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Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer CC (December 13, 1929 – February 5, 2021) was a Canadian actor. His career spanned seven decades, gaining him recognition for his performances in film, stage, and television. His accolades included an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards, making him the only Canadian recipient of the "Triple Crown of Acting". He also received a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award as well as a nomination for a Grammy Award.



Plummer made his Broadway debut in the 1954 play The Starcross Story. He received two Tony Awards, one for Best Actor in a Musical playing Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano (1974) and the other for Best Actor in a Play portraying John Barrymore in Barrymore (1997). His other Tony-nominated roles include in J.B. (1959), Othello (1982), No Man's Land (1994), King Lear (2004), and Inherit the Wind (2007).

Plummer made his film debut in Stage Struck (1958), landed his first starring role that same year in Wind Across the Everglades. He became a household name as a result of his role as Captain Georg von Trapp in the musical film The Sound of Music (1965) alongside Julie Andrews. During this time he starred in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Waterloo (1970), and The Man Who Would Be King (1975).

Plummer received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Beginners (2011); he was nominated for the same award for his performances in The Last Station (2009) and All the Money in the World (2017). His other notable films include The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), Somewhere in Time (1980), Malcolm X (1992), The Insider (1999), A Beautiful Mind (2001), The New World (2005), Syriana (2005), Inside Man (2006), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), and Knives Out (2019).

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STAGE CREDITS

Inherit the Wind Inherit the Wind
[Broadway]
Broadway Revival, 2007
Henry Drummond
King Lear 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
Othello
[Broadway]
1982
Iago
Drinks Before Dinner
[Off-Broadway]
1978
Edgar
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
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
Home Is the Hero
[Broadway]
1954
Manchester Monagham
The Starcross Story
[Broadway]
1954
George Phillips

