Christopher Plummer

Christopher Plummer
"An actor should be a mystery,"
Christopher Plummer Introduction ........................................................................................ 3

Biography ................................................................................................................................. 4
Christopher Plummer and Elaine Taylor ............................................................................. 18
Christopher Plummer quotes ............................................................................................... 20
Filmography ........................................................................................................................... 32
Theatre .................................................................................................................................... 72
Christopher Plummer playing Shakespeare ....................................................................... 84
Awards and Honors ............................................................................................................... 95
Christopher Plummer Introduction

Christopher Plummer, CC (born December 13, 1929) is a Canadian theatre, film and
television actor and writer of his memoir In "Spite of Myself" (2008)
In a career that spans over five decades and includes substantial roles in film, television, and
theatre, Plummer is perhaps best known for the role of Captain Georg von Trapp in The
Sound of Music. His most recent film roles include the DisneyPixar 2009 film Up as Charles
Muntz, the Shane Acker production 9 as The Last Station as Leo Tolstoy, and The
Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus as Doctor Parnassus.
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. 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 Syriana.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.
His most recent film roles include the Disney-Pixar 2009 film Up as Charles Muntz, the Shane
Acker production 9 as 1, The Last Station as Leo Tolstoy, The Imaginarium of Doctor
Parnassus as Doctor Parnassus, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as Henrik Vanger, and
Beginners as Hal.
Plummer has won numerous awards for his work, including an Oscar, two Emmys, two
Tonys, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award. With his win at the age of 82 in 2012 for
Beginners, Plummer is the oldest actor ever to win an Academy Award.
Biography
Date of Birth:
13 December 1929, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Birth Name:
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer
Arguably the greatest survivor of the two-fisted drinkers' school of acting that included the
likes of Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole and Albert Finney, classically-trained actor Christopher
Plummer established himself on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the finest stage
performers of his generation, particularly in Shakespearean roles. After headlining for three of
the world's most noted theater companies - Great Britain's National Theater, The Royal
Shakespeare Company and The Stratford Festival in his native Canada - Plummer starred in
a host of movies; most memorably playing Baron Georg Von Trapp in the smash hit, "The
Sound of Music" (1965). Though he remained prolific both on stage and onscreen, earning
awards in several mediums, Plummer languished for the next few decades in mostly
mediocre projects that were beneath his skill set. But in 1997, he delivered a Tony Awardwinning performance as the besotted actor John Barrymore in "Barrymore" that earned him
the considerable attention that had previously eluded him. From that point on, he became a
much in-demand character actor, playing "60 Minutes" correspondent Mike Wallace in "The
Insider" (1999), Captain Christopher Newport in "The New World" (2005), and a managing
partner of a power law firm in the excellent political thriller, "Syriana" (2005). While he
occasionally returned to the stage, as he did with a sterling Broadway performance as the
titular "King Lear" (2004), Plummer enjoyed his late-life success on the big screen after his
long struggle to achieve it.
Born on Dec. 13, 1929 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Plummer was raised by his father, John,
who worked at McGill University, and his mother, Isabella, the granddaughter of Canadian
Prime Minister John Abbott. Plummer's parents divorced the same year he was born. Having
gone to live with his mother in Montreal, the young lad discovered the theater at a young age,
taking in various stage productions, ballet and opera throughout his youth.

When he was attending Jennings Private School, he worked as a lighting designer on a
production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," which prompted him to trying acting. His first
notable role came when he played D'Arcy in "Pride and Punishment." Following high school,
he trained with the Canadian Repertory Theatre in Ottawa, where he was in countless
productions in a mere two years, including "The Infernal Machine," which also featured a
young William Shatner, and "Cymbeline." In fact, both Plummer and Shatner worked together
in radio drama for the Canadian Broadcasting Company. Though he made his small screen
debut in a televised production of "Othello" (CBC, 1951), Plummer spent most of the decade
honing his chops on the stage.
Plummer left the comfortable confines of Canada to join a repertory company in Bermuda,
where he performed in productions of "The Little Foxes," "The Petrified Forest" and "Nina,"
which led to touring with American theater companies. He soon found himself making his
Broadway debut as George Phillips in "The Star Cross Story" (1954), starring Katherine
Cornell, but the show only lasted one night. Also that year, he again starred with Cornell in
Christopher Fry's "The Dark Is Light Enough," followed by a turn in the short-lived "Home Is
the Hero." Plummer found great critical success portraying the Earl of Warwick in Jean
Anouilh's "The Lark" (1955), opposite Julie Harris. Following a Paris production of "Medea"
(1955) opposite Judith Anderson, he returned to Canada and joined the Shakespeare Festival
company in Stratford, Ontario, where he thrived in the title roles of "Henry V" (1956), which
also starred Shatner as the Duke of Gloucester, and "Hamlet" (1957). Plummer demonstrated
equal facility with comic parts like Sir Andrew Aguecheek in "Twelfth Night" (1957) and
Benedick in "Much Ado About Nothing" (1958).
On American television, Plummer appeared in "Kraft Theatre" productions of "The Light That
Failed" and "The Web," while playing Miles Hendon in the adaptation of Mark Twain's novel,
"The Prince and the Pauper" (CBS, 1957). Following Hallmark Hall of Fame productions of
"Johnny Belinda" (NBC, 1958) and "Little Moon of Alban" (NBC, 1958), he made his feature
debut in "Stage Struck" (1958), Sidney Lumet's remake of Zoe Akins' 1933 stage play,
"Morning Glory." In an attempt to settle down, Plummer married actress Tammy Grimes in
1956 and a year later had his only child, Amanda Plummer, who grew up to become a notable
actress in her own right with performances in "Agnes of God" (1985) and "Pulp Fiction"
(1994). After divorcing Grimes following four years of marriage, he portrayed Mercutio in a
Shakespeare Festival production of "Romeo and Juliet" (1960). Making his London debut, he
portrayed King Henry II in "Becket" (1961), which earned him the London Evening Standard
Award for Best Actor. After playing Christian in a production of "Cyrano de Bergerac,"
Plummer reprised "Hamlet" for a televised production marking the 400th birthday of
Shakespeare in 1964. Widely hailed by critics, his sterling performance marked a significant
breakthrough for the young actor.
Following a strong portrayal of the reckless emperor Commodus in "The Fall of the Roman
Empire" (1964), Plummer had his greatest success on the big screen with his performance as
the aloof widow Captain Georg Von Trapp in "The Sound of Music" (1965). Starring Julie
Andrews as a young nun sent by her convent to be a governess for the numerous Von Trapp
children, only to fall in love with the captain, "The Sound of Music" was a monster hit, an
Oscar winner and the last of the old-fashioned Hollywood movies before the more
experimental films of the late-1960s and early-1970s. Though his performance was exquisite
as usual, Plummer's singing left something to be desired - at least compared to Andrews which led director Robert Wise to overdub his voice. He next starred in "Inside Daisy Clover"
(1966), a critically panned drama about a tomboy-turned-starlet (Natalie Wood) who reaches
stardom in Hollywood, only to suffer a mental breakdown. Plummer made a cameo
appearance as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in "The Night of the Generals" (1967), which he
followed with a starring turn as the titular "Oedipus the King" (1968).
In the Cold War-era spy thriller, "The High Commissioner" (1968), Plummer starred as a
corrupt Australian diplomat wanted for a 25-year-old murder who falls under the uneasy
protection of a detective (Rod Taylor) after he becomes targeted for assassination. He next
joined an all-star cast as a Canadian fighter pilot in the World War II epic, "Battle of Britain"
(1969), starring Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Robert Shaw and Trevor Howard. Plummer
had something of a setback with his next film, "Lock Up Your Daughters!" (1969), in which he
played the fastidious judge Lord Foppington, who hears the case of three sailors and their
lascivious adventures that landed them in jail while on shore leave. Plummer entered the
1970s a heavy drinker - all in good fun, of course - and went from one mediocre role to
another with the occasional triumph thrown in. After portraying the determined Duke of
Wellington opposite Rod Steiger's Napoleon Bonaparte in "Waterloo" (1970), he wallowed in
the supernatural thriller, "The Pyx" (1973), also known as "The Hooker Cult Murders." Back
on Broadway, Plummer delivered a sterling performance in the title role of "Cyrano," which
earned him a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance as well as a Tony Award for
Leading Actor in a Musical.
Plummer parlayed his continued onstage success to the big screen with a strong portrayal of
British author Rudyard Kipling in John Huston's "The Man Who Would Be King" (1975). In
"The Return of the Pink Panther" (1975), he filled in for David Niven as Sir Charles Lytton,
also known as the Phantom, who once again steals the fabled Pink Panther diamond.
Returning to television, Plummer earned an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a
Limited Series for "Arthur Hailey's 'The Moneychangers'" (NBC, 1976), an epic drama about
two powerful bankers (Plummer and Kirk Douglas) who engage in fraud and corruption while
the surrounding inner city crumbles and decays around them. He next co-starred in the
controversial, but highly-rated television miniseries "Jesus of Nazareth" (NBC, 1977), in which
he played Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great (Peter Ustinov) who was partly responsible
for the deaths of both John the Baptist (Michael York) and Jesus (Robert Powell). Though he
offered a superb performance in "International Velvet" (1978), critics largely shunned the
mawkish sequel to the Elizabeth Taylor classic, "National Velvet" (1944).
After playing a psychopathic bank robber in "The Silent Partner" (1978) and co-starring
opposite Harrison Ford in the woeful World War II romance "Hanover Street" (1979), Plummer
rounded out the decade playing Sherlock Holmes to James Mason's Dr. Watson in "Murder
by Decree" (1979), an uneven thriller that had the famed duo investigating the notorious serial
killer, Jack the Ripper. He next co-starred opposite Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour in
the romantic fantasy-later turned-cult favorite, "Somewhere in Time" (1980), which he
followed with an appearance in "The Shadow Box" (ABC, 1980), starring Joanne Woodward
and directed by Paul Newman. Following forgotten television movies like "Dial M for Murder"
(NBC, 1981) and "When the Circus Came to Town" (CBS, 1981), as well as the mystery
thriller "Eyewitness" (1981), Plummer delivered a stunning performance as Iago opposite
James Earl Jones in "Othello" (1982), which famed Broadway critic Walter Kerr deemed
"quite possibly the best Shakespearean performance to have originated on this continent in
our time." He next portrayed Archbishop di Contini-Verchese, friend and mentor to the young,
conflicted Father Ralph de Bricassart (Richard Chamberlain) in the acclaimed four-part
miniseries, "The Thorn Birds" (ABC, 1983).
Though he never lacked for work, Plummer was challenged to find higher-quality projects as
he got older. He appeared in many forgettable films, often elevating the material more than it
deserved to be, including the sci-fi thriller "Dreamscape" (1984), the botched adaptation of
Agatha Christie's "Ordeal By Innocence" (1985), the easily dismissed biopic of sculling champ
Ned Hanlan (Nicolas Cage), "The Boy in Blue" (1986), and the abhorrent "I Love N.Y." (1987),
allegedly directed by celebrity photographer Gianni Bozzacchi, who credited himself as the
anonymous Alan Smithee. Though he occasionally appeared in enjoyably hammy roles, as he
did in "Dragnet" (1987), Plummer struggled throughout the rest of the decade to find suitable
material for his unparalleled talents. Once again, he found solace on the stage, touring the
United States in the title role of "Macbeth" (1988), though he returned from the role to star in
the abysmal espionage thriller "Mindfield" (1989). It soon became clear that his luck would fail
to change in the early part of the 1990s, which started with the actor playing a homeless
magician named Shitty in John Boorman's misfire domestic comedy, "Where the Heart Is"
(1990).
In his first regular series role, Plummer portrayed Alexander Addington, an international
businessman who vows to combat terrorism after his wife is kidnapped, in "Counterstrike"
(CTV/USA Network, 1990-93). While on the show, he reunited with old friend William Shatner
for "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" (1991), playing Chang, a one-eyed Klingon
trying to forge peace with the Federation. Following a small role as a chaplain in Spike Lee's
"Malcolm X" (1992), he starred opposite Jason Robards, Jr. in a Broadway revival of Harold
Pinter's "No Man's Land" (1994). Plummer soon found himself landing a better slate of films,
including the gloomy drama "Dolores Claiborne" (1995) and Terry Gilliam's excellent "12
Monkeys" (1995). He also had a string of made-for-cable films like "Kurt Vonnegut's 'Harrison
Bergeron'" (Showtime, 1995), "We the Jury" (USA Network, 1996) and "Skeletons" (HBO,
1997). But despite a strong presence onscreen, Plummer's reputation was still reliant on his
outstanding stage work, which culminated in a sterling performance in "Barrymore" (1997) as
the legendary actor and sot John Barrymore. Though reluctant at first to tackle the part,
Plummer gave it his all and earned his second career Tony Award for Leading Actor in a Play.
Because of his acclaimed Tony Award-winning performance, Plummer found the doors to
more serious dramatic roles swung wide open. After playing Franklin D. Roosevelt in
"Winchell" (HBO, 1998), he delivered a dead-on performance as "60 Minutes" journalist Mike
Wallace in the controversial tobacco feature "The Insider" (1999), which starred Russell
Crowe as a scientist for Brown and Williamson who blows the whistle on tobacco companies
knowing the danger of their product. Though overshadowed by the award-caliber
performances of Crowe and Al Pacino, who portrayed "60 Minutes" producer Lowell
Bergman, Plummer was nonetheless memorable as Wallace, particularly in a scene were he
dressed down a corporate flunky played by Gina Gershon. After playing British prosecutor, Sir
David Maxwell-Fyfe, in the two-part miniseries "Nuremberg" (TNT, 2000), he had a pivotal
role as a psychiatrist treating schizophrenic mathematician John Nash (Russell Crowe) in the
Oscar-winning picture, "A Beautiful Mind" (2001). In 2002, Plummer was cast as David in the
historical drama "Ararat," which he followed as Uncle Ralph to the title character in "Nicholas
Nickleby" (2002), while co-starring opposite Sharon Stone and Dennis Quaid in the
supernatural thriller, "Cold Creek Manor" (2003).
In 2004, Plummer remained an in-demand supporting player, appearing as Aristotle in Oliver
Stone's disappointing historical epic "Alexander" and as Nicolas Cage's grandfather - one of a
long line of American treasure hunters - in the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced blockbuster,
"National Treasure." Another Tony nomination, but no win, came his way after an aweinspiriting performance as "King Lear" (2004) at the famed Lincoln Center Theater in New
York. The following year was a busy one for the actor, which included an Emmy-nominated
performance as the arrogant Cardinal Bernard Law in "Our Fathers" (HBO, 2005), which
focused on the sexual abuse cases that plagued the archdiocese of Boston in 2002. After a
turn as Diane Lane's father in the romantic comedy misfire "Must Love Dogs" (2005),
Plummer was an influential, seemingly untouchable managing partner of a law firm
overseeing the dubious merger of two oil companies in the complex political potboiler
"Syriana" (2005). He next appeared in Terrance Malick's "The New World" (2005), a lyrical,
but ultimately meandering take on the settlement at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 and the
ensuing love affair between Captain John Smith (Colin Farrell) and a young Native American
girl, Pocahontas (Q'Orianka Kilcher).
Plummer next appeared in "The Lake House" (2006), an odd romantic drama about a doctor
(Sandra Bullock) and an architecture school dropout (Keanu Reeves) who live in the same
house but two years apart and fall in love via letters exchanged through a mysterious mailbox
that bridges time. He teamed up again with Spike Lee for the director's impressive genre
piece, "Inside Man" (2006), playing the founder of a bank who calls in a well-connected fixer
(Jodie Foster) for the rich and powerful to keep quiet a secret buried inside a safe deposit
box, while his employees are held hostage by a master thief (Clive Owen) battling a
negotiator (Denzel Washington) in an effort to pull off the perfect heist. After a supporting role
in the low-budget teen comedy, "Man in the Chair" (2007), Plummer earned his seventh Tony
Award nomination for his Broadway performance as Henry Drummond in "Inherit the Wind"
(2007). Turning to animated features, he voiced the villain Charles Muntz, who does battle
with a 78-year-old balloon salesman (Ed Asner) in the jungles of South America, in Pixar's
"Up" (2009). In "The Last Station" (2009), he delivered a stirring portrayal of Russian novelist
Leo Tolstoy during his last tumultuous years, in which the author struggled to reconcile his
vow of poverty with his enormous wealth. Plummer earned Golden Globe, Independent Spirit,
and Screen Actors Guild for Best Supporting Actor. On 26 February 2012 Christopher
Plummer won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in "Beginners". He may be the oldest
Oscar winner ever but he's not showing any signs of slowing down. The 82-year-old came on
stage to accept his best supporting actor award and stared at the statue before remarking on
how great it looked. "You're only two years older than me darling, where have you been all of
my life?" Plummer asked. Backstage, Plummer told reporters of the recognition he's received
recently, "it's sort of a renewal, it has recharged me. I hope I can do it for another 10 years at
least".
Born: Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer on December 13, 1929 in Toronto, Ontario, CA
Family: Daughter: Amanda Plummer. Born March 23, 1957; mother, Tammy Grimes
Father: John Plummer. Worked at McGill University; divorced Plummer s mother in 1929
Mother: Isabella Mary Plummer. Granddaughter of Canadian Prime Minister John Abbott;
divorced Plummer s father in 1929
Significant Others
Wife: Elaine Taylor. Married since 1970
Wife: Patricia Audrey Lewis. Married from 1962-1967
Wife: Tammy Grimes. Married from 1956-1960
Education: Jennings Private School

Milestones
1948 Stage debut in Cymbeline at Canadian Repertory Theatre, Ottawa
1951 TV debut in CBC production of Othello
1954 Broadway debut in The Starcross Story starring Katherine Cornell
1955 Delivered a compelling performance as the Earl of Warwick in Anouilh s The Lark
opposite Julie Harris
1955 Starred opposite Judith Anderson in a Paris production of Medea
1956 Portrayed title role in Henry V at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada
1958 Made film debut in Sidney Lumet s Stage Struck
1961 London stage debut in Becket
1965 Most memorable film appearance as Baron Von Trapp opposite Julie Andrews Maria in
The Sound of Music
1968 Portrayed title role in feature Oedipus the King
1973 Conceived and directed Lovers and Madmen, an evening of Shakespearean love
themes for Zoe Caldwell and himself
1974 Won a Tony Award for his performance in Cyrano
1976 Delivered Emmy-winning performance in Arthur Hailey s The Moneychangers (NBC)
1979 Played Sherlock Holmes in the feature film Murder by Decree
1980 Appeared in award-winning telefilm The Shadow Box (ABC), directed by Paul Newman
and co-starring Joanne Woodward
1986 Provided voice of Henri for the animated feature An American Tail
1988 Toured the U.S. in title role of Macbeth
1990 Starred in TV series Counterstrike on USA Network
1994 Acted opposite Jason Robards Jr. in revival of Harold Pinter s No Man s Land on
Broadway
1997 Returned to Broadway in the one-man show Barrymore, about the actor John
Barrymore
1999 Portrayed TV journalist Mike Wallace in The Insider, a film about tobacco industry
whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe)
2001 Had pivotal role as a psychiatrist treating schizophrenic mathematician John Forbes
Nash Jr. (Russell Crowe) in A Beautiful Mind
2002 Co-starred in the historical drama feature Ararat
2004 Cast as Aristotle in Oliver Stone s Alexander
2004 Returned to the stage for a production of King Lear at Lincoln Center s Beaumont
theater; received a Tony nomination for his performance
2005 Earned Emmy and SAG nominations for his portrayal of Boston s controversial Cardinal
Bernard Law in Showtime s Our Fathers
2005 Starred in the geopolitical thriller Syriana, based on the real-life memoirs of CIA agent
Robert Baer; produced by George Clooney
2006 Co-starred with Denzel Washington and Clive Owen in the Spike Lee directed hostage
drama Inside Man
2007 Returned to Broadway as Henry Drummond in a revival of Inherit the Wind ; earned
seventh Tony nomination
2009 Cast in the title role of Terry Gilliam s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
2009 Lent his voice to the feature-length adaptation of Shane Acker s short film 9
2009 Nominated for the 2009 Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a
Supporting Role ( The Last Station )
2009 Nominated for the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor In A
Supporting Role in a Motion Picture ( The Last Station )
2009 Nominated for the 2009 Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male ( The Last
Station )
2009 Nominated for the 2009 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a
Male Actor in a Supporting Role ( The Last Station )
2009 Portrayed Leo Tolstoy in the German biographical film The Last Station ; earned
Independent Spirit, Golden Globe, SAG and Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor
2009 Voiced the villain in the Pixar animated film Up
Worked extensively in live TV during the 1950s on shows like Kraft Television Theatre
and Producers Showcase (both NBC) and Appointment with Adventure (CBS)
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer, actor (b at Toronto 13 Dec 1929). Christopher

Plummer, a great-grandson of Prime Minister Sir John ABBOTT, is an international star
who has worked widely in the US, Britain and Canada. Raised and educated in
Montral, Plummer apprenticed with the Montral Repertory Theatre and made his
professional debut in 1948 with Ottawa's Stage Society, performing over 100 roles with
its successor, the Canadian Repertory Theatre. Performances in Bermuda led to a US
tour of Nina (1953) and Broadway recognition in The Starcross Story (1954), The Lark
(1955) and as Marc Antony in the American Shakespeare Festival's 1955 inaugural
season.
Other notable New York City engagements included The Dark Is Light Enough (1955); the
devil in J.B. (1958); Arturo Ui (1963); Pizarro in The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1965); The Good
Doctor (1971); the title roles in the musical Cyrano (1973) and the drama Barrymore (199698), both of which garnered him Tony Awards; Iago in Othello (1981-82) and Macbeth with
Glenda Jackson (1988); Pinter's No Man's Land (1995) with Jason Robards, Jr; and King
Lear (2004). In 2007 he appeared in Inherit the Wind and was nominated a seventh time for a
Tony Award.
In 1961 Plummer appeared at Stratford-upon-Avon, UK, as Richard III while alternating in
London as Henry II in Becket (winning the Evening Standard Award). He continued his British
career at the National Theatre in revivals of Amphitryon 38 and Danton's Death in 1971 and
The Scarlet Pimpernel at Chichester in 1985. His first King Lear was directed by Sir Peter Hall
in 2001.
Between 1956 and 1967 he starred at Canada's STRATFORD FESTIVAL playing Henry V,
Hamlet, Andrew Aguecheek, Mercutio, Leontes, Macbeth, Cyrano de Bergerac and Marc
Antony, as well as other roles. He returned 26 years later on 13 July 1993 to help the festival
celebrate its exact 40th anniversary day with a gala one-man show entitled A Word or Two,
Before You Go. Barrymore made its 1996 Canadian debut at Stratford and Plummer's King
Lear was seen in 2002. He played Caesar in the Stratford Festival's Caesar and Cleopatra,
which was also filmed for television in 2009.
Among his more than 100 feature films are Stage Struck (1958), The Sound of Music (1965),
Inside Daisy Clover (1966), Oedipus the King (1967), Lock Up Your Daughters! (1969),
Waterloo (1970), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), The Return of the Pink Panther
(1975), The Silent Partner (1978), Murder by Decree (GENIE Award, 1979), Dreamscape
(1984), The Boy in Blue (1986), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), Wolf (1994),
Dolores Claiborne (1995), 12 Monkeys (1996), The Clown at Midnight, Hidden Agenda and
Blackheart (all 1998), and the part of TV personality Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999), for
which he won the Boston, Los Angeles and National Film Critics awards. He appeared in Ron
Howard's award-winning A Beautiful Mind (2001), Atom EGOYAN's ARARAT (2002), and
Oliver Stone's Alexander (2004), in which he played Aristotle. Other film appearances include
Must Love Dogs with Diane Lane, Syriana with George Clooney, and New World, all in 2005;
Inside Man and The Lake House in 2006; and Man in the Chair, Closing the Ring, and
Already Dead in 2007. Christopher Plummer played Doctor Parnassus in The Imaginarium of
Doctor Parnassus (2009) and was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actor
for his role as Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station (2009).
His work on television is equally extensive. Highlights include Little Moon of Alban (1958) and
Hamlet at Elsinore (BBC 1965), both nominated for Emmy Awards; The Money Changers
(Emmy Award 1977); Sir John A. Macdonald in Riel (CBC 1979); Spearfield's Daughter
(1986); The Young Catherine (Primedia 1991); the made-in-Canada series Counterstrike
(1991-93); and Nuremberg (2000), filmed in Montral. In 2005 he was seen in Four Minutes,
the story of Roger Bannister's breaking of the mile-run record, and as Cardinal Law in Our
Fathers, an indictment of the Catholic Church's sexual scandals.
Plummer is also a skilled narrator whose voice has been heard on everything from cartoons
to the soundtrack for the 1994 Barnes Art Exhibit in Toronto. He has recorded several books
for young people, including Alice in Wonderland and Mordecai RICHLER's Jacob Two-Two.
An accomplished pianist, he has branched out musically to narrate concert versions of Henry
V (with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 1992-93), Peer Gynt (1995) and Prokofiev's Ivan
the Terrible (1996). Other platform presentations have included a solo evening with Stephen
Leacock as well as Love and Master Will, Shakespeare's verse in tandem with actress Zo
CALDWELL. His was the voice of the villainous Charles Muntz in Up (2009), which won an
Academy Award for best animated film.
Christopher Plummer, who became a Companion of the ORDER OF CANADA in 1968, has
received many honours and awards for his work. In 1986 he was inducted into the American
Theatre's Hall of Fame and in 1997 into Canada's Walk of Fame. The National Arts Club of
America awarded Plummer its gold medal for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts (1999). In
2001 he was made an honorary doctor of fine arts at New York's Juilliard School and received
the Canadian Governor-General's Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2002 he was the first
performer to be presented with the Jason Robards Award for Excellence in the Theatre. The
New York Times has hailed Christopher Plummer as "the finest classical actor in America."
His daughter, Amanda Plummer (b 23 March 1957), has also had a successful acting career
with roles in the films The Fisher King (1991) and Pulp Fiction (1994), and in The Lark (2005)
at Canada's Stratford Festival.
From: Garner, David. "Plummer, Arthur Christopher Orme." The Canadian Encyclopedia.
Historica-Dominion Institute, 2011.
Mini Biography
Until the 2009 Academy Awards were announced, it could be said about Christopher
Plummer that he was arguably the finest actor of the post-World War II period to fail to get an
Oscar nod. In that, he was following in the footsteps of the late great John Barrymore, whom
Plummer so memorably portrayed on Broadway in a one-man show that brought him a Tony
Award.
Aside from the youngest member of the Barrymore siblings (which counted Ethel Barrymore
and 'Lionel Barrymore' in their number), Christopher Plummer is the premier Shakespearean
actor to come out of North America in the 20th century. He was particularly memorable as
Hamlet, Iago and Lear, though his Macbeth opposite Glenda Jackson was -- and this was no
surprise to him due to the famous curse attached to the "Scottish Play" -- a failure.
Plummer also has given many fine portrayals on film, particularly as he got older and settled
down into a comfortable marriage with his third wife. Like another great stage actor, Richard
Burton, the younger Plummer failed to connect with the screen. Dynamic on stage, the
charisma failed to transfer through the lens onto celluloid. Burton's early film career, when he
was a contract player at 20th Century-Fox, failed to ignite, despite his garnering two Oscar
nominations early on. He did not become a star until the mid-1960s, after hooking up with
Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Cleopatra (1963). It was Liz who he credited with teaching him
how to act on film, Burton said.
Christopher Plummer never made it as a leading man in films. He did not become a star,
lacking that je ne said quoi that someone like a Gary Cooper or a Paul Newman had naturally.
Perhaps if he had been born earlier (he made his debut in Toronto in 1929) into the studio
system of Hollywood's golden age, he could have been carefully groomed for stardom. As it
was, he shared the English stage actors' disdain -- and he was equally at home in London as
he was on the boards of Broadway or on-stage in his native Canada -- for the movies, which
did not help him in that medium, as he has confessed. As he aged, Plummer excelled at
character parts. He was always a good villain, this man who garnered kudos playing Lucifer
on Broadway in Archibald Macleish's Pulitzer Prize-winning "J.B."
Though he likely always be remembered as "Baron Von Trapp" in the atomic bomb-strength
blockbuster The Sound of Music (1965) (a film he publicly despised until softening his stance
in his 2008 autobiography "In Spite of Me"), his later film work includes such outstanding
performances as the best cinema Sherlock Holmes--other than Basil Rathbone -- in Sherlock
Holmes and Saucy Jack (1979), the chilling villain in The Silent Partner (1978), his
iconoclastic Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999), the empathetic psychiatrist in A Beautiful
Mind (2001), and as Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station (2009). It was this last role that finally
brought him recognition from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, when he was
nominated as Best Actor in a supporting role.
Plummer remains one of the most respected and honored actors performing in the English
language. He's won two Emmy Awards out of six nominations stretching 46 years from 1959
and 2005, and one Genie Award in five nominations from 1980 to 2004. For his stage work,
Plummer has racked up two Tony Awards on six nominations, the first in 1974 as Best Actor
(Musical) for the title role in "Cyrano" and the second in 1997, as Best Actor (Play), in
"Barrymore".
Surprisingly, he did not win (though he was nominated) for his masterful 2004 performance of
"King Lear", which he originated at the Stratford Festival in Ontario and brought down to
Broadway for a sold-out run. His other Tony nominations show the wide range of his talent,
from a 1959 nod for the Elia Kazan-directed production of Macleish's "J.B." to recognition in
1994 for Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land", with a 1982 Best Actor (Play) nomination for his
"Iago" in William Shakespeare's "Othello".
He continues to be a very in-demand character actor in prestigious motion pictures. If he were
English rather than Canadian (he is the great-grandson of Sir John Abbott, the third Prime
Minister of Canada) he'd have been knighted long ago. (In 1968, he was a made a
Companion of the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honor and one which
requires the approval of the sovereign). If he were an American, he might have been honored
by the Kennedy Center. If he lived in the company town of Los Angeles, he likely would have
several more Oscar nominations to go with the one for "The Last Station."
As it is, as attested to in his witty and well-written autobiography, Christopher Plummer has
been amply rewarded in life. In 1970, Plummer - a self-confessed 43-year-old "bottle baby" married his third wife, dancer Elaine Taylor (I), who helped wean him off his dependency on
alcohol. They live happily with their dogs on a 30-acre estate in Weston, Connecticut and,
although he spends the majority of his time in the United States, he remains a Canadian
citizen.
"An actor should be a mystery," says Christopher Plummer. But these days actors must do
publicity, he laments -- so the popular film and stage actor has agreed to answer numerous
questions in a surprisingly candid, honest manner in this 1967 CBC-TV interview. He opens
up about his reluctance to star in The Sound of Music, gives his opinion on why actors tend to
drink heavily, criticizes Hollywood's "star system," and explains why he chose acting over a
music career.
Spouses:
Elaine Taylor (2 October 1970 - present)
Patricia Lewis (4 May 1962 - 1967) (divorced)
Tammy Grimes (19 August 1956 - 1960) (divorced) 1 child
Trivia:
Father, with Tammy Grimes, of actress Amanda Plummer.
Awarded The Edwin Booth Lifetime Achievement Award by The Players, 1997.
He was awarded the C.C. (Companion of the Order of Canada) in the 1968 Queen's Honours
List for his services to drama.
Grew up in the village of Senneville, Qubec, Canada.
Is the great grandson of former Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Abbott.
On April 22 he was awarded the first Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theatre by the
Roundabout Theatre. His The Sound of Music (1965) co-star Julie Andrews was among those
in attendance. [April 2002]
His first paying part was in "Machina Infernale" (The Infernal Machine) by Jean Cocteau, in
which he worked with another young Montreal actor, William Shatner. The two were reunited
years later when they both appeared in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991).
He received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Western Ontario on
June 8, 2004.
Schoolmate of jazz piano master Oscar Peterson.
Has won two Tony Awards: in 1974, as Best Actor (Musical), playing the title role in "Cyrano,"
and in 1997, as Best Actor (Play), playing the title role of John Barrymore in "Barrymore." He
has also been nominated for the Tony four other times: as Best Actor (Dramatic), in 1959 for
"J.B.," and as Best Actor (Play), in 1982 for Shakespeare's "Othello," in 1994 for "No Man's
Land," and in 2004 for Shakespeare's "King Lear."
He and his daughter Amanda Plummer both received Emmy nominations in 2005. She won,
he didn't.
Trained to become a concert pianist before turning his attention to acting.
Was actually born on December 13, 1929, although most publications usually state his
birthday as December 13, 1927.
Is only 13 years older than Charmian Carr who played his daughter in The Sound of Music
(1965).
Invited to join to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences [2007].
One of 115 people invited to join AMPAS in 2007.
Turned down the role of Gandalf in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and admits
to regretting that decision.
Personal Quotes
(why he prefers playing evil characters) "The devil is more interesting than God."
Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don't
think life has very much meaning.
I'm bored with questions about acting.
[on Julie Andrews] Working with her is like being hit over the head with a Valentine's card.
Where Are They Now
(December 2002) Headlining "Royal Christmas" Tour in Mid-west/East-coast US and Ontario
with Sound of Music Co-Star Julie Andrews, Charlotte Church; The Royal Philharmonic; Kiev,
London and Bolshoi Ballets; and the Westminster Bell Choir and Westminster Concert Choir
from Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey.
(March 2004) Playing title character in Shakespeare's "King Lear" in the Lincoln Center
Production. Through April 2004
(May 2007) Long time resident of Fairfield County's Weston, Connecticut.
(June 2008) Acting at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, Canada. Playing the role
of Caesar in "Caesar and Cleopatra" a George Bernard Shaw play. From August 7 to
Novemeber 9.
(2008) Release of his book, "In Spite of Myself: A Memoir".
(August 2010) Stratford Shakespeare Festival - as Prospero in The Tempest.
(2011) Barrymore the Play at Toronto's historic Elgin Theatre for 30 performances January
27th - March 9th, 2011.
(February 26, 2012) On 26 February 2012 Christopher Plummer won a Best Supporting Actor
Oscar for his rol in "Beginners". He may be the oldest Oscar winner ever but he's not showing
any signs of slowing down. The 82-year-old came on stage to accept his best supporting
actor award and stared at the statue before remarking on how great it looked. "You're only
two years older than me darling, where have you been all of my life?" Plummer asked.
Backstage, Plummer told reporters of the recognition he's received recently, "it's sort of a
renewal, it has recharged me. I hope I can do it for another 10 years at least".
Elaine Taylor Biography
Elaine Taylor (actress)

