Leading Men Christopher Plummer
The Sound Of Music/ Capt. Von Trapp
Nuremberg/ Sir David Maxwell Fyfe
Star Trek: Klingon Academy/ General Change
Waterloo/ Duke of Wellington
Per Quinlan's Film Stars:
Finely boned Canadian actor, a more handsome version of Peter Cushing. His sharp features proved equally adaptable to kindliness, literacy, nobility and psychotic villainy.
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer was born in 1929 at Toronto, Ontario, Canada the only child of John and Isabella Abbott Orme. After his parents divorce he was brought up in the Abbott family home in, Quebec.
He is bilingual and equally adept at English and French.
Through his mother he is a great grandson of Canadian Prime Minister John Abbott. He is also a second cousin to Nigel Bruce, the English actor who played Dr. Watson in the Sherlock Holes films of the late 30's and 1940's.
Plummer at first studied to be a concert pianist but developed a love for the theater at an early age. He began acting while at school at Montreal High School. He was influenced after seeing Sir Laurence Olivier in the film Henry V.
He made his film debut in the year 1958 in the film Stage Struck.
Christopher Plummer is arguably the finest actor of post World War Two and the finest Shakespearean actor of the period.
He won two Emmy Awards out of six nominations and two Tony Awards out of six nominations as well. The Tony Awards were for Best Actor ( musical) for Cyrano in 1974 and Best Actor (play) in Barrymore.
He has been nominated for the following Academy Awards:
2010 - The Last Station as Leo Tolstoy
He was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor in 2012 for his performance in Beginners as Hal.
Plummer won this award and at age 82 was the oldest performer to win an Oscar
He likes best to be remembered as Baron Von Trapp in The Sound Of Music.
Plummer also played the part of Sherlock Holmes in which he made an admirable one.
Some of the film roles of Christopher Plummer were:
Stage Struck (1958) as Joe Sheridan
Wind Across The Everglades (1958) as Walt Murdock
Johnny Belinda (1958-TV) as Dr. Jack Peletier
A Doll's House (1959) as Torvald Helmer
The Philadelphia Story (1959-TV) as Mike Connor
Time Remembered (1961-TV) as Prince Albert
Cyrano de Bergerac (1962-TV) as Cyrano
The Fall Of The Roman Empire (1964) as Commodus
Hamlet At Elsinore (1964-TV) as Hamlet
The Sound Of Music (1965) as Captain Von Trapp
Inside Daisy Clover (1965) as Raymond Swan
Triple Cross (1966) as Eddie Chapman
The Night Of The Generals (1967) as Field Marshal Rommel
Oedipus The King (1968) as Oedipus
Nobody Runs Forever (1968) as Sir James Quentin
Battle Of Britain (1969) as Squadron Leader Colin Harvey
The Royal Hunt Of The Sun (1969) as Atahuallpa
Waterloo (1970) as Duke Of Wellington
The Pyx (1973) as Detective Sgt. Jim Henderson
After The Fall (1974-TV) as Quentin
The Spiral Staircase (1975) as Dr. Joe Sherman
The Return Of The Pink Panther (1975) as Sir Charles Litton
Conduct Unbecoming (1975) as Major Alastair Wimbourne
The Day That Shook The World (1975) as Archduke Ferdinand
The Man Who Would be King (1975) as Rudyard Kipling
Aces High (1976) as Sinclair
Arthur Hailey's The Money Changers (1976-TV Miniseries) as Roscoe Hayward
Jesus Of Nazareth (1977-TV Miniseries) as Herod Antipas
The Assignment (1977) as Captain Behounek
The Disappearance (1977) as Daverell
International Velvet (1978) as John Seaton
The Silent Partner (1978) as Harry Reikle
Star Crash (1978) as The Emperor
Murder By Decree (1979) as Sherlock Holmes
Riel (1979-TV) as Prime Minister John MacDonald
Hanover Street (1979) as Paul Sellinger
The Shadow Box (1980-TV) as Brian
Somewhere In Time (1980) as William Fawcett Robinson
Desperate Voyage (1980-TV) as Burrifous
When The Circus came To Town (1981) as Duke Royal
Eyewitness (1981) as Joseph
Dial M For Murder (1981-TV) as Tony Wendice
The Amateur (1981) as Professor Lakos
Highpoint (1982) as James Hatcher
Little Gloria ... Happy At Last (1982-TV) as Reggie Vanderbilt
The Scarlet And The Black (1983-TV) as Col. Herbert Kappler
The Thorn Birds (1983-TV Miniseries) as Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchase
Parade Of Stars (1983-TV) as Cyrano de Bergerac
Prototype (1983) as Dr. Carl Forrester
Ordeal By Innocence (1984) as Leo Argyle
Dreamscape (1984) as Bob Blair