Productions

The Legacy Codes
 
[Off-Broadway, 2003]
Sound Designer

Movies

Johnny Belinda
[ 1958 ] Dr. Jack Pelletier
Little Moon of Alban
[ 1958 ] Kenneth Boyd
Stage Struck
[ 1958 ] Joe Sheridan
Wind Across the Everglades
[ 1958 ] Walt Murdock
A Doll's House
[ 1959 ] Torvald Helmer
The Philadelphia Story
[ 1959 ] Mike Connor
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
[ 1960 ] Captain Brassbound
Time Remembered
[ 1961 ] Prince Albert
Cyrano De Bergerac
[ 1962 ] Cyrano de Bergerac
Hamlet at Elsinore
[ 1964 ] Hamlet
The Fall of the Roman Empire
[ 1964 ] Commodus
Inside Daisy Clover
[ 1965 ] Raymond Swan
The Sound of Music
[ 1965 ] Captain Georg von Trapp
Triple Cross
[ 1966 ] Eddie Chapman
The Night of the Generals
[ 1967 ] Field Marshal Rommel
Oedipus the King
[ 1968 ] Oedipus
The High Commissioner
[ 1968 ] Sir James Quentin
The Secret of Michelangelo
[ 1968 ] Narrator
Battle of Britain
[ 1969 ] Squadron Leader Colin Harvey
Lock Up Your Daughters!
[ 1969 ] Lord Foppington
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
[ 1969 ] Atahuallpa
Waterloo
[ 1970 ] Arthur Wellesley - Duke of Wellington
The Pyx
[ 1973 ] Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson
After the Fall
[ 1974 ] Quentin
Conduct Unbecoming
[ 1975 ] Maj. Alastair Wimbourne
The Assassination at Sarajevo
[ 1975 ] Archduke Ferdinand
The Man Who Would Be King
[ 1975 ] Rudyard Kipling
The Return of the Pink Panther
[ 1975 ] Sir Charles Litton
The Spiral Staircase
[ 1975 ] Dr. Sherman
Aces High
[ 1976 ] Sinclair
The Assignment
[ 1977 ] Kaptain Behounek
The Disappearance
[ 1977 ] Deverell
International Velvet
[ 1978 ] John Seaton
Starcrash
[ 1978 ] The Emperor
The Silent Partner
[ 1978 ] Reikle
Hanover Street
[ 1979 ] Paul Sellinger
Murder by Decree
[ 1979 ] Sherlock Holmes
Riel
[ 1979 ] Prime Minister John A. Macdonald
Desperate Voyage
[ 1980 ] Burrifous
Somewhere in Time
[ 1980 ] W. F. Robinson
The Shadow Box
[ 1980 ] Brian
Dial 'M' for Murder
[ 1981 ] Tony Wendice
Eyewitness
[ 1981 ] Joseph
The Amateur
[ 1981 ] Professor Lakos
When the Circus Came to Town
[ 1981 ] Duke Royal
Highpoint
[ 1982 ] James Hatcher
Prototype
[ 1983 ] Dr. Carl Forrester
The Scarlet and the Black
[ 1983 ] Col. Herbert Kappler
Dreamscape
[ 1984 ] Bob Blair
Lily in Love
[ 1984 ] Fitzroy Wynn / Roberto Terranova
Ordeal by Innocence
[ 1984 ] Leo Argyle
An American Tail
[ 1986 ] Henri - Voice
The Boss' Wife
[ 1986 ] Mr. Roalvang
The Boy in Blue
[ 1986 ] Knox
The Tin Soldier
[ 1986 ] Narrator - Voice
A Hazard of Hearts
[ 1987 ] Sir Giles Staverley
Dragnet
[ 1987 ] Whirley
I Love N.Y.
[ 1987 ] John Robertson Yeats
The Gnomes' Great Adventure
[ 1987 ] Narrator
The Nightingale
[ 1987 ] Narrator - Voice
Shadow Dancing
[ 1988 ] Edmund Beaumont
Souvenir
[ 1988 ] Ernst Kestner
Vampire in Venice
[ 1988 ] Professor Paris Catalano
Kingsgate
[ 1989 ]
Mindfield
[ 1989 ] Doctor Satorius
Nabokov on Kafka
[ 1989 ] Vladimir Nabokov
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
[ 1990 ] The Grand Duke Ivan
Red Blooded American Girl
[ 1990 ] Dr. John Alcore
Where the Heart Is
[ 1990 ] Shitty
A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz
[ 1991 ] Alfred Stieglitz
Firehead
[ 1991 ] Vaughn
Money
[ 1991 ] Martin Yahl
Rock-A-Doodle
[ 1991 ] Grand Duke - Voice
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
[ 1991 ] Chang
The First Circle
[ 1991 ] Victor Abakumov
Young Catherine
[ 1991 ] Sir Charles
Liar's Edge
[ 1992 ] Harry Weldon
Malcolm X
[ 1992 ] Chaplain Gill
Secrets
[ 1992 ] Mel Wexler
A Stranger in the Mirror
[ 1993 ] Clifton Lawrence
Crackerjack
[ 1994 ] Ivan Getz
Felidae
[ 1994 ] Joker
Wolf
[ 1994 ] Raymond Alden
Dolores Claiborne
[ 1995 ] Detective John Mackey
Harrison Bergeron
[ 1995 ] John Klaxon
Twelve Monkeys
[ 1995 ] Dr. Goines
We the Jury
[ 1996 ] Wilfred Fransiscus
Babes in Toyland
[ 1997 ] Barnaby Crookedman - Voice
Skeletons
[ 1997 ] Reverend Carlyle
Blackheart
[ 1998 ] Holmes
The Clown at Midnight
[ 1998 ] Mr. Caruthers
The First Christmas
[ 1998 ] Narrator - Voice
Winchell
[ 1998 ] Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hidden Agenda
[ 1999 ] Ulrich Steiner
Madeline: Lost in Paris
[ 1999 ] Narrator - Voice
The Insider
[ 1999 ] Mike Wallace
American Tragedy
[ 2000 ] F. Lee Bailey
Dracula 2001
[ 2000 ] Abraham Van Helsing
Possessed
[ 2000 ] Archbishop Hume
The Dinosaur Hunter
[ 2000 ] Hump Hinton
A Beautiful Mind
[ 2001 ] Dr. Rosen
Lucky Break
[ 2001 ] Graham Mortimer
On Golden Pond
[ 2001 ] Norman Thayer
Agent of Influence
[ 2002 ] John Watkins
Ararat
[ 2002 ] David
Nicholas Nickleby
[ 2002 ] Ralph Nickleby
Night Flight
[ 2002 ] 'Flash' Harry Peters
Blizzard
[ 2003 ] Santa Claus
Cold Creek Manor
[ 2003 ] Mr. Massie
The Visual Bible: The Gospel of John
[ 2003 ] Narrator - Voice
Alexander
[ 2004 ] Aristotle
National Treasure
[ 2004 ] John Adams Gates
Four Minutes
[ 2005 ] Archie Mason
Heidi
[ 2005 ] Grandfather - Voice
Must Love Dogs
[ 2005 ] Bill
Our Fathers
[ 2005 ] Cardinal Bernard Law
Syriana
[ 2005 ] Dean Whiting
The New World
[ 2005 ] Captain Newport
Inside Man
[ 2006 ] Arthur Case
The Lake House
[ 2006 ] Simon Wyler
Already Dead
[ 2007 ] Dr. Heller
Closing the Ring
[ 2007 ] Jack
Emotional Arithmetic
[ 2007 ] David Winters
Man in the Chair
[ 2007 ] Flash Madden
Caesar and Cleopatra
[ 2009 ] Caesar
My Dog Tulip
[ 2009 ] J.R. Ackerley - Voice
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
[ 2009 ] Doctor Parnassus
The Last Station
[ 2009 ] Leo Tolstoy
Up
[ 2009 ] Charles Muntz - Voice
Beginners
[ 2010 ] Hal
Making a Scene
[ 2010 ]
The Tempest
[ 2010 ] Prospero
Barrymore
[ 2011 ] John Barrymore
Priest
[ 2011 ] Monsignor Orelas
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
[ 2011 ] Henrik Vanger
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
[ 2013 ] John Harlan
The Legend of Sarila
[ 2013 ] Croolik - Voice
Elsa & Fred
[ 2014 ] Fred
Hector and the Search for Happiness
[ 2014 ] Professor Coreman
The Forger
[ 2014 ] Joseph Cutter
Danny Collins
[ 2015 ] Frank Grubman
Pixies
[ 2015 ] Pixie King - Voice
Remember
[ 2015 ] Zev Guttman
Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom
[ 2016 ] Dr. West - Voice
The Exception
[ 2016 ] Kaiser Wilhelm II
All the Money in the World
[ 2017 ] J. Paul Getty
Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom
[ 2017 ] Dr. West - Voice
The Man Who Invented Christmas
[ 2017 ] Scrooge
The Star
[ 2017 ] Herod - Voice
Boundaries
[ 2018 ] Jack
Cliffs of Freedom
[ 2019 ] Thanasi
Knives Out
[ 2019 ] Harlan Thrombey
The Last Full Measure
[ 2019 ] Frank Pitsenbarger
Heroes of the Golden Masks
[ 2022 ] Rizzo - Voice

