
Biography
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer (December 13, 1929 – February 5, 2021) was a Canadian actor. His career spanned 65 years, gaining him recognition for his performances in film, stage, and television. He received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award nomination―making him the only Canadian recipient of the "Triple Crown of Acting" to also acquire a Grammy nomination. He made his Broadway debut in 1954 and continued to act in leading roles on stage, playing Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano (1974), Iago in Othello, as well as playing the titular roles in Hamlet at Elsinore (1964), Macbeth, King Lear, and Barrymore. Plummer performed in stage productions, including J.B., No Man's Land, and Inherit the Wind.
Plummer was born in Toronto, Ontario, and grew up in Senneville, Quebec. After appearing on stage, he made his film debut in Stage Struck (1958), landed his first starring role that same year in Wind Across the Everglades, and won widespread acclaim for his performance as Captain Georg von Trapp in the musical film The Sound of Music (1965) alongside Julie Andrews.Plummer played numerous major historical figures, including Commodus in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in Waterloo (1970), Rudyard Kipling in The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999), Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station (2009), Kaiser Wilhelm II in The Exception (2016), and J. Paul Getty in All the Money in the World (2017). His film credits also include Malcolm X (1992), A Beautiful Mind (2001), The New World (2005), Inside Man (2006), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Knives Out (2019), and The Last Full Measure (2019).
Plummer received various awards for his work, including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a British Academy Film Award. He is one of the few performers to have received the Triple Crown of Acting, and the only Canadian to accomplish this feat. In 2011, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 82 for Beginners (2010), becoming the oldest person to win an acting award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (a distinction he held until being supplanted by 83-year-old Anthony Hopkins in 2021), and he also received an Oscar nomination at the age of 88 for All the Money in the World, making him the oldest person to be nominated in any acting category at the Academy Awards.
Filmography
All 221
Movies 187
TV Shows 34
Narrator 25
Self 23
Voice 9

Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story (2022)

The Kalahari: The Flooded Desert (2021)

Bondarchuk. Battle (2021)

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster (2021)

The Last Full Measure (2020)

Knives Out (2019)

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth (2019)

Departure (2019)

Cliffs of Freedom (2019)

Howard Lovecraft and the Kingdom of Madness (2018)

Boundaries (2018)

All the Money in the World (2017)

The Star (2017)

The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)

Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom (2017)

The Exception (2017)

The River of My Dreams (2017)

Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom (2016)

Remember (2015)

Pixies (2015)

Danny Collins (2015)

The Untold Story of The Sound of Music: A Diane Sawyer Special (2015)

The Forger (2014)

Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)

Elsa & Fred (2014)

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013)

The Legend of Sarila (2013)

Titans of the Ice Age (2013)

Still Kicking (2013)

Kali, the Little Vampire (2012)

Barrymore (2012)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

Discovering Hamlet (2011)

Beginners (2011)

Priest (2011)

The Tempest (2010)

Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010)

Madeline's Christmas (2010)

Des McAnuff: A Life in Stages (2010)

My Dog Tulip (2010)

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

The Last Station (2009)

9 (2009)

Up (2009)

Caesar and Cleopatra (2009)

The Summit (2008)

Emotional Arithmetic (2008)

Already Dead (2007)

Closing the Ring (2007)

Man in the Chair (2007)

Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes (2006)

The Lake House (2006)

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film (2006)

Inside Man (2006)

The New World (2005)

Syriana (2005)

Four Minutes (2005)

Must Love Dogs (2005)

Our Fathers (2005)

Miracle Planet (2005)

Alexander (2004)

National Treasure (2004)

Cold Creek Manor (2003)

The Gospel of John (2003)

Blizzard (2003)

Nicholas Nickleby (2002)

Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages (2002)

Agent of Influence (2002)

Ararat (2002)

Night Flight (2002)

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Lucky Break (2001)

Full Disclosure (2001)

On Golden Pond (2001)

Dracula 2000 (2000)

American Tragedy (2000)

Possessed (2000)

The Dinosaur Hunter (2000)

Nuremberg (2000)

Nuremberg (2000)

Hidden Agenda (1999)

The Insider (1999)

Madeline: Lost in Paris (1999)

Winchell (1998)

The First Christmas (1998)

Blackheart (1998)

The Clown at Midnight (1998)

Skeletons (1997)

The Arrow (1997)

Babes in Toyland (1997)

The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys' (1996)

Life and Times (1996)

The Conspiracy of Fear (1996)

Twelve Monkeys (1995)

Harrison Bergeron (1995)

Dolores Claiborne (1995)

Crackerjack (1994)

Wolf (1994)

The New Adventures Of Madeline (1993)

A Stranger in the Mirror (1993)

Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic (1993)

Malcolm X (1992)

Impolite (1992)

Secrets (1992)

Liar's Edge (1992)

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

Madeline in London (1991)

Madeline's Rescue (1991)

Madeline and the Gypsies (1991)

Rock-A-Doodle (1991)

Money (1991)

Madeline and the Bad Hat (1991)

Young Catherine (1991)

Firehead (1991)

Berlin Lady (1991)

The Little Crooked Christmas Tree (1990)

Red Blooded American Girl (1990)

Counterstrike (1990)

A Ghost in Monte Carlo (1990)

Where the Heart Is (1990)

The Gnomes' Great Adventure (1990)

Mindfield (1989)

Nabokov on Kafka (1989)

Souvenir (1989)

The First Emperor of China (1989)

Shadow Dancing (1988)

Madeline (1988)

American Experience (1988)

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988)

Nosferatu in Venice (1988)

Madeline (1988)

A Hazard of Hearts (1987)

Gandahar (1987)

Dragnet (1987)

The Man Who Planted Trees (1987)

I Love N.Y. (1987)

The Nightingale (1987)

An American Tail (1986)

Jerusalem: Within These Walls (1986)

Spearfield's Daughter (1986)

Crossings (1986)

The Boy in Blue (1986)

The Boss' Wife (1986)

The Tin Soldier (1986)

Rumpelstiltskin (1985)

The World of David the Gnome (1985)

The Velveteen Rabbit (1985)

Lily in Love (1984)

The Cosby Show (1984)

Dreamscape (1984)

Ordeal by Innocence (1984)

Prototype (1983)

SuperTed (1983)

The Thorn Birds (1983)

The Scarlet and the Black (1983)

Little Gloria... Happy at Last (1982)

Nature (1982)

Highpoint (1982)

Night of 100 Stars (1982)

The Amateur (1981)

Being Different (1981)

Dial M for Murder (1981)

Eyewitness (1981)

When the Circus Came to Town (1981)

Desperate Voyage (1980)

Somewhere in Time (1980)

The Shadow Box (1980)

Hanover Street (1979)

Murder by Decree (1979)

Starcrash (1978)

The Silent Partner (1978)

International Velvet (1978)

The Disappearance (1977)

The Assignment (1977)

Jesus of Nazareth (1977)

Silver Blaze (1977)

Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers (1976)

Aces High (1976)

The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

The Day That Shook the World (1975)

The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)

The Spiral Staircase (1975)

Conduct Unbecoming (1975)

The Happy Prince (1974)

After the Fall (1974)

The Pyx (1973)

Waterloo (1970)

The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)

Battle of Britain (1969)

Lock Up Your Daughters (1969)

Nobody Runs Forever (1968)

The Dick Cavett Show (1968)

Oedipus the King (1968)

The Night of the Generals (1967)

Triple Cross (1966)

Inside Daisy Clover (1965)

The Sound of Music (1965)

Salzburg Sight and Sound (1965)

Hamlet at Elsinore (1964)

The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

Trans-Canada Journey (1963)

30 Minutes, Mister Plummer (1963)

Captain Brassbound's Conversation (1960)

A Doll's House (1959)

Johnny Belinda (1958)

Wind Across the Everglades (1958)

Stage Struck (1958)

Little Moon of Alban (1958)

DuPont Show of the Month (1957)

Tony Awards (1956)

The Oscars (1953)

General Electric Theater (1953)

Omnibus (1952)

Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)

Suspense (1949)

Studio One (1948)

The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)

TED ALLAN: MINSTREL BOY OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Hamlet at Elsinore

On Golden Pond

Night Flight
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Information
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday1929-12-13
Deathday2021-02-05 (91 years old)
Birth nameArthur Christopher Orme Plummer
Place of birthToronto, Canada
Height70-inch
Net worth$20000000
RelationshipsTammy Grimes (1956-08-19 - 1960-01-01), Patricia Lewis (1962-05-04 - 1966-01-01), Elaine Taylor (1970-10-02 - 2021-02-05)
ChildrenAmanda Plummer
FatherJohn Orme Plummer
MotherIsabella Mary Abbott
RelativesJohn Abbott
CitizenshipsCanada
ResidencesWeston, United States of America
Also known as크리스토퍼 플러머, クリストファー・プラマー, 克里斯托弗·普卢默, Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer, Кристофер Пламмер, Κρίστοφερ Πλάμερ
AwardsGovernor General's Performing Arts Award, Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal, Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, Honorary doctor of the University of Ottawa, Honour in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria, John Willis Award for Lifetime Achievement, Companion of the Order of Canada, Theatre World Award, Golden Globe Award, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie, Canada's Walk of Fame, Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Order of Canada
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