Elaine Regina Taylor (born 17 October 1943) is an English-born actress, best known as a
leading lady in comedy films of the late 1960s and early '70s. She is married to the Canadian
actor Christopher Plummer.
Early life
Elaine Taylor was born in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. With the encouragement of her
mother Frances, she took dancing lessons as a child and, as early as 1950, had her hair
styled by the celebrated Raymond Bessone (Mr Teasy Weasy) for the part of Will Othe
Wisp. Taylor later studied at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts and joined the London
Festival Ballet.
TV and radio
In the mid 1960s Taylor appeared in episodes of various British television series, including
The Benny Hill Show (1965), The Lance Percival Show (1966), in which she sang as well as
taking part in comedy sketches, The Old Campaigner (1967), which featured Terry-Thomas
as a womanising plastics salesman, and Mr. Rose, starring William Mervyn as a retired senior
policeman (1968). Her appearance with Benny Hill on 18 December 1965 included a genderreversal parody of the 1956 film Baby Doll that Hill repeated in 1974 with Diana Darvey.
Taylor is thought also to have been the announcer of a sketch in which Hill first performed his
song "Those Days" in imitation of Sonny and Cher. She worked again with Hill in the third
series of his BBC radio show Benny Hill Time, which started on the Light Programme on 27
February 1966 and featured, among others, Patricia Hayes and Peter Vernon.
Early film career
In 1967 Taylor was a Bond girl (with, among others, Jacqueline Bisset, Barbara Bouchet
and Alexandra Bastedo) as Peg in Casino Royale and played on both stage and screen with
Tommy Steele in Half a Sixpence. In 1968 she took the modish role of Victoria Ponsonby in
the comedy film Diamonds for Breakfast - in Leslie Halliwell's view, a "yawning comedy caper
yarn embellished with sex and slapstick" - that featured also Marcello Mastroianni, in his first
English language film, and Rita Tushingham. In the same year she played Shirley Blair,
pregnant fiance of Tom Taggart (Christian Roberts), in Hammer's adaptation of Bill
MacIlwraith's play The Anniversary, a "high camp" black comedy starring Bette Davis and
Sheila Hancock. Tom Chantrells famous poster for The Anniversary featured a front-on still of
Taylor in brassiere and panties below the slogan (attributed to Davies character) I Spy with
my little eye/Something beginning with SEX and I mean to put a stop to it.
Marriage to Christopher Plummer
How Elaine and Christopher met:
In 1969 Taylor met Christopher Plummer, best known at the time for his role as Captain von
Trapp in The Sound of Music (1965), while they were both filming Lock Up Your Daughters in
Kilkenny, Ireland. Plummer was almost fourteen years older, twice divorced, and had recently
been partnering Richard Harris' ex-wife Elizabeth Rees-Williams. Taylor's usually "mousy"
hair, which was tinted red on location, is said to have appealed to Plummer. For her part,
Taylor, who initially thought Plummer "a most conceited prig", agreed to meet him again in
London provided that he reduced his consumption of alcohol.
Christopher: "Elaine had now completed her role in the movie and was on her way back to
London for yet another engagement -- a busy and popular lady. I felt absolutely empty and as
despondent as anyone could be. As she was leaving, I told her I was going to miss her
dreadfully and hoped she would let me see her in London. 'All right, but on one condition,' she
warned, 'that you cut down on the booze.'"
Source: Christopher Plummer. In Spite of Myself: A Memoir. 2008. pg. 471.
Wedding Date:
Elaine and Christopher were married on October 2, 1970 at the Unitarian Church in Montreal,
Canada. The officiant was Reverend Phillip Moreton and Christopher's childhood friend Toby
Johnson was best man. Toby's wife Alice was the bridesmaid. They were the only guests at
the wedding. The two couples celebrated the wedding by having lunch together at the Ritz.
The officiant, the Reverend Philip Moreton, had married Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
in 1964. Taylor and Plummer reached their ruby wedding (40th) anniversary in 2010.
Christopher: "He [Reverend Moreton] was tall and exceptionally handsome with a beautiful
speaking voice, which made the verses sing and gave our service an unexpected romance ...
It was the smallest and best wedding ever."
Since the 1970s Plummer and Taylor have lived on a rambling English style estate at Weston,
Connecticut. Taylor has no children of her own; her stepdaughter is the actress Amanda
Plummer (born 1957), Plummers daughter from his first marriage to Tammy Grimes. Over the
years she appears to have moderated aspects of Plummer's behaviour. A few months after
their marriage, Alan Bennett remarked wryly to Kenneth Tynan that Plummer was "his own
worst enemybut only just,"while Plummer's own autobiography almost forty years later was
entitled In Spite of Myself. Plummer has described Taylor's positive influence on his life as
follows:
a combination of Edith Cavell and Julia Child ... a nurse and a cook. I feel guilty sometimes
that I denied her a wonderful life, that she's wasted it on some terrible old ham. She could
have married a duke or a prince! And she knows it. But being British, you see, she never
complains. She's very well trained.
Career in 1970s and '80s
In the early 1970s Taylor appeared in two films, Michael Winner's The Games (about
marathon runners' preparations for the 1960 Rome Olympics and All the Way Up (both 1970),
an episode of ITC's Jason King ("A Royal Flush", 1972) and various televised dramas for the
BBC, including Trelawny of the Wells (as Rose Trelawny, 1972) and Kingsley Amis' Dr.
Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery (as Emily, Lady Fairfax alongside Edward Fox's
Watson, 1974). In the mid 1980s she returned to television in America in The George
McKenna Story (1986) and Sharing Richard (1988) and co-produced the 1987 film Love
Potion. Taylors most recent appearance is thought to have been in the TV film Till Death Us
Do Part (1992) (based on a true crime and unrelated to the long-running British TV comedy
series of the same name).
Other interests
Taylor is a gourmet French cook and she and Plummer renovated or designed houses in
West Hollywood, Grasse and London before settling in Weston.
Christopher Plummer and Elaine Taylor

The third time appears to be the charm for Christopher Plummer. He has been married to his
third wife, Elaine Taylor, since 1970. Here is more information on how they met, their
wedding, and more.
Born:
Christopher Orme Plummer: December 13, 1929 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Elaine Regina Taylor: October 17, 1943 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England.
... and lastly, a lady called Elaine, my wife of 43 years, whose bravery and beauty haunts me
still."
(Christopher Plummer's acceptance speech on Golden Globes 2012 receiving Best
Supporting Actor Award for his role in 'Beginners' )
How Elaine and Christopher Met:

Christopher met Elaine in 1969 on the set of Lock Up Your Daughters! and married a year
later.
Christopher: "Elaine had now completed her role in the movie and was on her way back to
London for yet another engagement -- a busy and popular lady. I felt absolutely empty and as
despondent as anyone could be. As she was leaving, I told her I was going to miss her
dreadfully and hoped she would let me see her in London. 'All right, but on one condition,' she
warned, 'that you cut down on the booze.'"
Wedding Date:
Elaine and Christopher were married on October 2, 1970 at the Unitarian Church in Montreal,
Canada. The officiant was Reverend Phillip Moreton and Christopher's childhood friend Toby
Johnson was best man. Toby's wife Alice was the bridesmaid. They were the only guests at
the wedding. The two couples celebrated the wedding by having lunch together at the Ritz.
Christopher: "He [Reverend Moreton] was tall and exceptionally handsome with a beautiful
speaking voice, which made the verses sing and gave our service an unexpected romance ...
It was the smallest and best wedding ever."
Children:
Christopher has one daughter:
Amanda Plummer: Born in 1957, Amanda is an actress. Her mother is Tammy Grimes.
Alex Witchel: "From the time he and Grimes split in 1960 until 1981, he saw the child only
once, during a visit to London when she was 8. Though he says she "has become more of a
friend now," the relationship raises all sorts of questions, none of them happy."
Source: Alex Witchel. "Christopher Plummer's legendary life, wonderfully retold."

NYTimes.com. 11/19/2008.
Occupations:
Christopher: Actor, producer, architect, concert pianist.
Elaine: Dancer, actress, producer, interior decorator, gourmet cook.
Residence:
Elaine and Christopher have lived since the 1970s in Weston, Connecticut in a 100-year old
English Manor-styled home. They have about 25 acres of land on their estate.
Previous Marriages:
Christopher has two previous marriages.
Tammy Grimes: Christopher and actress Tammy Grimes were married on 8/19/1956 in
Cherokee Castle in Colorado by the local honorary sheriff. They had a small wedding with
only five guests present. After having one child together, they had a Mexican divorce in 1960.
Christopher: "We were two fans observing and admiring each other at 40 paces - hardly the
stuff to secure a union; we were having too much fun enjoying our separate ascendancies much too immature to take on the twin responsibilities of marriage and raising a child."
Source: Alex Witchel. "Christopher Plummer's legendary life, wonderfully retold."
NYTimes.com. 11/19/2008.
Christopher: "Well, I had a Tammy Grimes at home and that was terrific and we'd had a baby
girl and that too was terrific, but the theatre and our careers consumed our attention and we'd
now grown further and further apart. I was a lousy husband and an even worse farther and
Tam's and my life together was clearly over."
Patricia "Trish" Audrey Lewis: Christopher married columnist Trish Lewis on 5/4/1962 after
she recovered from brain surgery after being hurt in an automobile accident. Their wedding
took place at the Marylebone Registry office in London. Their marriage ended in divorce in
1967.
Christopher: "One thing was certain; the accident had loomed over our marriage like the
sword of Damocles. The life-threatening urgency and horror of it had inflated our romance to
such an extreme it had robbed us of all passion, and everything that followed seemed dry and
anticlimactic. An inexplicable resentment grew between us and our fights became
dangerously more and more frequent. It had been only five years or so but for us -- too long.
Divorce proceedings were swift and painless."
Source: Victor Davis. "Are Christopher Plummer's vile tantrums and arrogance to blame for
fact he's never won an Oscar?"
Christopher Plummer quotes

For his performance in The Last Station he received a personal Academy Award nomination
for best supporting actor at the 2010 Oscars.
Well, I said its about time! I mean, Im 80 years old for Gods sake. Have mercy.
He is busier than ever before, and puts this down to the fact that:
Theres not that many old actors. They all died. Im one of the last men standing! I think
theres maybe four of us. I hope the other b.s die first
In 2008 he finished writing his memoirs for his riotous autobiography In Spite of Myself.
I wanted people to know how one develops through working with other extraordinary actors
and actresses, what one learns.
To sum up his life as an actor, Plummer says:
I love my profession. It keeps me young. Its my hobby as well as my professionIts
a great profession if youre lucky at it. Ive had a wonderful life, seen the world and theyve
paid for it!
Quotes about the Marriage of Christopher Plummer and Elaine Taylor:
Victor Davis: "So, thanks to Elaine, his sweet-natured wife of 40 years, it seems Plummer's
blood is slower to boil these days."
More Christopher Plummer Quotes:

Ive been very fortunateits just been an amazing piece of luck. I havent had to suffer for
my art but Ive suffered enough inside to hopefully be called an artist. Christopher Plummer
Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the
early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil
and charming too.
I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal.
I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today
what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.
I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days.
I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.
In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.
It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English
culture voice. So I had to work like hell to flatten those R's.
Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have
a poetic license.
The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went
out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.
The part of Mike Wallace drew me to the movie because I thought, what an outrageous part
to play.
They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.
Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.
I`m bored with questions about acting.
Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don`t
(why he prefers playing evil characters) "The devil is more interesting than God."
A lot of great people have seen people portray them and loathed them. But I did my best and
I don`t think there is anything to be offended at.
More . . . Christopher Plummer quotes:
The Insider was a hot movie and an important movie and it was upgraded from the movies I
had been doing," Plummer says. "You see, I loved the theater and I stayed in the theater
most of my life and I was a bit snobbish about it. I made a lot of movies through the '60s and
'70s which were pretty awful, but then most of the movies in the '60s and early '70s were
pretty awful. The quality wasn't always there, unfortunately, but the money was. And I was
grateful for that because I could afford to then do what I wanted to do in the theater.
Christopher Plummer - Robert Siegel interview for All Things Considered (3 June 2011)
Drinking was particularly fun and fashionable in the '50s. Drugs started to creep in and do
their rather remote work in the late '60s and '70s. And then in the '80s and '90s everyone
started to get terribly serious drinking water all the time or taking drugs. Poor old booze
took a back seat.
Christopher Plummer - Boston Globe interview (31 January 2010)
I adored the part [Hal in Beginners] and I thought it was so well written and so unsentimental
and brave and witty and free. Totally free," Plummer says. "Of course he was so relieved to
be able to come out of the closet in such a happy way because he was so fond of his latest
boyfriend. I just adored the way it was tackled. It was tackled with such humanity and
sweetness and fun.
I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal.
Christopher Plummer
I happened to be sort of leading man-looking. And then finally I was dissipated enough in my
40s to look like a character actor and that's when everything began to change. And I enjoyed
being a character actor because of course the roles were so much more interesting. It started
with John Huston's film The Man Who Would Be King, which is a very good film, and certainly
after The Insider. And now I'm getting nice lovely scripts like Beginners.
I love what I'm doing on the screen, particularly now. The roles are getting richer and more
interesting as I grow older I'm very lucky. Or maybe there's nobody left, at my age. I have
no competition anymore because I am the oldest man on earth.

I loved the script because I thought it made Tolstoy who I always thought was rather dry
seem full of humanity and humor.
I made my mark in the theater, in the mid-'50s. And I continued to try and keep that standard
going for the rest of my life. And I hope I have. Films are another matter. The theater is our
medium, and the writers. Screen is the medium of a committee, largely so I'm not responsible
for how things ended up.
Christopher Plummer - Dark Horizons interview (28 December 2009)
I was a bit bored with the character [Captain Georg von Trapp]. 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't appeal to every person in the world.
I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days.
Christopher Plummer
I'm bored with questions about acting.
Christopher Plummer
I'm glad to see [drinking is] coming back these days, particularly in the young at least
they've got good taste. Because I could never connect with my friends who were on drugs.
They were in a totally gaga world, but at least booze you could be violent, you could be
funny, you could tell stories. It was a much more gregarious form of anathematizement.
I'm in good shape. I could play 60 with ease.
I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.
Christopher Plummer
I've been very fortunate it's just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven't had to suffer for
my art but I've suffered enough inside to hopefully be called an artist.
Christopher Plummer
In my book I call [The Sound of Music] 'S&M'. An abbreviated version. But I'm grateful for it
because it certainly was famous and put me in the public eye and I could help fill a theater
when I was doing the great works.
In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.
Christopher Plummer
Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have
a poetic license.
Christopher Plummer
Oh, [acting is] the most fascinating job. I mean, it's a vocation, a hobby, a job. It's everything
to me. I won't go as far as saying it's a religion but I think it's more fun than religion. It's
romance, and escape. And I've been escaping all my life. I love it.
The devil is more interesting than God.
Christopher Plummer
The drama critic for The Montreal Gazette gave me a good review in a high-school
production of Pride and Prejudice. It went to my head.
Christopher Plummer
The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went
out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.
Christopher Plummer
The part of Mike Wallace drew me to the movie because I thought, what an outrageous part
to play.
Christopher Plummer
There were so many nuns around [the The Sound of Music set], I was determined to play
Peck's Bad Boy and be the naughty fellow. Well it needed somebody naughty to keep it away
from mawkish sentimentality.
There's a whole new generation every year, poor kids, that have to sit through [The Sound of
Music]. But It was a very well-made movie, and it's a family movie and we haven't seen a
family movie, I don't think, on that scale for ages. I don't mind that. It just happened to be not
my particular cup of tea.
These young actors are not trained enough. They jump into television and want to be stars
without doing any work. And they do become stars, but will it last?
Too many people in the world are unhappy with their lot. And then they retire and they
become vegetables. I think retirement in any profession is death, so I'm determined to keep
crackin'.
Christopher Plummer
Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don't
Christopher Plummer
Well, I said it's about time! I mean, I'm 80 years old, for God's sake. Have mercy.
Christopher Plummer - on his first Oscar nomination, to CBC (7 March 2010)
When I went to see [Up], I thought, 'My god, what an absolutely marvelous movie this is. I
mean it really is human. It really has everything in it. And that's the sort of thing that surprises
you and that's the pleasant one when you can't dream of what it's going to look like and there
it is, much more thrilling than you ever dreamed it would be.
Working with [Julie Andrews] is like being hit over the head with a Valentine's card.
Christopher Plummer
Christopher Plummer Speeches
Year: 2011 (84th) Academy Awards
Category: Actor in a Supporting Role
Film Title: Beginners
Winner: Christopher Plummer
Presenter: Melissa Leo
Date & Venue: February 26, 2012; Hollywood & Highland Center
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER:
[To the Oscar:] You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my
life?
I have a confession to make. When I first emerged from my mother's womb, I was already
rehearsing my Academy thank you speech. But it was so long ago, mercifully for you I've
forgotten it. But I haven't forgotten who to thank. The Academy, of course, for this
extraordinary honor. And my fellow nominees: Kenneth, Nick, Jonah, dear Max. I'm so proud
to be in your company. Of course I wouldn't be here at all if it weren't for Michael Mills and his
enchanting film, "Beginners." And my screen partner, of course, Ewan McGregor, that superb
artist who I would happily share this award with if I had any decency -- but I don't. All the
producers at Olympus Films, especially Leslie Urdang and Miranda de Pencier. All the people
at Focus, for their tremendous generosity and support. And not to mention my, haha, little
band of agents provocateurs: Lou Pitt and his wife Berta, Carter Cohn, Pippa Markham, Perry
Zimel, who've tried so hard to keep me out of jail. My daughter Amanda, who always makes
me proud. And lastly, my long-suffering wife, Elaine, who deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for
coming to my rescue every day of my life. Thank you so much.
Year: 2012 Golden Globe Awards
Category: Actor in a Supporting Role
Film Title: Beginners
Winner: Christopher Plummer
Christopher Plummer has charmed his way to the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting
Actor in a Motion Picture.
The legendary actor starred in "Beginners" as Hal Fields, a 70-something man who comes
out of the closet after his wife dies. Through flashbacks in the memory of his son, played by
Ewan McGregor, the film sees him experience a new freedom and then quickly deteriorate as
he dies from cancer. Plummer is equally delightful and tragic; the film delivers the message
that it's never too late to be the person you want to be, but that you can never get back lost
time.
Remarkably, the win gives Plummer his first career Golden Globe win
"I want to salute my partner, Ewan -- that wily Scott -- Ewan 'My Heart's in the Highlands'
McGregor," he said. "That scene-stealing swine... also, a 21 gun salute goes to Michael Mills,
whose talent and wisdom made 'Beginners' such an enchanting story. And of course the rest
of the family, including Cosmo my favorite dog... and lastly, a lady called Elaine, my wife of 43
years, whose bravery and beauty haunts me still."
Behind the scenes, he told the press, "Gay characters are human beings. were all exactly the
same. That's the reason I played it the way I did, not as a caricature. They're a part of our
society since the Egyptians, the Greeks - it's part of the human condition. I know there is a lot
of antigay sentiment in our society at the moment and I abhor it."
Q&A: Christopher Plummer, The Guardian, Saturday 13 February 2010
'I'd like to be remembered as benign, beneficent and brilliant, but there's no hope of that'
When were you happiest?
When I was skipping school.
What is your greatest fear?
Loss of memory.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
My wife of 40 years, because she's beautiful, as wise as Solomon and a Cordon Bleu cook to
boot.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
A leaning toward procrastination.
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Man's incessant cruelty to man and to animals, which is almost worse.
What was your most embarrassing moment?
Being caught in bed with a lady, by her husband.
Property aside, what's the most -expensive thing you've bought?
A Renoir.
What would your super power be?
To be able to play superbly Brahms' terrifying Paganini Variations.
What makes you unhappy?
The slow disappearance of style.
What do you most dislike about your appearance?
I really can't think.
If you could bring something extinct back to life, what would you choose?
Let's just try to save all living beasts.
Who would play you in the film of your life?
Colin Farrell, because he's desperate and because he can play anything.
What is the worst thing anyone's said to you?
After slapping Sir John Gielgud a -resounding crack on the back -accompanied by a loud,
"How are ya, Jack?" he turned, adjusted his cravat and said in a soft, melli-fluous voice, "And
how are you, Christopher, in your own small way?"
What is your guiltiest pleasure?
Stealing money from my grand-father's winter coat pockets.
To whom would you most like to say sorry, and why?
My mum, for not showing her my gratitude -before it was too late.
What or who is the greatest love of your life?
Ma femme, la belle Elaine.

