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.…
Filmography
Impolite
1992 · 10.0
Kraft Television Theatre
1953 · 10.0
Kalahari: The Flooded Desert
2021 · 10.0
Berlin Lady
1991 · 10.0
A Doll's House
1959 · 10.0
Cyrano De Bergerac
1962 · 9.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · 8.8
The Conspiracy of Fear
1996 · 8.3
On Golden Pond
2001 · 8.3
The Little Crooked Christmas Tree
1990 · 8.0
Trans-Canada Journey
1963 · 8.0
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988 · 8.0
Hamlet at Elsinore
1964 · 8.0
Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes
2006 · 8.0
After the Fall
1974 · 8.0
Silver Blaze
1977 · 8.0
The Tempest
2010 · 8.0
Ted Allan: Minstrel Boy of the 20th Century
— · 8.0
Up
2009 · 8.0
Nature
1982 · 7.9
A Beautiful Mind
2001 · 7.9
Knives Out
2019 · 7.8
Jesus of Nazareth
1977 · 7.8
The Sound of Music
1965 · 7.7
Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic
1993 · 7.7
Twelve Monkeys
1995 · 7.6
Malcolm X
1992 · 7.6
The Man Who Would Be King
1975 · 7.5
Somewhere in Time
1980 · 7.5
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012 · 7.5
The Gospel of John
2003 · 7.5
Night Flight
2002 · 7.5
The Insider
1999 · 7.5
Inside Man
2006 · 7.4
DuPont Show of the Month
1957 · 7.4
Nuremberg
2000 · 7.4
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011 · 7.4
International Velvet
1978 · 7.4
Remember
2015 · 7.3
Dolores Claiborne
1995 · 7.3
The Last Full Measure
2020 · 7.3
Omnibus
1967 · 7.2
The Thorn Birds
1983 · 7.2
Desperate Voyage
1980 · 7.2
Waterloo
1970 · 7.1
The Scarlet and the Black
1983 · 7.1
The Silent Partner
1978 · 7.1
Cliffs of Freedom
2019 · 7.1
Titans of the Ice Age
2013 · 7.1
The Lake House
2006 · 7.0
The Cosby Show
1984 · 7.0
Omnibus
1952 · 7.0
Counterstrike
1990 · 7.0
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
1991 · 7.0
The Arrow
1997 · 7.0
Portraits of Canada
1987 · 7.0
The Arrow
1997 · 7.0
We the Jury
1996 · 7.0
9
2009 · 7.0
Agent of Influence
2002 · 6.9
The Exception
2017 · 6.9
Beginners
2011 · 6.8
SuperTed
1983 · 6.8
Battle of Britain
1969 · 6.8
The Return of the Pink Panther
1975 · 6.8
The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017 · 6.8
The Night of the Generals
1967 · 6.8
General Electric Theater
1953 · 6.8
Nicholas Nickleby
2002 · 6.8
Madeline: Lost in Paris
1999 · 6.8
Harrison Bergeron
1995 · 6.8
The Assignment
1977 · 6.8
An American Tail
1986 · 6.8
Danny Collins
2015 · 6.7
Hector and the Search for Happiness
2014 · 6.7
The First Christmas
1998 · 6.7
National Treasure
2004 · 6.7
American Playhouse
1982 · 6.6
Departure
2019 · 6.5
American Experience
1988 · 6.5
The Star
2017 · 6.5
The New World
2005 · 6.5
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964 · 6.5
Kali, the Little Vampire
2012 · 6.5
Heroes of the Golden Mask
2023 · 6.5
Our Fathers
2005 · 6.5
All the Money in the World
2017 · 6.5
Syriana
2005 · 6.4
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
2009 · 6.4
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2013 · 6.4
My Dog Tulip
2010 · 6.4
Barrymore
