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  Christopher Plummer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Christopher Plummer, CC (born Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer on December 13, 1929 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian theatrical, film and television actor.
Plummer was born in Toronto, Ontario, the great-grandson of former Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Abbott.
Christopher Plummer as the Klingon General Chang in the 1991 film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
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 Christopher Plummer - Northern Stars
At the time Christopher was born his parents were no longer living together and were in fact in the process of ending their marriage.
Christopher's mother who had been a nurse in France during the First World War, was the head of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild and took Christopher to plays, ballets, operas and other cultural events.
Christopher Plummer had built a solid career and so in his 30s turned his attention to his private life hoping to find as much happiness there as he had in his profession.
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 Christopher Plummer - Memory Alpha - A Wikia wiki
Christopher Plummer (born 13 December 1929) is a highly-respected veteran actor who played General Chang in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
Plummer also co-starred with Frank Overton on an episode of The Alcoa Hour and with fellow Klingon player John Colicos in 1962 Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Cyrano de Bergerac, with Plummer starring in the title role which he would reprise for the stage in the 1970s.
Plummer has worked with TNG guest actor Robin Gammell on at least three occasions: in the 1973 film The Pyx, the 1984 film Highpoint (with Saul Rubinek), and the 1997 TV movie The Arrow.
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 CBC.ca - Idols and Icons - Christopher Plummer
The actor's mother came from a prominent Montreal family (her grandfather was Canada’s third Prime Minister, Sir John Abbott), and she exposed her son to the opera, theatre, and popular music at an early age.
Plummer’s childhood was thus an accelerated apprenticeship; by the time he was 17, he had already made his professional debut on Broadway.
Then, in 2002, Plummer returned to his home and native land for a highly anticipated turn as King Lear at the Stratford Festival.
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 CBC: Life And Times
Plummer has established himself on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the finest actors of his generation.
The Life and Times of Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages is an intimate portrait of the acting legend and features interviews with Julie Andrews, Ron Howard, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, William Shatner, Dr. Jonathan Miller (director of Stratford's King Lear) and Oscar Peterson.
Plummer was born into an affluent, socially prominent Montreal family.
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 christopherplummer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Christopher had a "love-hate" relationship with the classic movie, which he once reportedly labelled "The Sound Of Mucas".
Christopher had always dreamed of being a concert pianist and during breaks in location filming in Salzburg, he would entertain the cast by playing the piano.
Christopher was also reunited with Julie Andrews for the CBS TV adaption of "On Golden Pond" (2000).
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 Plummer, Arthur Christopher Orme
Raised and educated in Montréal, Plummer apprenticed with the Montréal Repertory Theatre and made his professional debut in 1948 with Ottawa's Stage Society, performing over 100 roles with its successor, the Canadian Repertory Theatre.
Plummer is also a skilled narrator, heard on everything from cartoons to the soundtrack for the 1994 Barnes Art Exhibit in Toronto.
Plummer, who became a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1968, has received many honours and awards for his work, including the National Arts Club of America gold medal for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts (1999).
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 Christopher Plummer
Christopher Plummer is a longtime film actor, best known for singing "Edelweiss" as Baron von Trapp in The Sound of Music, with Julie Andrews and a fleet of singing children, but ironically Plummer abhors that film, and derisively refers to it as The Sound of Mucus.
Plummer's parents were divorced mere weeks after he was born, and the boy was raised by his mother and several aunts.
By his mid-20s, Plummer was well-known in theater circles as a heavy drinker and suave ladies' man, a reputation he still relishes.
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 Christopher Plummer Height - Plummer's
Granted Plummer is in his late 70's these days he's down to 5ft 10ish, but 30 years ago for sure he was close to 6ft.
Plummer is no more than five nine and was never any taller.
Plummer is more like 5'9" look at him next to Shatner in Star Trek IV they are about the same height.
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 The Christopher Plummer Picture Pages
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer (later known simply as Christopher Plummer) was born on December 13, 1929, in Toronto, Canada, to Isabella Mary Abbott (head of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild) and John Plummer (secretary to the Dean of Science at McGill University).
