Person
Christopher Plummer
Born 13 December 1929 Died 5 February 2021, aged 91 Toronto, Ontario, Canada TMDB ↗
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.
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18age in their first credit on record (1948)
75years on screen and counting
9credits in 1991, their busiest year
202dated credits on record
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Movie credits
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Madeline at the Ballet
as Narrator (voice)
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Ted Allan: Minstrel Boy of the 20th Century
as Narrator (voice)
Age: 93 Heroes of the Golden Mask
2023as Rizzo (voice)
Age: 91 Mooseltoe
2021as Mooseking
Age: 91 Kalahari: The Flooded Desert
2021as Narrator (voice)
Age: 90 The Last Full Measure
2020as Frank Pitsenbarger
Age: 89 Knives Out
2019as Harlan Thrombey
Age: 89 Cliffs of Freedom
2019as Thanasi
Age: 88 Howard Lovecraft & The Kingdom Of Madness
2018as Dr. Jeffrey West (voice)
Age: 88 Boundaries
2018as Jack
Age: 88 All the Money in the World
2017as Jean Paul Getty
Age: 87 The Star
2017as King Herod (voice)
Age: 87 The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017as Scrooge
Age: 87 Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom
2017as Dr. West (voice)
Age: 87 The Exception
2017as Kaiser Wilhelm II
Age: 86 Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom
2016as Dr. West (voice)
Age: 85 Remember
2015as Zev Guttman
Age: 85 Pixies
2015as Pixie King (voice)
Age: 85 Danny Collins
2015as Frank Grubman
Age: 84 The Forger
2014as Joseph Cutter
Age: 84 Hector and the Search for Happiness
2014as Professor Coreman
Age: 84 Elsa & Fred
2014as Fred
Age: 83 Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2013as John Marshall Harlan
Age: 83 The Legend of Sarila
2013as Croolik (voice)
Age: 82 Kali, the Little Vampire
2012as Narrator (english version)
Age: 82 Barrymore
2012as John Barrymore
Age: 82 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011as Henrik Vanger
Age: 81 Beginners
2011as Hal Fields
Age: 81 Priest
2011as Monsignor Orelas
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Age: 81 A Short Film About Making Beginners
2011
Age: 80 The Tempest
2010as Prospero
Age: 80 My Dog Tulip
2010as J.R. Ackerley (voice)
Age: 79 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
2009as Doctor Parnassus
Age: 79 The Last Station
2009as Leo Tolstoy
Age: 79 9
2009as #1 (voice)
Age: 79 Up
2009as Charles Muntz (voice)
Age: 79 Caesar and Cleopatra
2009as Caesar
Age: 78 Emotional Arithmetic
2008as David Winters
Age: 77 Already Dead
2007as Dr. Heller
Age: 77 Closing the Ring
2007as Jack
Age: 77 Man in the Chair
2007as Flash Madden
Age: 76 Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes
2006as Narrator (voice over)
Age: 76 The Lake House
2006as Simon Wyler
Age: 76 Inside Man
2006as Arthur Case
Age: 76 The New World
2005as Captain Newport
Age: 75 Syriana
2005as Dean Whiting
Age: 75 Four Minutes
2005as Archie Mason
Age: 75 Must Love Dogs
2005as Bill
Age: 75 Our Fathers
2005as Cardinal Bernard Law
Age: 74 Alexander
2004as Aristotle
Age: 74 National Treasure
2004as John Adams Gates
Age: 73 Cold Creek Manor
2003as Mr. Massie
Age: 73 The Gospel of John
2003as Narrator (voice)
Age: 73 Blizzard
2003as Santa Claus
Age: 73 Nicholas Nickleby
2002as Ralph Nickleby
Age: 72 Agent of Influence
2002as John Watkins
Age: 72 Ararat
2002as David
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Age: 72 Night Flight
2002as 'Flash' Harry Peters
Age: 72 A Beautiful Mind
2001as Dr. Rosen
Age: 71 Lucky Break
2001as Graham Mortimer
Age: 71 Full Disclosure
2001as Robert Lecker
Age: 71 On Golden Pond
2001as Norman Thayer
Age: 71 Dracula 2000
2000as Matthew Van Helsing
Age: 70 American Tragedy
2000as F. Lee Bailey