TV Shows

Little Women
Dick
Kraft Theatre
Robert Carr
Producers' Showcase
Christian de Neuvillette
Appointment with Adventure
Roger Manning
Eye on New York
Lewis Rohnen
General Electric Theater
Walter Shelley
The Alcoa Hour
Bruce Quealy
Our American Heritage
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Sunday Showcase
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The DuPont Show of the Month
[ 1957-1961 ] Rudolf Rassendyll, King Rudolf, Sir Miles Hendon
BBC Play of the Month
Don Juan
Witness to Yesterday
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers
Roscoe Heyward
Jesus of Nazareth
Herod Antipas
The Sunday Drama
Sherlock Holmes
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
Reggie Vanderbilt
The Thorn Birds
Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese
David the Gnome
Narrator
Crossings
Armand DeVilliers
Spearfield's Daughter
Lord Jack Cruze
The Cosby Show
Jonathan Lawrence
Berlin Lady
Wilhem Speer
Counterstrike
[ 1990-1993 ] Alexander Addington
Madeline
[ 1990-1994 ] Narrator
The New Adventures of Madeline
Narrator
The Arrow
George Hees
Nuremberg
Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe
Odd Job Jack
Magnus the Maker
The Summit
P.J. Aimes
Nostalgia Critic
Grand Duke, Captain Von Trapp
That Fellow in the Coat
Tulip's Owner
Departure
[ 2019-2021 ] Howard Lawson

