Dracula 2000

Wolf

Waterloo

Hanover Street

Stage Struck

The Star

The Assignment

Malcolm X

Danny Collins

Dreamscape

The Spiral Staircase

The Boss' Wife

Our Fathers

The Insider

The Lake House

Crackerjack

Hidden Agenda

An American Tail

Dragnet

Starcrash

Triple Cross

Being Different

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Aces High

Money

Inside Daisy Clover

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

The Amateur

Ararat

The Night of the Generals

The Nightingale

Skeletons

Four Minutes

Battle of Britain

Shadow Dancing

The New World

The Silent Partner

Remember

Murder by Decree

Hamlet {Solo}

Possessed

Nabokov on Kafka

The Exception

All the Money in the World

Night Flight

Full Disclosure

Emotional Arithmetic

Blizzard

Boundaries

The Day That Shook the World

Highpoint

Kalahari: The Flooded Desert

Dolores Claiborne

Somewhere in Time

The Fall of the Roman Empire

Spearfield's Daughter

Cold Creek Manor

Winchell

Rock-A-Doodle

Souvenir

The Return of the Pink Panther

Harrison Bergeron

The Disappearance

The Last Full Measure

Agent of Influence

Barrymore

Madeline

Ordeal by Innocence

Bondarchuk. Battle

Impolite

Rumpelstiltskin

The Man Who Would Be King

The Dinosaur Hunter

Babes in Toyland

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

Riel

The Man Who Invented Christmas

Mindfield

International Velvet

Elsa & Fred

Beginners

Desperate Voyage

Must Love Dogs

Firehead

Prototype

The Shadow Box

Nosferatu in Venice

Pixies

I Love N.Y.

Liar's Edge

The Gospel of John

The Scarlet and the Black

The Clown at Midnight

Already Dead

The Last Station

Hector and the Search for Happiness

Hamlet at Elsinore

The Forger

Eyewitness

Madeline and the Gypsies

Nobody Runs Forever

Caesar and Cleopatra

Oedipus the King

My Dog Tulip

The Legend of Sarila

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

The Boy in Blue

Lock Up Your Daughters

The Captains: Still Kicking

The First Circle

Madeline's Christmas

Lily in Love

Closing the Ring

Night of 100 Stars

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

The Conspiracy of Fear

A Hazard of Hearts

We the Jury

Salzburg Sight and Sound

Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes

Heroes of the Golden Mask

On Golden Pond

Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom

The Arrow

Wind Across the Everglades

Cliffs of Freedom

Man in the Chair

Lucky Break

The River of My Dreams

The Tin Soldier

Titans of the Ice Age

Howard Lovecraft & The Kingdom Of Madness

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

Blackheart

Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom

The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys'

Kali, the Little Vampire

Where the Heart Is

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth

Conduct Unbecoming

The Royal Hunt of the Sun

A Stranger in the Mirror

Behind the Wall: The Making of Skyrim

The First Emperor of China

Red Blooded American Girl

The Little Crooked Christmas Tree

Discovering Hamlet

The Happy Prince

The First Christmas

Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold

Secrets

After the Fall

American Tragedy

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster

Dial M for Murder

Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic

Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages

A Doll's House

When the Circus Came to Town

The Velveteen Rabbit

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