2012 · 6.4
The Last Station
2009 · 6.4
Prototype
1983 · 6.3
Murder by Decree
1979 · 6.3
Lucky Break
2001 · 6.3
Man in the Chair
2007 · 6.3
Rock-A-Doodle
1991 · 6.2
Closing the Ring
2007 · 6.2
Lily in Love
1984 · 6.2
The Happy Prince
1974 · 6.2
Dial M for Murder
1981 · 6.2
Wind Across the Everglades
1958 · 6.2
Where the Heart Is
1990 · 6.2
Wolf
1994 · 6.1
Dreamscape
1984 · 6.1
Triple Cross
1966 · 6.1
Ararat
2002 · 6.1
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
1969 · 6.1
The Day That Shook the World
1975 · 6.1
The Dinosaur Hunter
2000 · 6.1
Alexander
2004 · 6.0
Dragnet
1987 · 6.0
Blizzard
2003 · 6.0
Elsa & Fred
2014 · 6.0
Nobody Runs Forever
1968 · 6.0
Oedipus the King
1968 · 6.0
Lock Up Your Daughters
1969 · 6.0
Stage Struck
1958 · 6.0
Riel
1979 · 6.0
The Tin Soldier
1986 · 6.0
Madeline and the Gypsies
1991 · 6.0
Souvenir
1989 · 6.0
Must Love Dogs
2005 · 5.9
Priest
2011 · 5.9
Madeline
1988 · 5.9
Young Catherine
1991 · 5.9
Nosferatu in Venice
1988 · 5.9
Aces High
1976 · 5.9
Conduct Unbecoming
1975 · 5.9
The Forger
2014 · 5.8
Winchell
1998 · 5.8
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
1982 · 5.8
I Love N.Y.
1987 · 5.8
American Tragedy
2000 · 5.8
The Velveteen Rabbit
1985 · 5.8
Hanover Street
1979 · 5.7
The Summit
2008 · 5.6
Eyewitness
1981 · 5.6
Boundaries
2018 · 5.6
Already Dead
2007 · 5.6
Inside Daisy Clover
1966 · 5.6
The Disappearance
1977 · 5.6
The Pyx
1973 · 5.5
Emotional Arithmetic
2008 · 5.5
Money
1991 · 5.5
Madeline
1988 · 5.5
Studio One
1948 · 5.4
The Amateur
1981 · 5.4
Possessed
2000 · 5.4
Cold Creek Manor
2003 · 5.3
Babes in Toyland
1997 · 5.3
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
1990 · 5.3
Madeline's Christmas
1990 · 5.3
Dracula 2000
2000 · 5.2
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · 5.2
The Spiral Staircase
1975 · 5.2
Highpoint
1984 · 5.1
Ordeal by Innocence
1984 · 5.1
Suspense
1949 · 5.1
The Sunday Drama
1977 · 5.0
NBC Sunday Showcase
1959 · 5.0
The Boy in Blue
1986 · 5.0
The Boss' Wife
1986 · 5.0
Secrets
1992 · 5.0
The First Circle
1992 · 5.0
The Legend of Sarila
2013 · 4.9
Four Minutes
2005 · 4.9
Mindfield
1989 · 4.8
Pixies
2015 · 4.7
Crossings
1986 · 4.7
Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom
2016 · 4.7
The Clown at Midnight
1999 · 4.5
Howard Lovecraft & The Kingdom Of Madness
2018 · 4.5
Full Disclosure
2001 · 4.5
Liar's Edge
1992 · 4.5
Starcrash
1978 · 4.3
Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom
2017 · 4.3
Skeletons
1997 · 4.2
Blackheart
1998 · 4.2
Shadow Dancing
1988 · 4.2
Crackerjack
1994 · 4.1
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
1976 · 4.0
Red Blooded American Girl
1990 · 3.9
Hidden Agenda
1999 · 3.2
Rumpelstiltskin
1985 · 3.0
Firehead
1991 · 2.9
Madeline at the Ballet
— · 2.0
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
1964 · 0.0
A Short Film About Making Beginners
2011 · 0.0
Madeline in London
1991 · 0.0
Caesar and Cleopatra
2009 · 0.0
The Life of Jesus
2003 · 0.0
Madeline and the Bad Hat
1991 · 0.0
Mooseltoe
2021 · 0.0
The Nightingale
1987 · 0.0