Lily In Love (1984) as Fitzroy Wenn/ Roberto Terranova
The Boy In Blue (1986) as Knox
Spearfield's Daughter (1986-TV Miniseries) as Lord Jack Cruze
I Love N. Y. (1987) as John Robertson Yeats
Dragnet (1987) as Rev. Jonathan Whirley
A Hazard Of Hearts (1987-TV) as Sir Giles Staverley
Vampire In Venice (1988) as Professor Paris Catalano
Shadow Dancing (1988) as Edmond Beaumont
Souvenir (1989) as Ernst Kestner
Mindfield (1989) as Doctor Satorius
Where The Heart Is (1990) as Shitty
A Ghost In Monte Carlo (1990-TV) as The Grand Duke Ivan
Red Blooded American Girl (1990) as Dr. John Alcore
Firehead (1991) as Col. Garland Vaughn
Young Catherine (1991-TV) as Sir Charles
Money (1991) as Martin Yahi
A Marriage: Georgia O'Keefe & Alfred Stieglitz (1991-TV) as Alfred Stieglitz
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country as Chang
Berlin Lady (1991-TV Miniseries) as Wilhelm Speer
Liar's Edge (1992) as Harry Weldon
The First Choice (1992) as Viktor
Secrets (1992-TV) as Mel Wexler
Malcolm X (1992) as Chaplain Gill
A Stranger In The Mirror (1993) as Clifton Lawrence
Wolf (1994) as Raymond Alden
Crackerjack (1994) as Ivan Getz
Dolores Claiborne (1995) as Detective John Mackey
Harrison Bergeron (1995-TV) as John Klaxon
Twelve Monkeys (1995) as Doctor Goines
We The Jury (1996-TV) as Wilfred
The Arrow (1997-TV) as George Hees
Skeletons (1997) as Reverend Carlyle
Blackheart (1998) as Holmes
Winchell (1998-tv) as Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Clown At Midnight (1999) as Mr. Caruthers
Hidden Agenda (1999) as Ulrich Steiner
The Insider (1999) as Mike Wallace
Nuremberg (2000-TV Miniseries) as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe
The Dinosaur Hunter ( 2000) as Hump Hinton
Possessed (2000-TV) as Archbishop Hume
American Tragedy (2000) as F. Lee Bailey
Dracula 2000 (2000) as Abraham Van Helsing
On Golden Pond (2001-TV) as Norman Thayer
Lucky Break (2001) as Graham Mortimer
A Beautiful Mind (2001) as Dr. Rosen
Night Flight (2002-TV) as Flash Harry Peters
Ararat (2002) as David
Agent Of Influence (2002-TV) as John Watkins
Nicholas Nickleby (2002) as Ralph Nickleny
Blizzard (2003) as Santa Claus
Cold Creek Manor (2003) as Mr. Massie
National Treasure (2004) as John Adams Gates
Alexander (2004) as Aristotle
Our Fathers (2005) as Cardinal Bernard Law
Must Love Dogs (2005) as Bill
Four Minutes (2005-TV) as Archie Mason
Syriana (2005) as Dean Whiting
The New World (2005) as Captain Newport
Inside Man (2006) as Arthur Case
The Lake House (2006) as Simon Wyler
Man In The Chair (2007) as Flash Madden
Closing The Ring (2007) as Jack
Emotional Arithmetic (2007) as David Winters
Already Sold (2007) as Dr. Heller
The Summit (2006-TV Miniseries) as P. J. Aimes
Caesar And Cleopatra (2009) as Caesar
The Imagination Of Doctor Parnassus (2009) as Doctor Parnassus
The Last Station (2009) as Leo Tolstoy
Beginners (2010) as Hal Fields
The Tempest (2010) as Prospero
Priest (2014) as Msgr. Orelas
Barrymore (2011) as John Barrymore
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011) as Henrik Vanger
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fights (2013) as John Harlan
Elsa And Fred (2014) as Fre
The Forger (2014) as Joseph Cutter
Danny Collins (2015) as Frank Grubman
Christopher Plummer was active on television in such programs as Studio One, Suspense, Broadway Television Theater, Kraft Television Theater, General Electric Theater, Sunday Showcase, Hallmark Hall Of Fame, Counterstrike, The American Experience, The Cosby Show, Witness To Yesterday, BBC Play Of The Month, ITV Sunday Night Drama The Alcoa Hour, Producers Showcase, Omnibus, Ponds Theater and The DuPont Show Of The Month among others.
He also did a number of voice overs for animated feature films .
Plummer has been married three times. His first wife was Tammy Grimes and his second wife was Patricia Lewis. Both marriages ended in divorce.
His current wife is Elaine Taylor and the couple have been married since 1970.
He is he father of actress Amanda Plummer by his first wife Tammy Grimes.
I have always liked this actor and my favorite Plummer films were The Sound Of Music, Nuremberg(TV), Star Trek The Undiscovered Country, The Battle Of Britain, Waterloo, Murder by Decree, Wolf, Dolores Claiborne, Alexander and Must Love Dogs.
Louie The Movie Buff