He was awarded the 1999 Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Lead Actor in a Play for "Barrymore" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Christopher Plummer Biography, News, Videos, Movie Reviews, Footage, Quotes | Christopher Plummer (born Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer, 13.12.1929)Christopher Plummer is a Canadian actor. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Award-winning actor Christopher Plummer was born on December 13, 1929, in Toronto. It's the last thing they think of when it comes to funding; it's way down at the bottom of the list. Plummer was enig kind. 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 grew older and settled down into a comfortable marriage with his third wife Elaine. Christopher Plummer (born December 13, 1929) is a Canadian film, television and stage … He finally won his first Oscar in 2011 for his work in Beginners (2010), co-starring Ewan McGregor, with Plummer playing a gay father coming out in his later years. Plummer was raised in Senneville, Quebec, by Montreal.Until the 2009 Academy Awards were announced, it could be said about Plummer that he was the finest actor of the post-World War II period to fail to get an Academy Award. É pai da atriz Amanda Plummer. Technically it's simply wonderful, what goes on now. Was actually born on December 13, 1929, although most publications usually state his birthday as December 13, 1927. He and his first wife, Tony-winner Tammy Grimes, are the parents of Tony-winning actress Amanda Plummer. Born Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer on December 13, 1929, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Christopher Plummer is regarded as one of the top actors of his generation. He has admitted that he looked down on the role and the movie at the time. He was awarded the CC (Companion of the Order of Canada) in the 1968 Queen's Honours List for his services to drama; Canada's highest civilian honor. As T.S. [on cell-phones ringing during a live performance] The only thing to do is to say something like "I'll get it." What's happened to the legitimate theatre, the writing? He is the only child of Isabella Mary (Abbott), a secretary to the Dean of Sciences at McGill University, and John Orme Plummer, who sold securities and stocks. https://www.biography.com/actor/christopher-plummer. Christopher Plummer, in full Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer, (born December 13, 1929, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Canadian actor known for his interpretations of classical roles on the stage as well as his starring and supporting roles in motion pictures. Christopher Plummer es un veterano actor canadiense de teatro, televisión y cine, mejor conocido por interpretar al capitán Georg Von Trapp en la aclamada película musical La novicia rebelde. 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 "Captain Von Trapp" in the atomic bomb-strength blockbuster The Sound of Music (1965) (a film he publicly despised until softening his stance in his autobiography "In Spite of Me" (2008)), his later film work includes such outstanding performances as the best cinema Sherlock Holmes -- other than Basil Rathbone -- in Murder by Decree (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). [May 2007]. Is one of 115 people invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in 2007. (In 1968, he was awarded Companion of the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honor and one which required the approval of the sovereign, Queen Elizabeth II.) Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer (Toronto, 13 dicembre 1929) è un attore canadese. He made his Broadway appearance in The Starcross Story in January 1953. Television has become a little glossy. It's a gift. Throughout his career, he has passed up blockbuster movies for smaller films. Plummer earned two more Tony Award nominations for these productions. Christopher Plummer was born on December, 13, 1929 at Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His first role was in the 1958 movie Stage Struck . Academy Award-winning actor Christopher Walken is known for a wide array of screen roles, including ‘The Deer Hunter’ and ‘A View to a Kill.’, Donald Sutherland is an actor known for his roles in movies and TV shows such as 'The Dirty Dozen,' 'M*A*S*H,' 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'The Hunger Games. [observation, 2014] I'm thrilled to be around still, and I don't want to blow my horn, but I've done so many more parts than Barrymore ever got a chance to do. He debuted the title role in Henry V at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 1956.Plummer started his film career in 1958. And, of course, he makes you not act and inhabit the role, like it's a competition. Somebody said, "Are you going to the Tonys?" You were bound to learn your lines without bumping into each other, which we did a lot of. Before long, Plummer returned to the stage. His on-screen wife, played by Helen Mirren, was also nominated. [on being asked whether he had made his peace with his most famous film. It separates the men from the boys. Christopher Lloyd is an American actor best known for his role as the eccentric Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown in the successful 'Back to the Future' film franchise. Continuing to be in demand, Plummer took on a variety of projects from the 2004 action adventure tale National Treasure with Nicolas Cage, to the 2005 romantic comedy Must Love Dogs with Diane Lane. I'm too vague to measure any other way. V roku 2011 získal Oscara za vedľajšiu úlohu vo filme Beginners. She gave him his first New York stage role in 1954's The Starcross Story with Mary Astor. 