Christopher Plummer

Christopher Plummer (December 13, 1929 – February 5, 2021) was a Canadian theatrical, film and television actor. He was one of his country's most prominent and respected actors and viewed by many as one of the world's finest stage performers. From his marriage to Tony Award winning actress Tammy Grimes he has a daughter Amanda Plummer, who is also an actor.
Plummer was born in Toronto, Ontario. The great-grandson of former Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Abbott, following his parents' divorce he moved with his mother to live in Senneville, Quebec, near Montreal. He studied to be a concert pianist but developed a love of the theatre at an early age and began acting in high school. He travelled by train to study with Canadian Repertory Company in Ottawa. 
A veteran of stage, film and television
Plummer has enjoyed 50 years as one of the English speaking theatre's most distinguished actors and as a veteran of international renown in over 100 motion pictures. 
Theatre
It was in his hometown of Montreal that Plummer began his professional career on stage and radio in both French and English. After Ms. Eva Le Gallienne gave him his New York debut (1954) he performed in two plays with Katharine Cornell, The Constant Wife, and The Dark Is Light Enough by Christopher Fry for which he won a Theatre World Award. Cornell’s husband Guthrie McClintic took him to Paris (1955) to play Jason opposite Dame Judith Anderson in Medea. Then came The Lark, opposite his friend Julie Harris, which enjoyed a huge New York Success. Plummer went on to star in many celebrated, prize-winning productions on Broadway and London's West End including Elia Kazan's production of Archibald MacLeish's Pulitzer winning play J.B. and the title role in Anthony Burgess' musical Cyrano for which Plummer won his first Tony. A recent Broadway success was as Barrymore for which he won a Tony Award, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award — The Edwin Booth Award, the Boston Critic's Award, Chicago's Jefferson Award, and Los Angeles' Ovation Award as best actor 1997-1998. He was also a leading member of Britain's National Theatre under Sir Laurence Olivier, the Royal Shakespeare Company under Sir Peter Hall where he won London’s best actor Evening Standard Theatre Award. In its formative years, he played at the Stratford Festival of Canada under Sir Tyrone Guthrie and Michael Langham. He has played most of the great roles in the classic repertoire.
Plummer's most recent Broadway appearance was as King Lear in Jonathan Miller's production at Lincoln Center, for which he won his seventh Tony nomination.
He passed on the 5th of February 2021.
==Film==
thumbnail|left|230px|Christopher Plummer as the Klingon General Chang in the 1991 film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
Plummer's eclectic career on screen began in 1957 when Sidney Lumet provided him his movie debut in Stage Struck. Since then he has appeared in a vast number of notable films which include the Academy Award winning The Sound Of Music, The Man Who Would Be King, Battle of Britain, Waterloo, The Silent Partner, Dragnet, Inside Daisy Clover, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Malcolm X, Dolores Claiborne, Wolf, Twelve Monkeys, Murder by Decree, Somewhere in Time, and a host of others. Recent successes include Michael Mann's Oscar-nominated The Insider playing television journalist Mike Wallace, for which he won the Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Las Vegas and the National Critics Awards, and Ron Howard's Academy Award winning A Beautiful Mind as well. He played Arthur Case in Spike Lee's 2006 film Inside Man.
==Awards and other achievements==
Plummer has also written for the stage, television and the concert-hall. Plummer and Sir Neville Marriner rearranged Shakespeare’s "Henry V" with Sir William Walton’s music as a concert piece. They recorded the work with Marriner's chamber orchestra the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. He performed it and other works with the New York Philharmonic and symphony orchestras of London, Washington, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Toronto, Vancouver and Halifax. With Marriner he made his Carnegie Hall debut in his own arrangements of Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Aside from many honors in the United Kingdom, United States, Austria and Canada, Plummer has won two Tony Awards (against seven nominations), two Emmy Awards (six nominations), Great Britain's Evening Standard Award, and Canada's Genie Award. In 1968, sanctioned by Elizabeth II, he was invested as Companion of the Order of Canada, and given an honorary Knighthood. In 2001 he received the Governor General's lifetime achievement award. He was made an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts at New York's Julliard School and has received honorary doctorate’s from the University of Toronto, Ryerson, McGill, and Western Ontario. In 2002 he was the first performer to be presented with the Jason Robards Award for Excellence in memory of his great friend. Plummer was inducted into the American Theatre's Hall of Fame in 1986 and into Canada's Walk of Fame in 1997. On June 1, 2006, he was given an honorary Doctorate of Letters by McGill University.