What does love feel like?
Agony and ecstasy.
What was the best kiss of your life?
My French nanny kissed me at a very tender age. It was long and tempting my first real
turn-on.
What has been your biggest disappointment?
Not being a concert pianist.
How often do you have sex?
Mentally, nonstop.
What is the closest you've come to death?
Skiing at great speed and falling headfirst into a drift. I was starting to suffocate when the ski
patrol and their St Bernard got me out.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Arriving at 80 and staying there.
What song would you like played at your funeral?
The Liebestod from Tristan And Isolde.
How would you like to be remembered?
As being benign, beneficent and -brilliant, but there's no hope of that.
What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Never forget your sense of humour.
The New Zealand Herald, Friday Nov 16, 2012
Nearing his 83rd birthday hasn't meant Christopher Plummer is slowing down. In fact, he
seems to be putting the pedal to the metal.
"I've never worked as hard as I have in my life at the present time and I think it's wonderful,"
the oldest Oscar winner says. "It keeps me on my toes. It keeps me young. It keeps my
memory going."
Plummer has enjoyed a late-career push that has included his first two Oscar nominations in
the past three years. He won this year for his role in Beginners as Hal Fields, a museum
director who becomes openly gay after his wife of 44 years dies.
Now two of his stage roles have hit the movie screens - The Tempest, which was recorded
live over two days in 2010 by Des McAnuff, the artistic director of the Stratford Festival in
Ontario, and his Barrymore, a two-person play exploring the life of actor John Barrymore that
earned Plummer his second Tony in 1997.
"He is a force of nature. He is the tempest itself," says McAnuff, who is still stunned by
Plummer's energy and skill. Right after winning the Oscar, McAnuff called to congratulate
Plummer, but all he wanted to do was talk about his one-man show.
"He's got an insatiable appetite for hard work and for creativity."
Plummer has always been reluctant to allow his stage performances to be captured on film.
"I don't like it because it's always so cold. There's a barrier between you and the audience,
which the screen always puts up, and so it loses a lot of its immediacy generally. So I don't
approve really of just filming a play just straight on as it is."
The Tempest and Barrymore are more than just point-a-camera-at-the-stage recordings. In
Shakespeare's play, the cameras swoop about the stage, creating close-ups and long shots.
In Barrymore, which was filmed over seven days in and around the Elgin Theatre in Toronto,
director and adapter Erik Canuel used an empty theatre for some scenes and filmed others in
alleyways. Plummer says the piece got more laughs in front of a live audience, but becomes
more emotional on screen.
"I think film does the play justice in both cases. Barrymore is more filmic, but some of the
magic does come through very well in The Tempest."
As for his own magic, Plummer hopes it keeps flowing. He laughs at all the accolades he's
lately accepting.
"I think that's because I'm getting old. They're sort of saying, 'Oh, we better give it to him now
otherwise he'll drop dead."
Christopher Plummer: On drugs vs. drinking, Stratford, and why hes no longer a monster
by Kate Fillion on Sunday, July 4, 2010
Q: Many critics consider you the finest classical actor in North America
A: [Laughs] I dont know why they stop at North America. Whats wrong with my English
acting? I played the classics in England for years.
Q: On the day of a performance, do you have a particular routine?
A: I like to get to the theatre a little early so I can go through the play, but thats simply to
exercise ones memory, which, particularly at my age, 80, is important.
Q: Is your memory still sharp?
A: Touch wood, I havent had any scares yet. Acting helps a great deal because you have to
memorize everything, it keeps the brain alive. I hope.
Q: Reviewers are ecstatic about your performance of Prospero in The Tempest. What does it
feel like when a performance is going well?
A: Marvellous, because you know the audience is on your side, will do anything to encourage
you along your way. I always say the audience is your real partner, and the other actors come
after that.
Q: What do you do when the audience isnt so responsive?
A: You dont give them your C performance, you try to give them your A performance, and
press on. And you have to enjoy it, because otherwise the audience has won.
Q: Youve said you were avoiding Prospero like the plague because, among other things, its
a very difficult part. Why is it so difficult?
A: Prospero is a sort of figurehead in a funny way: for a long time, at the end of the first half,
hes not present on the stage. And one has to find, in the middle of the piece, some sort of
motivation for his sudden depressed feelingsit comes out of left field. Thats the playwrights
fault, I think. Believe it or not, Im actually criticizing Mr. Shakespeare! The emotional line is
not clear, and theres an emptiness for Prospero, whos just sitting in his dressing room
waiting to go on.
Q: What are you doing in that time period?
A: Trying to stay awake! Trying to keep the energy going, which subsides rather markedly
while you sit there waiting for the end of the first act. But you cant do anything else, because
then youd really lose concentration.
Q: Why do you think people are surprised by the comic touch you bring to the part?
A: Theres millions of chances to get unexpected laughs in The Tempest. But the Prosperos
Ive seen over the years have made the mistake of playing him like a dry old professor, or a
deacon who wears great big robes and pontificates. Even Gielgud played it rather
intellectually, kind of distant. The thing I desperately tried to do was to find the humanity in
Prospero. Its a play about magic, and the disillusion of magic, and he is an extraordinary
creature but he is also a human being.
Q: On opening weekend, the audience went crazy. How do you come back down to earth
afterwards?
A: Ive been at it forever, it seems, so it doesnt really take me too far up to the sky now.
When I was young, the euphoria was truly extraordinary, and in those days, we drank
ourselves down. We hit the bar, kind of anaesthetizing ourselves. We dont drink so much
these days, and I miss it dreadfully, the laughter, the naughtiness of the mid-century. It was
such fun. Everybody takes themselves soooo seriously now.
Q: Youve been in a lot of movies recently with actors known as bad boys: Russell Crowe,
Colin Farrell. Do they remind you of yourself?
A: A little bit, yes. But I didnt take my badness quite as far as they did, to world-renown. I
kept it rather local, and Im terribly depressed about that. Id love to have been just as
famously bad as Russell and Colin.
Q: They dont really behave any worse than you did?
A: No, theyre not bad at all, they just have wonderful rebellious natures, which I love. Its so
necessary for an artist to be a rebel, and to want to be unique, original.
Q: And carousing was expected of actors in the fifties, but now its portrayed as a sign of
emotional trouble.
A: Yes. And remember, I was bad before drugs became fashionable. Drugs made everyone
introspective and kind of selfish, they take you away from reaching out to people. In the fifties,
drinking, we were much more friendly and open. Im sure I was a terrible bore, but I thought I
was being frightfully friendly.
Q: At 80, a lot of people give up things: big houses, work, sometimes driving. Is there
anything youve given up?
A: No, not yet. I certainly dont want to retirethat is death to me. And I still enjoy driving,
rather. Of course, flying, which used to be such fun, is a terrible bore now, unless you are
lucky enough to have a time-share in a private plane. Which I dont.
Q: But arent you flying first class, with people kowtowing to you?
A: Oh yes, Im spoiled, people do meet me and take me through the lines so I dont have to
wait as long, but its still miserable.
Q: Are there any roles youd like to revisit that you cant play because of your age?
A: Its such a shame that the electronic media have taught us to look upon age as a sort of
yardstick for what to do or what not to do, because of course in the old days people were
playing Hamlet until they were 70and probably playing him better than they did in their
twenties. I could be a terrific Hamlet now, because I know so much more about the theatre,
Ive done so much and could bring that in.
Q: Which Shakespearean characters are left to play?
A: Ive played all the greatest of the Bards, with the exception of Othello. And I know that one
would get lynched over here playing Othello, which is a shame, because Id love to take a
crack at it. I might want to do Shylock, too.
Q: What about Falstaff?
A: Im not sure about him. Its very sweaty standing around in those big costumes with
padded tummies. The comfort level is not terribly intriguing.
Q: Your co-star in The Last Station, Helen Mirren, is playing Prospero in Julie Taymors film
version of The Tempest. Are there any female parts youd like to play?
A: A very tacky, old Cleopatra! No, wait: the nurse in Romeo and Juliet! I think that is my
dream, to play the nurse.
Q: Seriously, if asked to play the nurse, would you?
A: It depends who was playing the other parts, but if they were exciting actors? Yes, damn
well Id do it.
Q: Youve been extremely busy over the past few years. Do you ever relax?
A: Its a wonderful place to escape to, the theatre. I feel perhaps more relaxed there than I do
in life. And strangely enough, I have just the same energy I always did, and Im awfully
ambitious still, I havent lost any of that.
Q: Because Prospero is often a career-capping role, youve said you intend to do something
very quickly afterwards, to prove youre not making an exit. So whats next?
A: Ive been offered the part of Salvador Dali, on film, and Im dying to do it if they can raise
the money. The more outrageous the part, the better I like it. Actually, Im in a bit of a panic at
the moment, there are several great comic characters Id like to try. Its got to be comic, I just
want to get laughs from now on.
Q: Is it easier to get laughs than to make people cry?
A: I think it is easier, despite the famous line that dying is easy but comedy is terrifically hard.
Making people cry is out of your hands. You cant come into a performance with the intention
of making people cry, because then youre dead. Pathos is something totally inexplicable; you
cant play pathos, you have to own it. To simplify: if somebody cries a lot of real tears on the
stage, its not going to be terribly moving. If you dont cry, then the audience has a chance to
cry.
Q: Would you consider doing something on TV? Like, say, an HBO series?
A: HBO is interesting. But a series? No, it just chains you down, you end your life in a series.
Id rather end my life in action, on the stage.
Q: Just keel over while doing a play?
A: Absolutely! Its the way to go. I want to be very present at my own death, I want to know
every second of it, every subtle change. Itll be fascinating.
Q: Do you think people mellow with age?
A: Yes, I think they do, though Im not sure about me. I think I have entered a sort of second
childhood: Im kind of giddy, having a good time. I dont want to mellow too much, that would
be rather dull.
Q: But arent you easier to work with now?
A: Oh, Im a lot easier to work with. Im a pushover, a sweetheart when it comes to my fellow
players. I used to be a monster.
Q: What changed?
A: In that respect, I suppose I have mellowed. It was just too exhausting to go on being a
prick.
Plummers Peak
By David Edelstein
Published May 29, 2011
On playing gay in Beginners: Goran Visnjic [as Plummers young lover] was nervous, cause
hes very butch, and he would be pacing up and down and saying, My God, my God, weve
really got to kiss, and I began to get petulant about it and said, Whats so bad about kissing
me? It was nerve-racking, but once it happened, it was rather pleasurable, actually We fell
into it as if wed always been gay.
On not milking his death scene: My character, Hal, is happy to die knowing he has finally
been honest with himself and known a great love. Same with Cyrano de Bergerac. I acted
with Jos Ferrer, who was great in that role, but he made the mistake of crying at his own
death, and I said, That is something I can never do.
On why he wanted to be a bad-boy -actor: My great-grandfather was prime minister of
Canada, and I had a very Edwardian upbringing. It was a beautiful, romantic way of growing
up, until the family lost its money. And I decided to be bad and rough and find the streets
rather than the gates. Most actors come from the streets, and their rise to fame is guided by a
natural anger. It was harder to find that rage coming from a gentle background. I think anger
does fuel a successful acting career. To play the great roles, you have to learn how to blaze.
On his high-living early acting days: -Jason Robards and I used to play scenes on the stage,
and after wed say the line, wed ask, under our breath, Where are we starting out tonight? It
was usually the White Horse Inn, and we couldnt wait for the show to be over to invade that
bigger show called life. I thought at one or two glamorous moments that I wasnt going to last
very long. I thought, If I make 35, itll be okay, and then at 40 I got scared, and now that Im 81
Im scared to death.
On being a dark presence on the set of The Sound of Music: There had to be someone
involved who was a shitcynical, naughtyand I think [director] Robert Wise was grateful for
my presence because it helped him steer the movie from veering over the cliff into a sea of
mawkishness. But I loved Julie Andrews. The littlest one, who played Gretl, was an absolute
monster, she took such attention away from everybody else. Then years later, I was in a play
on Broadway, and this blonde bombshell showed up in my dressing room and said, You dont
remember me, do you? My name is Gretl.
On reuniting with the cast on Oprah: I was dreading it, but it was nice to see the kids again.
Some have done very well. They didnt all become actors. Wise
On a crucial piece of direction from John Huston on The Man Who Would Be King: At the
end, when they bring the head [of Sean Connery], [my character] Kipling looks at it and says
some line, and I tried to cry, and finally John said, Chris, just take the music out of your
voice! And by Jesus, I suddenly learned if you have a terribly emotional line in a huge closeup, you just have to deadly whisper it. And if you look at those old movie starsthe John
Waynes and Gary Cooperswhen they have a deadly line to say, its absolutely straight. The
face does all the rest.
On playing Mike Wallace: He was a wonderful villain. He recognized that television is there to
humiliate us; its the medium of accident and spontaneity, and he used it brilliantly. He once
interviewed me and said, with his usual charm and tact, Tell me, Mr. Plummer, why you
arent considered a household name. But I loved his sort of zeroing in and zapping you. I
admired his guts.
On romping with Helen Mirren in The Last Station: We are old theater buddies, and when
youre making a Hollywood movie, thats such a relief, to talk the same language. She, who
will take her clothes off at the drop of the hat, is the most joyous person to know. We laughed
our way through Tolstoy. Can you imagine?
On acting for Terrence Malick in The New World: Hes fascinated by nature, and just cuts to
birds. Colin Farrell kept saying, My character, hes a fuckin osprey. Thats how he sees me.
Youd be playing a passionate scene, and hed say in that strange southern voice of his,
mixed with Harvard and Oxford, Ah, jes stop a minute, Chris. I think theres an osprey flying
over there. Do you mind if I just take a few shots? I wrote him an infuriated letter because I
saw the film and I was hardly in ithe cut my part to shit. And it recalled the story of Adrien
Brody, the lead in The Thin Red Line. He went to the premiere, and he wasnt in it! I wrote to
Terry and said, You need a writer, baby, you need somebody to follow the -story. I was awful
to him, but I did say I admired him. Hes an individualalso mad as a hatter.
Filmography
Christopher Plummer Filmography
by Christopher Plummer website: www.christopherplummer.eu
Stage Struck (1958 film)
Henry Fonda is largely a placid type as the producer who discovers his heart can be reached
by love as well as the theatre. Christopher Plummer, who is making his film debut as the
playwright whose love she finally spurns, is restrained but effective. Joan Greenwood, as the
temperamental star she replaces, is explosively emotional in her exit, and Herbert Marshall
does well as the experienced, aging actor who gives the newcomer both affection and
assistance.
STAGE STRUCK; screenplay by Ruth and Augustus Goetz; based on the play "Morning
Glory" by Zoe Akins; directed by Sidney Lumet; produced by Stuart Miller for R. K. O. Pictures
and released by Buena Vista Film Distribution Company. At the Normandie. Running time: 95
minutes.
Lewis Easton . . . . . Henry Fonda
Eva Lovelace . . . . . Susan Strasberg
Rita Vernon . . . . . Joan Greenwood
Joe Sheridan . . . . . Christopher Plummer
Wind Across the Everglades (1958)
Film directed by Nicholas Ray. Ray was fired from the film before production was finished,
and several scenes were completed by screenwriter Budd Schulberg, who also supervised
the editing.
The film features Christopher Plummer in his first lead role (and his second film role overall)
and, in a minor role, Peter Falk in his film debut. It was filmed on location in Everglades
National Park in Technicolor.
Set in the early late 19th century, the film follows a game warden (Christopher Plummer) who
arrives in Florida in the hopes of enforcing conservation laws. He soon finds himself pitted
against Cottonmouth (Burl Ives), the leader of a fierce group of bird poachers. The film was
loosely based upon the life and death of Guy Bradley, an early game warden who in 1905
was shot and killed by plume hunters in the Everglades.
A Doll's House (1959 film)
A Doll's House is a 1959 made for television movie, directed by George Schaefer. It is based
on Henrik Ibsen's 1879 play A Doll's House.
Cast:
Julie Harris Nora Helmer
Christopher Plummer Torvald Helmer
Hume Cronyn Nils Krogstad
Eileen Heckart Kristine Linde
Jason Robards Dr. Rank
Cyrano de Bergerac (1962)
In 1973, he appeared on Broadway as the swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac in
Cyrano, a musical adaptation of Edmond Rostand's 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac by
Anthony Burgess (libretto and lyrics) and Michael J. Lewis (music). For that performance,
Plummer won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and a Drama Desk Award for
Outstanding Performance.
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964 film)
The Fall of the Roman Empire is a 1964 English-language epic film produced by Samuel
Bronston Productions
The timeframe of the film is 180192 AD, from the last days of the Roman Emperor Marcus
Aurelius to the death of his son and successor Commodus. The film opens with Marcus
Aurelius conducting his war to pacify the Germanic tribes along the Danube frontier. He has
just summoned the governors of all the Roman provinces to his camp in order to present to
them Gaius Metellus Livius (a fictional character) as his heir and successor. This is
conceivable because Livius indicates that he had been brought into the imperial family by the
emperor, presumably by adoption, and the four previous emperors (Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian,
and Antoninus Pius) had made their adopted sons their heirs.
It is believed that though the film was highly spectacular and considered intelligently scripted,
its failure was partly attributable to what was considered the wooden performance of Stephen
Boyd as the loyal general Livius (a fictitious character). In contrast, the performance of
Christopher Plummer as the unstable Commodus was considered highly charismatic. As a
fledgling motion picture performerThe Fall of the Roman Empire was only his third
appearance on filmhe began to emerge as a major Hollywood star.
Hamlet at Elsinore (1964)
Hamlet at Elsinore, is a 1964 made-for-television film version of Shakespeare's play.
Presented in the UK on the BBC, and in the U.S. on NET in 1965, it won wide acclaim both
for its performances and for being filmed entirely at Elsinore, in the castle in which the play is
set. Significantly, it is the only sound film version of the play (so far) to have actually been
filmed at Elsinore.
The film stars Christopher Plummer as the melancholy Prince of Denmark. He was nominated
for an Emmy Award for his performance. Supporting performances were given by such actors
as Robert Shaw (as Claudius), and Michael Caine, in his only filmed Shakespeare
performance so far, as Horatio. Both actors were, at the time, almost completely unknown to
American audiences, and Plummer had only recently gained popularity in the U.S. because of
his portrayal of Captain Von Trapp in the smash hit musical film The Sound of Music.
Although clips of the film are very rarely shown on television, it has never been released on
VHS or DVD, and Plummer himself has stated in an interview that he himself would like it to
be released on DVD. The film was directed by Philip Saville
The Sound of Music (1965)
Christopher Plummer as Captain Georg von Trapp, a veteran Austrian navy captain whose
wife died, leaving behind their seven children. He extends his military background into raising
his children, at first represented as a strict disciplinarian. However, the Captain's attitude
toward both the children and Maria softens considerably after she reintroduces music into the
family. The Captain is courting Baroness Elsa Schraeder throughout the film, and becomes
engaged to her, but they call it off, and he proclaims his love to Maria, marrying her instead.
The Captain firmly believes in Austrian independence, proudly displaying the Austrian flag
and tearing down the Nazi one, as well as refusing to join the Nazis. He, Maria and the
children leave Austria at the end of the film by crossing the Alps to Switzerland. Plummer's
singing voice was dubbed by Bill Lee.
Julie Andrews as Maria von Trapp, a free-spirited young Austrian woman, studying to become
a nun. Due to her often singing and seeming somewhat out of place in the abbey, Mother
Abbess sends her to the nearby city of Salzburg to be governess to the seven children of
Captain von Trapp. Although initially hostile toward her, the children come to love Maria
through her introducing the joys of music and singing, and she develops a special relationship
with Liesl, the eldest. Throughout the film, the Captain grows closer to both his children and
Maria through the reintroduction of music, and Maria falls in love with him. Fearful of how
returning the Captain's affections might seem in God's eyes (as she is the children's
governess), Maria returns to the abbey, but is convinced to return and see what her love
might bring. Eventually, the Captain admits his feelings for her, and they marry. However, the
Third Reich is taking power via the Anschluss, prompting Maria and her new family to leave
Austria. Julie Andrews was nominated for Best Actress at the Academy Awards for her
performance.
Inside Daisy Clover 1966
Inside Daisy Clover is a 1966 American drama film based on the 1963 novel by Gavin
Lambert. It stars Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford, Roddy McDowall and
Ruth Gordon in her Academy Award nominated role.
Set in the mid-1930s, the plot centers on Daisy Clover (Wood), a teenage tomboy who lives in
a ramshackle trailer with her eccentric mother (Gordon) on a California beach and dreams of
Hollywood stardom. She submits a song recording to the well-known film producer Ray Swan
(Plummer), who puts her under contract. Ray and his wife Melora (Katharine Bard) foster
Daisy's rise to fame by any means necessary, forcing Daisy to deal with the pressures of
stardom and the Swans' manipulation of her life and career. Daisy reluctantly accepts the
placement of her mother in a mental institution, to protect Daisy's reputation as "America's
valentine", and is told to tell any interviewers that her mother is dead.
Principal cast:
Natalie Wood: Daisy Clover
Christopher Plummer: Raymond Swan
Robert Redford: Wade Lewis
Ruth Gordon: The Dealer (Daisy's Mother)
Katharine Bard: Melora Swan
Roddy McDowall: Walter Baines
Peter Helm: Milton Hopwood
Triple Cross (1966)
Triple Cross is a 1966 British film directed by Terence Young and produced by Jacques-Paul
Bertrand. It was based loosely on the real life story of Eddie Chapman, believed by the Nazis
to be their top spy in Great Britain whilst in fact he was an MI5 double agent known as
'Zigzag'. The film was released in France in December 1966 as La Fantastique histoire vraie
d'Eddie Chapman but elsewhere in Europe and the US in 1967 as Terence Young's Triple
Cross. The title comes from Chapman's signature to mark he was freely transmitting by radio,
a Morse XXX.
Cast:
Christopher Plummer - Eddie Chapman
Romy Schneider - Countess
Trevor Howard - British Intelligence Officer
Gert Frbe - Col. Steinhager
Claudine Auger - Paulette
Yul Brynner - Col. Baron von Grunen
Harry Meyen - Lt. Keller
The Night of the Generals (1967)
The Night of the Generals is a 1967 suspense/thriller film set in World War II, adapted from
the novel of the same name by Hans Hellmut Kirst.[1] It stars Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif,
Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence, Joanna Pettet and Philippe Noiret. The film was
produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by Anatole Litvak, with a musical score by Maurice
Jarre. The screenplay was written by Paul Dehn and Joseph Kessel. Gore Vidal also
contributed to the screenplay but was uncredited.
Much of the film, a British/French co-production, was shot on location in Warsaw, which was
exceptionally rare for a major Western film at the height of the Cold War.
The murder of a prostitute in Nazi-occupied Warsaw in 1942 draws Abwehr Major Grau
(Omar Sharif) into an investigation where the evidence points to the killer being one of three
German general officers: General von Seydlitz-Gabler (Charles Gray), General Kahlenberg
(Donald Pleasence), his chief of staff, and General Tanz (Peter O'Toole). Graus investigation
is cut short by his summary transfer to Paris at the instigation of these officers.
Cast:
Peter O'Toole as General Tanz
Omar Sharif as Major/Oberstleutnant Grau
Tom Courtenay as Gefreiter Kurt Hartmann
Donald Pleasence as General Kahlenberg
Joanna Pettet as Ulrike von Seydlitz-Gabler

Philippe Noiret as Inspector Morand
Charles Gray as General von Seydlitz-Gabler
Coral Browne as Eleanore von Seydlitz-Gabler
John Gregson as Oberst Sandauer
Nigel Stock as Feldwebel Otto Kpke
Christopher Plummer as Field Marshal Rommel
Oedipus the King (1967)
This classic (Greek) tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his
own father (deliberately) and ends up paying a terrible price for invoking the wrath of the
Gods.
Directed by: Philip Saville
Written by: Michael Luke Philip Saville
Cast:
Christopher Plummer as. Oedipus
Lilli Palmer as. Jocasta
Richard Johnson (I) as. Creon
Orson Welles as. Tiresias
Cyril Cusack as. Messenger
Roger Livesey as. Shepherd
Donald Sutherland as. Chorus Leader
Frederick Ledebur as. King Laius
Dimos Starenios as. Priest
Alexis Mann as. Palace Official
Oenone Luke as. Antigone
Cressida Luke as. Xemene
Minos Argyrakis as. Chorus
Manos Destounis as. Chorus
Nobody Runs Forever (1968)
Nobody Runs Forever also called The High Commissioner is a 1968 film directed by Ralph
Thomas based on Jon Cleary's 1966 novel The High Commissioner. It stars Rod Taylor as
Australian policeman Scobie Malone and Christopher Plummer as the Australian High
Commissioner in England caught up in corrupt dealings, during delicate negotiations. Taylor's
production company was involved in making the film as was the American Selmur
Productions
Plot
New South Wales Police Sergeant Scobie Malone (Taylor) is summoned to Sydney by the
Premier of New South Wales (Leo McKern) who at the time was the controversial Sir Robert
Askin. The Australian High Commissioner in London, Sir James Quentin (Christopher
Plummer) is wanted for a 25 year old murder charge, that the Premier, Quentin's gruff political
rival, has discovered.
Upon arrival in London, Malone meets Lady Quentin (Lilli Palmer) and her husband the
sophisticated Sir James, as well as Sir James's secretary (Camilla Sparv). Sir James offers
no objection to the murder charges but demands several days before departure as he is
conducting delicate peace negotiations. As Malone waits as a guest of the High
Commissioner, he prevents assassination attempts against Quentin by a dangerous spy ring
headed by Maria Cholon (Daliah Lavi).
Filmed in Australia and London, the film was the last big screen appearance of Franchot Tone
who plays the American ambassador. Rod Taylor is memorable in one of the few roles where
he played an Australian. He plays Malone as a tough single Outback policeman unlike the
married Sydney Detective Sergeant of the original books Taylor's unsophisticated integrity is
contrasted with the London diplomatic scene throughout the film.
Battle of Britain (1969)
Battle of Britain is a 1969 Technicolor film directed by Guy Hamilton, and produced by Harry
Saltzman and S. Benjamin Fisz. The film broadly relates the events of the Battle of Britain.
The script by James Kennaway and Wilfred Greatorex was based on the book The Narrow
Margin by Derek Wood and Derek Dempster.
The film endeavoured to be an accurate account of the Battle of Britain, when in the summer
and autumn of 1940 the British RAF inflicted a strategic defeat on the Luftwaffe and so
ensured the cancellation of Operation Sealion - Hitler's plan to invade Britain. The huge
strategic victory of the outnumbered British pilots would be summed up by Winston Churchill
in the immortal words: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to
so few".
The film is notable for its spectacular flying sequences, echoing those seen in Angels One
Five (1952) but on a far grander scale than had been seen on film before; these made the
film's production very expensive. It is shown regularly on British television.
Cast
The film has a large all-star international cast. It was notable for its time for the portrayal of
the Germans by subtitled German-speaking actors.
Commonwealth
Laurence Olivier as Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief
RAF Fighter Command.
Trevor Howard as Air Vice-Marshal Sir Keith Park, Air Officer commanding No. 11 Group
RAF.
Patrick Wymark as Air Vice-Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory, Air Officer commanding No. 12
Group RAF.
Christopher Plummer as Canadian fighter pilot, Squadron Leader Colin Harvey. Since
Plummer is Canadian, he asked for his character's RAF uniform to display the "Canada"
shoulder flashes.
Michael Caine as Squadron Leader Canfield
Ralph Richardson as the British ambassador to Switzerland.
The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)
The Royal Hunt of the Sun is a 1969 film based on the Peter Shaffer play of the same name.
With a small rag-tag band of soldiers, Franciso Pizarro enters the Inca Empire and captures
its leader, Atahualpa. Pizarro promises to free him in return for a golden ransom, but later
finds himself conflicted between his desire to conquer and his friendship for his captive.
Cast
Robert Shaw as Francisco Pizarro
Christopher Plummer as Atahualpa
Nigel Davenport as Hernando de Soto
Leonard Whiting as Young Martin
Lock Up Your Daughters (1969)
Lock Up Your Daughters is a musical based on an 18th century comedy, Rape Upon Rape,
by Henry Fielding and adapted by Bernard Miles. The lyrics were written by Lionel Bart and
the music by Laurie Johnson. It was first produced on the London stage in 1959.
In 1969, it was made into a film starring Christopher Plummer, Susannah York, and Glynis
Johns, but the songs were deleted.
A film based on the musical and play was directed by the musical's director, Peter Coe. It was
released in the UK in March 1969 and in the US in October 1969. Filmed in Kilkenny Ireland
by Domino Films it ran for 102 minutes. The film originally was given an "X" certificate (over
18's) by the UK Censor, but it was given a "15" on video.
In his review, Roger Greenspun wrote: "...a three-strand plot that has been so smothered in
atmosphere, activity and authenticity that even the great traditions of theatrical untruth cannot
breathe life into it. The production values of "Lock Up Your Daughters!" are ambitious enough
to fill three movies, but they are not sufficient to substitute for one."
Film Cast
Christopher Plummer - Lord Foppington
Susannah York - Hilaret
Glynis Johns - Mrs Squeezum

Ian Bannen - Ramble
Tom Bell - Shaftoe
Elaine Taylor
(she was to become Christopher Plummers 3rd wife)
Waterloo (film) 1970
Directed by Sergei Bondarchuk
Produced by Dino De Laurentiis
Written by H. A. L. Craig
Waterloo (Russian: ) is a 1970 Soviet-Italian film directed by Sergei Bondarchuk
and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. It was the story of the preliminary events and the Battle
of Waterloo, and was famous for its lavish battle scenes. The film failed at the box office. This,
in part, led director Stanley Kubrick to abandon a film he was preparing on Napoleon.
It starred Rod Steiger (portraying Napoleon Bonaparte) and Christopher Plummer (portraying
the Duke of Wellington) with cameos by Orson Welles (Louis XVIII of France). Other stars
included Jack Hawkins as General Picton, Virginia McKenna as the Duchess of Richmond
and Dan O'Herlihy as Marshal Ney.
The film includes some 15,000 Soviet foot soldiers and 2,000 cavalrymen as extras ("it was
said that, during its making, director Sergei Bondarchuk was in command of the seventh
largest army in the world"[1]). Fifty circus stunt riders were used to perform the dangerous
horse falls. These numbers brought an epic quality to the battle scenes
Don Juan in Hell (1971)
BBC Play of the Month (TV series 19651983)
The Pyx (1973)
The Pyx (also known as The Hooker Cult Murders and La Lunule) is a 1973 Canadian
supernatural thriller film starring Karen Black and Christopher Plummer. It is based on the
1959 book of the same title, written by Montreal author, John Buell.
A motorist witnesses a woman falling or jumping from a tenement building. Police arrive on
the scene and find a crucifix and a small metal container (a pyx). As the investigation
continues, it is revealed that the dead woman is Elizabeth Lucy, a prostitute and heroin
addict. Suspects in Elizabeth's death are soon murdered one by one, and evidence of occult
ritual begins to surface, leading to a confrontation with a cult leader who may be possessed
by Satan himself.
Cast
Karen Black as Elizabeth Lucy
Christopher Plummer as Det. Sgt. Jim Henderson
Donald Pilon as Det. Sgt. Pierre Paquette
Jean-Louis Roux as Keerson
Yvette Brind'amour as Meg
Jacques Godin as Superintendent
Lee Broker as Herbie Lafram
Terry Haig as Jimmy
Robin Gammell as Worther
Louise Rinfret as Sandraessed by Satan himself.
After the Fall (1974)
After the Fall is a play by American dramatist Arthur Miller. The original performance opened
in New York City on January 23, 1964, directed by Elia Kazan and starring Barbara Loden
and Jason Robards Jr., with an early appearance by Faye Dunaway. Kazan also collaborated
with Miller on the script. It is one of Miller's most personal plays, a thinly veiled personal
critique centered around Miller's recently failed marriage to Marilyn Monroe. The plot takes
place inside the mind of Quentin, a New York Jewish intellectual who decides to reexamine
his life in order to determine if he should marry his most recent love, Holga
A television production of the play was shown in 1974. It starred Faye Dunaway, Christopher
Plummer, Bibi Andersson and a young Brooke Shields.
The Happy Prince (film)

First shown in 1974
The Happy Prince is an animated short film adaptation of the short story by Oscar Wilde. The
film was produced in 1974 by the Canadian-based Potterton Productions as a followup to its
1971 film The Selfish Giant.
An animated version of the story was produced in 1974, starring Glynis Johns as the swallow
and Christopher Plummer as the Prince.
After the Fall (1974)
This made-for-television remake of a taut thriller from 1946 concerns a small-town psycho
stalking disabled female victims, whom he shoots with a silencer pistol. His next intended
prey is a poor young woman who cannot speak. Christopher Plummer as Dr. Joe Sherman.
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
Directed by Blake Edwards, Produced by Blake Edwards, Written by Frank Waldman
The Return of the Pink Panther is the fourth film in the Pink Panther series, released in 1975.
The film stars Peter Sellers in the role of Inspector Clouseau in his third Panther appearance,
after the original The Pink Panther (1963) and A Shot in the Dark.
Herbert Lom also reprises his role as Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus. The film also features
the return of the character Sir Charles Litton (the notorious Phantom), now played by
Christopher Plummer rather than David Niven, who was unavailable but would later return for
Trail of the Pink Panther. The Pink Panther diamond once again plays a central role in the
plot.
Cast
Peter Sellers as Insp. Jacques Clouseau
Christopher Plummer as Sir Charles Litton
Catherine Schell as Lady Claudine Litton
Herbert Lom as Chief Insp. Charles Dreyfus
Conduct Unbecoming (film) 1975
Conduct Unbecoming is a 1975 British drama film, an adaptation of the Barry England play
Conduct Unbecoming first staged in 1969. It was directed by Michael Anderson and starred
an ensemble cast of actors including Michael York, Richard Attenborough and Trevor
Howard.
Cast
Michael York Lieutenant Drake
Richard Attenborough Major Roach
Trevor Howard Colonel Strang
Stacy Keach Captain Harper
Christopher Plummer Major Wimbourne
Susannah York Mrs Scarlett
James Faulkner Lieutenant Millington
Michael Culver Lieutenant Fothergill
The Man Who Would Be King (film) 1975
Directed by John Huston
Produced by John Foreman
Written by Rudyard Kipling (story)
Release date(s) 17 December 1975
The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 film adapted from the Rudyard Kipling short story of
the same title. It was adapted and directed by John Huston and starred Sean Connery,
Michael Caine, Saeed Jaffrey, and Christopher Plummer as Kipling (giving a name to the
short story's anonymous narrator).
The film follows two rogue ex-non-commissioned officers of the British Raj who set off from
19th century British India in search of adventure and end up as kings of Kafiristan. Kipling is
believed to have been inspired by the travels of American adventurer Josiah Harlan during
the period of the Great Game between Imperial Russia and the British Empire and James
Brooke, an Englishman who became the "white Raja" of Sarawak in Borneo. Like much of his
writing, Kipling's original story takes a nuanced, and in the end cold-edged view of
imperialism; in Huston's telling, both East and West have their faults and virtues
The film was nominated for four Academy Awards:
Best Art Direction - Alexander Trauner, Tony Inglis, Peter James
Best Writing - John Huston, Gladys Hill
Best Costume Design - Edith Head
Best Editing - Russell Lloyd
The Day That Shook the World (1975)
The Day That Shook the World is the English language title for the 1975
Czechoslovakian/Yugoslavian/German co-production film called Sarajevski atentat. The film,
starring Christopher Plummer and Florinda Bolkan is about the assassination of Archduke
Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie in Sarajevo in 1914 and the immediate aftermath that
led to the outbreak of World War I.When the only surviving heir to the Emperor of AustroHungary, Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand (Christopher Plummer) was killed by Gavrilo
Princip, a Serbian nationalist, on June 28, 1914, his death set in motion a chain of events
which resulted in the First World War. This movie chronicles the events surrounding that
death and it aftermath. The assassination gave the Germans and Austrians reason to fear
that Russia was actively fomenting unrest in the Balkans, for Serbia was a bone of contention
throughout the region.
Awards:
Movie won one award on San Sebastin International Film Festival in category Special
Mention in 1976
Cast:
Christopher Plummer as Archduke Ferdinand
Florinda Bolkan as Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg
Maximilian Schell as uro arac
Irfan Mensur as Gavrilo Princip
Rado Baji as Nedeljko abrinovi
Ivan Vyskoil as Mehmed Mehmedbai
Libue afrnkov as Jelena
Otomar Korbel as Franz Joseph I of Austria
Wilhelm Koch-Hooge as Franz Conrad
Ji Hol as Erich von Merizzi
Nelly Gaierov as Countess Langus
Ji Kodet as Morsley
Aces High (1976)
Aces High is a 1976 British war film directed by Jack Gold and starring Malcolm McDowell,
Christopher Plummer and Simon Ward. The screenplay was written by Howard Barker. The
film is based on the 1930s play Journey's End by R. C. Sherriff[citation needed] and the
memoir Sagittarius Rising by Cecil Lewis[citation needed] of the Royal Flying Corps. It tells
the story of an RFC squadron in the First World War and the high turnover of pilots and the
strain on the survivors and includes aerial dogfight scenes impressive for the time it was
filmed.
Cast:
(Name in brackets gives the character's equivalent in Journey's End.)
Malcolm McDowell - Maj. John Gresham (Capt. Dennis Stanhope)

