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Christopher Plummer (full name Arthur Christopher
Orme Plummer, Order of Canada|CC) (born Friday,
December 13,
1929#Note|1) is a
Canada|Canadian theatrical, film and television
actor. He is one of his country's most prominent
and respected actors and viewed by most as one of
the world's finest stage performers, particularly
in roles from the pen of William Shakespeare. His
international popularity began with his role as
Georg Ritter von Trapp|Captain von Trapp in the
1965 film The Sound of Music, costarring Julie
Andrews.

Plummer was born in Toronto, Ontario. The
great-grandson of former Canadian Prime Minister
John Joseph Caldwell Abbott|Sir John Abbott,
following his parents' divorce he moved with his
mother to live in Senneville, Quebec, near
Montreal. He studied to be a concert pianist but
developed a love of the theater at an early age
and began acting in High School. He went on to
train for the theater with the Canadian Repertory
Company in Ottawa.

Christopher Plummer began his professional career
in Canadian theater, radio in the late 1940s,
performing in both the English and French
languages.  In 1951 he made is TV debut on
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC in a
production of
Othellohttp://www.christopher-plummer.com/astor327
.html.  He made his Broadway debut in 1954 and has
performed numerous roles at the Stratford Festival
of Canada and London's West End.

From his marriage to Tony Award winning actress
Tammy Grimes he has a daughter, Amanda Plummer,
who is an actress in her own right.

Plummer was made a Companion of the Order of
Canada in 1968. He was given an honorary Doctorate
of Fine Arts from New York's Juilliard School and
is the recipient of a lifetime achievement award
by the Governor-General of Canada. In 1986, he was
inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame
and into Canada's Walk of Fame in 1997. In an
article written about his portrayal of King Lear
at the Stratford Festival of Canada|Stratford
Festival, the New York Times called him "the most
accomplished classical actor in North America." 

In 2001, he reunited with Julie Andrews in the
television adaptation of On Golden Pond. The
telecast was presented live, a rarity in
television today, and was highly publicized in the
weeks before the event. In 2002, he starred with
Julie Andrews and Charlotte Church in A Royal
Christmas, one of the largest holiday
extravaganzas ever produced for the stage. Plummer
is still a sought-after performer in his late
70's, and age has not diminished his workload or
his energy. 

Christopher Plummer also performed the voice of
Pedestrian voice #40 in the 2004 video game Grand
Theft Auto: San Andreas.

==Note==
Some sources give Plummer's year of birth as 1927.

==Partial list of Awards==
* Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theatre
(2002)
* Edwin Booth Lifetime Achievement Award (1997)
* Emmy Award (1994), for Outstanding Voice-Over
Performance for his work on the Family Channel's
Madeline children's series 
* Emmy Award (1976), as Outstanding Lead Actor in
a Limited Series for  Arthur Hailey's The
Moneychangers
* Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play
(1997), for his lead role in Barrymore
* Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical
(1974), for his lead role in Cyrano
* Genie Award (1980), for Best Performance by an
Actor in a Leading Role in Murder by Decree
*London Evening Standard Award as Best Actor
(1961), for his portrayal of King Henry II of
England|Henry II in the stage play, Becket 

