Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer CC (December 13, 1929 β 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 DisneyβPixar 2009 film Up as Charles Muntz, the Shane Acker production 9 as '1', The Last Station as Leo Tolstoy, The Imaginarium of Doctor...
Up
2009
National Treasure
2004
Twelve Monkeys
1995
Knives Out
2019
Priest
2011
Secrets
1992
A Beautiful Mind
2001
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011
9
2009
The Insider
1999
Eyewitness
1981
Malcolm X
1992
The Sound of Music
1965
Lucky Break
2001
The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017
Starcrash
1978
Beginners
2011
All the Money in the World
2017
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
2009
Inside Man
2006
Discovering Hamlet
2011
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
1991
Alexander
2004
Blackheart
1998
Somewhere in Time
1980
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
Conduct Unbecoming
1975
The Lake House
2006
American Tragedy
2000
Syriana
2005
Dolores Claiborne
1995
Back To "Somewhere In Time"
2000
The Star
2017
Danny Collins
2015
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
On Golden Pond
2001
An American Tail
1986
The New World
2005
Wolf
1994