Biography of christopher plummer
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Christopher Plummer
Arthur Christopher Orme PlummerCC (December 13, – February 5, ) was a Canadian actor. His career began in He first acted on Broadway in His stage roles as Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano () and John Barrymore in Barrymore () won him Tony Awards.
After being on stage, he acted in his first movie Stage Struck (). 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 movieThe Sound of Music ().[1] Plummer played many historical people in movies, including Commodus in The Fall of the Roman Empire (), Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in Waterloo (), Rudyard Kipling in The Man Who Would Be King (), Mike Wallace in The Insider (), Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station (), Kaiser Wilhelm II in The Exception (), and J. Paul Getty in All the Money in the World ().
Plummer narrated the animated seriesMadeline. He voiced Charles Muntz in
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Christopher Plummer
Who Was Christopher Plummer?
Award-winning actor Christopher Plummer was classically trained as a stage actor and headlined for Britain's National Theatre, making his film debut in 's Stage Struck. Throughout his career, he has passed up kassasuccé movies for smaller films. Nonetheless, he is probably best known as Captain Von Trapp in the musical movie The Sound of Music. Plummer has also won Tony Awards for his work in Cyrano () and Barrymore () and later won a supporting actor Oscar for the film Beginners.
Quick Facts
FULL NAME: Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer
BORN: December 13,
DIED: February 5,
BIRTHPLACE: Toronto, Ontario
SPOUSES: Tammy Grimes, Patricia Lewis, and Elaine Taylor
CHILDREN: Amanda
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Sagittarius
Early Life and Career
Born Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer on December 13, , in Toronto, Plummer grew up in Montreal as an only child and his mother exposed him to the arts at an early age, taking him to see man
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“As T.S. Eliot measures his life with coffee spoons, so I measure mine by the plays I’ve been in,” Christopher Plummer writes in his memoir, In Spite of Myself: A Memoir.
The legendary actor, forever immortalized as Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music, also appears to have measured life in the number of barstools he sat on. Clocking in at an overwhelming pages, In Spite of Myself is a garrulous travelogue of drunken revelry, exotic locales and Shakespeare’s prose. Plummer is a man with a head filled with such beautiful verse that he gets carried away—often leaving the reader scratching her head about what exactly he is talking about.
But within the verbosity and pomposity—call him a second string Errol Flynn, except with a conscience—are numerous brilliant passages that reveal an expert listener and a citizen of the world who knew everyone, and deemed many of them better than he. As Plummer wrote after working with the gentlemanly, humble Boris Karloff: “It came to me li