Christopher Plummer

Also known as Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer

Canadian actor (1929–2021)

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Christopher Plummer was a Canadian and American male actor born Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer in Toronto on December 13, 1929. He worked as a television, film, voice, and character actor, with a career beginning in 1946. He was educated at McGill University, the High School of Montreal, and the University of Western Ontario. Plummer was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and resided in Weston.

He received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, and the Theatre World Award. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. Plummer was married to Elaine Taylor and Tammy Grimes and had a child named Amanda Plummer. He died in Weston on February 5, 2021.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 11

Top works

Crystal Fox Saga : Book Two
J.B.
Eminem Calendar 2022
In Spite of Myself
Love and master Will

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Film & TV

Acting · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer CC (December 13, 1929 – February 5, 2021) was a Canadian theatre, film and television actor. He made his film debut in 1958's Stage Struck, and notable film performances include The Night of the Generals, The Return of the Pink Panther, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, The Man Who Would Be King, and The Insider. In a career that spans seven decades and…

Known for

Heroes of the Golden Mask — Rizzo (voice)2023
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story — Self2022
Kalahari: The Flooded Desert — Narrator (voice)2021
Mooseltoe — Mooseking2021
Bondarchuk. Battle — self2021
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster — Self2021
The Last Full Measure — Frank Pitsenbarger2020
Knives Out — Harlan Thrombey2019
Cliffs of Freedom — Thanasi2019
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth — Self2019

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Canada
Active from: 1929
Active to: 2021

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 9,291
Total plays: 54,521

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 25,516x
The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,631x
A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,568x
Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,860x
Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,613x

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Encyclopedic overview

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 began his acting career in Ottawa and followed this with stage roles in Canada, the U.S. and Bermuda. He 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 J.B. (1959), Othello (1982), No Man's Land (1994), King Lear (2004) and Inherit the Wind (2007).

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