Age: 70 Possessed
2000as Archbishop Hume
Age: 70 The Dinosaur Hunter
2000as Hump Hinton
Age: 69 Hidden Agenda
1999as Ulrich Steiner
Age: 69 The Insider
1999as Mike Wallace
Age: 69 Madeline: Lost in Paris
1999as Narrator (voice)
Age: 69 The Clown at Midnight
1999as Mr. Caruthers
Age: 68 Winchell
1998as Franklin D. Roosevelt
Age: 68 Blackheart
1998as Holmes
Age: 68 The First Christmas
1998as Narrator (voice)
Age: 67 Babes in Toyland
1997as Barnaby Crookedman (voice)
Age: 67 Skeletons
1997as Reverend Carlyle
Age: 67 The Arrow
1997as George Hees
Age: 66 We the Jury
1996as Wilfred Fransiscus
Age: 66 The Conspiracy of Fear
1996as Wakeman
Age: 66 Twelve Monkeys
1995as Dr. Goines
Age: 65 Harrison Bergeron
1995as John Klaxon
Age: 65 Dolores Claiborne
1995as John Mackey
Age: 64 Crackerjack
1994as Ivan Getz
Age: 64 Wolf
1994as Raymond Alden
Age: 63 A Stranger in the Mirror
1993as Clifton Lawrence
Age: 62 Malcolm X
1992as Chaplain Gill
Age: 62 Impolite
1992as Naples O'Rorke
Age: 62 Secrets
1992as Mel Wexler
Age: 62 The First Circle
1992as Viktor Abakumov
Age: 62 Liar's Edge
1992as Harry Weldon
Age: 61 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
1991as Chang
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Age: 61 Madeline in London
1991as Narrator (voice)
Age: 61 Madeline and the Gypsies
1991as Narrator (voice)
Age: 61 Rock-A-Doodle
1991as Grand Duke (voice)
Age: 61 Money
1991as Martin Yahl
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Age: 61 Madeline and the Bad Hat
1991as Narrator (voice)
Age: 61 Firehead
1991as Col. Garland Vaughn
Age: 60 Madeline's Christmas
1990as Narrator (voice)
Age: 60 Red Blooded American Girl
1990as Dr. John Alcore
Age: 60 A Ghost in Monte Carlo
1990as The Grand Duke Ivan
Age: 60 Where the Heart Is
1990as Shitty
Age: 60 Mindfield
1989as Doctor Satorius
Age: 59 Nabokov on Kafka
1989as Vladimir Nabokov
Age: 59 Souvenir
1989as Ernst Kestner
Age: 58 Shadow Dancing
1988as Edmund Beaumont
Age: 58 Madeline
1988as Narrator (voice)
Age: 58 The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988as Narrator (voice)
Age: 58 Nosferatu in Venice
1988as Professor Paris Catalano
Age: 58 A Hazard of Hearts
1987as Sir Giles Staverley
Age: 57 Dragnet
1987as Reverend Jonathan Whirley
Age: 57 I Love N.Y.
1987as John Robertson Yeats
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Age: 57 Portraits of Canada
1987as Narrator (voice)
Age: 57 The Nightingale
1987as Narrator (voice)
Age: 56 An American Tail
1986as Henri (voice)
Age: 56 Spearfield's Daughter
1986as Lord Jack Cruze
Age: 56 The Boy in Blue
1986as Knox
Age: 56 The Tin Soldier
1986as Narrator (voice)
Age: 56 The Boss' Wife
1986as Mr. Roalvang
Age: 55 The Velveteen Rabbit
1985as Narrator (voice)
Age: 54 Lily in Love
1984as Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova
Age: 54 Dreamscape
1984as Bob Blair
Age: 54 Ordeal by Innocence
1984as Leo Argyle
Age: 53 Prototype
1983as Dr. Carl Forrester
Age: 53 The Scarlet and the Black
1983as Col. Herbert Kappler
Age: 52 Highpoint
1982as James Hatcher
Age: 52 Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982
Age: 51 The Amateur
1981as Professor Lakos
Age: 51 Dial M for Murder
1981as Tony Wendice
Age: 51 Eyewitness
1981as Joseph
Age: 51 When the Circus Came to Town
1981as Duke Royal
Age: 50 Desperate Voyage
1980as Jacques Burrifous
Age: 50 Somewhere in Time
1980as William Fawcett 'W.F.' Robinson
Age: 50 The Shadow Box
1980as Brian
Age: 49 Arthur Miller on Home Ground
1979
Age: 49 Hanover Street
1979as Paul Sellinger
Age: 49 Riel
1979as Prime Minister John A. Macdonald
Age: 49 Murder by Decree
1979as Sherlock Holmes
Age: 49 Starcrash
1978as The Emperor
Age: 48 The Silent Partner
1978as Reikle
Age: 48 International Velvet
1978as John Seaton
Age: 47 The Disappearance
1977as Deverell
Age: 47 The Assignment
