B: December 13, 1929 in Toronto, Ontario
D: February 5, 2021 in Weston, Connecticut
The stock market crash of October 1929 in New York was still a very fresh memory when baby Christopher was born a few weeks later on Friday, December 13 in Toronto, Ontario. His father, John Plummer, was secretary to the Dean of Science at McGill University in Montreal. His mother was Isabella Mary Plummer, whose grandfather, Sir John Abbott, who had been the mayor of Montreal and later the third Prime Minister of Canada. Christopher Plummer won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar® for his role in Beginners. He had previously won a Golden Globe for the same role.
Learn more about Christopher Plummer.
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Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release
Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release
Wind Across the Everglades (1958)
Stage Struck (1958)
A Doll’s House (TV-1959)
Hamlet at Elsinore (TV-1964)
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
The Sound of Music (1965)
The Night of the Generals (1967)
Triple Cross (1967)
The High Commissioner (1968)
Oedipus the King (1968)
The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)
Lock Up Your Daughters (1969)
The Battle of Britain (1969)
Waterloo (1970)
Impromptu Balear (1971)
Don Juan in Hell (TV-1971)
The Pyx (1973)
The Return of the Pink Panther (1974)
The Happy Prince (voice, 1974)
The Day that Shook the World (1975)
The Man Who Would be King (1975)
Conduct Unbecoming (1975)
The Spiral Staircase (1975)
Aces High (1976)
The Disappearance (1977)
The Assignment (1977)
The Silent Partner (1978)
International Velvet (1978)
Starcrash (1979)
Silver Blaze (TV-1979)
Murder by Decree (1979)
Riel (1979)
Hanover Street (1979)
Somewhere in Time (1980)
Highpoint (1980)
Desperate Voyage (TV-1980)
The Shadow Box (TV-1980)
When the Circus Comes To Town (TV-1981)
Being Different (narrator, 1981)
Dial M For Murder (TV-1981)
Eyewitness (1981)
The Amateur (1981)
Prototype (TV-1982)
Little Gloria…Happy at Last (TV-1982)
The Scarlet and the Black (TV-1983)
Ordeal by Innocence (1984)
Dreamscape (1984)
Lily in Love (1985)
Nosferatu in Venice (1986)
The Boss’s Wife (1986)
An American Tail (voice – 1986)
Boy in Blue (1986)
Dragnet (1987)
A Hazard of Hearts (TV-1987)
Souvenir (1988)
Shadow Dancing (1988)
Light Years (voice, 1988)
I Love N.Y. (1988)
Mind Field (1989)
Red Blooded American Girl (1990)
Money (1990)
Firehead (1990)
A Ghost in Monte Carlo (TV-1990)
Where the Heart Is (1990)
The First Circle (TV-1991)
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (1991)
Young Catherine (TV-1991)
A Marriage: Georgia O’Keefe and Alfred Stieglitz (TV-1991)
Rock-a-Doodle (voice, 1991)
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Liars Edge (1992)
Secrets (TV-1992)
Malcolm X (1992)
Impolite (1993)
Sidney Sheldon’s A Stranger in the Mirror (TV-1993)
Delores Claiborne (1994)
Crackerjack (1994)
Wolf (1994)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Harrison Bergeron (TV-1995)
We The Jury (TV-1996)
Skeletons (1996)
The Conspiracy of Fear (TV-1996)
Babes in Toyland (1997)
The Arrow (TV-1997)
Winchell (TV-1998)
Hidden Agenda (1998)
The Clown at Midnight (1998)
Blackheart (1998)
All the Fine Lines (1999)
The Insider (1999)
Possessed (2000)
Dracula 2000 (2000)
Leo’s Journey (TV-2001)
On Golden Pond (TV-2001)
Lucky Break (2001)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Full Disclosure (VR-2001)
Night Flight (TV-2002)
Ararat (2002)
Agent of Influence (TV-2001)
Madeline: My Fair Madeline (voice, TV-2002)
Nicholas Nickleby (2003)
Darkness (aka Tma, 2002)
Blizzard (2002)
Cold Creek Manor (2003)
Alexander (2004)
National Treasure (2004)
Darkness (aka Tma) (2005)
Our Fathers (TV-2005)
Must Love Dogs (2005)
Four Minutes (TV-2005)
Syriana (2005)
The New World (2005)
Inside Man (2006)
The Lake House (2006)
Man in the Chair (2007)
Closing the Ring (2007)
Emotional Arithmetic (2007)
Already Dead (2007)
The Last Station (2008)
My Dog Tulip (2009)
Caesar and Cleopatra (2009)
9 (voice, 2009)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
Up (voice, 2009)
The Tempest (TV-2010)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Priest (2011)
Beginners (2011)
Barrymore (2012)
Kali The Little Vampire (voice, 2012, short)
The Legend of Sarila (voice, 2013)
Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight (2013)
Elsa & Fred (2014)
Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)
The Forger (2014)
Danny Collins (2015)
Pixies (2015)
Remember (2015)
The Kaiser’s Last Kiss (2016)
The River of My Dreams: A Portrait of Gordon Pinsent (2016, documentary)
Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom (2016)
Elegy (2017, short)
Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom (2017)
The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
The Star (voice, 2017)
All the Money in the World (2017)
Cliffs of Freedom (2018)
The Last Full Measure (2018)
Boundaries (2018)
Howard Lovecraft and the Kingdom of Madness (VR-2018)
The Last Full Measure (2019)