Christopher Plummer - Capt. "Uncle" Sinclair (Lt. Osborne)
Simon Ward - Lt. Crawford (2nd Lt. Hibbert)
Peter Firth - Lt. Stephen Croft (2nd Lt. Raleigh)
David Wood - Lt. 'Tommy' Thompson (2nd Lt. Trotter)
John Gielgud - Headmaster
Trevor Howard - Lieutenant Colonel Silkin
Richard Johnson - Major Lyle

Ray Milland - Brigadier General Whale
Christopher Blake - Lieutenant Roberts
David Daker - Mess Corporal Bennett
Barry Jackson - Corporal Albert Joyce
Ron Pember - Lance Corporal Eliot
Tim Pigott-Smith - Major Stoppard
Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (TV mini-series 1976)
The Moneychangers is a 1975 novel written by Arthur Hailey. A television miniseries bearing
the same name and based on the novel was broadcast in 1976.
The Moneychangers is a great adaptation of the Hailey novel, but the greatest claim to fame
in this action packed story, is its cast, the fact that Christopher Plummer won an Emmy Award
as best actor for it, and the return of actress Jean Peters to the screen. You'll see pros Like
Kirk Douglas and Christopher Plummer in a quite credible battle over the presidency of a
bank.
The plot revolves around the politics inside a major bank. This is the story of the happenings
at a major bank. The first of which is that the bank's president announces that he is dying and
that with no heir to take his place, he informs the bank's officers that he is letting them choose
a successor. The two vice presidents who are the front runners for the job are Alex
Vandervoort and Roscoe Heyward. Now Alex is not exactly running around looking for
support, Roscoe can only see the benefits the presidency can give him. So he goes around
looking for people who would like to do business with the bank. He goes to George
Quartermain, who wants the bank to give him more than they are allowed to. While most of
the board are excited of the possibility of going into business with Quartermain, Alex is the
only one who is weary of it, as it's a big risk. Alex is not popular also because, while his wife is
mentally ill and confined to an insane asylum, he is having an affair with a lawyer, who
specializes in helping the disadvantaged, the bank was originally suppose to fund a project to
help them but has pulled out, and Alex is also asking them not to. Also the bank is plagued
with false credit cards being circulated, so the bank's security officer, who was hired by Alex
is not having much luck in finding them, which is another reason why Alex is not so popular.
Jesus of Nazareth (1977 miniseries)
Written by Anthony Burgess
Directed by Franco Zeffirelli
Release date April 3, 1977 (1977-04-03)
Jesus of Nazareth is a 1977 Anglo-Italian television miniseries dramatizing the birth, life,
ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus based on the accounts in the four New Testament
Gospels.
The miniseries was directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and produced by Lew Grade through his ITC
Entertainment company. Zeffirelli co-wrote the screenplay with Anthony Burgess and Suso
Cecchi d'Amico. It was filmed entirely on location in Tunisia and Morocco. The total runtime is
about 6 hours, 20 minutes.
Jesus of Nazareth premiered March 27, 1977 on British television on the ITV network
courtesy of ITC's parent company, Associated Television; it made its American premiere as
an NBC Easter special, on April 3, 1977. For its fifth airing on American television at Easter
1987, TV Guide called Jesus of Nazareth "the best miniseries of all time" and "unparalleled
television"
Robert Powell as Jesus
"Guest Stars"
Anne Bancroft as Mary Magdalene
Ernest Borgnine as the Roman Centurion
Claudia Cardinale as the Adulteress
Valentina Cortese as Herodias
James Farentino as Peter
James Earl Jones as Balthazar
Christopher Plummer as Herod Antipas
The Assignment (1977 film)
Directed by Mats Arehn

Produced by Ingemar Ejve
Starring Thomas Hellberg
Christopher Plummer
Carolyn Seymour
Release date(s) 11 July 1977 (1977-07-11)
The Assignment (Swedish: Uppdraget ) is a 1977 Swedish drama film directed by Mats Arehn
and starring Christopher Plummer, Thomas Hellberg and Carolyn Seymour. A Swedish
foreign office official travels to South America on a peace-making mission. It was based on
the novel Uppdraget by Per Wahl.
Awards: The Swedish Film Institute's Quality Grant
Cast
Christopher Plummer ... Captain Behounek
Thomas Hellberg ... Erik Dalgren
Carolyn Seymour ... Danica Rodriguez
The Disappearance (1977)
The Disappearance is a 1977 British-Canadian thriller film directed by Stuart Cooper and
starring Donald Sutherland, Francine Racette and David Hemmings. The wife of an assassin
mysteriously disappears.
Cast
Donald Sutherland - Jay Mallory
Francine Racette - Celandine
Christopher Plummer - Deverell
Silver Blaze (TV 1977)
"Silver Blaze", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, is one of the twelve in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
It was adapted in 1937 in the film starring Arthur Wontner, and a one-off ITV drama starring
Christopher Plummer first transmitted on 27 November 1977. The 1988 Granada TV version
with Jeremy Brett was faithful to the original story.
One of the most popular of the stories, "Silver Blaze" focuses on the disappearance of the
eponymous race horse named Silver Blaze, a famous winner, on the eve of an important race
and on the apparent murder of its trainer, John Straker. The tale is distinguished by its
atmospheric Dartmoor setting, and late Victorian sporting milieu. It also features some of
Conan Doyle's most effective plotting, hinging on the famed "curious incident of the dog in the
night-time":
Christopher Plummer ... Sherlock Holmes
The Silent Partner (1978 film)
Directed by Daryl Duke
Produced by Joel B. Michaels
Release date(s) March 30, 1979 (USA)
Country Canada
The Silent Partner (French title: L'argent de la banque) is a 1978 Canadian crime film directed
by Daryl Duke. It stars Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer and Susannah York.
The film was the first to be produced by Carolco Pictures and one of the earliest films from
Canada to take advantage of the Canadian government's "Capital Cost Allowance" plans.
The Silent Partner is also notable for being one of the very few films to have a score
composed by Oscar Peterson, and for featuring an early big-screen appearance by John
Candy.
The Silent Partner is a remake of the Danish film Think of a Number (Tnk p et tal) from
1969 written and directed by Palle Kjrulff-Schmidt. Both are based on the novel Tnk p et
tal by Danish writer Anders Bodelsen
Cast overview, first billed only:

Elliott Gould ... Miles Cullen
Christopher Plummer ... Harry Reikle
Susannah York ... Julie Carver
Cline Lomez ... Elaine
Michael Kirby ... Charles Packard
International Velvet (1978)
International Velvet is a 1978 dramatic film. It was a sequel to the 1944 classic, National
Velvet. The film stars Tatum O'Neal, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Hopkins and Nanette
Newman.
International Velvet is the story of an American girl, Sarah Brown, who is orphaned when her
parents are killed in a car crash. She is sent to England to live with her aunt Velvet Brown and
Uncle John. When Velvet was a similar age to Sarah, she and her horse, The Pie, entered the
legendary Grand National horse race and won; however, she was instantly disqualified due to
her young age and the fact that women were not allowed to ride in the race. The Pie is
ultimately put out to stud upon his retirement. He sires his last foal after Sarah's arrival in
England. Sarah and Velvet are present for the birth of this foal and Sarah eventually decides
that she'd like to purchase him
Cast
Tatum O'Neal ... Sarah Brown
Christopher Plummer ... John Seaton
Anthony Hopkins ... Captain Johnson
Starcrash (1979)
Directed by Luigi Cozzi
Produced by Nat Wachsberger
Starring
Marjoe Gortner
Caroline Munro
Robert Tessier
Christopher Plummer
David Hasselhoff
Joe Spinell
Hamilton Camp
English / Italian
Starcrash (original Italian title Scontri stellari oltre la terza dimensione, literally "stellar clashes
beyond the third dimension") is an Italian 1979 science fiction film, which was also released
under the English title of The Adventures of Stella Star (in the US). The film is a low budget
and is often regarded as a rip-off of Star Wars (1977). The screenplay was written by Luigi
Cozzi (pen name Lewis Coates)[1] and Nat Wachsberger, and Cozzi also directed the film.
The cast included Marjoe Gortner, Caroline Munro, Robert Tessier, Christopher Plummer,
and David Hasselhoff. The film score is by Oscar winning composer John Barry ("Midnight
Cowboy", "Goldfinger", "Somewhere in Time", "Dances with Wolves").
Awards for Starcrash (1978) Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
1980 Nominated Saturn Award Best Foreign Film
Trivia:
Only David Hasselhoff and Christopher Plummer have their own voices in the English dubbed
version of the film. Everyone else was dubbed by different people.
All of Christopher Plummer's scenes as the Emperor were shot in a single day.
Murder by Decree (1979)
Murder by Decree (1979) is an Anglo-Canadian thriller film involving Sherlock Holmes and
Doctor Watson in the case of the serial murderer Jack the Ripper. As Holmes investigates
London's most infamous case, he finds that the Ripper has friends in high places.
Awards:
The film was nominated for 8 Genie Awards in 1980, of which it won 5, including Best
Achievement in Direction (Bob Clark), Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
(Genevive Bujold) and Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Christopher
Plummer).
Cast:
Christopher Plummer (Sherlock Holmes)
James Mason (Dr. John Watson)
David Hemmings (Inspector Foxborough)
Susan Clark (Mary Kelly)
Frank Finlay (Lestrade)
Anthony Quayle (Sir Charles Warren)
Donald Sutherland (Robert Lees)
Genevive Bujold (Annie Crook
Riel (film 1979)
Written by Roy Moore
Directed by George Bloomfield
Produced by John Trent
Release date April 11, 1979
Riel is a 1979 Canadian biographical television movie about Mtis leader Louis Riel.
Louis Riel (Cloutier) leads the Red River and North-West Rebellions against the Canadian
government's expansionist ideas leading up to his capture, trial and execution in 1885.
Cast
Raymond Cloutier ... as Louis Riel
Christopher Plummer ... as Prime Minister John A. Macdonald
Hanover Street (1979)
Hanover Street is a 1979 Anglo-American war film written and directed by Peter Hyams,
starring Harrison Ford and Lesley-Anne Down and Christopher Plummer.
Set in London during the Second World War, Lieutenant David Halloran (Harrison Ford) an
American bomber pilot serving with the Eighth Air Force in the UK and Margaret Sellinger
(Lesley-Anne Down) a British nurse meet in Hanover Street in a chance encounter during an
air raid.
They meet again two weeks later in a secret assignation in Hanover Street. Although she is
married, Sellinger and Halloran rapidly fall in love. She tries to resist, but is drawn to the
charismatic American. By contrast her husband Paul Sellinger (Christopher Plummer) is, by
his own description, suave, pleasant, but fairly dull. A former teacher, he is now a trusted
member of British intelligence.
Desperate Voyage (TV 1980)
Plummer plays a modern-day pirate who hijacks private yachts, steals the valuables on
board, and sends the passengers to the bottom of the ocean. His captives on this voyage are
Cliff Potts, Christine Belford, Lara Parker and Nicholas Pryor, none of whom have any
intention of being tossed into the briny.
The Shadow Box (1980)
The play revolves around a trio of terminally ill patients, each of whom lives in a separate
cottage at a hospice facility. Each is being interviewed about the process of dying. For most of
the play, the interviewer is unseen, which means that characters speak directly to the
audience, as if they were the interviewer.
The first dying person is Joe, a middle-aged, blue-collar family man. Joe seems well-adjusted
and has accepted that he is dying. However, his wife Maggie is in denial and has not told their
son Steve about his father's condition.
The second dying person is Brian, a bisexual English professor (Christopher Plummer). He is
being cared for by his lover, Mark. They receive a visit from Brian's flamboyant, trashy ex-wife
Beverly. Beverly's presence lifts Brian's spirits but rankles Mark.
The final dying person is Felicity, an elderly, cantankerous, woman who is suffering from
dementia. She is being cared for by her long-struggling, devoted daughter Agnes. Felicity is in
great pain but refuses to die because she remains hopeful that her favorite daughter, Claire,
will return to her soon.
Awards
1977 Tony Award for Best Play
1977 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Nominations
1977 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New American Play
Somewhere in Time (1980 film)
Somewhere in Time is a 1980 time travel romance film directed by Jeannot Szwarc, written by
Richard Matheson and starring Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer,
Teresa Wright and including an early appearance by then-unknown William H. Macy.
Reeve plays Richard Collier, a playwright who becomes smitten by a photograph of a young
woman at the Grand Hotel. Through self-hypnosis, he travels back in time to the year 1912 to
find love with actress Elise McKenna (portrayed by Seymour). But her manager William
Fawcett Robinson (portrayed by Plummer) fears that romance will derail her career and
resolves to stop him.
Awards
Somewhere in Time has received several awards, including:
Saturn Award for Best Costume,
Saturn Award for Best Music,
Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film.
The film was also nominated for the Academy Award for Costume Design.
When the Circus Came to Town (1981)
Written by Larry Grusin (Story & screenplay)
Directed by Boris Sagal
Produced by Robert Halmi Sr.
Starring Elizabeth Montgomery
Christopher Plummer
Eileen Brennan
Original channel CBS
Release date January 20, 1981
When the Circus Came to Town is an American television movie that originally aired on CBS
as a "movie of the week" on January 20, 1981. Directed by Boris Sagal, the film stars
Elizabeth Montgomery, Christopher Plummer, and Eileen Brennan
Story:
When the Circus Came to Town chronicles the life of Mary Lynn (Montgomery), a woman
nearing middle age living in a small town. When the circus comes through town, she realizes
nothing will ever change unless she does something different, so leaves her boring sheltered
life to run away and join the circus. While adapting to her new life, she finds herself
challenged, and in the end, happy with her new life.
Cast
Elizabeth Montgomery . . . Mary Flynn
Christopher Plummer . . . Duke Royal
Eileen Brennan . . . Jessy
Dial M for Murder (TV 1981)
A London businessman concocts an intricate plan to murder his unfaithful wife for her money.
Nominated for Primetime Emmy.
cast:
Angie Dickinson ... Margot Wendice
Christopher Plummer ... Tony Wendice
Anthony Quayle ... Insp. Hubbard
Michael Parks ... Max Halliday
Eyewitness (1981 film)

Eyewitness is a 1981 thriller film about a television news reporter and a janitor who team up
to solve a murder, written by Steve Tesich. The film was directed by Peter Yates, and stars
William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, and Christopher Plummer.
New York janitor, Daryll Deever (Hurt) is an avid fan of TV commentator, Tony Sokolow
(Weaver). A wealthy man, suspected of criminal connections is murdered in Daryll's office
building and Tony suspects Deever knows something about it. She pursues him for
information which Daryll allows as he is romantically interested in Tony and a "cat and
mouse" game ensues. This convinces the real killers that Daryll does know vital information
about the murder and they pursue the duo over this assumption.
Starring
William Hurt
Sigourney Weaver
Christopher Plummer
James Woods
Morgan Freeman
The Amateur (1981 film)
Directed by Charles Jarrott
Produced by Garth Drabinsky (producer) (as Garth H. Drabinsky)
Mario Kassar (executive producer)
Starring:
John Savage
Christopher Plummer
Music by Kenneth Wannberg
Cinematography John Coquillon
Editing by Stephan Fanfara
The Amateur is a 1982 Canadian crime/thriller film. It is a screenplay Robert Littell was hired
to write, which he then used to write the novel by the same name.
Plot:
When his fiance is murdered by terrorists, a cryptographer for the CIA blackmails his
superiors into sending him on a field assignment into Czechoslovakia to assassinate those
responsible. Once there, however, he discovers a web of deception underneath his fiance's
death.
Nominations:
Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role - Christopher Plummer
Little Gloria... Happy at Last (1982)
Little Gloria... Happy at Last is a 1982 television miniseries directed by Waris Hussein.
It stars Martin Balsam, Bette Davis, Michael Gross, Lucy Gutteridge, John Hillerman, Barnard
Hughes, Glynis Johns, Angela Lansbury, Christopher Plummer and Maureen Stapleton.
Based on the book by Barbara Goldsmith it tells the story of the real life Gloria Vanderbilt.
It was nominated for six Emmy Awards, including nominations for both Davis and Lansbury.
Gutteridge was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
Cast:
Angela Lansbury ... Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
Christopher Plummer ... Reggie Vanderbilt
The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
The Scarlet and the Black is a 1983 made for TV movie starring Gregory Peck and
Christopher Plummer.
In the year 1943, Nazi Germany has occupied Rome completely . The Pope (John Gielgud) is
approached by the SS Commandant for Rome- Colonel Hugh Kappler (Christopher Plummer)
who paints a white line around the Vatican confirming the jurisdictional area of the Vatican
beyond which SS Men cannot enter.
Kappler's main rival is Monsignor O'Flaherty (Gregory Peck) an Irishman who arranges safe
haven for escaped prisoners of war in Rome including safehouses. He is assisted in this
enterprise by several other patriots such as Miss Lombardo, Franchesica, and a number of
others. Kappler initially wants to bust the group, however angered by O'Flaherty's repeated
successes in thwarting and outsmarting him, he adopts a vendetta against O'Flaherty. During
this period Kappler continues to deport Jews to labour camps, and extort large sums of
money and gold from them as well as persecuting the general public.
After the Allies succeed in landing in Italy and eventually overcoming German resistance- and
begin heading to liberate Rome, Kappler worries for his family's safety and requests
Monsignor O'Flaherty to save his family as well- however the Monsignor refuses to do sotelling Kappler that he would rather go to hell.
Kappler is arrested eventually and questioned by the Allies- and it is at that moment that he is
informed that his wife and children were evacuated to Switzerland and he realizes that
despite all the enmity - O'Flaherty saved his family.
It is told at the end of the film that Kappler eventually becomes a Catholic and baptized by
O'Flaherty. He is also visited every month by O'Flaherty and becomes very close to him.
Won Primetime Emmy.
Cast:
Gregory Peck ... Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty
Christopher Plummer ... Col. Herbert Kappler
John Gielgud ... Pope Pius XII (as Sir John Gielgud)
The Thorn Birds (TV miniseries 1983)
Written by Carmen Culver
Directed by Daryl Duke
The Thorn Birds is a television mini-series broadcast on ABC between 27 and 30 March
1983. It starred Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer
as Archbishop Vittorio di Contini-Verchese, Richard Kiley, Bryan Brown, Mare Winningham,
Philip Anglim and Jean Simmons. It was directed by Daryl Duke and based on a novel by
Colleen McCullough.
Set primarily on Drogheda, a fictional sheep station in the Australian outback, the story
focuses on three generations of the Cleary Family and spans the years 1920 to 1962.
The Mini-series was nominated in 16 categories at the Primetime Emmy Awards in 1983, 7 of
which were for acting and 3 of those winning
Also nominated for their roles:
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Special- Richard Chamberlain.
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Special- Bryan Brown.
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Special- Christopher Plummer.
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special- Piper Laurie.
Prototype (TV 1983)
An intelligent android (Michael) constructed by a research team is taken outdoors and
successfully passed off as human in a trial run. When the government hears of this, they
order their own set of tests in Washington. When the project leader realizes the military want
the android for a soldier, he can't accept it, and he and Michael go into hiding to avoid their
clutches.
Lily in Love (1984)
Directed by Kroly Makk
Produced by Robert Halmi
Lily in Love is a 1984 Hungarian-American co-production in English language based on a play
by Ferenc Molnr, starring Christopher Plummer, Maggie Smith and Elke Sommer. It is a tale
of comedic deception and romance directed by Kroly Makk.
Plummer plays Fitz Wynn, a truly talented but overly-satisfied stage actor who wants to star in
a new movie written by his wife, Lily (Smith).
She doesn't feel her Fitz is right for the part, and explains to him why and what she's looking
for in the role. Fitz proceeds to orchestrate his own transformation into Roberto Terranova, a
blonde Italian who seems to be exactly what Lily wants.
Dreamscape (1984)
Dreamscape is a 1984 science fiction film directed by Joseph Ruben and written by David
Loughery, with Chuck Russell and Ruben co-writing
A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people's dreams, with some
mechanical help. When a subject dies in his sleep from a heart attack Alex Gardner becomes
suspicious that another of the psychics is killing people in the dreams somehow and that is
causing them to die in real life. He must find a way to stop the abuse of the power to enter
dreams.
Awards for 1985: Golden Raven Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film
Cast
Dennis Quaid ... Alex Gardner
Max von Sydow ... Doctor Paul Novotny
Christopher Plummer ... Bob Blair
Highpoint (1984)
A newly hired chauffeur for a wealthy family gets more than he bargained for soon after taking
the job. He finds himself in the middle of a murder plot involving the C.I.A. And the Mafia.
Starring: Richard Harris, Christopher Plummer, Beverly D Angelo, Kate Reid
Terror in the Aisles (1984)
A compilation of trailers and scenes from crime, horror and sci-fi films.
Christopher Plummer (segment "The Silent Partner")
Ordeal by Innocence (1985 film)
A close film adaptation was made in 1985, starring Donald Sutherland, Christopher Plummer
(... Leo Argyle) and Sarah Miles. Its musical score (by Dave Brubeck) has in many quarters
been heavily criticised as totally inappropriate for this style of mystery and has given the film a
certain notoriety.
Paleontologist Dr. Arthur Calgary visits the Argyle family to give them an address book that
belongs to Jack Argyle. But he is told that Jack has been executed for the murder of his wife.
But the address book can prove that Jack was innocent, so Dr. Calgary starts the
investigation all over.
Jtszani kell (TV 1985)
The World of David the Gnome (1985)
1985 episode was narrated by Christopher Plummer
The fantastic adventures of David and his wife Lisa traveling around the world for to save to
the animals and defeating to the trolls.
Rumpelstiltskin (1985)
Rumpelstiltskin is a twenty-four minute animated feature depicting the famous Brothers
Grimm story of a miller's daughter and a little man who can spin straw into gold.
Family Home Entertainment was the distributor, in association with several Canadian
animation firms. The film is making its first trip to DVD on October 30, 2007 coupled with "The
Tin Man" in a Holiday two-pack.
Cast:
Christopher Plummer (narration)
Robert Bockstael (Rumpelstiltskin)
Charity Brown (Miller's Daughter)
Les Lye (Miller)
Al Baldwin (King)
The Boy in Blue (1986 film)

The Boy in Blue is a 1986 movie by Charles Jarrott starring Nicolas Cage. The movie is
based on the life of Toronto sculler Ned Hanlan.
Based on the life of Ned Hanlan, the late-19th century Canadian sculler and world champion.
Hanlan was one of the first scullers to successfully utilize the "sliding seat."
Nicolas Cage ... Ned Hanlan
Cynthia Dale ... Margaret
Christopher Plummer ... Knox
David Naughton ... Bill
Sean Sullivan ... Walter
Melody Anderson ... Dulcie
Crossings (1986): Danielle Steel's 'Crossings'
Danielle Steele's WWII soap opera is given the epic treatment in this film that was shown
across three nights on network TV. At the film's beginning, an industrialist meets the wife of a
French ambassador on a transatlantic voyage to Europe. As time and the war progresses,
she returns to America when Paris becomes occupied by the Nazis and again encounters the
industrialist. An affair ensues. Meanwhile, her husband is rumored to be a Nazi collaborator,
but whose side is he really working for?
Cheryl Ladd ... Liane DeVilliers
Lee Horsley ... Nick Burnham
Christopher Plummer ... Armand DeVilliers
Jane Seymour ... Hillary Burnham
Garrick Dowhen ... Phillip Markham
Stewart Granger ... George Hackett
Joan Fontaine ... Alexandra Markham
Joanna Pacula ... Marissa Freilich
Horst Buchholz ... Martin Goertz
Zach Galligan ... Robert DeVilliers
Kelsey Grammer ... Craig Lawson
The Boss' Wife (1986)
The Boss's Wife is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Ziggy Steinberg and starring
Daniel Stern, Arielle Dombasle and Christopher Plummer.
If you want success, you've got to grab it.
Cast:
Daniel Stern ... Joel Keefer
Arielle Dombasle ... Louise Roalvang
Fisher Stevens ... Carlos Delgado
Melanie Mayron ... Janet Keefer
Lou Jacobi ... Harry Taphorn
Martin Mull ... Tony Dugdale
Christopher Plummer ... Mr. Roalvang
An American Tail (1986)
An American Tail is a 1986 animated film produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin
Entertainment, and directed by Don Bluth, originally released in movie theatres on November
21, 1986. It was the first feature-length animated film produced by Universal Pictures.
While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets seperated from his family
and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
Christopher Plummer as Henri, a pigeon of French descent, who is in New York while building
the Statue of Liberty. He is the first to meet Fievel upon entering America. He nurses Fievel
back to health, and tells him that he should never give up in his search for his family (via the
song "Never Say Never"), a message which Fievel takes to heart.
Spearfield's Daughter (TV mini-series 1986)

The daughter of a leading politician tries to carve out a career in the world of international
journalism.
Cast:
Series cast summary:
Christopher Plummer ... Lord Jack Cruze (unknown episodes)
Vampire in Venice (Nosferatu a Venezia) (1986)
Vampire in Venice (Nosferatu a Venezia), also known as Nosferatu in Venice, is an Italian
horror film released in 1988 and directed by Augusto Caminito, starring Klaus Kinski,
Christopher Plummer and Donald Pleasence.
It's an almost completely unrelated sequel to Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampire, only
with Kinski returning to reprise his loosely connected role. Donald Pleasence had previously
played Dr. John Seward in Dracula (1979 film), and Christopher Plummer later went on to
play another vampire hunter, Abraham Van Helsing, in the film Dracula 2000. The film proved
unsuccessful at the Italian box-office and enjoyed limited release abroad. Professor Paris
Catalano goes to Venice to investigate the last known appearance of Nosferatu during the
Carnival of 1786. Catalano seems to think that the vampire is searching for a means to put an
end to his torment and actually be dead. He stays with a family who legend says, has the
vampire trapped in a tomb in the basement. After a sance "the vampire" appears and then it
becomes a question of how do you put the evil back into the box.
Cast list:
Klaus Kinski as Nosferatu
Christopher Plummer as Professor Paris Catalano
Donald Pleasence as Don Alvise
Barbara De Rossi as Helietta Canins
Yorgo Voyagis as Dr. Barneval
Anne Knecht as Maria Canins
Elvire Audray as Uta Barneval
Dragnet (1987 film)
Dragnet is a 1987 film starring Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks, directed by Tom Mankiewicz.
The screenplay is written by Dan Aykroyd, Alan Zweibel, and Tom Mankiewicz. The original
music score was composed by Ira Newborn. The film was marketed with the tagline "Just the
Facts".
The equally-straight-laced and "by the book" nephew of Joe Friday must work with his more
laid-back partner to solve a mystery.
Cast:
Dan Aykroyd Sgt. Joe Friday
Tom Hanks Det. Pep Streebek
Christopher Plummer Reverend Jonathan Whirley
A Hazard of Hearts (1987)
A Hazard of Hearts is a romantic film starring Helena Bonham Carter in one of her first major
roles. It is based on a novel by Barbara Cartland and was released in 1987.
Plot:
Compulsive gambler, Sir Giles Staverley is tricked into gambling away his home by his old
adversary Lord Harry Wrotham. As Staverley is distraught and desperate, Wrotham gives him
one last chance - he will gamble everything Staverley has lost against Staverley's daughter's
hand in marriage and her trust fund of 80,000 guineas. Staverley agrees and loses once
again, but unable to face his daughter, Serena, he kills himself. Lord Justin Vulcan, a
notoriously cool, clear-headed gambler challenges Wrotham for the house and the girl and,
much to Wrotham's disgust, wins. Justin now finds himself in possession of the house and
Serena, but has no idea of what to do with them. After meeting Serena and realising that she
is much younger and more attractive than he had imagined, he installs her as a guest at
Mandrake, his family home, despite the opposition of Justin's mother, Lady Harriet Vulcan. As
Lady Vulcan attempts to marry Serena off to anyone except her son, Serena and Justin
become friends and he teaches her about Mandrake, the home he loves. A crisis forces
Serena and Justin to confront their feelings for each other. Can the course of true love run
smoothly for them?
Cast
Helena Bonham Carter - Serena Staverly
Marcus Gilbert - Lord Justin Vulcan
Edward Fox - Lord Harry Wrotham
Diana Rigg - Lady Harriet Vulcan
Christopher Plummer - Sir Giles Staverley
Stewart Granger - Old Vulcan
The Man Who Planted Trees (1987)
Directed by Frdric Back
Produced by Frdric Back
Hubert Tison
Written by Jean Giono
Jean Roberts
Narrated by Philippe Noiret
Christopher Plummer
Editing by Norbert Pickering
Release date(s) May, 1987
Running time 30 minutes
Country Canada
Language French
The Man Who Planted Trees (French: L'homme qui plantait des arbres) is a 1987 Canadian
short animated film directed by Frdric Back. It is based on the story of the same name by
Jean Giono. This 30-minute short film was distributed in two versions - French and English narrated respectively by noted actors Philippe Noiret and Christopher Plummer, and produced
by Radio-Canada.
Awards:
It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, as well as several other awards that
year.
It competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
In 1994, it was voted #44 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation
field.
The Gnomes' Great Adventure (1987)
Animation
David the Gnome and Swift the Fox embark on a search to find a gold treasure stolen by
trolls.
Cast overview:
Tom Bosley ... David the Gnome (voice)
Christopher Plummer ... Narrator
Bob Elliott ... Fred (voice)
Ray Goulding ... Ed (voice)
Frank Gorshin ... Holler / Carlo / Omar / Prince (voice)
Tony Randall ... Gnome King / Ghost of the Black Lake (voice)
Light Years (1988 film)
Light Years (Original French: Gandahar) is a 1988 French animated science fiction and
fantasy film. The original version was directed by Ren Laloux, and was based on JeanPierre Andrevon's novel Les Hommes-machines contre Gandahar (The Machine-Men versus
Gandahar). An English version was directed by Harvey Weinstein and produced by Bob
Weinstein, and noted science-fiction author Isaac Asimov made the revision of the translation.
The English title is a translation, not of the original title, but of the original tag line "Les
Annes lumire" ("The Light Years") as seen on the French poster
Shadow Dancing (1988 film)
Directed by Lewis Furey
Produced by Kay Sumner
Written by Christine Foster
Starring Nadine Van der Velde, Christopher Plummer