==Filmography==
*National Treasure (film)|National Treasure (2004)
*Cold Creek Manor (2003)
*Gospel of John (movie)|Gospel of John  (2003)
(voice) 
*Blizzard (movie)|Blizzard  (2003)
*Tma  (2002)
*Nicholas Nickleby (movie)|Nicholas Nickleby 
(2002)
*Agent of Influence (2002) (TV)
*Ararat (movie)|Ararat (2002)
*Night Flight  (2002) (TV)
*Full Disclosure (movie)|Full Disclosure  (2001)
(V)
*A Beautiful Mind  (2001)
*Blackheart  (2001)
*Lucky Break  (2001)
*On Golden Pond  (2001) (TV)
*Leo's Journey  (2001) (TV)
*Star Trek: Klingon Academy  (2000) (VG)
*Dracula 2000  (2000)
*American Tragedy (movie)|American Tragedy  (2000)
(TV)
*Possessed (movie)|Possessed  (2000) (TV)
*The Dinosaur Hunter  (2000)
*Nuremberg (TV mini series)|Nuremberg  (2000) TV
mini series
*The Insider  (1999)
*Madeline: Lost in Paris  (1999) (voice) 
*Celebrate the Century  (1999) TV mini series
*The Clown at Midnight  (1998)
*The First Christmas  (1998)
*Hidden Agenda  (1998) 
*Winchell  (1998) (TV)
*Babes in Toyland (1997 movie)|Babes in Toyland
(1997) (voice)
*The Arrow  (1997) (TV)
*The Conspiracy of Fear  (1996) (TV)
*Skeletons (movie)|Skeletons  (1996)
*We the Jury  (1996) (TV)
*Twelve Monkeys  (1995)
*Harrison Bergeron (movie)|Harrison Bergeron 
(1995) (TV)
*Dolores Claiborne (movie)|Dolores Claiborne 
(1995)
*Crackerjack (movie)|Crackerjack  (1994)
*Wolf (movie)|Wolf  (1994)
*The Little Crooked Christmas Tree  (1993) (TV)
(voice) 
*Sidney Sheldon's A Stranger in the Mirror  (1993)
(TV)
*Liar's Edge  (1992) (TV)
*Malcolm X (movie)|Malcolm X  (1992) 
*Impolite  (1992)
*Secrets (movie)|Secrets  (1992I) (TV)
*The First Circle  (1991) (TV)
*Berlin Lady  (1991) TV mini series
*Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country  (1991)
*Rock-A-Doodle  (1991) (voice) 
*A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz
 (1991) (TV)
*Young Catherine  (1991) (TV)
*Firehead  (1991)
*Counterstrike (TV series)|Counterstrike  (1990)
TV series 
*Madeline (TV series)|Madeline  (1990) TV series
(voice) 
*Money (movie)|Money  (1990)
*Red Blooded American Girl  (1990)
*A Ghost in Monte Carlo  (1990) (TV)
*Where the Heart Is  (1990)
*Kingsgate  (1989)
*Mindfield  (1989)
*Nabokov on Kafka  (1989) (TV) 
*Souvenir  (1989)
*I Love N.Y.   (1988) 
*Shadow Dancing  (1988)
*Gandahar  (1988) (voice) 
*The Gnomes' Great Adventure  (1987) 
*The Man Who Planted Trees  (1987) 
*A Hazard of Hearts  (1987) (TV)
*Dragnet (movie)|Dragnet  (1987)
*Nosferatu a Venezia  (1986)
*Spearfield's Daughter  (1986) TV mini series
*An American Tail  (1986) (voice)
*The Boss' Wife  (1986)
*Crossings (movie)|Crossings  (1986) TV mini
series
*The Boy in Blue  (1986)
*David the Gnome  (1985) TV Series
*Játszani kell  (1985)
*Ordeal by Innocence  (1984)
*Terror in the Aisles  (1984)
*Highpoint (movie)|Highpoint  (1984)
*Dreamscape  (1984)
*Prototype (movie)|Prototype  (1983) (TV) 
*The Thorn Birds (TV mini series)|The Thorn Birds 
(1983) TV mini series
*The Scarlet and the Black  (1983) (TV)
*Little Gloria... Happy at Last  (1982) (TV) 
*The Amateur  (1981)
*Eyewitness  (1981)
*Dial M for Murder (TV)   (1981) 
*When the Circus Came to Town  (1981) (TV)
*Somewhere in Time (movie)|Somewhere in Time 
(1980)
*The Shadow Box  (1980) (TV)
*Desperate Voyage  (1980) (TV)
*Hanover Street  (1979)
*Riel  (1979) (TV)
*Murder by Decree  (1979)
*Starcrash  (1979)
*International Velvet  (1978)
*The Silent Partner  (1978)
*Silver Blaze  (1977) (TV)
*The Disappearance  (1977)
*Uppdraget  (1977)
*Jesus of Nazareth (movie)|Jesus of Nazareth 
(1977) TV mini series 
*Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers  (1976)  TV
mini series 
*Aces High  (1976)
*Sarajevski atentat  (1975)
*The Man Who Would Be King  (1975)
*Conduct Unbecoming  (1975)
*The Return of the Pink Panther  (1975)
*The Spiral Staircase  (1975)
*The Happy Prince  (1974)
*After the Fall  (1974) (TV)
*The Pyx  (1973)
*Don Juan in Hell  (1971) (TV) 
*Waterloo (movie)|Waterloo  (1970)
*Lock Up Your Daughters|Lock Up Your Daughters!  
(1969)
*The Royal Hunt of the Sun  (1969)
*Battle of Britain (movie)|Battle of Britain 
(1969)
*Nobody Runs Forever  (1968)
*Oedipus the King  (1967)
*La Fantastique histoire vraie d'Eddie Chapman 
(1967)
*The Night of the Generals  (1967)
*Inside Daisy Clover  (1966)
*The Sound of Music  (1965)
*Hamlet (1964 movie)|Hamlet  (1964/III) (TV)
*The Fall of the Roman Empire (movie)| The Fall of
the Roman Empire  (1964)
*Cyrano de Bergerac (1962 movie)|Cyrano de
Bergerac  (1962) (TV)
*Playdate  (1961) TV Series 
*A Doll's House (movie)|A Doll's House  (1959)
(TV)
*Wind Across the Everglades  (1958)
*Stage Struck  (1958)

==External link==
*imdb name|id=0001626|name=Christopher Plummer