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. Some of his most endearing film roles were in 'Mary Poppins,' 'Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang,' 'Dick Tracy' and 'Night at the Museum.'. Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer (* 13. december 1929, Toronto, Kanada) je kanadský herec. Frank Gehry is a Canadian-American architect known for postmodern designs, including the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Christopher Plummer nació el 13 de diciembre de 1927 en Toronto, Ontario, Canadá. Longtime resident of Fairfield County's Weston, Connecticut. Raised and educated in Montréal, Plummer apprenticed with the Montréal 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. It was an adventure. It's all musicals, and not particularly terrific musicals. The others in chronological order are. A bit later, Plummer picked up his first Emmy Award for the 1976 miniseries The Moneychangers, based on the novel by Arthur Hailey. Two years later, the first paragraph of his obituary was written when the 82-year-old Plummer became the oldest person in Academy history to win an Oscar. He found time to return to the stage, appearing on Broadway in William Shakespeare's King Lear in 2004 and Jerome Lawrence's Inherit the Wind in 2007, opposite Brian Dennehy. One of Plummer's most powerful film performances occurred in the 1990s. The PEGOT winner broke new ground for Latinos in entertainment. On the small screen, he appeared in such projects as the hit miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983) and as a narrator for the children's movie The Velveteen Rabbit (1985). Fiatalkora. 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. Christopher Plummer is a Canadian actor. At age 88, he became the oldest person ever to be nominated for an acting Academy Award for, Is one of four consecutive Oscar winners in the Best Supporting Actor category whose name begins with Chris, the other actors being, Is one of nine actors to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, Emmy and Tony); the others in chronological order are, In 2012, he became the 21st performer to have received the Triple Crown of Acting: the 1974 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical ("Cyrano") and the 1997 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play ("Barrymore"), the 1977 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series (, Has played the role of King Herod in two adaptations made forty years apart: the miniseries. As he clutched his statuette, the debonaire thespian addressed it thusly: "You're only two years older than me darling, where have you been all of my life? Has worked with both Obi-Wan Kenobis on film. [to his Oscar statuette at the 2012 Academy Awards] You're only two years older than me, darling. This page uses content from the English Wikipedia.The article or pieces of the original article was at Christopher Plummer.The list of authors can be seen in the page history.As with 20th Century Studios Wiki, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License. First he worked with, Has played Christian in a television production of "Cyrano de Bergerac", opposite. "Like another great stage actor, Richard Burton, the younger Plummer failed to connect with the screen in a way that would make him a star. Plummer has also won Tony Awards for his work in Cyrano (1973) and Barrymore (1997) and later won a supporting actor Oscar for the 2010 film Beginners. Publicity Listings Classically trained as a stage actor, Plummer was discovered by English producer and director Eva Le Gallienne. Christopher Plummer (Toronto, Ontario, 1929. december 13. Has appeared in two films have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant": As of 2018, has appeared in four films that were nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award winners: Is one of 14 actors to have won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Award, Golden Globe Award and SAG Award for the same performance. His great-uncle (paternal grandmother's brother) was F.B. He grew up with the Abbotts as his parents divorced when he was very young. Christopher Plummer (ᖃᓪᓗᓈᑎᑐᑦ: Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer) aime les adana. In addition to his film and stage work, he has also lent his distinctively rich voice to several animated films, including the 2009 blockbuster hit Up. He and his father did not meet until Christopher was age 17. Giovane attore shakesperiano, si avvicinò al cinema nella seconda metà degli anni cinquanta, interpretando ruoli minori. His career began to take off with roles on stage and screen. He was classically trained as a stage actor and headlined for Britain's National Theatre, making his film debut in 1958's Stage Struck. He appeared on Broadway as Iago in Othello (1982) and then as the title character in Macbeth (1988). Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don't think life has very much meaning. I think it had to do with spending four years in New Zealand. I'm not interested anymore. Although he spends the majority of his time in the United States, he remains a Canadian citizen.His daughter, with actress Tammy Grimes, is actress Amanda Plummer. 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. [why he prefers playing evil characters] The devil is more interesting than God. If he were English rather than Canadian, he would have been knighted long ago.