Christopher Plummer, who had his first important role in the student production of “Pride and Punishment,” sharpened his artistic skills with the Canadian Repertory Theatre in Ottawa.
Plummer then played Sherlock Holmes in the TV film Silver Blaze (1977), acted with Elliott Gould in The Silent Partner (1978) and reprised his Sherlock Holmes role in the movie Murder by Decree (1979, won a Genie award).
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 Christopher Newport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Christopher Newport University, in Newport News, Virginia (itself rumored to be named after Captain Newport), is named in honor of him.
In 2005-2006 playwright Steven Breese wrote Actus Fidei, (An Act of Faith), based on the life and times of Captain Christopher Newport, as part of the Jamestown 2007 Festival.
Christopher Newport is portrayed by actor Christopher Plummer in Terrence Malick's poëtic movie "The New World".
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 The National Arts Club - About the Artists
Plummer was born in Toronto in 1929 and grew up in Montreal.
Plummer as King Lear in 2004 for which he received his 6th Tony nomination as lead actor.
Plummer’s first screen role in Sidney Lumet’s Stage Struck (1957) he has appeared in over 80 films, including the Academy Award-winning The Sound of Music, The Man Who Would Be King, Murder By Decree, The Pink Panther, Twelve Monkeys, The Insider, and Full Disclosure.
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 Christopher Plummer: The Canadian Holmes
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer was born in Toronto on Friday, December 13, 1927 into an affluent, culturally aware and well-educated family.
His father John Plummer was a secretary to the Dean of Science at McGill University, while his mother, Isabella Mary (Abbott) Plummer was the granddaughter of Primeminister John Abbott.
Plummer and his wife Elaine Taylor currently reside in a house they remodeled and redecorated in Weston, Connecticut.
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 Christopher Plummer
Born in Toronto, Christopher Plummer has gone on to a stage and film career in Canada, the U.S. and overseas.
But of course, the role Plummer will always be most fondly remembered for will be as Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1965), although it was only his fourth film.
In 1968, Plummer was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada and in 1997 was awarded The Edwin Booth Lifetime Achievement Award.
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 Christopher Plummer @ Filmbug
Christopher Plummer, who has recently completed his Tony-nominated performance as King Lear in Sir Jonathan Miller's much lauded production at Lincoln Center, has enjoyed 50 years as one of the English-speaking theatre's most distinguished actors and as a veteran of international renown in over 100 motion pictures.
Plummer's eclectic career on screen began when Sidney Lumet gave him his movie debut in Stage Struck.
Plummer's latest successes are Michael Mann's Oscar-nominated The Insider, playing television journalist Mike Wallace, for which he won the Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Las Vegas and the National Critic's Awards, and Ron Howard's Academy Award-winning A Beautiful Mind, as well as Etom Egoyan's Ararat.
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 christopher plummer | biography (b. 1929) | gallery | mailing address
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER, who has recently completed his Tony-nominated performance as King Lear in Sir Jonathan Miller’s much lauded production at Lincoln Center (2005), has enjoyed 50 years as one of the English speaking theatre’s most distinguished actors and as a veteran of international renown in over 100 motion pictures.
Plummer’s recent successes are Michael Mann’s Oscar-nominated The Insider, playing television journalist Mike Wallace, for which he won the Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago and Las Vegas National Critics’ Awards; as well as Ron Howard’s Academy Award- winning A Beautiful Mind and Etom Egoyan’s Ararat.
A veteran of the Montreal stage, Plummer is adept at both comedy and drama, and is particularly effective in sinister roles, such as the Israeli diplomat in Eyewitness (1981), and the head of covert intelligence in Dreamscape (1984).
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 Christopher Plummer - Moviefone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
From his 1950 debut onward, Christopher Plummer has been regarded as one of the most brilliant Canadian actors of his generation.
Christopher Plummer (I) (Actor, The Sound of Music (1965)) birth name "Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer"...
Christopher Plummer - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Christopher Plummer Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
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 Christopher Plummer News
He is a beautiful baritone in lederhosen, she is a dirndl-clad fraulein in sturdy stockings yodelling: "The hills are alive with the sound of music.
Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy will star in a Broadway revival of 'Inherit the Wind,' a fictionalized retelling by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee about the 1920s Scopes monkey trial.
Gabriel Byrne is to star opposite Susan Sarandon, Christopher Plummer, Max von Sydow and Canadian actor Roy Dupuis in the film 'Emotional Arithmetic'.
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 Christopher Plummer in Remembering Archie (5.27.04)
Plummer performed a version of "Remembering Archie" at New York's Guggenheim Museum some months after MacLeish's death on April 20, 1982.
Christopher Plummer, who has just completed his great personal success as King Lear in Sir Jonathan Miller's much-lauded production at New York's Lincoln Center, has enjoyed fifty years as one of the English-speaking theatre's most distinguished actors and as a veteran of over one hundred motion pictures.
Plummer played many roles as a leading member of both the Royal Shakespeare Company (Sir Peter Hall) and the National Theatre (Sir Laurence Olivier) including Becket (Evening Standard Award) and the title role in Danton's Death, directed by Sir Jonathan Miller (Evening Standard nomination).
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 christopher-plummer.com
Christopher Plummer, 76, best known as Captain Von Trapp in The Sound Of Music, is being lined up to play Don Quixote by maverick director Terry Gilliam in a new big-screen version of the literary classic.
Christopher Plummer (as Rudyard Kipling), Director John Houston and Michael Caine for The Man Who Would Be King (1975).
IMDB: Christopher Plummer lists his movies and is also a good place to find out what's in-print vs. out-of-print worldwide in the various world formats for videos and DVD's.
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 Our Fathers
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER plays the controversial Boston Cardinal Bernard Law, who was at the center of the scandal.
“Christopher Plummer was the beginning, the middle, and the end of who we wanted to play Cardinal Law,” noted Kennedy.
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER (Cardinal Bernard Law) won his first Tony award for the title role in the musical "Cyrano." Plummer most recently completed his Tony-nominated performance as King Lear in Sir Jonathan Miller's heralded Lincoln Center production.
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 Christopher Plummer
He made his debut in 1949 on the TV show "Suspense", which was followed by a series of Shakespearean parts in many films, and TV adaptations of the Bard's work.
One of Christopher Plummer's most memorable roles of late was as a Shakespeare reciting Klingon in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country"; a role which he reprised for the video game "Star Trek: Klingon Academy".
Christopher Plummer has also appeared in such classic films as: "The Sound of Music", "The Man Who Would be King", and "Malcolm X".
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 IGN: The Stax Report Salutes Christopher Plummer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Plummer can currently be seen onscreen in both Alexander and National Treasure; he will appear next year in Terrence Malick's The New World.
Empire details the passing of power from Marcus Aurelius (Alec Guinness) to his nutty son Commodus (Christopher Plummer), and depicts a dangerous romance between the fallen general Livius (Stephen Boyd) and Commodus' enchanting sister Lucilla (Sophia Loren).
Like 1965's A Study in Terror, this unappreciated film has Sherlock Holmes (Christopher Plummer) and Dr. Watson (James Mason) investigating the Jack the Ripper case.
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 The New World
There's a comedic lilt in Christopher Plummer's voice as he teases the woman making up his hale countenance, here in the trompe l'oeil-foliage-adorned sunroom of his sprawling Connecticut home.
Plummer has been primping for stage work, screen roles, and photo shoots for some 60 years now, and he shows no sign of slowing.
Plummer had mastered just about every major Shakespearean role, on stages in all three Stratfords (Connecticut, Canada, and England), by the time he was 35.
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 Christopher Plummer Height - Plummer's
Plummer was definately well shorter than both Sean Connery and Michael Caine in 'The Man Who Would Be King'.
And if you ever have the chance to see the Sherlock Holmes film version that starred Plummer as Holmes and James Mason as Dr. Watson you'll clearly see that Mason is the taller of the two and by at least two inches.
Plummer was 5'8" when he did The Sound of Music and wore three inch lifts to make himself appear taller than Julie Andrews who was at least 5'7".
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