Christopher Plummer movies

In a career that spans over five decades and includes substantial roles in film, television, and theater, Plummer is perhaps best known for the iconic role of Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music.Early lifePlummer was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His parents were John Plummer and Isabella Abbott; his maternal great-grandfather was former Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Abbott. Following his parents divorce he moved with his mother to live with her family at Senneville, Quebec, near Montreal.

He studied to be a concert pianist but developed a love of the theatre at an early age and began acting in high school. He travelled by train to study with Canadian Repertory Company in Ottawa.TheatreIt was in Montreal that Plummer began his professional career on stage and radio in both French and English. After Eva Le Gallienne gave him his New York debut (1954), he performed in two plays with Katharine Cornell, The Constant Wife, and The Dark Is Light Enough by Christopher Fry, for which he won a Theatre World Award. Cornell?s husband Guthrie McClintic took him to Paris (1955) to play Jason opposite Dame Judith Anderson in Medea. Then came The Lark, opposite Julie Harris. Plummer went on to star in many celebrated, prize-winning productions on Broadway and Londons West End including Elia Kazans production of Archibald MacLeishs Pulitzer winning play J.B.

Christopher Plummer Movies

All movies starring Christopher Plummer.

• 9
• A Beautiful Mind
• Alexander
• Closing the Ring
• Cold Creek Manor
• Dracula 2000
• Inside Man
• Must Love Dogs
• National Treasure
• Nicholas Nickleby
• Already Dead