Cliffs of Freedom (2019)
Knives Out (2019)
TV Series – Cast:
The Moneychangers (1975, mini-series)
Jesus of Nazareth (1977, mini-series)
The Thornbirds (1983, mini-series)
Spearfield’s Daughter (1986, mini-series)
Crossings (1986, mini-series)
Counterstrike (1990)
Nuremberg (2000, mini-series)
American Tragedy (2000, mini-series)
Our Fathers (2005, mini-series)
The Summit (2008, mini-series)
Departure (2020)
Wind Across the Everglades (1958)
Stage Struck (1958)
A Doll’s House (TV-1959)
Hamlet at Elsinore (TV-1964)
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
The Sound of Music (1965)
The Night of the Generals (1967)
Triple Cross (1967)
The High Commissioner (1968)
Oedipus the King (1968)
The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)
Lock Up Your Daughters (1969)
The Battle of Britain (1969)
Waterloo (1970)
Impromptu Balear (1971)
Don Juan in Hell (TV-1971)
The Pyx (1973)
The Return of the Pink Panther (1974)
The Happy Prince (voice, 1974)
The Day that Shook the World (1975)
The Man Who Would be King (1975)
Conduct Unbecoming (1975)
The Spiral Staircase (1975)
Aces High (1976)
The Disappearance (1977)
The Assignment (1977)
The Silent Partner (1978)
International Velvet (1978)
Starcrash (1979)
Silver Blaze (TV-1979)
Murder by Decree (1979)
Riel (1979)
Hanover Street (1979)
Somewhere in Time (1980)
Highpoint (1980)
Desperate Voyage (TV-1980)
The Shadow Box (TV-1980)
When the Circus Comes To Town (TV-1981)
Being Different (narrator, 1981)
Dial M For Murder (TV-1981)
Eyewitness (1981)
The Amateur (1981)
Prototype (TV-1982)
Little Gloria…Happy at Last (TV-1982)
The Scarlet and the Black (TV-1983)
Ordeal by Innocence (1984)
Dreamscape (1984)
Lily in Love (1985)
Nosferatu in Venice (1986)
The Boss’s Wife (1986)
An American Tail (voice – 1986)
Boy in Blue (1986)
Dragnet (1987)
A Hazard of Hearts (TV-1987)
Souvenir (1988)
Shadow Dancing (1988)
Light Years (voice, 1988)
I Love N.Y. (1988)
Mind Field (1989)
Red Blooded American Girl (1990)
Money (1990)
Firehead (1990)
A Ghost in Monte Carlo (TV-1990)
Where the Heart Is (1990)
The First Circle (TV-1991)
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (1991)
Young Catherine (TV-1991)
A Marriage: Georgia O’Keefe and Alfred Stieglitz (TV-1991)
Rock-a-Doodle (voice, 1991)
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Liars Edge (1992)
Secrets (TV-1992)
Malcolm X (1992)
Impolite (1993)
Sidney Sheldon’s A Stranger in the Mirror (TV-1993)
Delores Claiborne (1994)
Crackerjack (1994)
Wolf (1994)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Harrison Bergeron (TV-1995)
We The Jury (TV-1996)
Skeletons (1996)
The Conspiracy of Fear (TV-1996)
Babes in Toyland (1997)
The Arrow (TV-1997)
Winchell (TV-1998)
Hidden Agenda (1998)
The Clown at Midnight (1998)
Blackheart (1998)
All the Fine Lines (1999)
The Insider (1999)
Possessed (2000)
Dracula 2000 (2000)
Leo’s Journey (TV-2001)
On Golden Pond (TV-2001)
Lucky Break (2001)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Full Disclosure (VR-2001)
Night Flight (TV-2002)
Ararat (2002)
Agent of Influence (TV-2001)
Madeline: My Fair Madeline (voice, TV-2002)
Nicholas Nickleby (2003)
Darkness (aka Tma, 2002)
Blizzard (2002)
Cold Creek Manor (2003)
Alexander (2004)
National Treasure (2004)
Darkness (aka Tma) (2005)
Our Fathers (TV-2005)
Must Love Dogs (2005)
Four Minutes (TV-2005)
Syriana (2005)
The New World (2005)
Inside Man (2006)
The Lake House (2006)
Man in the Chair (2007)
Closing the Ring (2007)
Emotional Arithmetic (2007)
Already Dead (2007)
The Last Station (2008)
My Dog Tulip (2009)
Caesar and Cleopatra (2009)
9 (voice, 2009)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
Up (voice, 2009)
The Tempest (TV-2010)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Priest (2011)
Beginners (2011)
Barrymore (2012)
Kali The Little Vampire (voice, 2012, short)
The Legend of Sarila (voice, 2013)
Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight (2013)
Elsa & Fred (2014)
Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)
The Forger (2014)
Danny Collins (2015)
Pixies (2015)
Remember (2015)
The Kaiser’s Last Kiss (2016)
The River of My Dreams: A Portrait of Gordon Pinsent (2016, documentary)
Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom (2016)
Elegy (2017, short)
Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom (2017)
The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
The Star (voice, 2017)
All the Money in the World (2017)
Cliffs of Freedom (2018)
The Last Full Measure (2018)
Boundaries (2018)
Howard Lovecraft and the Kingdom of Madness (VR-2018)
The Last Full Measure (2019)
Cliffs of Freedom (2019)
Knives Out (2019)
TV Series – Cast:
The Moneychangers (1975, mini-series)
Jesus of Nazareth (1977, mini-series)
The Thornbirds (1983, mini-series)
Spearfield’s Daughter (1986, mini-series)
Crossings (1986, mini-series)
Counterstrike (1990)
Nuremberg (2000, mini-series)
American Tragedy (2000, mini-series)
Our Fathers (2005, mini-series)
The Summit (2008, mini-series)
Departure (2020)
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