History Creator / ChristopherPlummer

* ''Series/{{Departure}}'' (2019) -- Howard Lawson

* ''Film/{{Wolf}}'' (1994) -- Raymond Alden

Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever CC]] (December 13, 1929 – February 5, 2021) was a Canadian film, stage, and TV actor best known for his role as Captain Von Trapp in ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'', and for [[CreatorBacklash mocking that film and his performance nearly every chance he got]] (though he still considered co-star Creator/JulieAndrews one of his closest friends).

* SurprisinglyGoodForeignLanguage: Though he didn't get to show it off a lot on-screen, he was actually quite fluent in French, having spent much of his childhood in Quebec.

* ''Series/{{Nuremberg}}'' (2000) -- Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe

* AffablyEvil: Whenever he played bad guys, you could be sure he'd give them inject them with plenty of charisma and charm even [[FauxAffablyEvil if it was false]].

He was the father of actress Creator/AmandaPlummer, who should not be confused with Music/AmandaPalmer.

* BassoProfundo: Courtesy of Christopher Plummer who lent his voice as Henri in An American Tail, The Grand Duke of Owls in Rock-a-Doodle, Barnaby Crookedman in Babes in Toyland and Charles Smuntz in Disney Pixar’s UP.

* ''Literature/{{Heidi}}'' (2005) -- Heidi's Grandfather

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' -- Arngeir

* ''Film/TheNewWorld2005'' (2005) -- Captain Christopher Newport

* ''Film/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo2011'' (2011) -- Henrik Vanger
* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''- Arngeir

He won Best Supporting Actor two years later for his performance in ''Beginners'', becoming, at 82, the oldest person at the time to ''ever'' win an Oscar.[[note]]The record has since been broken by [[Creator/MerchantIvory James Ivory]], who won for writing ''Film/CallMeByYourName'' at 89.[[/note]] He also received an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series, for the 1972 miniseries ''The Moneychangers'', and a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance, for his narrations of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Madeline}}'' cartoons.[[note]]He narrated them from 1988-2001, and won the Emmy in 1994. [[/note]] At age 88 he also became the oldest person to even be ''nominated'' for an acting Oscar for ''Film/AllTheMoneyInTheWorld'' (in which he got cast as TheOtherMarty after Creator/KevinSpacey got booted for numerous allegations of sexual abuse).

* ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' (1992) -- General Chang

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: His normal dialect was notoriously hard to pin down. It was a consequence of Plummer being raised in a time and environment in which the "Canadian Dandy" (really a mid-Atlantic) was considered "proper" English, just before the practice fell out of favor. That, and spending a lot of his early adulthood in Quebec and the UK, creates a kind of melting pot of dialects that made his own wholly unique.

* ''Film/MurderByDecree'' (1979) -- SherlockHolmes

* ''Film/MurderByDecree'' (1979) -- Sherlock Holmes
* ''Literature/TheThornBirds''-- Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese

* ''Series/{{Departure}} (2019) -- Howard Lawson

* ''Film/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo'' (2011) -- Henrik Vanger