CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:

Christopher Plummer was born on December 13th, 1929 in Toronto, Ontario Canada with the birth name Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer to parents Isabella Mary and John Orme Plummer.  He was an only child and as a young boy his parents divorced and he was raised at the Abott family home in Senneville, Quebec.

As a young boy he loved to play the piano and wanted to pursue a career as a concert pianist, however in High School he also developed an interest in acting and soon joined the Canadian Repertory Theatre in Ottawa.
 

Plummer ended up having an amazing career in the entertainment industry, one the lasted over five decades and where he worked in all aspects of theater, film and television.  He is most well known for his stage performance in the musical "The Sound of Music" portraying Captain Georg von Trapp.  Some of his other theater roles were in "Cyrano", "Amphitryon 38", "Inherit the Wind" and "Caesar and Cleopatra".
 

It was not until the mid 60's that he really earned critics attention in the film industry when he took roles on such big screen features as, "Cleopatra" (1963), " Murder By Decree" (1979), "The Silent Partner" (1978) and "The Insider" (1999).   
 
Plummer excelled as an actor taking on the majority of character parts, although, he never reached the level of stardom that some other leading males of his time such as Gary Cooper and Paul Newman.

Some of his latest film roles were in "A Beautiful Mind" (2001), "Inside Man" (2006), "The Last Station" (2009), "Up" (2009), The Imaginarium of Doctor" (2009) and "Priest" and "Five Good Years" (both 2011). 
 
Throughout his career, Plummer has won two Emmy Awards, one Genie Award and two Tony Awards.  Presently, Plummer continues to act and is a very highly demanded character actor.  Most of his time is spent still living in the United States, however he has never given up his Canadian citizenship.     
 
He currently resides with his third wife, Elaine Taylor on a 30-acre estate in Weston, Connecticut.  He was married two other times, first to Tammy grimes from 1956 through 1960 and they have his only biological child, Amanda Plummer who is also an actress.  He then married Patricia Lewis from 1962 through 1967.  
 
 
Filmography

2011 Five Good Years 
2011 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 
2011 Priest 
2010 The Tempest 
2010 Beginners 
2009 The Last Station 
2009 9 
2009 My Dog Tulip 
2009 Up
2009 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus 
2009 Up 
2009 Caesar and Cleopatra 
2008 The Summit
2007 Already Dead 
2007 Emotional Arithmetic 
2007 Closing the Ring 
2007 Man in the Chair
2006 The Lake House 
2006 The American Experience 
2006 Inside Man
2005 The New World 
2005 Heidi 
2005 Syriana
2005 Four Minutes
2005 Must Love Dogs 
2005 Our Fathers 
2004 Alexander
2004 National Treasure 
2003 Cold Creek Manor 
2003 The Visual Bible: The Gospel of John 
2003 Blizzard
2003 Odd Job Jack 
2002 Nicholas Nickleby 
2002 Agent of Influence 
2002 Ararat 
2002 Night Flight
2001 A Beautiful Mind
2001 Lucky Break 
2001 Full Disclosure 
2001 On Golden Pond
2001 Leo's Journey 
2000 Dracula 2000 
2000 American Tragedy
2000 Possessed 
2000 The Dinosaur Hunter 
2000 Nuremberg
2000 Star Trek: Klingon Academy 
1999 The Insider
1999 Madeline: Lost in Paris 
1999 Hidden Agenda 
1999 The Clown at Midnight
1998 Winchell
1998 Blackheart 
1998 The First Christmas
1997 Skeletons
1997 The Conspiracy of Fear 
1997 The Arrow
1997 Babes in Toyland
1996 We the Jury
1995 The New Adventures of Madeline
1995 Twelve Monkeys
1995 Harrison Bergeron 
1995 Dolores Claiborne 
1994 Crackerjack
1994 Wolf
1993-1994 Madeline
1993 A Stranger in the Mirror 
1990-1993 Counterstrike
1992 Malcolm X 
1992 Impolite 
1992 Secrets 
1992 The First Circle 
1992 Liar's Edge
1991 Berlin Lady 
1991 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
1991 Madeline in London 
1991 Madeline and the Gypsies
1991 Rock-A-Doodle
1991 A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz
1991 Money
1991 Madeline and the Bad Hat
1991 Young Catherine
1991 Firehead
1990 Madeline's Rescue
1990 Madeline's Christmas 
1990 Red Blooded American Girl 
1990 A Ghost in Monte Carlo 
1990 Where the Heart Is
1990 The Little Crooked Christmas Tree
1989 Mindfield
1989 Madeline 
1989 Souvenir 
1989 Kingsgate 
1989 Nabokov on Kafka 
1988 Shadow Dancing
1988 Vampire in Venice 
1988 The Man Who Planted Trees 
1988 Gandahar
1987 A Hazard of Hearts
1987 The Cosby Show
1987 Dragnet 
1987 I Love N.Y. 
1987 The Gnomes' Great Adventure
1987 The Nightingale 
1986 An American Tail 
1986 The Boss' Wife
1986 Crossings 
1986 The Boy in Blue 
1986 The Tin Soldier 
1986 Spearfield's Daughter 
1985 David the Gnome 
1985 Rumpelstiltskin 
1985 The Velveteen Rabbit 
1985 Ordeal by Innocence 
1984 Lily in Love 
1984 Dreamscape
1983 Prototype
1983 Parade of Stars
1983 The Thorn Birds
1983 The Scarlet and the Black 
1982 Little Gloria... Happy at Last 
1982 Highpoint 
1981 The Amateur 
1981 Dial M for Murder
1981 Eyewitness 
1981 When the Circus Came to Town 
1980 Desperate Voyage
1980 Somewhere in Time 
1980 The Shadow Box 
1979 Hanover Street 
1979 Riel 
1979 Murder by Decree 
1978 Starcrash 
1978 The Silent Partner 
1978 International Velvet
1977 Silver Blaze 
1977 The Disappearance 
1977 The Assignment
1977 Jesus of Nazareth 
1976 Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers 
1976 Aces High 
1975 The Man Who Would Be King 
1975 The Day That Shook the World 
1975 Conduct Unbecoming
1975 The Return of the Pink Panther 
1975 The Spiral Staircase 
1974 After the Fall 
1974 The Happy Prince
1974 Witness to Yesterday
1973 The Pyx
1971 BBC Play of the Month
1970 Waterloo
1969 The Royal Hunt of the Sun 
1969 Battle of Britain 
1969 Lock Up Your Daughters! 
1968 The Secret of Michelangelo
1968 The High Commissioner 
1968 Oedipus the King 
1967 The Night of the Generals 
1966 Triple Cross 
1965 Inside Daisy Clover 
1965 The Sound of Music 
1964 Hamlet at Elsinore 
1964 The Fall of the Roman Empire 
1958-1962 Hallmark Hall of Fame 
1961-1962 Playdate 
1957-1961 The DuPont Show of the Month 
1960 Sunday Showcase 
1959 The Philadelphia Story 
1958 Wind Across the Everglades 
1958 Stage Struck 
1957-1958 Omnibus 
1956 Eye on New York 
1956 The Alcoa Hour 
1956 Appointment with Adventure
1956 G.E. True Theater 
1955 Producers' Showcase 
1955 Kraft Theatre
1954 Ponds Theater 
1954 The Web 
1953 Broadway Television Theatre
1953 Suspense
1953 Studio One in Hollywood