Shadow Dancing Also Known As La bailarina Venezuelais is a 1988 thriller shot in Toronto
Canada.
Jess is a struggling dancer trying to land a dream role in musical about Medusa. As she
practices, the director, who has been haunted for decades by the memory of his former
dancer and lover, notices how much she resembles his former lover. The ballerina had died in
a bizarre on-stage accident 50 years ago while performing the exact same dance that Jess is
doing. As Jesse becomes more obsessed with winning the part she slowly takes on the
physical and emotional characteristics of the woman. Eerily, as more unexplainable
coincidences continue to surround the production making you wonder if someone or
something is behind it all.
Cast:
Christopher Plummer as Edmund Beaumont
James Kee as Paul
Gregory Osborne as Philip Crest
John Colicos as Anthony Podopolis
Charmion King as Grace Meyerhoff
Shirley Douglas as Nicole
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988)
The Making of a Legend: Gone With The Wind is a 1988 documentary outlining the
successes and challenges of the casting, filming, and legacy of the 1939 film Gone With The
Wind, from concept to finished product. The documentary focuses on David O. Selznick from
the time of the book's publication to the Academy Awards ceremony of 1940. Included are
interviews with many of the crew and office personnel involved in making the film. Producer
David O. Selznick struggled to control his project, working with three directors along the way-George Cukor, Victor Fleming and Sam Wood. Each had their own vision and the strongwilled men often clashed.
The Making of a Legend brings up many of the "what ifs?" that arose as different scenarios
were discussed. Among these were the possibilities of Errol Flynn and Gary Cooper as Rhett
Butler
Cast:
Christopher Plummer ... Narrator (voice)
L. Jeffrey Selznick ... David O. Selznick (voice)
Arthur E. Arling ... Himself - Camera Operator (as Arthur Arling)
Katherine Brown ... Herself - Eastern Story Editor for David O. Selznick (as Kay Brown
Barrett)
Arthur Fellows ... Himself - Assistant to George Cukor
Raymond A. Klune ... Himself - Production Manager in 'Gone with the Wind' (as Ray Klune)
Silvia Shulman Lardner ... Herself - Secretary to David O. Selznick
James E. Newcom ... Himself - Associate Film Editor in 'Gone with the Wind' (as James
Newcom)
I Love N.Y. (1988)
Love conquers all. Except for... an angry father, a suspicious mother, a frustrated boss, some
dubious friends... and a jealous Siberian Husky.
Director: Alan Smithee
Writers: Gianni Bozzacchi, Alan Smithee (really Gianni Bozzacchi)
Stars:Scott Baio, Christopher Plummer and Kelly Van der Velden
Souvenir (1989 film)
Souvenir is a 1989 British drama film directed by Geoffrey Reeve and starring Christopher
Plummer, Catherine Hicks and Michael Lonsdale. It was based on the novel The Pork
Butcher by David Hughes. Forty years after the Second World War, an ex-German soldier
returns as an American to a French village in which atrocities were committed by the Nazis,
during which his then French lover was murdered. The film, like the book, is an attempt to
attribute and and assuage patent and discreet levels of of guilt.
Cast:
Christopher Plummer ... Ernst Kestner

Catherine Hicks ... Tina Boyer
Michael Lonsdale ... Xavier Lorion
Christopher Cazenove ... William Root
Patrick Bailey ... Young kestner
Jean Badin ... Henri Boyer
Lisa Daniely ... Mme. Lorion
Amlie Pick ... Janni
Nabokov on Kafka (TV 1989)
Vladimir Nabokov, widely considered one of the world's greatest writers for such works as
_Lolita_, was also a remarkable professor at Cornell University. Here, Plummer portrays the
witty Nabokov, providing an entertaining and insightful lecture upon "Metamorphosis," Kafka's
bizarre story about a man who wakes up one morning to discover he has turned into a giant
bug.
Mindfield [1989].
1989, Starring Michael Ironside, Lisa Langlois, Christopher Plummer, Stefan Wodoslawsky.
Directed by Jean-Claude Lord.
In Quebec during the 1940s and 1950s, more than 1500 unadopted children living in Catholic
orphanages were given false medical diagnoses and illegally interned in mental hospitals.
Under former Premier Maurice Duplessis, the Quebec government was able to secure major
federal funding for their care, and the children were exposed to atrocities including
electroshock therapy, excessive medication, and lobotomy experiments. The test subjects
have since become known as the Duplessis Orphans.
Kingsgate (1989)
A story about relationships in the 1980s.
Starring:
Christopher Plummer, Duncan Fraser, Alan Scarfe, Roberta Maxwell, Barbara
Where the Heart Is (1990 film)
Where the Heart Is is a 1990 romantic comedy film directed by John Boorman, and starring
Dabney Coleman and Uma Thurman.
Plot summary:
Stewart McBain (Dabney Coleman) is a successful self-made demolitions expert who blows
up buildings for a living. In the midst of one such project, a group of protesters stops the last
building on a lot from being demolished, the Dutch House. When McBain appears on TV to
dismiss the protests, he is made to look foolish. Returning home, his three college-aged
children - Daphne (Uma Thurman), Chloe (Suzy Amis), and Jimmy (David Hewlett) - ridicule
him for even thinking to appear on camera.
Partly due to the chiding, and partly feeling that they are spoiled and soft, he kicks them out of
the house. Giving them each $750 he drops them off at the Dutch House to make their own
lives. The house is dilapidated and on the verge of collapse. In order to finance their new
lives, the three McBain children take on housemates. These include a fashion designer
(Crispin Glover) named Lionel; a homeless magician, Shitty (Christopher Plummer); a
stockbroker, Tom (Dylan Walsh); and Sheryl, an amateur occultist (Sheila Kelley). Chloe is
commissioned to finish a calendar for an insurance company. Lionel has to complete his
designs for a fashion show. Chloe uses her roommates in the calendar and Lionel ends up
using some of them to model for his show.
The story is told against the backdrop of a stockmarket crash which brings McBain to ruin. He
desperately attempts to stave off a hostile takeover of his demolition company and fails. He
loses his home and becomes destitute. Ultimately, his children take him in and he starts to
see the world in an entirely different light.
Toward the end, the McBain children, their parents, and friends are all evicted from the
house. They hit on the idea of blowing up the building in order to stave off the takeover and
return everyone to their previous standard of living. Throughout the film there are numerous
romantic miscommunications that are tied together at the end.
A Ghost in Monte Carlo (1990) (TV)
Madame Emilie(Sarah Miles) is a courtesan old woman , changing her weary life, she takes
her orphaned niece Mistral(Lysette Anthony) from a convent . Both undergo a new life in the
cosmopolitan Montecarlo along with the maid(Samantha Eggar). The courtesan becomes the
countess of Secret. They are the talk of the high class from Montecarlo. Mistral encounters
herself surrounded by suitors, Lord Roberts(Marcus Gilbert)and prince Nicholas, son of the
Grand Duke(Christopher Plummer). But some(Gareth Hunt)knows the secrets and threatens
to Emilie and an admirer Rajah(Oliver Reed)has less than honorable intentions over Mistral.
Meanwhile, the aunt hiding a number of secrets is plotting a long-awaited vengeance in a
twisted finale. Naturally ,there's a happy ending like in all stories by Barbara Cartland.
This is a romance-drama with tragedy ,murder, passion , love ,twisted plot and incredible
ending .It's entertaining film and regency romance fans will appreciate the attention to detail .
Based on the romance novel with the same title by Barbara Cartland . In fact, belong to
quatrain pictures directed by John Hough , such as: Duel of hearts(Alison Doody,Michael
York), Hazard of hearts(Helena Bonham Carter,Gilbert),and the best, The lady and the
highwayman(Hugh Grant,Lysette Anthony).All realized by the same director,producer(Albert
Fennell,Sir Lew Grade), musician(Laurie Johnson: The avengers), author(Cartland) and
similar players(Lysette Anthony,Marcus Gilbert,Neal Dickson,Fiona Fullerton,Chrstopher
Plummer,among others). This TV picture is well directed by John Hough. He has an eclectic
and long filmmaker career , beginning in television series(Avengers,Protectors), making
Hammer film(Twins of evil), classic terror(legend of hell house), average horror
movies(Howling IV,American Gothic), adventures (Island of treasure,Black arrow)until
wholesome Disney family fare(Return and escape to witch mountain). The flick will like to
romantic drama buffs.
Red Blooded American Girl (1990)
A young woman is transformed into a vampire by a virus.
Director: David Blyth
Writer: Allan Moyle
Stars:
Andrew Stevens, Heather Thomas and Christopher Plummer
Release Date:
3 January 1997 (South Africa)
Money (1991 film)
Directed by Steven Hilliard Stern
Produced by Andr Djaoui, Ren Malo
Written by Larry Pederson, Gordon Roback
Starring Eric Stoltz,
Christopher Plummer,
Maryam d'Abo
Money is a 1991 drama film directed by Steven Hilliard Stern.
Plot:
Frank Cimballi (Eric Stoltz) is a 21-year-old rich kid who goes to claim his inheritance only to
find it's been embezzled by his father's former business partners. Traveling the globe in
search of the white-collar thieves who have robbed him of millions, Frank locates his father's
seriously ill associate Will Scarlet (F. Murray Abraham), who admits to his role in the crime
and agrees to help Frank track down the rest of the men on his revenge list.
Madeline (1991)
Madeline is a children's book series written by Ludwig Bemelmans, an American author of
Belgian, Austrian and German origins.[1] The books have been adapted into numerous
formats, spawning telefilms, television series and a live action feature film.
In 1991, Cinar produced animated adaptations of the other five Madeline books for The
Family Channel, with Christopher Plummer returning as narrator and Marsha Moreau
returning to voice Madeline. Each special featured new songs, with lyrics by Judy Rothman
and music by Canadian composer Jeffrey Zahn, who replaced the late Joe Raposo. In
addition, "I'm Madeline," Madeline's theme song from the original special, was reprised in the
new specials. The specials were released on video first by Hi-Tops Video and second by
Golden Book Video.
Counterstrike (1990 TV series)
Counterstrike is a Canadian/French crime-fighting/espionage television series. It premiered
on November 2, 1991 on CTV in Canada and on November 20, 1991 on TF1 in France. It
also aired in the United States on cable channel USA Network, premiering on July 1, 1990.
The series ran for three seasons, airing 66 hour-long episodes in total.
Counterstrike has since aired in reruns in Canada on Showcase and TVtropolis.
Nominations:
1992 Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role
(Christopher Plummer)
Firehead (1991)
A government agent assigns a scientist to help one of his agents track down a Russian
defector who is a cyborg. Meanwhile, an organization known as The Upper Order is plotting to
take over the world by using the cyborg's powers.
Young Catherine (1991)
Directed by Michael Anderson
Written by Chris Bryant
Release date(s) 17 February 1991
Young Catherine is a 1991 American TV miniseries based on the early life of Catherine II of
Russia. It stars Julia Ormond as Catherine and Vanessa Redgrave as Empress Elizabeth.
The miniseries is known as Intrigues impriales in France and Die Junge Katharina in
Germany.
Plot summary:
The year is 1744, and a beautiful young girl Catherine II (Julia Ormond) is torn from her
homeland to marry the heir to the Russian throne. But his aunt, Elizabeth, Empress of Russia
(Vanessa Redgrave) rules the empire with an iron hand, while her nephew Peter III (Reece
Dinsdale) proves neither fit for the throne nor the marriage bed. At great risk from enemies
who influence her husband and treated as an outsider, Catherine takes a lover and bears his
child. Now, with help of her friend Sir Charles Williams, (Christopher Plummer), she must take
the throne by forces if she, her young son Paul, and the Russian Empire are to survive.
Cast:
Vanessa Redgrave ... Empress Elizabeth
Christopher Plummer ... Sir Charles Williams
Julia Ormond ... Grand Duchess Catherine
Franco Nero ... Count Mikhail Vorontsov
Marthe Keller ... Princess Johanna
Maximilian Schell ... Frederick the Great
A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz (1991) (TV)
Director: Edwin Sherin
Writer: Julian Barry
Stars:Jane Alexander, Michael Allison and Rachel Aviva
Release Date:17 July 1991 (USA)
In 1991, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) aired the American Playhouse production "A
Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz," starring Jane Alexander as Georgia
O'Keeffe and Christopher Plummer as Alfred Stieglitz. Lifetime Television produced a biopic
of Georgia O'Keeffe premiering on September 19, 2009, starring Joan Allen as OKeeffe,
Jeremy Irons as Alfred Stieglitz, Henry Simmons as Jean Toomer, Ed Begley, Jr. as Stieglitz'
brother Lee, and Tyne Daly as Mabel Dodge Luhan.[22][23]
A new exhibit of O'Keeffe's works at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico
which emphasize her lesser-known abstract works is on view from May 2010
Rock-a-Doodle(1991)
Rock-a-Doodle is a 1991 animated re-telling of Geoffry Chaucer's Chanticleer and Edmond
Rostand's comedy, Chantecler. This film was directed by Don Bluth, produced by Goldcrest
Films for The Samuel Goldwyn Company, and originally released in the United Kingdom on 2
August 1991 and in the United States on 3 April 1992.
Christopher Plummer as the Grand Duke of Owls, a magical owl who despises Chanticleer.
He overhears Edmond's call for Chanticleer in the real world and transforms him into a kitten,
planning to eat him. The Duke hates his nephew and threatens several times to kill him if he
fails. The Duke is a malevolent and powerful creature of the night with a penchant for eating
smaller animals as meals and commanding other villainous owls to do his bidding. He hates
sunlight, like all owls, and recoils when light is shined on him. Also, he possesses magical
breath that can transform anyone into any creature
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is the sixth feature film in the Star Trek science
fiction franchise and is the last of the Star Trek films to include the entire main cast of the
1960s Star Trek television series. It was released in 1991 by Paramount Pictures. It was
directed by Nicholas Meyer and written by Meyer with Denny Martin Flinn. After an ecological
disaster leads to two longstanding enemiesthe Federation and the Klingon Empire
brokering a tenuous truce, the crew of the USS Enterprise-A must prevent war from breaking
out on the eve of universal peace.
The main Klingons are portrayed by Christopher Plummer as Chang, David Warner as
Gorkon, and Rosanna DeSoto as Azetbur. Plummer and Shatner had performed together in
various acting roles in Montreal.[15] Meyer wrote the role for Plummer, who was initially
reluctant to accept it.[6] The role of Gorkon was initially offered to Jack Palance.[4] Warner
had appeared in Meyer's first film, the 1979 science-fiction movie Time After Time, and had
played a human ambassador in The Final Frontier.[11] The actor's make-up was made to
resemble Abraham Lincoln,[14] as another way of humanizing the otherwise alien Klingon
leader.[16] When filming his character's death, a large lamp exploded and rained down in
pieces on Warner and Kelley; one heavy piece barely missed striking Warner's head, which
Kelley was sure would have killed him.
Berlin Lady (TV mini-series 1991)
Boro's adventure begins in Paris in the late twenties. As a minor employee in a photographic
agency, he works for a pittance. However, thanks to his love of life, his handsome
appearance and his appeal to women, he leads a varied and turbulent life. In spite of his
numerous affairs, the great love of his life is his cousin, Maryika, the famous actress from
Berlin. When Boro learns that Maryika is expected in Munich for the premiere of her latest
film, he decides to visit her there. Boro is disappointed in his meeting with Maryika; he has to
spend the night alone on the couch.
Christopher Plummer ... Wilhem Speer
The First Circle (1991)
The Polish director Aleksander Ford made an English-language film based on the novel in
1973. While it hewed closely to Solzhenitsyn's plot, the film was a critical and commercial
failure.
The 1991 TV miniseries based on the novel, First Circle, won Canada's Gemini Award for
Best Photography in a Dramatic Program or Series, awarded to Ron Orieux. Directed by Larry
Sheldon, it received nominations for best dramatic miniseries, best actor, best actress, and
best writing in the category. It starred Victor Garber as the protagonist, Christopher Plummer,
Robert Powell and Dominic Raacke with F. Murray Abraham as Stalin. It was released on
DVD.
In January 2006, the RTR TV aired the miniseries directed by Gleb Panfilov. Solzhenitsyn
helped adapt the novel for the screen and narrated the film
Secrets (1992 film)
Secrets, also known as Danielle Steel's Secrets, is a 1992 television film directed by Peter H.
Hunt. The film is based upon the 1985 novel of the same name written by Danielle Steel. The
drama centers on a television producer and his relationship with the star of his latest TV
series.
The film focuses on the cast and crew of a new TV series called Manhattan, which is shot on
location in New York City. Mel Wexler is a successful producer who has become a workaholic
since the death of his family in a plane crash. Trying to forget his loss, he throws himself on
producing Manhattan. For the lead role, he tries to cast the feared film star Sabina Quarles,
who has a reputation of being hard to work with. She initially declines, explaining she is too
good for television. However, because of her past with Mel, she finally accepts the role. They
soon start a relationship, but he remains suspicious of her constant visits to San Francisco.
She is reluctant to explain why she is going there every month, which makes him think she
has an affair.
Cast:
Christopher Plummer as Mel Wexler
Stephanie Beacham as Sabina Quarles
Linda Purl as Jane Adams
Gary Collins as Zack Taylor
Ben Browder as William 'Bill' Warwick
Josie Bissett as Gabrielle 'Gaby' Smith
John Bennett Perry as Dan Adams
Nicole Eggert as Alexa Adams
Brenda Bakke as Sandy Warwick
Impolite (1992)
"A thought provoking and stylish mystery, with a refreshing setting! Jack Yeats (Robert
Wisden) was once a crack investigative journalist for a Vancouver newspaper. But a scandal
put an end to that. Now, working in a cube farm, Jack has become the lowest form of life on
the journalist food chain, he's the obit writer. Working the obituaries can drive a man to drink,
but one day Jack receives a package containing half of a recently deceased millionaire's
diary. The blood-soaked pages hint at different end than his obituary reported. Curious, and
sensing a story that may get him out of his dead end job, Jack goes on a mission to find out
more about the case.Full of clever and funny dialougue, Impolite has a plot like Chinatown's
and never ceases to draw the audience into the mystery. With a great twist ending, Impolite is
impossible not to like!"
1992 was a pivotal year for Plummer; he earned another Genie award nomination, for his
supporting role in Impolite.
Malcolm X (1992 film)
Malcolm X is a 1992 biographical motion picture about the Muslim-American figure Malcolm X
(born Malcolm Little). It was co-written, co-produced, and directed by Spike Lee. It stars
Denzel Washington as the titular character and co-stars Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al
Freeman, Jr., and Delroy Lindo. Karen Allen, Peter Boyle, Ossie Davis, attorney William
Kunstler,, Christopher Plummer, Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale. The Rev. Al
Sharpton and future South Africa president Nelson Mandela are among the cameo
appearances. Spike Lee has a small role as Shorty, a character based partially on a real-life
acquaintance, Malcolm "Shorty" Jarvis, a fellow criminal and jazz trumpeter.
The film dramatizes key events in Malcolm X's life: his criminal career, his incarceration, his
conversion to Islam, his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam and later falling out with
the organization, his marriage to Betty X, his pilgrimage to Mecca and reevaluation of his
views concerning whites, and his assassination on February 21, 1965. Defining childhood
incidents, including his father's death, his mother's mental illness, and his experiences with
racism, are dramatized in flashbacks.
Cast:
Denzel Washington as Malcolm X
Angela Bassett as Betty X
Albert Hall as Baines
Al Freeman, Jr. as Elijah Muhammad
Delroy Lindo as West Indian Archie
Spike Lee as Shorty
Christopher Plummer as Chaplain Gill
Malcolm X was released in North America on November 18, 1992. The film was critically wellreceived, garnering 90% on movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Denzel Washington's
portrayal of Malcolm X was widely praised and he was nominated for Academy Award for
Best Actor. Washington lost to Al Pacino, a decision which Lee criticized, saying "I'm not the
only one who thinks Denzel was robbed on that one.] The movie received a number of
awards at other festivals.
Liar's Edge (1992)
A child is traumatized when his father, a stuntman, dies in an attempt to go over Niagara
Falls. Later, his mother meets and marries a truck driver, and things seem to be going OK.
Then the new husband's creepy brother shows up, and the boy begins to get a sense that
neither of the brothers is quite what they claim to be.
Cast:
Nicholas Shields ... Mark Burnz (as Nick Shields)
Shannon Tweed ... Heather Burnz
David Keith ... Gary Kirkpatrick
Joseph Bottoms ... Dave Kirkpatrick
Christopher Plummer ... Harry Weldon
A Stranger in the Mirror (TV 1993)
Perry King Toby Temple
Lori Loughlin Jill Castle
Geordie Johnson David Kenyon
Juliet Mills Alice Tanner
Christopher Plummer Clifton Lawrence
The Little Crooked Christmas Tree (TV 1990)
Cast:
Christopher Plummer ... Narrator (voice)
Madeline (1993)
In 1993, DIC produced a Madeline cartoon series, which also aired on the Family Channel.
An total of twenty episodes were produced for the first series[15]. Christopher Plummer
reprised his role as narrator again[17], and "I'm Madeline" was used as the series' theme
song. The series was later rerun on the Disney Channel and Toon Disney in the U.S.
Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance (Christopher Plummer)
Wolf (1994 film)
Wolf is a 1994 American horror film directed by Mike Nichols and written by Jim Harrison,
Wesley Strick, and an uncredited Elaine May, with music by Ennio Morricone and
cinematography by Giuseppe Rotunno.
The film featured Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer in the lead roles, alongside James
Spader, Kate Nelligan, Richard Jenkins, Christopher Plummer, Eileen Atkins, David Hyde
Pierce, and Om Puri.
Will Randall (Jack Nicholson) is bitten by a wolf while driving home in Vermont. Afterwards,
he is demoted from editor in chief of a publishing house when it is taken over by tycoon
Raymond Alden (Christopher Plummer), who replaces him with Will's proteg Stewart
Swinton (James Spader). Stewart is having an affair with Will's wife Charlotte (Kate Nelligan).
Will starts to be more aggressive, taking on the characteristics of a wolf. With the help of
Alden's headstrong daughter Laura (Michelle Pfeiffer), Will sets out for his new life. His first
escapade as a werewolf takes place at Laura's estate, where he wakes up at night and hunts
down a deer. In the morning Will finds himself on the bank of a stream, with blood all over his
face and hands.
Awards and nominations:
Wolf won a Saturn Award for Best Writing for Jim Harrison and Wesley Strick's screenplay,
and was nominated for a further five Saturn Awards, in the categories of Best Horror Film,
Best Actor (Jack Nicholson), Best Actress (Michelle Pfeiffer), Best Supporting Actor (James
Spader) and Best Make-up (Rick Baker).
Ennio Morricone was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition
Written for a Motion Picture or Television.
Crackerjack (1994 film)

Crackerjack is a 1994 adventure film directed by Michael Mazo and starring Thomas Ian
Griffith, Nastassja Kinski and Christopher Plummer. A lone cop is the only hope for a ski
resort held hostage by a white supremacist jewel thief in this action thriller.
Cast:
Thomas Ian Griffith ... Jack Wild
Nastassja Kinski ... Katia 'K.C.' Koslovska
Christopher Plummer ... Ivan Getz
Dolores Claiborne (1995 film)
Dolores Claiborne is a 1995 film based on the eponymous novel by Stephen King, starring
Kathy Bates, Christopher Plummer and Jennifer Jason Leigh. It was directed by Taylor
Hackford.
As the story begins, Dolores Claiborne (Bates), a middle-aged domestic servant in a coastal
town in Maine, is heard having an argument with her elderly, paralyzed employer Vera
Donovan (Judy Parfitt), after which Vera falls down the stairs. Dolores ransacks the kitchen
and is then caught by a mailman as she stands over Vera with a rolling pin, apparently
intending to kill Vera. Vera dies and Dolores is charged with her murder.
Dolores' daughter, Selena St. George (Leigh), a journalist, arrives in town to support her
mother. Dolores insists that she did not kill her wealthy employer, but she finds little
sympathy, as the entire town believes she murdered her husband, Joe St. George (David
Straithairn) almost 20 years earlier. Detective John Mackey (Christopher Plummer), the chief
detective in her husband's murder case, is determined to put Dolores away for life.
Cast:
Kathy Bates Dolores Claiborne
Jennifer Jason Leigh Selena St. George
Judy Parfitt Vera Donovan
Christopher Plummer Detective John Mackey
Harrison Bergeron (1995 film)
Harrison Bergeron is a 1995 cable television movie film loosely adapted from Kurt Vonnegut's
1961 short story of the same name. It was produced for Showtime, and first screened on
August 13, 1995.
The film takes place in a dystopian future in which the US government mandates total
egalitarianism in all things, by having everyone attach wearable mind "handicapping" devices
to their heads and showing only mind numbing shows on TV. The story centers on a high
school student named Harrison Bergeron whose extreme intelligence makes him something
of a pariah. He is ultimately recruited by a secret organization whose purpose is to operate
the functions of society that cannot be handled by the unintelligent.
While he thrives in this environment for a time and even meets a girlfriend there, he ultimately
pays a personal price and comes to see the true social structure as unethical and immoral,
and thus rebels - even if it means making a sacrifice.
Cast:
Sean Astin ... Harrison Bergeron
Miranda de Pencier ... Phillipa
Eugene Levy ... President McCloskey
Howie Mandel ... Charlie (of 'Chat with Charlie')
Andrea Martin ... Diana Moon Glampers
Christopher Plummer ... John Klaxon: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in
a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series: Christopher Plummer
12 Monkeys (1995)
12 Monkeys is a 1995 science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam, inspired by Chris Marker's
1962 short film La Jete, and starring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, and
Christopher Plummer.
James Cole (Bruce Willis) is a convicted criminal living in a grim post-apocalyptic future. In
19961997, the Earth's surface was contaminated by a virus so deadly that it forced the
surviving population to live underground. To earn a pardon, Cole allows scientists to send him
on dangerous missions to the past to collect information on the virus, thought to be released
by a terrorist organization known as the Army of the Twelve Monkeys. If possible, he is to
obtain a pure sample of the original virus so a cure can be made. Throughout the film, Cole is
troubled with recurring dreams involving a chase and a shooting in an airport.
After Universal Studios acquired the rights to remake La Jete as a full-length film, David and
Janet Peoples were hired to write the script. Under Terry Gilliam's direction, Universal granted
the filmmakers a $29.5 million budget, and filming lasted from February to May 1995. The film
was shot mostly in Philadelphia and Baltimore, where the story was set.
The film was released to critical praise and grossed approximately $168 million worldwide.
Brad Pitt was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and won a
Golden Globe for his performance. The film also won and was nominated for various
categories at the Saturn Awards
Bruce Willis as James Cole
Madeleine Stowe as Kathryn Railly
Brad Pitt as Jeffrey Goines
Christopher Plummer as Dr. Goines
We the Jury (1996) (TV)
Jury has to decide on a murder case but some of the jurors have their own agendas or are
biased. Sounds like '12 Angry Men' but this is not a remake. It's a totally fresh take on the
theme. Totally different case, for example. There is no question about the identity of the
culprit, the jury has to decide between manslaughter and murder. Christopher Plummer ...
Wilfred Fransiscus
Skeletons (1996)
We the Jury (1996) (TV)
A heart attack moves a Pulitzer winning journalist to leave NY for the peace of a small New
England town, but he soon finds himself pulled into a case of a man accused of killing his gay
lover with the blade of a shovel. ...
Christopher Plummer ..R. Carlyle
The Conspiracy of Fear (TV 1996)
When Chris King's father dies, he is devastated. However, when a bunch of assorted heavies
start threatening him over a mysterious package his father may or may not have left him, grief
is the least of his worries.
Geraint Wyn Davies ... Timothy Straker
Leslie Hope ... Jamimah 'Jimmy' Camely
Andrew Lowery ... Chris King
Kenneth Walsh ... Capt. Alex Rose
Christopher Plummer ... Joseph Wakeman
The Arrow (1997)
The Arrow is a four-hour miniseries produced for CBC Television in 1996, starring Dan
Aykroyd as Crawford Gordon, experienced wartime production leader during World War II and
president of A. V. Roe Canada during its attempt to produce the Avro Arrow supersonic jet
interceptor. The film also stars Michael Ironside and Sara Botsford. The mini-series is noted
as the highest viewership ever for a CBC program.
Christopher Plummer. . . . . George Hees
Other significant individuals in the program, portrayed in the series, include RCAF pilot Flight
Lieutenant Jack Woodman (Ron White) who conducted test flights on Avro aircraft but was
supplanted by Janusz urakowski (Lubomir Mykytiuk) for the first few flights; Jim Chamberlin
(Aidan Devine) and James Floyd (Nigel Bennett) in the design team; Edward Critchley (Ian D.
Clark) who would be asked to develop an engine for the Arrow when other models became
unavailable.
The film also boasted cameos by Michael Moriarty as U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Michael Ironside as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and Christopher Plummer
as George Hees.
Awards:
Canadian Society of Cinematographers Awards in 1997
Rene Ohashi won Best Cinematography in TV Drama