1977as Kaptain Behounek
Age: 47 Silver Blaze
1977as Sherlock Holmes
Age: 46 Aces High
1976as Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair
Age: 45 The Man Who Would Be King
1975as Rudyard Kipling
Age: 45 The Day That Shook the World
1975as Archduke Ferdinand
Age: 45 Conduct Unbecoming
1975as Major Alastair Wimbourne
Age: 45 The Return of the Pink Panther
1975as Sir Charles Litton
Age: 45 The Spiral Staircase
1975as Dr. Joe Sherman
Age: 44 After the Fall
1974as Quentin
Age: 44 The Happy Prince
1974as The Happy Prince (voice)
Age: 43 The Pyx
1973as Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson
Age: 40 Waterloo
1970as Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
Age: 39 The Royal Hunt of the Sun
1969as Atahualpa
Age: 39 Battle of Britain
1969as Squadron Leader Colin Harvey
Age: 39 Lock Up Your Daughters
1969as Lord Foppington
Age: 38 Nobody Runs Forever
1968as Sir James Quentin
Age: 38 Oedipus the King
1968as Oedipus
Age: 37 The Night of the Generals
1967as Field Marshal Rommel
Age: 36 Triple Cross
1966as Freddie Chapman
Age: 36 Inside Daisy Clover
1966as Raymond Swan
Age: 35 The Sound of Music
1965as Captain Georg von Trapp
Age: 34 An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
1964as Narrator (voice)
Age: 34 Hamlet at Elsinore
1964as Hamlet
Age: 34 The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964as Commodus
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Age: 33 Trans-Canada Journey
1963as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 32 Cyrano De Bergerac
1962as Cyrano de Bergerac
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Age: 30 Captain Brassbound's Conversion
1960as Captain Brassbound
Age: 29 A Doll's House
1959as Torvald
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Age: 28 Johnny Belinda
1958as Dr. Jack Pelletier
Age: 28 Wind Across the Everglades
1958as Walt Murdock
Age: 28 Stage Struck
1958as Joe Sheridan
Age: 28 Little Moon of Alban
1958as Kenneth Boyd
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Age: 89 Departure
2019as Howard Lawson
Age: 78 The Summit
2008as P.J. Aimes
Age: 70 Nuremberg
2000as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe
Age: 67 The Arrow
1997as George Hees
Age: 61 Young Catherine
1991as Sir Charles
Age: 61 Berlin Lady
1991as Wilhelm Speer
Age: 60 Counterstrike
1990as Alexander Addington
Age: 58 Madeline
1988as Narrator (voice)
Age: 56 Crossings
1986as Armand DeVilliers
Age: 54 The Cosby Show
1984as Jonathan Lawrence
Age: 53 SuperTed
1983
Age: 53 The Thorn Birds
1983as Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese
Age: 52 Little Gloria... Happy at Last
1982as Reggie Vanderbilt
Age: 52 Nature
1982as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 47 The Sunday Drama
1977as Sherlock Holmes
Age: 47 Jesus of Nazareth
1977as Herod Antipas
Age: 46 Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
1976as Roscoe Heyward
Age: 35 BBC Play of the Month
1965as Don Juan
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Age: 29 NBC Sunday Showcase
1959
Age: 27 DuPont Show of the Month
1957as Sir Miles Hendon
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Age: 23 Kraft Television Theatre
1953
Age: 23 General Electric Theater
1953as Walter Shelley
Age: 22 Omnibus
1952 Age: 22 Omnibus
1952as Oedipus
Age: 22 Omnibus
1952as Thomas Mendip
Age: 22 Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951as Dr. Jack Pelletier
Age: 22 Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951as Prince Albert
Age: 22 Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951as Captain Brassbound
Age: 22 Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951as Torvald Helmer
Age: 22 Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951as Cyrano de Bergerac
Age: 19 Suspense
1949
Age: 18 Studio One
1948as Dick