Christopher Plummer

Christopher Plummer CC
Plummer in 2014
Born	Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer (1929-12-13)December 13, 1929 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died	February 5, 2021(2021-02-05) (aged 91) Weston, Connecticut, U.S.
Nationality	Canadian
Education	High School of Montreal
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1946–2021
Works	List of his works
Spouses	Tammy Grimes ​ ​ (m. 1956; div. 1960)​ Patricia Lewis ​ ​ (m. 1962; div. 1967)​ Elaine Taylor ​ ​ (m. 1970)​
Children	Amanda (With Grimes)
Awards	See Awards

Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer CC (December 13, 1929 – February 5, 2021) was a Canadian actor. His career began in 1946. He first acted on Broadway in 1954. His stage roles as Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano (1974) and John Barrymore in Barrymore (1997) won him Tony Awards.

After being on stage, he acted in his first movie Stage Struck (1958). He had his very first main role that same year in Wind Across the Everglades. He became well known for playing Captain Georg von Trapp in the musical movie The Sound of Music (1965).^[1] Plummer played many historical people in movies, including Commodus in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in Waterloo (1970), Rudyard Kipling in The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999), Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station (2009), Kaiser Wilhelm II in The Exception (2016), and J. Paul Getty in All the Money in the World (2017).

Plummer narrated the animated series Madeline. He voiced Charles Muntz in the Disney Pixar movie Up (2009). His final roles before his death were as Harlan Thrombey in Knives Out (2019), Frank Pitsenbarger in The Last Full Measure (2020) and Howard Lawson in the television drama Departure (2019–2021).

Plummer won many awards for his work. He won an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe Award,^[2] a Screen Actors Guild Award,^[3] and a British Academy Film Award.^[4] He was one of the few actors and only Canadian to have won the Triple Crown of Acting.^[5][6] He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Beginners (2010). At the time, at age 82 he was the oldest person to win an acting Oscar. He was nominated again for an Academy Award for All the Money in the World. This made him the oldest person to be nominated for an acting Oscar at age 88.^[7]

1. ↑ Abel, Judy (January 31, 2010). "At 80, Plummer has arrived at his 'Station'". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on February 16, 2021. Retrieved July 25, 2012.
2. ↑ "Christopher Plummer". Golden Globes. Archived from the original on October 26, 2020. Retrieved February 6, 2021.
3. ↑ "Christopher Plummer nabs SAG Award for 'Beginners'". CTVNews. January 30, 2012. Archived from the original on April 1, 2021. Retrieved February 6, 2021.
4. ↑ "Film in 2012". BAFTA Awards. Supporting Actor. Archived from the original on May 29, 2018. Retrieved February 6, 2021.
5. ↑ Zak, Dan (February 27, 2017). "Only 22 people had ever accomplished this feat. Now, Viola Davis joins the club". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on March 1, 2017. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
6. ↑ "Award winning Canadian actor Christopher Plummer dies at the age of 91". Lsureveille. Retrieved July 26, 2021.
7. ↑ "The Oscar Elders: 3 Octogenarians Make Academy Award History". NPR. Archived from the original on February 16, 2021. Retrieved May 20, 2020.