Babes in Toyland (1997 film)
Babes in Toyland is a 1997 animated musical adventure based on the original story.
Everyone's favorite nursery rhyme characters come magically and musically to life in this
animated adventure based on the classic holiday tale.
Cast:
Joseph Ashton as Jack (voice)
Lacey Chabert as Jill (voice)
Raphael Sbarge as Tom Piper (voice)
Cathy Cavadini as Mary Lamb (voice)
Christopher Plummer as Barnaby Crookedman (voice)
1998 Nominated Annie
Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Male Performer in an Animated
Feature Production
Christopher Plummer
For playing "Barnaby Crooked Man".
Winchell (1998 film)
The two-hour biography speeds along from young Walter's hustling beginnings as a tabloid
gossip merchant (I'm not writing for the major leagues, he announces. I'm writing for the minor
leagues.) to his ascendance as the nation's most powerful propagandist. Won Golden Globe.
Stanley Tucci ... Walter Winchell
Glenne Headly ... Dallas Wayne
Paul Giamatti ... Herman Kurfeld
Christopher Plummer ... Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hidden Agenda (1999)
A young medical student travels to Berlin to investigate the apparent death of his brother and
discovers a secret life of espionage, betrayal and murder at the highest levels.
In this supercharged political thriller, David McLean becomes the center of a deadly
conspiracy when he discovers a computer disc his recently killed CIA agent brother, Mike, left
behind. After the government denies involvement in Mike's "accidental" death, David must
hunt for the truth on his own...and with double crossings, high-octane chase scenes and thrilla-minute plot twists, nowhere-and no one-is safe!
Christopher Plummer ... Ulrich Steiner
The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow (1998)
Christopher Plummer. . . . narrator
Blackheart (1998)
Ray and Annette are a couple who scam, lie and seduce to get wealth from unspecting
wealthy people.
Director: Dominic Shiach
Writers: Brad Simpson, Brock Simpson
Stars:Richard Grieco, Christopher Plummer and Fiona Loewi
The Clown at Midnight (1998) is a horror film.
Years ago, opera singer Lorraine Sedgewick was killed in her dressing room at an opera
house, supposedly by Lorenzo Orsini, one of the lead actors in a performance of Pagliacci.
When Orsini was thought to have fled to Europe afterwards, the opera house closed down.
Years later, a group of high school teenagers come to restore the old building for their
school's theatre department. One of the teens is Lorraine's daughter Kate. She was adopted
shortly after her mother's murder and only learned about her parentage six months ago, and
has been plagued by visions and nightmares about the murder ever since. She was
convinced by her friend Monica to help restore the opera house as a means of getting over
her problems.
When the group visits the crime scene, they discover a still-wet patch of blood, and Kate finds
that her visions of her mother's murder are starting to get stronger and more realistic.
Thereafter, the titular clown, never having left the opera house, begins the bloody decimation
of the group.
Seven teenagers are stalked by a murderous clown while refurbishing an old opera house.
Director: Jean Pellerin
Writer: Kenneth J. Hall
Stars: Christopher Plummer, Margot Kidder and Sarah Lassez
Celebrate the Century (1999), Episode 1: 1900-1914
Produced in Burbank and Atlanta by David L. Wolper Prods. in association with CNN Prods.
Series producers, David L. Wolper, Robert Guenette; executive producer for CNN Prods., Pat
Mitchell; line producer, Robert Leeburg; director, Guenette; writer, Guenette.
Narrator: Christopher Plummer. Special appearance: Wynton Marsalis
Madeline: Lost in Paris (1999)
Madeline: Lost in Paris is an animated Madeline television film, produced by DIC
Entertainment and released on Direct-to-video on 3 August 1999. It was released to VHS by
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. In 2009 the film was released on iTunes for the
film's 10th anniversary.
Voice Cast: Christopher Plummer ... Narrator
The Insider (1999 film)
The Insider is a 1999 film that tells the controversial true story of a 60 Minutes television
series segment, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand. The
60 Minutes story originally aired in November 1995 in an altered form because CBS thenowner, Laurence Tisch, objected. The story was later aired on February 4, 1996.
The film stars Al Pacino (Lowell Bergman), Russell Crowe (Jeffrey Wigand), Christopher
Plummer (Mike Wallace), Bruce McGill (attorney Ron Motley), Diane Venora, Michael
Gambon, Philip Baker Hall (Don Hewitt), Lindsay Crouse, Gina Gershon, Debi Mazar, Rip
Torn, and Colm Feore.
The movie was adapted by Eric Roth and Michael Mann from the Vanity Fair magazine article
The Man Who Knew Too Much by Marie Brenner. It was directed by Mann.
It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Russell Crowe), Best
Cinematography, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Picture, Best Sound and Best Writing,
Nuremberg (2000 film)
Nuremberg is a 2000 Canadian/United States television docudrama, based on the book
Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial by Joseph E. Persico, that tells the story of the Nuremberg Trials.
Written by David W. Rintels
Directed by Yves Simoneau
Starring Alec Baldwin
Brian Cox
Christopher Plummer
Jill Hennessy
Matt Craven
Colm Feore
Christopher Heyerdahl
The Dinosaur Hunter (TV 2000)
A 13-year-old girl and her older brother live on a farm where paleontologists search for fossils.
Christopher Plummer ... Hump Hinton
Burbank International Children's Film Festival
2000 Won Film Award Best Child Actress Performance
Alison Pill
Best Tele-Drama
Rick Stevenson
Hollywood Film Festival
2000 Nominated Hollywood Discovery Award Best Feature Film
Rick Stevenson
Possessed (2000 film)

Possessed is the name of a 2000 Showtime original movie starring Timothy Dalton, based on
events appearing in the book Possessed by Thomas B. Allen, which is inspired by the
exorcism case of Robbie Mannheim;
The film was released on DVD in the USA on October 2, 2001.
Cast:
Timothy Dalton Fr. Willam Bowdern
Henry Czerny Fr. Raymond McBride
Jonathan Malen Robbie Mannheim
Michael Rhoades Karl Mannheim
Shannon Lawson Phyllis Mannheim
Christopher Plummer Archbishop Hume
Piper Laurie Aunt Hanna
Richard Waugh Reverend Eckhardt
Michael McLachlan Father Walter Halloran
American Tragedy (2000 film)
American Tragedy is a 2000 biographical television movie based on the true story of O.J.
Simpson's (Raymond Forchion) trial for the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and
her friend, Ron Goldman in 1994. Ving Rhames starred as defense attorney Johnnie
Cochran.
Art Directors Guild (ADG)
Miniseries or Television Film (lost to The '70s)
Casting Society of America (CSA)
Best Casting - Miniseries (lost to Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows)
Golden Globe Awards
Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film (Plummer lost to Robert
Downey, Jr., Ally McBeal)
Satellite Awards
Best Miniseries (won)
Dracula 2000
Dracula 2000, also known internationally as Dracula 2001[2], is a 2000 horror film written and
directed by Patrick Lussier. The film stars Gerard Butler, Christopher Plummer, Jonny Lee
Miller, Justine Waddell, Omar Epps, Colleen Fitzpatrick, Jeri Ryan, and Jennifer Esposito.
Matthew Van Helsing (Plummer), the alleged descendant of the famed 19th century Dutch
medical doctor, Abraham Van Helsing, owns an antique shop in early 21st century London.
One night with Van Helsing upstairs, his secretary, Solina (Esposito), allows a group of
thieves, led by her boyfriend, Marcus (Omar Epps), into the shop. The thieves infiltrate the
shop's underground high-security vault and find a sealed silver coffin protected by a deadly
defense system. Based on the level of security surrounding the coffin, Solina and Marcus
decide that the coffins contents must be valuable, so they escape with it and flee to New
Orleans, Louisiana. When Van Helsing discovers that the coffin has been stolen, he boards a
plane to America, telling his apprentice, Simon Sheppard (Miller), to remain in London. Simon
does not follow his mentors orders and travels to Louisiana as well.
Star Trek: Klingon Academy (2000)
Star Trek: Klingon Academy, also known as Klingon Academy, is a starship combat space
flight simulator computer game developed by 14 Degrees East, an internal development
house of publisher Interplay Entertainment. The game follows a young Klingon warrior named
Torlek as he attends the Elite Command Academy, a war college created by General Chang
to prepare warriors for a future conflict with the United Federation of Planets. Christopher
Plummer and David Warner reprised their respective roles as Chang and Gorkon for the
production of Klingon Academy.
On Golden Pond (2001 live TV production)
On Golden Pond is a play by Ernest Thompson. The plot focuses on aging couple Ethel and
Norman Thayer, who spend each summer at their home on a lake called Golden Pond.
During the year the story takes place, they are visited by daughter Chelsea with her fianc
and his son in tow. The play explores the often turbulent relationship the young woman
shared with her father growing up, and the difficulties faced by a couple in the twilight years of
a long marriage.
In 2001, CBS aired a live television adaptation of the play that was heavily publicized in the
press due to the reunion of former Sound of Music stars Julie Andrews and Christopher
Plummer in the lead roles. It also starred Glenne Headly.
Lucky Break 2001
Lucky Break is a 2001 British comedy film starring James Nesbitt and directed by Peter
Cattaneo. Feelgood prison-escape movie that sees a group of prison inmates (including
James Nesbitt and Timothy Spall), put on a theatrical show of Nelson: The Musical to cover
their daring break-out attempt. Anne Dudley collaborated with Stephen Fry to write and
produce songs for the send-up musical "Nelson".
Christopher Plummer as Graham Mortimer
A Beautiful Mind (2001 film)
A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American film based on the life of John Forbes Nash, Jr., a Nobel
Laureate in Economics. The film was directed by Ron Howard and written by Akiva
Goldsman. It was inspired by a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1998 book of the same
name by Sylvia Nasar. The film stars Russell Crowe, along with Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris,
Christopher Plummer and Paul Bettany.
The story begins in the early years of a young schizophrenic prodigy named John Nash. Early
in the movie, Nash begins developing paranoid schizophrenia and endures delusional
episodes while painfully watching the loss and burden his condition brings on his wife and
friends.
Christopher Plummer as Dr. Rosen, Nash's doctor at a psychiatric hospital
Screen Actors Guild Awards:2002 Nominated: Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a
Theatrical Motion Picture
Paul Bettany
Jennifer Connelly
Russell Crowe
Adam Goldberg
Ed Harris
Judd Hirsch
Josh Lucas
Austin Pendleton
Christopher Plummer
Anthony Rapp
Jason Gray-Stanford
Full Disclosure (2001 film)
Full Disclosure is a 2001 thriller film starring Fred Ward, Christopher Plummer, Rachel Ticotin
and Penelope Ann Miller. It was directed by John Bradshaw. film was shot in 1999. The
release was delayed to distributing problems.
Full Disclosure was nominated for 7 Video Premiere Awards in 2001: Best Actor (Ward), Best
Supporting Actor (Plummer), Best Supporting Actress (Miller), Best Original Score, Best LiveAction Premiere, Best Screenplay and Best Director.
The film was released in USA, Canada, UK, Netherlands, Finland, China, France, Spain, Italy,
Norway and in Greece (in 2008).
The canadian working title was "All The Fine Lines".
Night Flight (TV 2002)
This story concerns a team of World War 2 aircraft crew coming to terms with their past in the
twenty first century. There have been occasions in other movies, where an actor's poor
performance have been saved by clever editing and production. This movie is exactly the
opposite, the muddled and confusing production has been saved by a brilliant cast. Who have
on their own performances produced a first class 'weepie'
Christopher Plummer ... 'Flash' Harry Peters
Edward Woodward ... Vic Green

Kenneth Cranham ... Ted Atwell
Barbara Flynn ... Moira
Ararat (2002 film)
Ararat is a 2002 film directed, written, and co-produced by Atom Egoyan based loosely on the
Siege of Van during the Armenian Genocide, an event that is denied by the government of
Turkey. In addition to exploring the human impact of that specific historical event, the film also
examines the nature of truth and its representation through art. Ararat stars Charles
Aznavour, Christopher Plummer, and David Alpay.
Cast:
David Alpay as Raffi
Charles Aznavour as Edward Saroyan
Eric Bogosian as Rouben
Christopher Plummer as David
Marie-Jose Croze as Celia
Agent of Influence (TV 2002)
This story of espionage and counter-espionage is based on the novel by Ian Adams.
Suspicious circumstances surrounded the mysterious death of a Canadian diplomat...
Director: Michel Poulette
Writers: Ian Adams, Riley Adams, and 1 more credit
Stars:Christopher Plummer, Marina Orsini and Ted Whittal
Nicholas Nickleby (2002 film)
Nicholas Nickleby is a 2002 comedy-drama film written and directed by Douglas McGrath.
The screenplay is based on The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles
Dickens, which originally was published in serial form between March 1838 and September
1839.
Principal cast
Charlie Hunnam ..... Nicholas Nickleby
Jamie Bell ..... Smike
Christopher Plummer ..... Ralph Nickleby
Anne Hathaway ..... Madeline Bray
Tom Courtenay ..... Newman Noggs
Jim Broadbent ..... Wackford Squeers
The film was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or
Comedy. It received the National Board of Review Award for Best Cast, and Romola Garai
was nominated for the Jameson People's Choice Award for Best European Actress at the
European Film Awards
Blizzard (2003 film)
Blizzard is a 2003 Christmas family film directed by LeVar Burton. It stars Brenda Blethyn,
Christopher Plummer, Kevin Pollack, and Whoopi Goldberg. A young girl's aunt tells her the
tale of a young ice skater and an enchanted reindeer.
The film won the Best of the Fest award at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival,
and the DGC Team Award from the Director's Guild of Canada. It premiered at the Cannes
Film Festival on May 15, 2003.
The Gospel of John (2003 film)
The Gospel of John is a 2003 film that is the story of Jesus' life as recounted by the Gospel of
John. It is a motion picture that has been adapted for the screen on a word-for-word basis
from the American Bible Society's Good News Bible. This three-hour epic feature film follows
John's Gospel precisely, without additions to the story from other Gospels, nor omission of
complex passages.
This film was created by a constituency of artists from Canada and the United Kingdom, along
with academic and theological consultants from around the world. The cast was selected
primarily from the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and Soulpepper Theatre Company, as well
as Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal National Theatre. The musical score,
composed by Jeff Danna and created for the film, is partially based on the music of the
Biblical period. The film was produced by Visual Bible International.The film is narrated by
Christopher Plummer and stars Scottish-Peruvian actor Henry Ian Cusick as Jesus. Others
cast include British actors Stuart Bunce (John), Richard Lintern (Leading Pharisee) Scott
Handy (John the Baptist), Lynsey Baxter (Mary Magdalene), and Canadian actors Diego
Matamoros (Nicodemus), Stephen Russell (Pontius Pilate), Daniel Kash (Simon Peter),
Cedric Smith (Caiaphas) and Nancy Palk (Samaritan Woman).
Cold Creek Manor (2003)
Cold Creek Manor is a 2003 American/Canadian psychological thriller film directed by Mike
Figgis. The screenplay by Richard Jefferies focuses on a family terrorized by the former
owner of the rural estate they bought in foreclosure. When documentary filmmaker Cooper
Tilson and his business executive wife Leah decide life in New York City has become more
than they can bear, they and their children Kristen and Jesse move into a decaying mansion
filled with the possessions of the previous family. They befriend local tavern owners Ray and
Ellen Pinski and their daughter Stephanie, who help them purchase a horse. As Cooper
begins to sort through the many documents and family photographs scattered throughout the
house, he decides to commit its history to film.
Cast:
Dennis Quaid as Cooper Tilson
Sharon Stone as Leah Tilson
Stephen Dorff as Dale Massie
Juliette Lewis as Ruby Ferguson
Dana Eskelson as Sheriff Annie Ferguson
Christopher Plummer as Mr. Massie
National Treasure (2004 film)
National Treasure is a 2004 adventure film from the Walt Disney Studios under Walt Disney
Pictures written by Jim Kouf, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Cormac Wibberley, and Marianne
Wibberley, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and directed by Jon Turteltaub. It is the first film in
the National Treasure franchise and stars Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Sean
Bean, Jon Voight, Harvey Keitel, and Christopher Plummer. Cage plays Benjamin Gates, an
historian and amateur cryptologist searching for a lost treasure, once protected by the Knights
Templar and hidden by the Freemasons during the early years of the United States. A coded
map on the back of the Declaration of Independence points to the location of the "national
treasure", but Gates isn't alone in his quest. Whoever can steal the Declaration and decode it
first, will find the greatest treasure in history.
Alexander (2004 film)
Alexander is a 2004 epic film based on the life of Alexander the Great. It is not a remake of
the 1956 film which starred Richard Burton. It was directed by Oliver Stone, with Colin Farrell
in the title role. The film is based mostly on the book Alexander the Great, written in the 1970s
by historian Robin Lane Fox, who gave up his screen credit in return for being allowed to take
part in the epic cavalry charge during the film's recreation of the Battle of Gaugamela.
Christopher Plummer ... Aristotle
Our Fathers (2005 film)
Our Fathers is a 2005 television film directed by Dan Curtis and starring Ted Danson,
Christopher Plummer, Brian Dennehy and Ellen Burstyn. The screenplay was written by
Thomas Michael Donnelly, based on a book of David France. Christopher Plummer as
Cardinal Bernard Law. A dramatized account of the hidden sexual abuse and scandal that
shook the foundation of the Catholic Church, and the characters, events, and policies that
brought the abuse and scandal into existence.
Emmy Awards:
Outstanding Supporting Actor - Miniseries or Television Film (Dennehy lost to Paul
Newman, Empire Falls)
Outstanding Supporting Actor - Miniseries or Television Film (Plummer lost to Paul
Newman, Empire Falls)
Satellite Awards
Outstanding Actor - Miniseries or Television Film (Danson lost to Jonathan Rhys Meyers,
Elvis)
Outstanding Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film (Dennehy lost to
Randy Quaid, Elvis)
Outstanding Television Film (lost to Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical)
Screen Actors Guild (SAG)
Outstanding Male Actor - Miniseries or Television Film (Plummer lost to Paul Newman,
Empire Falls)
Writers Guild of America (WGA)
Best Writing, Long Form - Adapted (Donnelly lost to Christopher Markus and Stephen
McFeely, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers)
Must Love Dogs (2005)
Must Love Dogs is a 2005 romantic comedy film based on the book written by Claire Cook. It
is the third film directed and written by Gary David Goldberg. The film, starring Diane Lane
and John Cusack, was produced on a budget of $30 million. The film focuses on a woman's
struggle with divorce and meeting new people afterward.
Production started on October 12, 2004 and the film was released on July 29, 2005. Critic's
opinions were mostly negative giving the general opinion that the actors were not to blame.
Must Love Dogs took the fifth spot on its opening weekend and has grossed more than $58
million worldwide. The film was released on VHS and DVD on December 20, 2005.
Christopher Plummer as Bill Nolan.
"BROWN PENNY"
by William Butler Yeats
"Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny,
I am looped in the loops of her hair."
I WHISPERED, "I am too young,"
And then, "I am old enough;"
Wherefore I threw a penny
To find out if I might love.
"Go and love, go and love, young man,
If the lady be young and fair."
Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny,
I am looped in the loops of her hair.
O love is the crooked thing,
There is nobody wise enough
To find out all that is in it,
For he would be thinking of love.
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.
Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny,
One cannot begin it too soon.
Syriana (2005)
Syriana is a 2005 geopolitical thriller film written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, and
executive produced by George Clooney, who also stars in the film with an ensemble cast.
Gaghan's screenplay is loosely adapted from Robert Baer's memoir See No Evil. The film
focuses on petroleum politics, and the global influence of the oil industry, whose political,
economic, legal, and social effects are experienced by a Central Intelligence Agency
operative (George Clooney), an energy analyst (Matt Damon), a Washington attorney (Jeffrey
Wright), and a young unemployed Pakistani migrant worker (Mazhar Munir) in an Arab
country in the Persian Gulf. The film also features an extensive supporting cast including
Amanda Peet, Tim Blake Nelson, and Christopher Plummer, as well as Academy Award
winners Chris Cooper and William Hurt.
Christopher Plummer as Dean Whiting, managing partner of Sloan Whiting law firm. Member
of the Committee to Liberate Iran (CLI). Employer of Sydney Hewitt and Bennett Holiday.
The New World (2005 film)
The New World is a 2005 drama/romance film written and directed by Terrence Malick, a
historical adventure depicting the founding of the Jamestown, Virginia settlement and inspired
by the historical figures Captain John Smith and Pocahontas. It is the fourth feature film
written and directed by Malick. The cast includes Colin Farrell, Q'Orianka Kilcher, Christopher
Plummer, Christian Bale, August Schellenberg, Wes Studi, David Thewlis, and Yorick van
Wageningen. The production team includes director of photography Emmanuel Lubezki,
production designer Jack Fisk, costume designer Jacqueline West, and film editor Richard
Chew. The film had an estimated budget of $30 million and was produced by Sarah Green.
The film received numerous awards and nominations for its cinematography, score, Kilcher's
performance, and for overall production.
Christopher Plummer as Captain Christopher Newport
Inside Man (2006)
Inside Man is a 2006 crime-drama film directed by Spike Lee. It stars Denzel Washington,
Clive Owen, Willem Dafoe and Jodie Foster. The film's screenplay was written by Russell
Gewirtz and produced by Brian Grazer. It was released in North America and several
European markets on March 23 and 24, 2006.
The film was shot on location in New York City and features an expansive and diverse
ensemble cast. In addition to being a cerebral crime thriller, the film handles issues of good
and evil in unexpected sources, corruption, prejudice, multiculturalism in United States (and
New York City in particular) post-September 11, 2001, and leaves several interpretations of
right and wrong open to the audience.
The title comes from several meanings of the term "inside man" and therefore is a use of
word play
Christopher Plummer ... Arthur Case.
The Lake House (2006 film)
The Lake House is a 2006 American romantic drama film remake of the Korean motion
picture Il Mare (2000). It was written by David Auburn, directed by Alejandro Agresti, and
stars Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock as Alex Wyler and Kate Forster, respectively an
architect living in 2004 and a doctor living in 2006. The two meet via letters left in a mailbox at
the lake house they have both lived in at separate points in time; they carry on
correspondence over two years, remaining separated by their original difference of two years.
For Alex the time goes from 2004 to 2006. For Kate the time goes from 2006 to 2008.
Christopher Plummer as Simon J. Wyler
A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters
with its former resident, a frustrated architect. They must try to unravel the mystery behind
their extraordinary romance before it's too late.
Man in the Chair (2007)
Man in the Chair is a 2007 independent film written and directed by Michael Schroeder. The
film stars Christopher Plummer, Michael Angarano, M. Emmet Walsh, and Robert
Wagner.The drama stars Christopher Plummer as Flash, a man who longs for the days when
he worked as a crew member on such cinematic masterpieces as Citizen Kane. When Flash
meets teenage film fanatic Cameron Kincaid (played by Michael Angarano), he becomes an
unlikely mentor and agrees to help Cameron make a film to compete in a student competition
where the top prize is a film school scholarship and, for Cameron, a ticket out of his difficult
home life. Flash, who sees his own life drawing to a close recruits the support of his eccentric
friends at the Motion Picture home and helps Cameron make his film and chase his dream.
Cast:
Christopher Plummer as Flash Madden
Michael Angarano as Cameron Kincaid
M. Emmet Walsh as Mickey Hopkins
Robert Wagner as Taylor Moss
Closing the Ring (2007)
Closing the Ring is a film directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Shirley MacLaine,
Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton, Stephen Amell, Neve Campbell, Pete Postlethwaite,
and Brenda Fricker.
The film opens in 1991, with the funeral of a World War II veteran. The man's daughter Marie
(Neve Campbell) delivers the eulogy to a church full of veterans who knew and loved her
father, while her mother Ethel Ann (Shirley MacLaine) is sitting out on the church porch,
smoking and nursing a hangover. When Ethel Ann begins acting strangely, only her friend
Jack (Christopher Plummer) seems to understand why. It quickly emerges that there is a lot
Marie does not know about her mother's past and the true story of her love life.
The film was released in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland on December 28, 2007.
Emotional Arithmetic (2008)
Emotional Arithmetic (2008) is a Canadian/American drama directed by Paolo Barzman,
based on the novel by Matt Cohen, about the emotional consequences for three Holocaust
survivors when they are reunited decades later. The film stars Gabriel Byrne, Roy Dupuis,
Christopher Plummer, Susan Sarandon, and Max von Sydow. It opened at the Toronto Film
Festival, in Toronto, Canada, on September 15, 2007, and was released, in Canada, on April
18, 2008.
When released by Image Entertainment on DVD in the US, on July 22, 2008, the film's title
differed from that of its theatrical release; the US DVD is called Autumn Hearts: A New
Beginning
Emotional Arithmetic focuses primarily on three people who formed a bond in the Drancy
internment camp, where they were imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II: Jakob
Bronski (Sydow), who saw goodness in two orphaned children in the camp, Melanie
(Sarandon) and Christopher (Byrne), and who helped them to survive. Decades after their
release from Drancy, their emotional wounds still affect their lives in different ways when they
meet again.
Now in her 50s, Melanie is stressfully married to David Winters (Plummer), a cold and
grouchy older professor of history, who was once her teacher and who has been unfaithful to
her with other students after their marriage (Marchand). A now-elderly poet, Jakob, having
survived the gulag, has recently been released from a Russian psychiatric hospital (Foundas,
Marchand, Stone). Now an entomologist living in Paris, Christopher is "a non-Jewish Irishman
who had been interred at Drancy by mistake and whose boyhood infatuation with Melanie has
been little dulled by the passing decades" (Foundas).
The three are reunited at a farm in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, where Melanie and
David live with their grown son, Benjamin (Dupuis), a gourmet cook, who prepares a "lifechanging" meal served outside, at a table set up under a tree (Foundas, Marchand, Rocchi,
Stone).
Nominated Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Already Dead (2008)
Already Dead is a 2008 drama film starring Ron Eldard and Christopher Plummer. Filming
took place in Los Angeles, California.
Plot:
Thomas Archer's (Ron Eldard) life changes due to a horrific attack, he is miserable and lost in
life. But when his Doctor (Christopher Plummer) makes an offer to get the revenge Archer
needs, everything goes wrong and people start dying.
Cast:
Ron Eldard ... Thomas Archer
Til Schweiger ... The Man
Patrick Kilpatrick ... The Detective
Geoff Pierson ... Pierce
Marisa Coughlan ... Sarah Archer
Christopher Plummer ... Dr. Heller
The Summit (TV mini-series 2008)
Set on the eve of the next G8 Summit, this miniseries follows a mother's desperate struggle to
bring justice to her murdered son, fallen victim to a corrupt pharmaceutical company.
Caesar and Cleopatra (2009)
Shaw's legendary wit turns political drama into sparkling comedy when veteran strategist
Julius Caesar becomes mentor to the enchanting teenage queen of Roman-occupied Egypt.
Their first encounter under a desert moon will lead to a shift in the course of history, as
Cleopatra gradually overcomes her timidity to become a determined player in the game of
power politics
Stratford Shakespeare Festival's 2008 production of Caesar and Cleopatra comes to the big
screen
Up (2009 film)
Up is a 2009 computer-animated comedy-adventure film produced by Pixar Animation
Studios, distributed by Walt Disney Pictures and presented in Disney Digital 3-D. The film
premiered on May 29, 2009 in North America and opened the 2009 Cannes Film Festival,
becoming the first animated and 3D film to do so.
Up is director Pete Docter's second feature-length film, after Monsters, Inc., and features the
voices of Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, Bob Peterson, and Jordan Nagai. It is Pixar's
tenth feature film and the studio's first to be presented in Disney Digital 3-D, and is
accompanied in theaters by the short film Partly Cloudy
My Dog Tulip (2009)
My Dog Tulip is an American independent animated feature film directed and animated by
Paul Fierlinger. His wife, Sandra Fierlinger, painted the backgrounds and characters.
It is based on the 1956 book by J. R. Ackerley, which tells the story of his relationship with his
German Shepherd Dog. Somewhat unusually for animated features, the film is geared toward
the "adult sensibility" rather than children.
Its public premiere was at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival on June 10, 2009.
The film was made in TVPaint.
The film was awarded Honourable Mention for Best Animated Film at the 2009 Ottawa
International Animation Festival.
In July 2010, distribution rights were acquired by New Yorker Films.
It also serves as the final film appearance of Lynn Redgrave, who passed away on May 2nd,
2010.
9 (2009 film)
9 is a 2009 American computer-animated science fantasy film directed by Shane Acker and
produced by Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov. The film stars Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly,
Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau and Christopher Plummer. It is based on
Acker's Academy Award-nominated 2005 short film of the same name. The screenplay for the
film was written by Pamela Pettler, with casting by Mindy Marin, production design by Robert
St. Pierre and Fred Warter, and art direction by Christophe Vacher.
A rag doll that awakens in a post-apocalyptic future holds the key to humanity's salvation.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is a 2009 fantasy film directed by Terry Gilliam and
written by Gilliam and Charles McKeown. The film follows a traveling theater troupe whose
leader, having made a bet with the Devil, takes audience members through a magical mirror
to explore their imaginations and face them with a choice between good and evil.
Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole, and Tom Waits star in the film, though
Ledger's death one-third of the way through filming caused production to be temporarily
suspended. Ledger's role was recast with Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell
portraying transformations of Ledger's character as he travels through a dream world.
The film made its world premiere during the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, out of competition.
The UK release of the film was scheduled for 6 June 2009 but pushed back to 16 October
2009 due to its successful premiere at Cannes. The film was given a limited release in the US
on Christmas Day 2009 and a nationwide expansion on 8 January 2010.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus was nominated for two Academy Awards in the
categories Best Art Direction (art directed by Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro, and set
decorated by Caroline Smith; lost to Avatar) and Best Costume Design (costumes designed
by Monique Prudhomme; lost to The Young Victoria)
The Last Station (2009)
The Last Station is a 2009 biopic about Count Leo Tolstoy, based on a 1990 biographical
novel of the same name by Jay Parini. It stars Christopher Plummer as Tolstoy and Dame
Helen Mirren as his wife Sophia Tolstaya. The film premiered at the 2009 Telluride Film
Festival.
1910, the last year of the long life of internationally celebrated writer and philosopher Count
Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer), turbulence mounts as the Count's devoted and idealistic
disciples, led by Vladimir Chertkov (Paul Giamatti), maneuver against his more practical and
family-oriented wife (Helen Mirren). The main setting is the Count's country estate of Yasnaya
Polyana. The Count and Countess have a long-standing and loving marriage, but his idealistic
and spiritual side (he is opposed on principle, for example, to private property) is at odds with
her more aristocratic and conventionally religious views.
Contention focuses on a new will that the "Tolstoians" are attempting to persuade the Count
to authorize. It will negate all of his copyrights and put his writings into the public domain,
potentially leaving his family without adequate support after his death. The maneuvering is
seen through the eyes of a brand new secretary to the great man (James McAvoy) who finds
himself having to mediate between the two sides. He takes time out for an intense love affair
with one of the Count's less content followers, Masha (Kerry Condon).
In the end, the Count reluctantly signs the new will and leaves Sophia and their home to travel
to an undisclosed location where he can continue his work undisturbed. She unsuccessfully
attempts suicide. During the journey, however, he falls ill. The film ends with his death near
the Astapovo train station where the Countess is allowed (barely) by his followers to see him
one last time.
Awards:
Helen Mirren won the Best Actress award at the 2009 Rome International Film Festival for her
performance. Mirren was also nominated for Best Actress - Drama at the 67th Golden Globe
Awards as was Christopher Plummer for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. On
December 17, it was announced that Mirren and Plummer had both received nominations for
their performances from the Screen Actors Guild. Mirren and Plummer were also nominated
for Academy Awards for their respective roles, but did not win.
Beginners (2010)
Beginners is a 2010 film written and directed by Mike Mills. It tells the story of Oliver (Ewan
McGregor), a man trying to deal with two stunning revelations from his 75 year-old father Hal
(Christopher Plummer): that Hal is gay and that he is gravely ill. The film is based on the truelife coming out of Mills' father at the age of 75, five years before his death. When Oliver's
(Ewan McGregor) father Hal Fields (Christopher Plummer) loses his wife in his seventies, he
announces to his son that he is gay and now "wants to explore the other side." Four years
later Hal dies of cancer, leaving 38 year old Oliver to struggle with loneliness and a life
informed by the unreliability of love. As he continues to mourn and remember both his parents
Oliver meets Anna (Melanie Laurent) - an exciting and captivating French woman - who
inspires Oliver to move past the limits of the relationships he has known to a more surprising,
more frightening, and finally more intimate love.
Beginners premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, where The Los Angeles
Times heralded it as a "heady, heartfelt film" with a cast who has "a strong sense of
responsibility to their real-world counterparts".
Beginners won the 2011 Gotham Award for Best Feature, shared with The Tree of Life.
Christopher Plummer won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion
Picture 2012, and the Denver Film Critics Society Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics
Association Award, the National Board of Review Award and the Online Film Critics Award, all
for Best Supporting Actor.
The film is nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor (Christopher Plummer)
and is also nominated for the Independent Spirit Awards for Best Director, Best Screenplay,
and Best Supporting Male. On Sunday, January 15th, 2012 Christopher Plummer won a
Golden Globe for his role as supporting actor. On January 24, 2012, Christopher Plummer
was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Priest (2011 film)
Priest is a 2011 American supernatural action film starring Paul Bettany as the title character.
The film, directed by Scott Stewart, is based on the Korean comic of the same name. In an
alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. Christopher Plummer as
Monsignor Orelas.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is an upcoming American film adaptation of the novel of the
same name (orig. Mn som hatar kvinnor) by the late Swedish author/journalist Stieg
Larsson, the first book in his Millennium Trilogy, directed by David Fincher.
Cast:
Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander
Daniel Craig as Mikael Blomkvist
Robin Wright as Erika Berger
Stellan Skarsgrd as Martin Vanger
Christopher Plummer as Henrik Vanger
Barrymore (the movie 2011)
Based on the play by William Luce, Barrymore stars Christopher Plummer as actor John
Barrymore rehearsing for a revival of his Richard III Broadway production. Plummer actually
played the role on Broadway and at the Stratford Festival of Canada back in the mid-1990s
and in 1997 won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.
The film was written and directed by Erik Canuel and according to the trade it could be a
significant player in this year's Oscar season. The film will be premiering at the Toronto
International Film Festival.
A film version of Christopher Plummer in Barrymore will be featured at the 2011 Toronto Film
Festival, with Plummer on tap to discuss the reprise of his 1997 Tony-winning performance as
John Barrymore. Director Eric Canuel captured Plummer in March 2011 during a limited run
of William Luces drama at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto. The revival reunited the star with
director Gene Saks; John Plumpis played Frank, Barrymores unseen prompter/stage
manager.
Plummer portrayed Barrymore at the end of life as a talented but dissolute member of the
famous American acting dynasty. The film version of Barrymore was shot with multiple highdefinition cameras and will be released on HBO Canada, Movie Central and the Movie
Network.
Five Good Years (2011 Drama)
(not yet released)
Young Kentucky coal miner forced into boxing ring to save critically ill mother in fact-based
story.
Storyline:
A young West Virginia coal miner becomes a human punching bag to raise extra money for
his gravely ill mother. When Alex Winton's family situation worsens, he gets up from the mat
and goes "pro" boxer, fighting not for just a shot at the big time, but to save a life. His plight is
taken on by a young cable news reporter, whereas her growing love for him and his selfless
courage inspire her "boy" to emerge as America's favorite son.Written by Bruce Reisman
Director: Bruce Reisman, Writers: Bruce Reisman, Kris Black
Stars: Ryan Kwanten, Christopher Plummer as Seamus (rumored) and Taryn Manning
Filming Locations: West Virginia, USA
Five Good Years (2011) ... Production Company Four Legged Pictures [us]
Filming:
2014 Hector and the Search for Happiness
A psychiatrist searches the globe to find the secret of happiness.
2013 Elsa and Fred
"Elsa and Fred" is the story of two people who, at the end of the road, discover that it's never
too late to love and make dreams come true.
2012 Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Ali's biggest match, his fight with the US government. A film about the politics and hubris
surrounding the Vietnam War and the revenge exacted on America's greatest sportsman of
the 20th century because he refused to fight in that war.
Christopher Plummer Full Filmography on Google Docs