==Filmography==
*Knives Out (2019)
*Boundaries (2018)
*All the Money in the World (2017)
*The Star (2017)
*The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)  
*9 (2009) - Voice
*Up (2009) - Voice
*Inside Man (2006)
*The Lake House (2006)
*The New World (2005)
*Syriana (2005)
*Must Love Dogs (2005)
*Alexander (2004)
*National Treasure (2004)
*Cold Creek Manor (2003)
*Gospel of John (2003) (voice)
*Blizzard (2003)
*Tma (2002)
*Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
*Agent of Influence (2002) (TV)
*Ararat (2002)
*Night Flight (2002) (TV)
*Full Disclosure (2001) (V)
*A Beautiful Mind (2001)
*Blackheart (2001)
*Lucky Break (2001)
*On Golden Pond (2001) (TV)
*Leo's Journey (2001) (TV)
*Star Trek: Klingon Academy (2000) (VG)
*Dracula 2000 (2000)
*American Tragedy (2000) (TV)
*Possessed (2000) (TV)
*The Dinosaur Hunter (2000)
*Nuremberg (2000) - TV mini series
*The Insider (1999)
*Madeline: Lost in Paris (1999) - Voice
*Celebrate the Century (1999) - TV mini series
*An All Dogs Christmas Carol (1998)
*The Clown at Midnight (1998)
*The First Christmas (1998)
*Hidden Agenda (1998)
*Winchell (1998) (TV)
*Babes in Toyland (1997) - Voice
*The Arrow (1997) (TV)
*The Conspiracy of Fear (1996) (TV)
*Skeletons (1996)
*We the Jury (1996) (TV)
*Twelve Monkeys (1995)
*Harrison Bergeron (1995) (TV)
*Dolores Claiborne (1995)
*Crackerjack (1994)
*Wolf (1994)
*The Little Crooked Christmas Tree (1993) (TV) - Voice
*Sidney Sheldon's A Stranger in the Mirror (1993) (TV)
*Liar's Edge (1992) (TV)
*Malcolm X (1992)
*Impolite (1992)
*Secrets (1992I) (TV)
*The First Circle (1991) (TV)
*Berlin Lady (1991) TV mini series
*Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
*Rock-A-Doodle (1991) - Voice
*A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz (1991) (TV)
*Young Catherine (1991) (TV)
*Firehead (1991)
*Counterstrike (1990) - TV series
*Madeline (1990) - TV series (voice)
*Money (1990)
*Red Blooded American Girl (1990)
*A Ghost in Monte Carlo (1990) (TV)
*Where the Heart Is (1990)
*Kingsgate (1989)
*Mindfield (1989)
*Nabokov on Kafka (1989) (TV)
*Souvenir (1989)
*I Love N.Y. (1988)
*Shadow Dancing (1988)
*Gandahar (1988) - Voice	
*The Gnomes' Great Adventure (1987)
*The Man Who Planted Trees (1987)
*A Hazard of Hearts (1987) (TV)
*Dragnet (1987)
*Nosferatu a Venezia (1986)
*Spearfield's Daughter (1986) - TV mini series
*An American Tail (1986) - Voice
*The Boss' Wife (1986)
*Crossings (1986) - TV mini series
*The Boy in Blue (1986)
*Rumpelstiltskin (1985) (1985) - Animated TV Movie
*The World of David the Gnome (1985) - TV Series
*Játszani kell (1985)
*Ordeal by Innocence (1984)
*Terror in the Aisles (1984)
*Highpoint (1984)
*Dreamscape (1984)
*Prototype (1983) (TV)
*The Thorn Birds (1983) - TV mini series
*The Scarlet and the Black (1983) (TV)
*Little Gloria... Happy at Last (1982) (TV)
*The Amateur (1981)
*Eyewitness (1981)
*Dial M for Murder (TV) (1981)
*When the Circus Came to Town (1981) (TV)
*Somewhere in Time (1980)
*The Shadow Box (1980) (TV)
*Desperate Voyage (1980) (TV)
*Hanover Street (1979)
*Riel (1979) (TV)
*Murder by Decree (1979)
*Starcrash (1979)
*International Velvet (1978)
*The Silent Partner (1978)
*Silver Blaze (1977) (TV)
*The Disappearance (1977)
*Uppdraget (1977)
*Jesus of Nazareth (1977) - TV mini series
*Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (1976) - TV mini series
*Aces High (1976)
*Sarajevski atentat (1975)
*The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
*Conduct Unbecoming (1975)
*The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
*The Spiral Staircase (1975)
*The Happy Prince (1974)
*After the Fall (1974) (TV)
*The Pyx (1973)
*Don Juan in Hell (1971) (TV)
*Waterloo (1970)
*Lock Up Your Daughters! (1969)
*The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)
*Battle of Britain (1969)
*Nobody Runs Forever (1968)
*Oedipus the King (1967)
*Triple Cross, original title: La Fantastique histoire vraie d'Eddie Chapman(1967)
*The Night of the Generals (1967)
*Inside Daisy Clover (1966)
*The Sound Of Music (1965)
*Hamlet (1964/III) (TV)
*The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
*Cyrano de Bergerac (1962) (TV)
*Playdate (1961) TV Series
*A Doll's House (1959) (TV)
*Wind Across the Everglades (1958)
*Stage Struck (1958)
==External links==
* 
* Order of Canada citation
* Christopher Plummer: The Canadian Sherlock Holmes at Baker Street Dozen
* Christopher Plummer at The Canadian Encyclopedia
* Christopher Plummer at Fan History Wiki
* Christopher Plummer at TriviaTribute.com
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