Awards and Nominations


winner
Theatre World Awards - 2014 - John Willis Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre

Christopher Plummer

Drama Desk Awards - 2007 - Outstanding Actor in a Play

Christopher Plummer, Inherit the Wind

Outer Critics Circle Awards - 2007 - Outstanding Actor in a Play

Christopher Plummer, Inherit the Wind

Tony Awards - 2007 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play

Christopher Plummer, Inherit the Wind


winner
Drama Desk Awards - 2004 - Outstanding Actor - Play

Christopher Plummer, King Lear

Tony Awards - 2004 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play

Christopher Plummer, King Lear


winner
Drama Desk Awards - 1997 - Outstanding Actor - Play

Christopher Plummer, Barrymore


winner
Outer Critics Circle Awards - 1997 - Best Actor - Play

Christopher Plummer, Barrymore


winner
Tony Awards - 1997 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play

Christopher Plummer, Barrymore

Drama Desk Awards - 1994 - Outstanding Actor - Play

Christopher Plummer, No Man's Land

Tony Awards - 1994 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play

Christopher Plummer , No Man's Land

Drama Desk Awards - 1982 - Outstanding Actor in a Play

Christopher Plummer, Othello

Tony Awards - 1982 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Actor in a Play

Christopher Plummer, Othello


winner
Drama League Awards - 1974 - Distinguished Performance Award

Christopher Plummer


winner
Tony Awards - 1974 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical

Christopher Plummer, Cyrano


winner
Drama Desk Awards - 1973 - Outstanding Performance

Christopher Plummer, Cyrano


winner
Outer Critics Circle Awards - 1973 - Outstanding Actor in a Play

Christopher PlummerPlay

Tony Awards - 1959 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play

Christopher Plummer, J. B.


winner
Theatre World Awards - 1955 - Performance

Christopher Plummer, The Dark is Light Enough

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How many Broadway shows has Christopher Plummer been in?

Christopher Plummer has appeared on Broadway in 16 shows.

How many West End shows has Christopher Plummer been in?

Christopher Plummer has not appeared in the West End.

What awards has Christopher Plummer been nominated for?

John Willis Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre (Theatre World Awards), Outstanding Actor in a Play (Drama Desk Awards) for Inherit the Wind, Outstanding Actor in a Play (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Inherit the Wind, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play (Tony Awards) for Inherit the Wind, Outstanding Actor - Play (Drama Desk Awards) for King Lear, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play (Tony Awards) for King Lear, Outstanding Actor - Play (Drama Desk Awards) for Barrymore, Best Actor - Play (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Barrymore, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play (Tony Awards) for Barrymore, Outstanding Actor - Play (Drama Desk Awards) for No Man's Land, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play (Tony Awards) for No Man's Land, Outstanding Actor in a Play (Drama Desk Awards) for Othello, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Actor in a Play (Tony Awards) for Othello, Distinguished Performance Award (Drama League Awards), Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical (Tony Awards) for Cyrano, Outstanding Performance (Drama Desk Awards) for Cyrano, Outstanding Actor in a Play (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Play, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play (Tony Awards) for J. B. and Performance (Theatre World Awards) for The Dark is Light Enough.

What awards has Christopher Plummer won?

Christopher Plummer has received several prestigious awards throughout his career, including the John Willis Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre (Theatre World Awards). He won the Outstanding Actor - Play award (Drama Desk Awards) for both King Lear and Barrymore. Additionally, he received the Best Actor - Play award (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Barrymore, and the Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play (Tony Awards) for the same role. He also earned the Distinguished Performance Award (Drama League Awards) and the Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical (Tony Awards) for Cyrano. Other accolades include Outstanding Performance (Drama Desk Awards) for Cyrano, Outstanding Actor in a Play (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Playand, and Performance (Theatre World Awards) for The Dark is Light Enough.

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