Theatre
Christopher Plummer in Theatre
"The theatre has given me the most joy professionally, because of the live audience. I think
it's desperately important to form a communion with your audience. That's your partner.
Though I admire and take pleasure in movies, they can't replace the stage. Because it's our
medium, the actors' and writers'
"The theater is the highest point of art for us, the actor, because it encompasses our whole
bodies, our feet, our voice, everything we have as equipment is necessary on the stage"
"The theater is not for sissies. It seperates the men from the boys"

Christopher Plummer, born in Toronto, Canada in 1929, was on course to become a concert
pianist until, during his teens, he fell in love with the theatre and acting took the place of music
as his great passion. Plummer rose through the ranks as a stage actor in the 1950s, and
broke into movies in 1958, when Sidney Lumet cast him in Stage Struck.
Christopher Plummer has long been one of the most respected actors in both theatre and
film. In 2008, Alfred A. Knopf published his self-written memoir, In Spite of Myself, which
became one of the most acclaimed autobiographies of recent years. He has also written for
the stage, television, and the concert hall.
Raised in Montreal, Mr. Plummer began his professional career on stage and radio in both
French and English. Legendary actress/director Eva Le Gallienne brought him to New York
for his stage debut in 1954, and he has since starred in celebrated productions on Broadway,
in Canada, and on Londons West End.
He has won two Tony Awards, for the musical Cyrano and for the play Barrymore, and been
nominated seven times further (most recently for King Lear and Inherit the Wind). He has also
been honored with three Drama Desk Awards and the National Arts Club Medal.
As a former leading member of the Royal National Theatre under Lord Laurence Olivier and
the Royal Shakespeare Company under Sir Peter Hall, Mr. Plummer won Londons Evening
Standard Award for Best Actor in Becket. Additionally, he led Canadas Stratford Festival in its
formative years under Sir Tyrone Guthrie and Michael Langham. Though he auditioned for
Tyrone Guthrie for the Stratford Festival 's first season, he was not accepted. He went to New
York in 1954 and worked on Broadway before being invited by Stratford's new artistic director,
Michael Langham , to take on Henry V. With the company he subsequently performed the
leads in Macbeth, Hamlet (the innaugural production of the company's Festival Theatre in
1957), Antony and Cleopatra (opposite Zoe Caldwell ), Cyrano de Bergerac, King Lear (2002,
dir Jonathan Miller, remounted on Broadway), a highly acclaimed reprise of Caesar and
Cleopatra (2008), and The Tempest (2010).
He has also performed in London both at the National Theatre under Laurence Olivier and for
the Royal Shakespeare Company.
His many performances in the U.S. include that of Cyrano in the musical of the same name,
for which he won Tony award in 1974. In 1981, he turned in a stunning Iago to James Earl
Jones' Othello. New York Times critic, Frank Rich, in his anthology Hot Seat, calls Plummer's
acting in the work one of the twenty indelible performances he had seen during his career
with the paper.
Plummer has toured in one-man-shows about Stephen Leacock and John Barrymore. His
solo role in Barrymore earned him a Broadway Tony for best actor in 1997. He reprised the
role in January 2011 in Toronto's Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre at the age of 81.
He was the first performer to receive the Jason Robards Award, in memory of his great friend.
He has also been honored with the Edwin Booth Award and the Sir John Gielgud Quill Award.
In 1968, sanctioned by Elizabeth II, he was invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada
(an honorary knighthood).
An Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts at Juilliard, Mr. Plummer also received the Governor
Generals Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. In 1986, he was inducted into the Theatres
Hall of Fame and in 2000 to Canadas Walk of Fame. In 2002, he was honored by the
National Board of Review with the Career Achievement Award. In 2011 Christopher
Plummer, 81, was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Stratford
Shakespeare Festival. It was the first time the festival had given such an award.
Plummer got his start in the theatre. His very first acting gig was in high school in Canada,
when he played Mr. Darcy in a stage adaptation of Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice a
role he described as a conceited, wonderfully arrogant young man. Plummer said at the
time, he thought he was the biggest star in the world. Critics came to the school play and
gave him solid reviews. I actually had no research to do, he said in an interview with The
Wall Street Journal. I was already arrogant (laughs).
He then did radio up in Montreal, in both English and French. Radio was a great training
ground, he said, and it forced him to have at least 20 voices on tap different voices to play
different characters. That was when radio was tops, Plummer said. So it gave one a great
training for changing your voice or getting accents. (Interestingly, in his coming film, The Girl
With the Dragon Tattoo, Plummer and the actors speak English with a Swedish accent.)
Over the past six decades, Plummer has played numerous stage roles. He is noted for being
a fine Shakespearean actor, and has played everyone from Iago to King Lear to Julius
Caesar. As for his dream role, he said, Ive played most of them already, and some of them
twice. But there was one screen role that got away: Henry II in Becket. Plummer had played
the stage role with the Royal Shakespeare in the U.K. to great acclaim he won the London
Evening Standard award for Best Actor in 1961. When it came time to cast the film
adaptation, he said he was determined to get the part. Then my old friend Peter OToole got
it instead, the son of a gun, he said.
Actor Christopher Plummer is an international star on the stage, having performed in the
theatre all his working life.
An actor should be a mystery - Christopher Plummer
He soon came to be one of the finest Shakespearean actors in Canada, America and
England, performing regularly on Broadway and London's West End.
In Plummers two years of acting with the Canadian Repertory Company, he played seventyfive different roles.
In 1948 Director Malcolm Morley went from the Montreal theatre scene to join the Ottawa
Stage Society. By 1949 the Society was developed into the Canadian Repertory Theatre
Company (CRT) which produced a full season of 35 plays. The CRT opened October 1, 1949
at the old Academie De La Salle in Ottawa with Esther McCracken's play, Quiet Weekend.
The purpose of the CRT was to:
Provide high calibre legitimate stage entertainment

Build an audience that attends for the love of theatre
Provide careers at home for Canada's actresses and actors
Renowned Canadian actor Christopher Plummer joined the Ottawa Stage Society (later
known as Canadian Repertory Theatre) in 1948, and for about three weeks served as
backstage chore boy and occasional actor. At age 19 he gave an excellent performance as
elderly Andrew Crocker-Harris in The Browning Version.
During his two years with the Canadian Repertory Theatre Company, Christopher Plummer
was in about 75 productions. Those included The Infernal Machine in which another future
Canadian star, William Shatner, was featured, and Cymbeline.
Christopher Plummer at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival:
Between 1956 and 1967 Christopher Plummer starred at Canada's STRATFORD FESTIVAL
playing Henry V, Hamlet, Andrew Aguecheek, Mercutio, Leontes, Macbeth, Cyrano de
Bergerac and Marc Antony, as well as other roles. He returned 26 years later on 13 July 1993
to help the festival celebrate its exact 40th anniversary day with a gala one-man show entitled
A Word or Two, Before You Go. Barrymore made its 1996 Canadian debut at Stratford and
Plummer's King Lear was seen in 2002. He played Caesar in the Stratford Festival's Caesar
and Cleopatra, which was also filmed for television in 2009. In 2010 he returned to the
Festival s Theatre playing Prospero in the Tempest.
Christopher Plummer will return to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival to perform his selfcreated show A Word or Two, Before You Go, in the summer of 2012 when the theatre will
stage four new works as part of its 60th season.
His film roles have become increasingly more interesting as time has passed. In the past
year, Plummer has appeared as Hal in Beginners, for which he has just received Golden
Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also brought his Tony
Award-winning Broadway role as John Barrymore to the screen in Barrymore, which played
at the Toronto International Film Festival. He appeared in David Finchers highly anticipated
film, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo as Henrik Vanger, the patriarch of the extended
Vanger family.
But Plummer will always do theatre. Nothing can replace a live audience, he said. Thats
been the case for 3,000 years.
According to him, the publics regard for theatre has changed, and this has had a lamentable
effect on not only the acting profession, but on young peoples appreciation for the arts. I
grew up in an era where the theatre was still absolutely revered and the cinema and the
theatre complemented each other, he said. Now, the theatre its there and always will be
there, of course, but the movies and the video games and all the other ancillary kind of
success industries, as it were, have all got together and kind of obliterated what were all
about. Thats sad because the theatre is the place for language and when language is sort of
ignored, then theres not much hope for any kind of esoteric or artistic life.
Plummer pointed to Shakespeare, Marlowe and Milton. That is the highest we can go, the
theatre, because for an actor, he is spouting words of all the greatest writers of all time, and
they wrote for the theatre, he said.
For his current stage project, Plummer has been working on a one-man show, A Word or
Two. It is an autobiographical journey through literary works that have influenced him since
childhood. In the past, he has performed a brief version of the show at charity fundraisers. He
has since lengthened it and added more substance, he said, and he will perform it at the 2012
Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada. I get a chance to play all sorts of different
creatures from the books and then narrate through that my story as I go, he said. He hopes
that after Stratford, the show will move on to New York for a limited run.
Meanwhile, hes busy promoting this years films, particularly as he is being nominated for
accolades for his performance in Beginners. As busy as he is, at age 82, Plummer shows no
signs of stopping. Theres no such thing as retirement, he said. This is a hobby as well as a
profession, you know? Its a fascinating world and never boring. He brought up the late
English actor, John Gielgud, who died in 2000 at the age of 96. He was looking marvelous,
straight as a ramrod, seemed to have just as much energy as he had before, Plummer said
of Gielgud. No, no, Im determined to pass John (laughs). I want to get to 97 at least.
Christopher Plummer In Theatre:
He played Iago to James Earl Jones' Othello in Shakespeare's "Othello" on Broadway in
1982.
He played Macbeth opposite Glenda Jackson's Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's "Macbeth" on
Broadway in 1988.
The Lark (1955). Drama. Written by Jean Anouilh. Book adapted by Lillian Hellman. Incidental
music by Leonard Bernstein. Scenic Design by Jo Mielziner. Costume Design by Alvin Colt.
Lighting Design by Jo Mielziner. Assistant Scenic Design: John Harvey. Assistant Costume
Design: Frank Spencer. Directed by Joseph Anthony. Longacre Theatre: 17 Nov 1955- 2 Jun
1956 (229 performances). Cast: Julie Harris (as "Joan"), Theodore Bikel (as "Robert de
Beaudricourt"), Boris Karloff (as "Cauchon"), Christopher Plummer (as "Warwick"), Joseph
Wiseman (as "The Inquisitor"), Vincent Beck, Joe Bernard, Charles Bressler, Arthur Burrows,
Michael Conrad (as "A Monk/A Soldier"), Ward Costello (as "Joan's Father"), Roger De Koven
(as "The Promoter"), Joan Elan, Bruce Gordon, Edgar Grower, Jean Hakes, Michael Higgins,
Ann Hillary, Lois Holmes, Milton Katselas, Edward Knight, Elizabeth Lawrence, William
Lennard, Brayton Lewis, Ruth Maynard, Richard Nicholls, Russell Oberlin, Michael Price,
John Reese, Ralph Roberts, Paul Roebling (as "The Dauphin"), Pauline Seim, Rita Vale,
Betty Wilson. Produced by Kermit Bloomgarden.
Play "Lock up your daughters" in Dublin, Ireland
January 31, 2009: Live play "Julius Caesar" (on cinema screens across Canada).
The Dark Is Light Enough (1955). Comedy. Written by Christopher Fry. Directed by Guthrie
McClintic. ANTA Playhouse: 23 Feb 1955- 23 Apr 1955 (69 performances). Cast: Katharine
Cornell (as "Countess Rosmarin Ostenburg"), Tyrone Power (as "Richard Gettner, An
Austrian in the Hungarian rebel army"), Arnold Moss (as "Colonel Janik, A Hungarian rebel
officer"), John Williams (as "Belmann, Member of the Countess, Salon"), Dario Barri, Eva
Condon (as "Bella, A Housekeeper"), Jerome Gardino, Ted Gunther (as "Beppy, A Hungarian
corporal"), Donald Harron, Charles Macaulay, Christopher Plummer (as "Count Peter Zichy, A
Hungarian in the Austrian government"), William Podmore, Sydney Pollack (as "Rusti, a
Hungarian corporal"), Paul Roebling (as "Stefan, Son of the Countess"), Marian Winters.
Produced by Katharine Cornell and Roger L. Stevens. Produced by arrangement with H.M.
Tennent, Ltd.
(May 24,1961) He acted in William Shakespeare's play, "Richard III" in the Royal
Shakespeare Company production in the Stratford Theatre Festival at the Shakespeare
Memorial Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England with Eric Porter and Edith Evans in the
cast. William Gaskill was director.
(April 4,1961) He acted in William Shakespeare's play, "Much Ado About Nothing" in the
Royal Shakespeare Company production in the Stratford Theatre Festival at the Shakespeare
Memorial Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England with Geraldine McEwan in the cast.
Michael Langham was director.
(July 11, 1961) He acted in Jean Anouilh's play, "Becket," in the Stratford Theatre Festival at
the Aldwych Theatre in London, England in the Royal Shakespeare/Stratford-On-Avon
Company production with Eric Porter, Gwen Frangcon-Davies, Peter Jeffrey, Diana Rigg, Ian
Holm, and Roy Dotrice in the cast. Peter Hall was director.
(December 13, 1961-April 1962) He acted in Jean Anouilh's play, "Becket," for the Stratford
Theatre Festival for the Royal Shakespeare Company Theatre at the Globe Theatre in
London, England with Eric Porter, Gwen Frangcon-Davies, Diana Rigg, Philip Voss, Esmond
Knight, and Robert Lang in the cast. Peter Hall was director.
Arturo Ui (1963). Written by Bertolt Brecht (from "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui"). Book
adapted by George Tabori. Incidental music by Jule Styne. Music orchestrated by Ray Ellis.
Production Design by Rouben Ter-Arutunian. Make-up Supervisor: Mitchell Erickson. Lighting
Assistant: Martin Aronstein. Directed by Tony Richardson. Lunt-Fontanne Theatre: 11 Nov
1963 - 16 Nov 1963 (8 performances + 5 previews that began on 6 Nov 1963). Cast:
Christopher Plummer (as "Arturo Ui. Produced by David Merrick. Associate Producer: Neil
Hartley.
(1971) He acted in Jean Giraudoux's play, "Amphitryon 38," in a National Theatre production
at the New Theatre in London, England with Geraldine McEwan, Constance Cummings,
Richard Kay, and Jeanne Watts in the cast. Laurence Olivier was director.
(1971) He acted in Georg Buchner's play, "Danton's Death," in a National Theatre production
at the New Theatre in London, England with Gillian Barge, Louise Purnell, Tom Georgeson,
Charles Kay, Ronald Pickup, and Anna Carteret in the cast. Jonathan Miller was director.
(June 1971-January 1972) He acted in the Repertoire Season in the National Theatre
production in Georg Buchner's play, "Danton's Death;" Adrian Mitchell's play, "Tyger;" Jean
Giraudoux's play, "Amphitryon 38;" Luigi Pirandello's play, "The Rules of the Game;" and
Eugene O'Neill's play, "Long Day's Journey Into Night;" at the New Theatre in London,
England with Tom Baker, Anna Carteret, Constance Cummings, Bill Fraser, Geraldine
McEwan, Laurence Olivier, Ronald Pickup, Joan Plowright, Denis Quilley, Paul Scofield, and
Benjamin Whitrow in the cast.
The Good Doctor (1973). Written by Neil Simon. Adapted and suggested from stories by
Anton Chekhov. Additional lyrics by Neil Simon. Incidental music by Peter Link. Directed by
A.J. Antoon. Eugene O'Neill Theatre: 27 Nov 1973- 25 May 1974 (208 performances + 8
previews that began on 19 Nov 1973). Cast: Rene Auberjonois, Barnard Hughes, Marsha
Mason, Christopher Plummer, Frances Sternhagen. Replacement actor during run: Kathryn
Walker [from ? Feb 1974- ?]. Produced by Emanuel Azenberg and Eugene V. Wolsk.
Christopher Plummer - Broadway
Inherit the Wind [Broadway]
Broadway Revival, 2007
Henry Drummond
King Lear [Broadway]
Lincoln Center Revival, 2004
King Lear of Britain
Barrymore [Broadway]
1997
John Barrymore
No Man's Land [Broadway]
1994
Spooner
Macbeth [Broadway]
Broadway Revival, 1988
Macbeth (a general of the Scottish army)
Othello [Broadway]
1982
Iago
The Good Doctor [Broadway]
1973
Performer
Cyrano [Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1973
Cyrano de Bergerac
The Royal Hunt of the Sun [Broadway]
Broadway Production, 1965
Francisco Pizarro (Commander of the Expedition)
Arturo Ui [Broadway]
1963
Arturo Ui
J.B. [Broadway]
1958
Nickles
Night of the Auk [Broadway]
1956
Lewis Rohmen
The Lark [Broadway]
1955
Warwick
The Dark Is Light Enough [Broadway]
1955
Count Peter Zichy (A Hungarian in the Austrian government)
Home Is the Hero [Broadway]
1954
Manchester Monagham
The Starcross Story [Broadway]
1954
George Phillips
The Legend Library: A video record of theatrical legends

Christopher Plummer
This series of exclusive video interviews is one of the most important initiatives, capturing the
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Awards
Year Category
Production
Winner/Nominee
Drama Desk Award

2007 Outstanding Actor in a Play Inherit the Wind
Nominee
2004 Outstanding Actor in a Play King Lear
Nominee
1997 Outstanding Actor in a Play Barrymore
Winner
1994 Outstanding Actor in a Play No Mans Land
Nominee
1982 Outstanding Actor in a Play Othello
Winner
1973 Outstanding Performance
Winner
Cyrano
Outer Critics Circle

2007 Outstanding Actor in a Play Inherit the Wind
Nominee
1997 Outstanding Actor in a Play Barrymore
Winner
1973 Outstanding Actor in a Play Play
Winner
Theatre World
1955 Theatre World Award
The Dark Is Light Enough Winner
Tony Award
2007 Actor in a Play
Inherit the Wind
Nominee
King Lear
Nominee
Barrymore
Winner
No Mans Land
Nominee
Othello
Nominee
1974 Actor in a Musical
Cyrano
Winner
J.B.
Nominee
Cymbeline, Canadian Repertory Theatre, Ottawa, Ontario, 1948

In Plummers two years of acting with the Canadian Repertory Company, he played seventyfive different roles.
Faulkland, The Rivals, Canadian Repertory Theatre, 1950
Old Mahon, The Playboy of the Western World, Bermuda Repertory Theatre, 1952
Anthony Cavendish, The Royal Family, Bermuda Repertory Theatre, 1952
Ben, The Little Foxes, Bermuda Repertory Theatre, 1952
Duke Manti, The Petrified Forest, Bermuda Repertory Theatre, 1952
Father, George and Margaret, Bermuda Repertory Theatre, 1952

