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Plummer in 1964. Christopher Plummer (1929–2021) was a Canadian film, television and stage actor. On stage, Plummer's most notable roles were that of Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano (1974) and as John Barrymore in Barrymore. He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for these two roles.
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer [6] was born on December 13, 1929, [7] in Toronto, Ontario. [6] He was the only child of John Orme Plummer (1894–1977), who sold stocks and other securities, [8] and Isabella Mary Abbott, who worked as secretary to the Dean of Sciences at McGill University, and was the granddaughter of Canadian prime minister Sir John Abbott.
Christopher Plummer is a Canadian actor known for his diverse roles on stage and screen. Plummer is one of the few actors to have received the Triple Crown of Acting, having won the Academy Award, Emmy Award and Tony Award. [1] Other awards Plummer has received include a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors ...
Christopher Plummer, the Canadian-born Shakespearean actor, died peacefully at his home in Connecticut Friday morning. The Oscar winner was best known for his roles in “The Sound of Music ...
It’s some kind of paradox — he probably thought of it as a joke played on him by the gods — that Christopher Plummer, the impishly irascible, velvet-voiced star of stage and screen who died ...
The Canadian actor Christopher Plummer took the lead role as Hamlet and earned an Emmy Award nomination for his performance. Also appearing were Robert Shaw as Claudius, Alec Clunes as Polonius, June Tobin as Gertrude, Jo Maxwell-Muller as Ophelia and Michael Caine, in his only Shakespearean performance, as Horatio.
The film was nominated for eight Genie Awards in 1980, of which it won five, [5] including Best Achievement in Direction (Bob Clark), Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Geneviève Bujold) and Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Christopher Plummer).
And I think [Christopher Plummer] was one of those actors that had that gift,” the actress, 49, exclusively told Us Weekly while promoting season 2 of Departure. “When he spoke on screen.