Christopher Plummer Bio, Awards And Nominations, Age, Height, Dead Or Alive

May 2024 · 5 minute read

If you’re familiar with the character Captain Von Trapp in the 1965 blockbuster The Sound of Music, then you must know Canadian actor Christopher Plummer.

Besides The Sound of Music, Plummer has starred in many other successful films such as The Silent Partner, The Insider, Where; he starred as Mike Wallace, A Beautiful Mind, in Last Station; he was Leo Tolstoy.

He has also portrayed several major historical figures including Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in 1970 blockbuster Waterloo, as Rudyard Kipling in The Man Who Would Be King and as J. Paul Getty All the Money in the World (2017) .

Bio (Age)

Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer was born on December 13, 1929, Plummer is the only son of Isabella Mary (former Secretary to the Dean of Science at McGill University) and John Orme Plummer, who sold stocks and securities.

Plummer’s great-grandfather is Sir John Abbott, Prime Minister of Canada, while his great-great-grandson is Anglican clergyman and McGill President John Bethune.

His parents divorced the same year he was born, so Plummer was raised by his mother in Senneville, Quebec (a suburban village on the western tip of the island of Montreal). He attended high school in Montreal and then McGill University.

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Career

Plummer who first studied to be a concert pianist developed a love for theater at an early age. He began his acting career while in high school, even at McGill, after watching Laurence Olivier’s 1944 film Henry V.

His first notable role was when he played Darcy in the production of Pride and Prejudice. After high school, he trained at the Canadian Repertory Theater in Ottawa, where he acted in many productions, including The Infernal Machine, which also featured William Shatner and Cymbeline.

He made his major Broadway debut in 1953, when he starred in The Starcross Story, then came Home is the Hero. He also starred in The Dark Is Light Enough, supporting legends Katharine Cornell and Tyrone Power.

Plummer had his biggest big-screen success with his performance as aloof widowed Captain Georg Von Trapp in the 1965 film The Sound of Music, which he starred alongside Julie Andrews. He appeared in so many other Hollywood blockbusters like Murder by Decree, The Silent Associate, The InsiderA Beautiful MindThe Last Station.

Some of her other movies include Daisy Clover, The Royal Chase of the Sun, Velvet International, Generals Night, Somewhere in Time, The Unknown Country, The New World, Eyewitness, Star Trek VI, Dance of Shadows, Dragnet, The lake house among others.

He remains one of the most respected and honored English actors in the world.

Awards and nominations

Plummer has been nominated for several awards and has won many of them. He received two Emmy Awards from six nominations, from 1959 to 2005. He won a Genie Award from five nominations from 1980 to 2004.

For her stage performances, Plummer can boast two Tony Awards out of six nominations. His first was won in 1974 as Best Actor (Musical) for his role in Cyrano and the second was in 1997, as Best Actor (Play), for his role in Barrymore.

Surprisingly, Plummer wasn’t nominated for an Oscar until 2010, when he earned Best Actor honors for playing the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station. His first Oscar finally came in 2011 for his work in Beginners, where he played a pensioner who came out as gay in his later years after the death of his wife.

At the end of 2017, he replaced Kevin Spacey for the role of J. Paul Getty in All the Money in the World, after numerous accusations of sexual misconduct against Spacey. This film earned him Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor.

In 1968, he received the Order of Canada, (the highest civilian honors in Canada at the time). In 2001, he received the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement (Canada’s highest honor in the performing arts).

He was honored by the Juilliard of New York with a Doctor of Fine Arts degree and received honorary doctorates from the universities of Toronto, Ryerson, McGill Western Ontario, Ottawa and, more recently, the University of Guelph.

Christopher Plummer was also inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1986 and Canada’s Walk of Fame in Toronto in 1998.

In 2016, he received the Canadian Screen Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Is Christopher Plummer dead or alive?

The octogenarian whose acting career spans more than five decades is still alive and kicking.

Married, Wife, Daughter

Plummer has been married three times. His first marriage was to actress Tammy Grimes. The couple had been married for four years and had a daughter (Amanda Plummer, born in 1957) together. According to him, he had no contact with his daughter during her early teenage years, but they are now on friendly terms.

His second marriage was to Patricia Lewis from May 4, 1962 to 1967. He and his third wife, British dancer and actress Elaine Taylor, tied the knot on October 2, 1970 and are still together. They both live in Weston, Connecticut.

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How tall is Christopher Plummer? the size

Christopher Plummer is 5 feet 10 inches or 179 cm tall on average and weighs 84 kg.

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