Hector Benbow, Thark, Bermuda Repertory Theatre, 1952
Bernard Kersal, The Constant Wife, Bermuda Repertory Theatre, 1952
(Broadway debut) George Phillips, The Starcross Story, Royale Theatre, 1954.This show
only lasted for one night.
Manchester Monaghan, Home Is the Hero, Booth Theatre, New York City, 1954
Jason, Medea, International Festival, Sarah Bernhardt Theatre, Paris, 1955
Count Peter Zichy, The Dark Is Light Enough, American National Theatre Academy Theatre,
New York City, 1955
Earl of Warwick, The Lark, Longacre Theatre, New York City, 1955 (worked with Theodore
Bikel, who played Captain von Trapp on stage)
Mark Antony, Julius Caesar, American Shakespeare Festival, Stratford, CT, 1955
Ferdinand, The Tempest, American Shakespeare Festival, 1955
Title role, Henry V, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Stratford, Ontario, Canada, then
Assembly Hall Theatre, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1956
Narrator, L'histoire du soldat, City Center Theatre, New York City, 1956
Lewis Rohnen, Night of the Auk, Playhouse Theatre, New York City,1956
Title role, Hamlet, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1957
Sir Andrew Agueckeek, Twelfth Night, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1957
Nickles, J. B., American National Theatre and Academy Theatre, 1958
Leontes, The Winter's Tale, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1958
Bardolph, Henry IV, Part I, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1958
Benedick, Much Ado about Nothing, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1958
Philip the Bastard, King John, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1960
Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1960
(London debut) King Henry II, Becket, Aldwych Theatre, 1961
Benedick, Much Ado about Nothing, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-on- Avon,
England, 1961
Title role, Richard III, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1961
King Henry II, Becket, Aldwych Theatre, then Globe Theatre, London, 1961
Title role, Cyrano de Bergerac, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1962
Title role, Macbeth, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1962
Title role, Arturo Ui, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York City, 1963
Francisco Pizarro, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, American National Theatre and Academy
Theatre, 1965
Mark Antony, Antony and Cleopatra, Stratford Shakespeare Festival,1967
Jupiter and Amphitryon, Amphitryon 38, National Theatre Company, New Theatre, London,
1971
Danton, Danton's Death, National Theatre Company, New Theatre, 1971
Title role, Cyrano (musical), Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, MN, then Palace Theatre, New
York City, 1973 (won his first Tony Award for this performance).
Anton Chekov, The Good Doctor, Eugene O'Neill Theatre, New York City, 1973
Lovers and Madmen, Opera House, Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, 1973
Love and Master Will, Opera House, Kennedy Center, 1975
Edgar, Drinks before Dinner, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public/Newman Theatre,
New York City, 1978
Title role, Henry V, American Shakespeare Festival, 1981
Iago, Othello, Winter Garden Theatre, New York City, 1982
Parade of Stars Playing the Palace, Palace Theatre, New York City,1983
Peccadillo, Royal Poinciana Playhouse, Palm Beach, FL, 1985
Title role, Macbeth, Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City, 1988
Narrator, A Christmas Carol, Hudson Theatre, New York City, 1990
Spooner, No Man's Land, Roundabout Theatre, New York City, 1993 then Criterion Theatre,
New York City, 1994
John Barrymore, Barrymore, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1996 then Music Box Theatre,
New York City, 1997 (won his second Tony Award for this performance).
A Shakespearean Tribute to the Late Sir John Gielgud, Kaye Playhouse, Hunter College of
the City University of New York, New York City, 2000
Appeared in the solo show A Word or Two, Before You Go.
In 2002, he appeared in a lauded production of King Lear, directed by Jonathan Miller. The
production successfully transferred to New York City's Lincoln Center in 2004.
Plummer returned to the stage at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in August 2008 in a
critically acclaimed performance as Julius Caesar in George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and
Cleopatra directed by Tony winner Des McAnuff; this production was videotaped and shown
in high-definition in Canadian cinemas on January 31, 2009 (with an encore presentation on
February 23, 2009) and broadcast on April 4, 2009 on Bravo! in Canada. Plummer once again
returned to the Stratford Festival in the summer of 2010 in The Tempest as the lead
character, Prospero.
Plummer has toured in one-man-shows about Stephen Leacock and John Barrymore. His
solo role in Barrymore earned him a Broadway Tony for best actor in 1997. He reprised the
role in January 2011 in Toronto's Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre at the age of 81.
Christopher Plummer will return to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival to perform his selfcreated show A Word or Two, Before You Go, in the summer of 2012 when the theatre will
stage four new works as part of its 60th season.
Major Tours
Gerard, Nina, U.S. cities, 1953
Title role, Macbeth, U.S. cities, 1988
John Barrymore, Barrymore, U.S. cities, beginning 1997.
Also appeared in The Dark Is Light Enough, U.S. cities.
The reputation of actor Christopher Plummer has been due to his memorable performances
on stage.
Top Five Stage Roles of Best Supporting Actor Christopher Plummer
J.B. (1958): This Canadian-born star has played every conceivable classical role on stages
around the world, but our list will concentrate on five of his seven Tony-nominated
performances. Plummers first Tony nod came in 1958 in a Pulitzer Prize-winning play that
sounds both awesome and odd: Archibald MacLeishs free-verse retelling of the Old
Testament story of Job. Plummer played Nickles, a Satanic figure who urges J.B. (Pat Hingle)
to commit suicide.
Cyrano (1973): Youve seen him warble Edelweiss as Captain von Trapp in The Sound of
Music, but Plummer is also a Best Actor Tony winner for singing the role of Cyrano de
Bergerac in the first of two short-lived musical adaptations of Edmond Rostonds romantic
adventure. Huge chunks of the show have been preserved in an original cast recording that
shows off Plummers flair for lyrics penned by A Clockwork Orange author Anthony Burgess.
Othello (1982): Plummer cemented his reputation as an unparalleled classical actor with a
Tony-nominated performance as Iago opposite the great James Earl Jones. Plummers
chilling portrayal of evil made it clear that Othello, powerfully portrayed by Jones, never stood
a chance. (In his autobiography, Plummer blamed his Tony loss on the fact that his actress
daughter, Amanda, won that year for Agnes of God.)
Barrymore (1997): At age 68, Plummer took on a demanding solo performance as iconic
American actor John Barrymore in William Luces biographical play, bringing a rakish charm
to the stage and earning his second Tony Award. Plummer, a lover of alcohol in his youth,
has written of his obsession with Barrymore, who drank himself to death at 60. The role
proved to be such a good fit that he reprised it to acclaim (at age 81, no less!) at Stratford in
2011.
King Lear (2004): The Mount Everest of Shakespearean roles has claimed plenty of victims
but Plummer scaled its heights in a Tony-nominated performance that was both powerful and
heartbreaking. In a production that filled the huge stage at Lincoln Centers Vivian Beaumont
Theater, Lears old age became the emphasis, making his descent into madness all the more
affecting.
Christopher Plummer playing Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and
playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His
surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays,154 sonnets, two
long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every
major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married
Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith.
Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and
part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the
King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613 at age 49, where he died
three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been
considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, sexuality, religious
beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.
Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were
mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by
the end of the 16th century. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including
Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English
language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and
collaborated with other playwrights.
Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his
lifetime. In 1623, two of his former theatrical colleagues published the First Folio, a collected
edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognised as
Shakespeare's.
Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not
rise to its present heights until the 19th century. The Romantics, in particular, acclaimed
Shakespeare's genius, and the Victorians worshipped Shakespeare with a reverence that
George Bernard Shaw called "bardolatry". In the 20th century, his work was repeatedly
adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays
remain highly popular today and are constantly studied, performed, and reinterpreted in
diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world.
"All the world's a stage,

and all the men and women merely players:
they have their exits and their entrances;
and one man in his time plays many parts..."
As You Like It, Act II, Scene 7, 13942.
It is not known exactly when Shakespeare began writing, but contemporary allusions and
records of performances show that several of his plays were on the London stage by 1592.He
was well enough known in London by then to be attacked in print by the playwright Robert
Greene in his Groats-Worth of Wit:
...there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tiger's heart wrapped in
a Player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you:
and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a
country.
Scholars differ on the exact meaning of these words, but most agree that Greene is accusing
Shakespeare of reaching above his rank in trying to match university-educated writers such
as Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nashe and Greene himself (the "university wits").The
italicised phrase parodying the line "Oh, tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide" from
Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 3, along with the pun "Shake-scene", identifies Shakespeare as
Greene's target. Here Johannes Factotum"Jack of all trades" means a second-rate
tinkerer with the work of others, rather than the more common "universal genius".
Greene's attack is the earliest surviving mention of Shakespeares career in the theatre.
Biographers suggest that his career may have begun any time from the mid-1580s to just
before Greene's remarks. From 1594, Shakespeare's plays were performed only by the Lord
Chamberlain's Men, a company owned by a group of players, including Shakespeare, that
soon became the leading playing company in London.After the death of Queen Elizabeth in
1603, the company was awarded a royal patent by the new king, James I, and changed its
name to the King's Men.
In 1599, a partnership of company members built their own theatre on the south bank of the
River Thames, which they called the Globe. In 1608, the partnership also took over the
Blackfriars indoor theatre. Records of Shakespeare's property purchases and investments
indicate that the company made him a wealthy man. In 1597, he bought the second-largest
house in Stratford, New Place, and in 1605, he invested in a share of the parish tithes in
Stratford.
Some of Shakespeare's plays were published in quarto editions from 1594. By 1598, his
name had become a selling point and began to appear on the title pages. Shakespeare
continued to act in his own and other plays after his success as a playwright. The 1616
edition of Ben Jonson's Works names him on the cast lists for Every Man in His Humour
(1598) and Sejanus His Fall (1603). The absence of his name from the 1605 cast list for
Jonsons Volpone is taken by some scholars as a sign that his acting career was nearing its
end. The First Folio of 1623, however, lists Shakespeare as one of "the Principal Actors in all
these Plays", some of which were first staged after Volpone, although we cannot know for
certain which roles he played. In 1610, John Davies of Hereford wrote that "good Will" played
"kingly" roles. In 1709, Rowe passed down a tradition that Shakespeare played the ghost of
Hamlet's father. Later traditions maintain that he also played Adam in As You Like It and the
Chorus in Henry V, though scholars doubt the sources of the information.
Shakespeare divided his time between London and Stratford during his career. In 1596, the
year before he bought New Place as his family home in Stratford, Shakespeare was living in
the parish of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, north of the River Thames. He moved across the river
to Southwark by 1599, the year his company constructed the Globe Theatre there. By 1604,
he had moved north of the river again, to an area north of St Paul's Cathedral with many fine
houses. There he rented rooms from a French Huguenot called Christopher Mountjoy, a
maker of ladies' wigs and other headgear.
Canonical plays
The plays are here according to the order in which they are given in the First Folio of 1623.
Plays marked with an asterisk (*) are now commonly referred to as the 'romances'. Plays
marked with two asterisks (**) are sometimes referred to as the 'problem plays'.
Comedies
The Tempest *
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Measure for Measure **

The Comedy of Errors
Much Ado About Nothing
Love's Labour's Lost
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Merchant of Venice **
As You Like It
The Taming of the Shrew
All's Well That Ends Well **
Twelfth Night
The Winter's Tale *
Pericles, Prince of Tyre * (not included in the First Folio)
The Two Noble Kinsmen * (not included in the First Folio)
Christopher Plummer as "Prospero" in The Tempest (2010 Stratford Shakespeare Festival)

Histories
King John
Richard II
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, Part 1
Henry VI, Part 2
Henry VI, Part 3
Richard III
Henry VIII
Actor Christopher Plummer Starring in Scene from Shakespeare's "Richard III"

Tragedies
Troilus and Cressida **
Coriolanus
Titus Andronicus
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
Hamlet
King Lear
Othello
Antony and Cleopatra
Cymbeline*
Christopher Plummer as Hamlet, right, in a 1957 Stratford production.

The production also featured Frances Hyland as Ophelia.
Chronology Plays by Shakespeare
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (15891591)
The Taming of the Shrew (15901591)
Henry VI, Part 2 (15901591)
Titus Andronicus (15911592)
Richard III (15921593)
Edward III [26] (1594)
The Comedy of Errors (1594)
Love's Labour's Lost (15941595)
Love's Labour's Won (15951596)
Richard II (1595)
Romeo and Juliet (1595)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)
The Life and Death of King John (1596)
The Merchant of Venice (1596)
Henry IV, Part 1 (15961597)
The Merry Wives of Windsor (15971598)
Henry IV, Part 2 (15961597)
Much Ado About Nothing (15981599)
Henry V (15981599)
Julius Caesar (1599)
As You Like It (15991600)
Hamlet (15991601)
Twelfth Night (1601)
Troilus and Cressida (1602)
Measure for Measure (16031604)

Othello (16031604)
King Lear (16051606)
Timon of Athens (16051606)
Macbeth (1606)
Antony and Cleopatra (1606)
All's Well That Ends Well (16061607)
Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1607)
Coriolanus (1608)
The Winter's Tale (16091610)
Cymbeline (16101611)
The Tempest (16101611)
Cardenio (16121613)
Henry VIII, or All is True (1613)
The Two Noble Kinsmen (1613)
Christopher Plummer in Title Role in Production of Shakespeare's Richard III

Christopher Plummer and his stage performances
Early life
Plummer studied to be a concert pianist, but developed a love for the theatre at an early age,
and began acting in high school. Plummer took up acting after seeing Laurence Olivier's film
Henry V (1944). He travelled by train to gain experience with the Canadian Repertory Theatre
(the CRT) in Ottawa.
Theatre
Christopher Plummer has played many of the great roles in classic repertoire. He did his
apprenticeship with the Canadian Repertory Company (Ottawa, Ontario) from 194850,
appearing in 75 roles, including Cymbeline in 1948 and The Rivals in 1950. He acted with the
Bermuda Repertory Theatre in 1952, appearing in many plays, including The Playboy of the
Western World, The Royal Family, The Little Foxes, The Petrified Forest, and The Constant
Wife.
Broadway
Plummer made his Broadway debut in January 1953 in The Starcross Story, a flop that closed
on opening night. His next Broadway appearance, Home is the Hero, lasted 30 performances
in SeptemberOctober 1954. He appeared in support of Broadway legend Katharine Cornell
and movie legend Tyrone Power in The Dark is Light Enough, which lasted 69 performances
in FebruaryApril 1955. The play also toured several cities, with Plummer serving as Power's
understudy. (In his autobiography, Plummer states that Cornell was his 'sponsor. 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.
After appearing in another flop, Night of the Auk, Plummer was in another hit, Elia Kazan's
production of Archibald Macleish's Pulitzer Prize-winning play J.B., for which he was
nominated for his first Tony Award as Best Actor in Play. (J.B. also won Tonies as Best Play
and for Kazan's direction.)
Christopher Plummer in J.B.

Plummer appeared less frequently on Broadway in the 1960s as he moved from New York to
London. He appeared in the title role in a 1963 production of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible
Rise of Arturo Ui, which flopped, but he had a great success in Peter Schaffer's The Royal
Hunt of the Sun, playing conquistador Francisco Pizarro to David Carradine's Tony Awardnominated Atahuallpa. (In the 1969 film adaptation, Plummer would take the Atahuallpa role.)
From May to June 1973, he appeared on Broadway as the swordsman and poet Cyrano de
Bergerac in Cyrano, a musical adaptation of Edmond Rostand's 1897 play Cyrano de
Bergerac by Anthony Burgess (libretto and lyrics) and Michael J. Lewis (music). For that
performance, Plummer won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and a Drama Desk
Award for Outstanding Performance. Later that year, he played Anton Chekhov in Neil
Simon's adaptation of several Chekhov short stories, The Good Doctor, which was a hit.
In the 1980s, he appeared on Broadway in two Shakespearean tragedies, Othello, playing

Iago to James Earl Jones' Moor, and the title role in Macbeth with Glenda Jackson playing his
lady. His Iago brought him another Tony nomination.
Christopher Plummer and Glenda Jackson in Shakespeare's Macbeth.

The production played at Toronto's O'Keefe Centre in March, 1988.
He appeared with Jason Robards in the 1994 revival of Harold Pinter's No Man's Land and
scored one of his greatest successes in 1997 in Barrymore, which he also toured with after a
successful Broadway run. His turn as John Barrymore brought him his second Tony Award
(this time as Best Actor in Play) and a Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Actor in a Play. He
also was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for his 2004 King Lear and
for a Tony playing Henry Drummond in the 2007 revival of Inherit the Wind.
Christopher Plummer as John Barrymore in the 1996 Stratford Ontario Festival production
Stratford Festival
Plummer made his debut at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival (Stratford, Ontario) in 1956,
playing the title role in Henry V, which subsequently was performed that year at the Edinburgh
Festival ( Edinburgh, Scotland). He played the title role in Hamlet and Sir Andrew Agueckeek
in Twelfth Night at Stratford in 1957. The following year, he played Leontes in The Winter's
Tale, Bardolph, in Henry IV, Part I, and Benedick in Much Ado about Nothing. In 1960, he
played Philip the Bastard in King John and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet. In 1962, he played
the title roles in both Cyrano de Bergerac and Macbeth then returned in 1967 to play Mark
Antony in Antony and Cleopatra.
Christopher Plummer, seen as Anthony in Stratford's 1967 production of Anthony and

Cleopatra
In 2002, he appeared in a lauded production of King Lear, directed by Jonathan Miller. The
production successfully transferred to New York City's Lincoln Center in 2004.
Plummer returned to the stage at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in August 2008 in a
critically acclaimed performance as Julius Caesar in George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and
Cleopatra directed by Tony winner Des McAnuff; this production was videotaped and shown
in high-definition in Canadian cinemas on January 31, 2009 (with an encore presentation on
February 23, 2009) and broadcast on April 4, 2009 on Bravo! in Canada. Plummer once again
returned to the Stratford Festival in the summer of 2010 in The Tempest as the lead
character, Prospero.
England
In April 1961, he appeared as Benedick in Much Ado about Nothing with the Royal
Shakespeare Company at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (Stratford-Upon-Avon,
England). He also appeared with the RSC in May 1961 in the lead role of Richard III. He
made his London debut on June 11, 1961 playing King Henry II in Jean Anouilh's Becket with
the RSC at the Aldwych Theatre, directed by Peter Hall. The production later transferred to
the Globe for a December 1961 to April 1962 run. For his performance, Plummer won the
Evening Standard Award for Best Actor.
Christopher Plummer as King Henry in a scene from the play 'Becket', July 11, 1961
From June 1971 to January 1972, he appeared at the National Theatre, acting in repertory for
the season. The plays he appeared in where Jean Giraudoux's Amphitryon 38 directed by
Laurence Olivier; Georg Bchner's Danton's Death (director Jonathan Miller); Adrian
Mitchell's Tyger; Luigi Pirandello's The Rules of the Game; and Eugene O'Neill' Long Day's
Journey Into Night at the New Theatre in London.
Other venues
Edward Everett Horton hired Plummer to appear as Gerard in the 1953 road show production
of Andre Roussin's Nina, a role originated on Broadway by David Niven in 1951.He appeared
as Jason opposite Dame Judith Anderson in Robinson Jeffers' adaptation of Medea at the
Theatre Sara Bernhardt in Paris in 1955. The American National Theatre and Academy
production, directed by Guthrie McClintic, was part of Le Festival International.
Also in 1955, he played Mark Antony in Julius Caesar and Ferdinand in The Tempest at the
American Shakespeare Festival (Stratford, Connecticut). He returned to the American
Shakespeare Festival in 1981 to play the title role in Henry V.
Plummer appeared in Lovers and Madmen at the Opera House, Kennedy Center,
Washington, D.C. in 1973 and in Love and Master Will at the same venue in 1975. Love and
Master Will consisted of selections from the works of William Shakespeare on the subject of
love, arranged by Plummer. His co-stars were Zoe Caldwell, Bibi Andersson, and Leonard
Nimoy.
He played the part of Edgar in E.L. Doctorow's Drinks before Dinner with the New York
Shakespeare Festival at the Public/Newman Theatre in New York City in 1978.
Other works
Christopher Plummer has also written for the stage, television and the concert-hall. Plummer
and Sir Neville Marriner rearranged Shakespeares Henry V with Sir William Waltons 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, D.C., Cleveland, Ohio, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Toronto, Vancouver
and Halifax. With Marriner he made his Carnegie Hall debut in his own arrangements of
Mendelssohn's incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream.
William Shakespeare quotes such as "To be, or not to be" and "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore
art thou Romeo?" form some of literature's most celebrated lines. Other famous Shakespeare
quotes such as "I 'll not budge an inch", "We have seen better days" ,"A dish fit for the gods"
and the expression it's "Greek to me" have all become catch phrases in modern day speech.
Furthermore, other William Shakespeare quotes such as "to thine own self be true" have
become widely spoken pearls of wisdom.
Christopher Plummer narrating during Henry V: A Musical Scenario After Shakespeare with
the New York Philharmonic.
Awards and Honors

Christopher Plummer Awards and Honors - An Impressive List
There have been many Christopher Plummer awards and honors received in Canada,
America, Great Britain and Austria. Here is the most comprehensive list that you will find of all
the awards that he has won during his long and successful career as an actor:
2012 Academy Award Best Supporting Actor
(award bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
Christopher Plummer wins Oscar for best supporting actor and received a standing ovation as
he won the award at the 2012 Oscars for his role in Beginners
Christopher Plummer may be the oldest Oscar winner ever, but hes not showing any signs of
slowing down.The 82-year-old came on stage Sunday night to accept his best supporting
actor award and stared at the statuette before remarking on how great it looked.Youre only
two years older than me darling, where have you been all of my life? Plummer asked.At birth,
he joked, I was already rehearsing my academy acceptance speech, but it was so long ago
mercifully for you Ive forgotten it.The humor and heartfelt one he delivered Sunday night
wasnt that original version, he said, but, I havent forgotten who to thank.Backstage,
Plummer told reporters of the recognition hes received recently, Its sort of a renewal, it has
recharged me, he said. I hope I can do it for another 10 years at least.
Plummer has enjoyed a vibrant career that has included his first two Oscar nominations in the
past three years. Wearing a navy velvet tuxedo, Plummer thanked fellow nominees, co-stars
and his wife, who he said deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for coming to my rescue every
day of my life.Plummer won for his role in Beginners as Hal Fields, a museum director who
becomes openly gay after his wife of 44 years dies. His loving, final relationship becomes an
inspiration for his son, who struggles with his fathers death and how to find intimacy in a new
relationship.Over more than 50 years in the industry, Plummer has enjoyed varied roles
ranging from Captain Von Trapp in the The Sound of Music to the voice of the villain in
2009s Up. He was nominated for his portrayal of Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station three
years ago. Plummer beat out fellow nominees Kenneth Branagh, Jonah Hill, Nick Nolte and
fellow octogenarian Max von Sydow.He displaces George Burns, who in 1976 was the oldest
nominee to win a supporting actor Oscar at age 80. Jessica Tandy, who won for Driving Miss
Daisy was the oldest winner before Sundays show.Plummers age was a joke for host Billy
Crystal, who told the audience, He may be walking up on stage tonight because apparently
he wanders off.In the end, Plummer did end up onstage and it wasnt a mistake at all. The
audience showered him with applause and Plummers lifelong dream was fulfilled.Not that
hes going to stop acting anytime soon. Im going to drop dead wherever I am, whether its
onstage or on a set, Plummer said after his win.
Golden Globes 2012 Best Supporting Actor In A Motion Picture
Christopher Plummer won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for
his role in 'Beginners."
When Christopher Plummer accepted his supporting actor Golden Globe award Sunday for
his role in writer-director Mike Mills' film Beginners, he modestly apologized to his fellow
nominees for his win. But dont be fooled by the 82-year-olds humility. That was humor,
Plummer said backstage to reporters. More seriously, though, he said: I always like to salute
my competitors No one is better than the other. Its just that someone has to win.In
Beginners, Plummer portrays Hal, an elderly widow who comes out as gay to his son,
played by Ewan McGregor. Asked about the demonstrations both anti-gay and pro-gay
taking place just outside the Beverly Hilton, Plummer called for tolerance. Gay [people] are
human beings I know there is an awful lot of anti-gay feeling at this moment and I abhor it,
he said.Speaking on his role, Plummer noted: It was such an understated, human kind of
character that I havent played for a long time. Ive never had such a fun time.
Critics Choice Movie Award 2012

Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer for Beginners
2011 Christopher Plummer honoured by Stratford festival

Canadian stage and screen were in Toronto on Sept. 26 2011 at a gala in Toronto. to
celebrate the career of actor Christopher Plummer.Plummer, 81, was presented with a
Lifetime Achievement Award by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. It is the first time the
festival has given such an award.Plummer played his first big role at Stratford as Henry V
in 1956 and played frequently with the company as his Broadway and film acting career took
off. He had a critically acclaimed role in its 2008 production of Caesar and Cleopatra, followed
by a turn as Prospero in The Tempest in 2010.
Palm Beach International Film Festival (2007)

Plummer won this award for Best Actor for his role as "Flash Madden" in Man in the Chair.
Sir John Gielgud Award for Excellence in the Dramatic Arts, aka The Golden Quill (2006)
Here is Christopher Plummer during the awards ceremony, right.
Three New York Drama Desk Awards

These awards are for actors stage performances wherever they are presented, not only
Broadway productions, but Off-Broadway as well.
LePrix Marc LEscarbot
Presented to Plummer for his performance in French as Moliere.
The Theatre World Award
This award is presented to six actors and six actresses for their debut performances on the
stage. The first awards were a framed certificate, then a plaque and then the bronze Janus
Award that can be seen here. Christopher Plummer won this award for his performance in
The Dark is Light Enough by Christopher Fry.
Shakespeare Society Medal/Shakespeare with Music (2004)
Christopher Plummer performed Shakespeare with Music with composer Michael Lankester
for the Shakespeare Company. It was his way of saying thank you to the Society. He read
excerpts from various Shakespeare plays accompanied by music. Plummer said You just
have to speak over the orchestra, which consisted of seven musicians conducted by
Lankester himself. During the evening the award was presented to Plummer in recognition of
his contribution to the world of Shakespeare.
Christopher Plummer Fellowship Awards (2002)
Robards Award (Roundabout Theater NYC) (2002)

Plummer was awarded the first Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theater. Robards
died of cancer in December 2000. Plummer was the first performer to be presented with the
Jason Robards Award for Excellence in memory of his late great friend.He was a close friend
to Robards, and his co-star in Roundabouts No Mans Land (1994). The prize was given to
him by the Roundabout Theatre. Julie Andrews who played Maria alongside Plummer in The
Sound of Music, was there to congratulate him on the honor.
Governor Generals Lifetime Achievement Award (2001)

Christopher Plummer received this award for a lifetime of achievements and for his
contributions to his country and to the world. In addressing Plummer, the Governor General,
Adrienne Clarkson, referred to his versatility, elegance and powerful male beauty. Plummer
can be seen here wearing his commemorative medal,accompanied by his wife, Elaine.
Canadas Walk of Fame (1999)

This award recognised Christopher Plummer as a Canadian citizen who has excelled in the
area of performing arts. He had his star added to the rest of the collection that appear along a
sidewalk in Torontos Theatre District. Plummers star can be found on the corner of King
Street West and Duncan Street.
The Canadian Walk of Fame has been described as one of the most prestigious awards in
Canada. Plummer was eligible for this award because he was born in Canada, had spent his
formative and creative years in Canada and had a minimum of ten years in his profession.
Kennedy Center Honors (1999)
Christopher Plummer hosted this event by honouring Victor Borge.
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award (1999)for 'The Insider'.

Boston Society of Film Critics Award (1999) for 'The Insider'.
Chicago Jefferson Award (1999) for 'The Insider'.
The National Arts Club of America (1999)
Plummer was awarded its gold medal for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts.
The Common Wealth Award (1998)
Otherwise known as The Common Wealth Awards of Distinguished Service which were
created by Ralph Hayes to reward the best of human performance worldwide, and to provide
an incentive for people to make even more contributions to the world.
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play (1997) as leading role in
'Barrymore'.
The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre are more commonly known as the
Tony Awards and recognize achievement in live American theater. They are considered to be
Americas highest honor in the theater.
Outer Critics Circle Awards (1997)

Plummer was given this award for his outstanding performance as an actor.
Edwin Booth Lifetime Achievement Award (1997)
Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance(1994) for his work on the Family
Channel's Madeline children's series.
Connecticut Lifetime Achievement Award (1994)
This award was created to honor living artists.
Shakespeare Theater at the Folger, Will Award (1990)
Plummer was presented with this award for his "major contribution to classical theater in
America".
Austrias Golden Badge of Honor.
Salzburgs Chalice of Honour

New York Public Library - Literary Lion (1988)
Plummer was described as a lion of the performing arts.
American Theatres Hall of Fame (1986)
Christopher Plummer was unable to receive this award, so his daughter, Amanda Plummer
(photo below), accepted it for him.
Maple Leaf Distinguished Artist Award (1982)

Christopher Plummer accepted the first annual Maple Leaf Distinguished Artist Award and
said Im proud to be the first damned gypsy to have stolen this award. He went on to say that
Canadian actors once had to go to London or to New York to be recognized. He thought it
was terrific for Canadians to recognize their own people.
Genie Award for Best Actor in a leading role (1980)
Originally known as The Canadian Film Awards, also known as the Etrog Awards, because it
was sculptor Sorel Etrog who designed the award. Plummer was given this award for being
the best actor in Canadian cinema. It was presented to him by the Academy of Canadian
Cinema and Television for his performance in Murder by Decree.
Emmy Award as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series (1976) for Arthur Hailey's 'The
Moneychangers'.
Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical (1974) for his lead role in 'Cyrano'.
The Distinguished Performance Award (1974)
This award was originally known as the Delia Austrian Medal and is the oldest and most
exclusive theatrical honor in North America.
Companion of the Order of Canada (1968)
This is the country's highest civilian honor and one which required the approval of the
sovereign for Plummers services to drama. Christopher Plummer was invested with this
Order by Governor-General Roland Michener in Quebec City. Those who are made
companions of the order are given a six-leaf pendant attached to a red and white ribbon. On
the medal is engraved the motto, Desiderantes Meliorem Patriam (Hebrews 12: 16) which
means They desired a better country.
London Evening Standard Award as Best Actor (1961) King Henry II in the stage play
'Becket'.
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts at New Yorks Juilliard School (1993)
Honorary doctorates from University of Toronto (2003)
Honorary doctorates from Ryerson University (2002)
Ryerson awards its highest honor to those who have made extraordinary contributions in
Canadaor to the enhancement of Canadian culture or society. Plummer was made a
Doctor of Letters.
Honorary doctorates from McGill University (2006)
When Christopher Plummer received his doctorate, he told the five hundred students that his
family had links with McGill University. His great aunt Maude Abbott was one of the earliest
women to graduate from McGill. He then went on to explain that his connection with the
university was that he flunked his exam!
Honorary doctorates from University of Western Ontario (2004)

Plummer received an honorary doctorate of laws degree and gained a new title of doctor. He
said that he had never been to college because he didnt have the time and has regretted this
all his life. It wasnt the university degree that he missed , but the whole experience of going
to college.
Honorary doctorates from University of Ottawa (2007)
At the ceremony, Christopher Plummer urged graduates in his speech to throw all caution to
the wind, storm the Bastille but for Gods sake, wait for me because Im coming with you.
Honorary doctorates from University of Guelph (2009

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Christopher Plummer Introduction

Wife: Patricia Audrey Lewis. Married from 1962-1967

Wife: Tammy Grimes. Married from 1956-1960

Education: Jennings Private School

Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer, actor (b at Toronto 13 Dec 1929). Christopher

Elaine Taylor Biography

Elaine Taylor (actress)

Christopher Plummer and Elaine Taylor

How Elaine and Christopher Met:

Source: Alex Witchel. "Christopher Plummer's legendary life, wonderfully retold."

Christopher Plummer quotes

More Christopher Plummer Quotes:

Christopher Plummer - Boston Globe interview (31 January 2010)

Ma femme, la belle Elaine.

Joanna Pettet as Ulrike von Seydlitz-Gabler

Glynis Johns - Mrs Squeezum

The Happy Prince (film)

Malcolm McDowell - Maj. John Gresham (Capt. Dennis Stanhope)

Richard Johnson - Major Lyle

Directed by Mats Arehn

Cast overview, first billed only:

Eyewitness (1981 film)

The Boy in Blue (1986 film)

Spearfield's Daughter (TV mini-series 1986)

Starring Nadine Van der Velde, Christopher Plummer

Christopher Plummer ... Ernst Kestner

Crackerjack (1994 film)

Rene Ohashi won Best Cinematography in TV Drama

Possessed (2000 film)

Edward Woodward ... Vic Green

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film)

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Drama Desk Award

2004 Outstanding Actor in a Play King Lear

1997 Outstanding Actor in a Play Barrymore

1994 Outstanding Actor in a Play No Mans Land

1982 Outstanding Actor in a Play Othello

1973 Outstanding Performance

Outer Critics Circle

1997 Outstanding Actor in a Play Barrymore

1973 Outstanding Actor in a Play Play

The Dark Is Light Enough Winner

Inherit the Wind

2004 Actor in a Play

1997 Actor in a Play

1994 Actor in a Play

1982 Actor in a Play

1974 Actor in a Musical

1959 Actor in a Play

Cymbeline, Canadian Repertory Theatre, Ottawa, Ontario, 1948

Father, George and Margaret, Bermuda Repertory Theatre, 1952

Christopher Plummer playing Shakespeare

"All the world's a stage,

Measure for Measure **

Christopher Plummer as "Prospero" in The Tempest (2010 Stratford Shakespeare Festival)

Actor Christopher Plummer Starring in Scene from Shakespeare's "Richard III"

Christopher Plummer as Hamlet, right, in a 1957 Stratford production.

Measure for Measure (16031604)