“That afternoon defined my friendship with Chris.”
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Christopher Plummer
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer was a Canadian actor. His career spanned seven decades, gaining him recognition for his performances in film, stage, and television. His accolades included an Academy Award, two Tony Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards, making him the only Canadian recipient of the "Triple Crown of Acting". He also received a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guil…
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Born 13 December 1929 · Died 5 February 2021 · Q190523
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2026· 4 entries
“And I enjoyed being a character actor because, of course, the roles were so much more interesting.”
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“s win made him, at age 82, the oldest actor to win an Academy Award. When he accepted the award, he quipped:”
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Reported net worth: $20M.
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2025· 1 entry
collider: Christopher Plummer Was the Best Part of This Ridley Scott Movie — Despite Being Added After It Was Already Done
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: Christopher Plummer’s singing voice included in rerelease of Sound of Music soundtrack
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2021· 7 entries
The Guardian: Christopher Plummer remembered: 'It was a privilege to stand so close to greatness'
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The Guardian: Christopher Plummer obituary
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The Guardian: Christopher Plummer – a life in pictures
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The Guardian: Christopher Plummer: a fierce yet tender talent that flourished when he was finally let off the leash
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The Guardian: Christopher Plummer, Sound of Music star and oldest actor to win an Oscar, dies aged 91
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Died 2021-02-05.
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Plummer was set to play the lead for a film adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear, to be filmed in the summer, in Newfoundland, under director Des McAnuff
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2018· 1 entry
The Guardian: Christopher Plummer: 'Why not bring me in to play Roseanne for the next season?'
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2016· 1 entry
Plummer received the Canadian Screen Award for Lifetime Achievement
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2015· 1 entry
Starred in the Atom Egoyan-directed thriller Remember, alongside Martin Landau and Bruno Ganz
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2014· 2 entries
Awarded John Willis Award for Lifetime Achievement (2014).
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Plummer presented A Word or Two again, at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles
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2012· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Beginners (2012).
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Won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 82 for Beginners (2011), becoming the oldest person to win an acting award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (a distinction he held unti
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2011· 1 entry
Appeared in the feature-length documentary The Captains
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2010· 3 entries
Plummer added, tongue-in-cheek, "Well, I said it's about time
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“a bit bored with the character”
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“Although we worked hard enough to make him interesting, it was a bit like flogging a dead horse. And the subject matter is not mine. I mean, it can”
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2009· 4 entries
(with an encore presentation on February 23, 2009) and broadcast on April 4, 2009, on Bravo
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And 2010, Plummer starred in two stage to screen adaptations of the Stratford Festival productions of George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra and William Shakespeare's The Tempest
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Plummer said that he was "a bit bored with the character"
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Plummer gave a voice performance for Pixar's animated film Up where he played the antagonistic character Charles Muntz
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2004· 1 entry
Plummer briefly played John Adams Gates in the Disney adventure film National Treasure
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2002· 1 entry
Appeared in a lauded production of King Lear, directed by Jonathan Miller
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded Governor General's Performing Arts Award (2001).
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Received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts
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2000· 1 entry
Plummer played Sir David Maxwell Fyfe in the Primetime Emmy Award-winning Nuremberg (2000) alongside Alec Baldwin, Brian Cox and Max Von Sydow, and the 1976 Emmy-winning The Moneychangers (for which he won his first Emmy
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Canada's Walk of Fame (1998).
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play (1997).
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1996· 1 entry
Released album “Scenes From Shakespeare”.
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1992· 1 entry
Released album “Ivan The Terrible / Alexander Nevsky”.
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1990· 1 entry
Released album “Henry V”.
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1989· 1 entry
Released album “The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh”.
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1988· 1 entry
Starred in another Shakespeare adaptation on Broadway in the title role in Macbeth with Glenda Jackson playing his lady
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1987· 1 entry
Plummer provided the English narration for Frédéric Back's animated film The Man Who Planted Trees
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1986· 1 entry
And into Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto in 1998
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1982· 1 entry
Starred on Broadway production of the Shakespearean tragedy Othello, playing Iago opposite James Earl Jones' Moor
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for The Moneychangers (1977).
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1974· 1 entry
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical (1974).
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1973· 1 entry
And in Love and Master Will at the same venue in 1975
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1968· 2 entries
Awarded Companion of the Order of Canada (1968).
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Was invested as Companion of the Order of Canada, at the time among Canada's highest civilian honours
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1964· 1 entry
His performance of the Gloomy Dane in the BBC production Hamlet at Elsinore garnered him his second Emmy nomination
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1963· 1 entry
Was the subject of a short National Film Board of Canada documentary, 30 Minutes, Mister Plummer, directed by Anne Claire Poirier
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1962· 1 entry
Plummer played the title roles in both Cyrano de Bergerac and Macbeth, returning in 1967 to play Mark Antony in Antony and Cleopatra
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1961· 1 entry
Playing King Henry II in Jean Anouilh's Becket with the RSC at the Aldwych Theatre, directed by Peter Hall
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1960· 1 entry
Played Philip the Bastard in King John and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet
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1959· 1 entry
Plummer appeared in Elia Kazan's successful Broadway production of Archibald MacLeish's Pulitzer Prize-winning play J
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1958· 1 entry
When Sidney Lumet cast him as a young writer in Stage Struck
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1956· 2 entries
Playing the title role in Henry V, which subsequently was performed that year at the Edinburgh Festival
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Appeared with Jason Robards and Constance Ford in an episode entitled "A Thief There Was" of CBS's anthology series Appointment with Adventure
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1955· 2 entries
Awarded Theatre World Award (1955).
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Played Mark Antony in Julius Caesar and Ferdinand in The Tempest at the American Shakespeare Festival (Stratford, Connecticut)
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1953· 1 entry
On a Studio One episode entitled "The Gathering Night", as an artist who finds success just as his eyesight begins to fail him
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1952· 1 entry
Starred in a number of productions at the Bermudiana Theatre in the City of Hamilton, in the British colony of Bermuda where he was seen and recruited by an American producer, although he was reluctant to leave Bermud
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1946· 1 entry
Caught the attention of Montreal Gazette's theatre critic Herbert Whittaker with his performance as Mr
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1929· 1 entry
Born 1929-12-13.
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