Christopher Plummer

C. ') Later that year he appeared in his first hit on Broadway co-starring with Julie Harris (who won a Tony Award) in Jean Anouilh's The Lark. In 1958 he appeared in the television film Little Moon of Alban with Julie Harris for which he received his first Emmy Award nomination.

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 Ludwig von Trapp in the hit 1965 musical film The Sound of Music alongside Julie Andrews. Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer CC (born December 13 1929) is a Canadian theatre film and television actor.