History Creator / ChristopherPlummer

He was the father of actress Amanda Plummer, who should not be confused with Music/AmandaPalmer.

Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever CC]] (December 13, 1929 - February 5, 2021) was a Canadian film, stage, and TV actor best known for his role as Captain Von Trapp in ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'', and for [[CreatorBacklash mocking that film and his performance nearly every chance he got]] (though he still considered co-star Creator/JulieAndrews one of his closest friends).

He also did quite a bit of stage work. Before hitting it big in the movies he was in the original cast of the 1958 Pulitzer Prize-winning play ''Theatre/{{JB}}''. He earned Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical in 1974, for the musical ''Theatre/{{Cyrano| de Bergerac}}'', and Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play in 1997, for ''Barrymore''. All of these awards make him one of the few actors to win an Oscar, and Emmy, and a Tony.

He is the father of actress Amanda Plummer, who should not be confused with Music/AmandaPalmer.

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: His normal idiolect is notoriously hard to pin down. It's a consequence of Plummer being raised in a time and environment in which the "Canadian Dandy" (really a mid-Atlantic) was considered "proper" English, just before the practice fell out of favor. That, and spending a lot of his early adulthood in Quebec and the UK, creates a kind of melting pot of dialects that makes his wholly unique.

Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever CC]] (born December 13, 1929 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian film, stage, and TV actor best known for his role as Captain Von Trapp in ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'', and for [[CreatorBacklash mocking that film and his performance nearly every chance he gets]] (though he still considers co-star Creator/JulieAndrews one of his closest friends).

He has played a huge number of parts over his nearly 70-year career, and despite a large number of acclaimed performances, he [[AwardSnub wasn't even nominated for an Oscar]] until 2009, when he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Creator/LeoTolstoy in ''The Last Station''.

He has done quite a bit of stage work. Before hitting it big in the movies he was in the original cast of the 1958 Pulitzer Prize-winning play ''Theatre/{{JB}}''. He earned Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical in 1974, for the musical ''Theatre/{{Cyrano| de Bergerac}}'', and Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play in 1997, for ''Barrymore''. All of these awards make him one of the few actors to win an Oscar, and Emmy, and a Tony.

Plummer is [[JustForFun/OneOfUs a life-long]] [[Franchise/StarTrek Trekkie]], and one of the reasons that he [[LargeHam seems to be having so much fun chewing the scenery]] in ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' is because (in his own words), he was "in geek Heaven doing what geeks love doing: being a geek." Appropriately, in his theatrical career he once became ill, letting his understudy Creator/WilliamShatner take over for that performance and get his big break.

* FakeNationality: Beginning his professional career on the West End stage, Plummer has played his fair share of British and British-accented characters, as well as his fair share of Americans and Europeans (and the occasional space alien). It says something that he's made a career of playing British characters in British productions, despite not actually being British. Averted in ''Film/BattleOfBritain'', in which he requested that his character be Canadian.
* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Despite not actually being British, he tends to be cast in these types of roles, often playing very posh and well-to-do characters.
* SurprisinglyGoodForeignLanguage: Though he doesn't get to show it off a lot on-screen, he's actually quite fluent in French, having spent much of his childhood in Quebec.

* FakeNationality: Beginning his professional career on the West End stage, Plummer has played his fair share of British and British-accented characters, as well as his fair share of Americans and Europeans (and the occasional space alien). It says something that he's made a career of playing British characters in British productions, despite not actually being British.

Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever CC]] (born December 13, 1929) is a Canadian film, stage, and TV actor best known for his role as Captain Von Trapp in ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'', and for [[CreatorBacklash mocking that film and his performance nearly every chance he gets]] (though he still considers co-star Creator/JulieAndrews one of his closest friends).

* SurprisinglyGoodForeignLanguage: Though he doesn't get to show it off a lot on-screen, he's actually quite fluent in French, having spent much of his childhood Quebec.

Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever CC]] (born December 13, 1929) is a Canadian film and stage actor best known for his role as Captain Von Trapp in ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'', and for [[CreatorBacklash mocking that film and his performance nearly every chance he gets]] (though he still considers co-star Creator/JulieAndrews one of his closest friends).

He has done quite a bit of stage work. Before hitting it big in the movies he was in the original cast of the 1958 Pulitzer Prize-winning play ''Theatre/JB''. He earned Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical in 1974, for the musical ''Theatre/{{Cyrano| de Bergerac}}'', and Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play in 1997, for ''Barrymore''. All of these awards make him one of the few actors to win an Oscar, and Emmy, and a Tony.

He earned Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical in 1974, for the musical ''Theatre/{{Cyrano| de Bergerac}}'', and Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play in 1997, for ''Barrymore''. All of these awards make him one of the few actors to win an Oscar, and Emmy, and a Tony.

* ''Film/KnivesOut'' (2019) -- Mr. Robinson

Plummer is [[JustForFun/OneOfUs a life-long]] [[Franchise/StarTrek Trekkie]], and one of the reasons that he [[LargeHam seems to be having so much fun chewing the scenery]] in ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' is because (in his own words), he was "in geek Heaven doing what geeks love doing: being a geek."

Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer (born December 13, 1929) is a Canadian film and stage actor best known for his role as Captain Von Trapp in ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'', and for [[CreatorBacklash mocking that film and his performance nearly every chance he gets]] (though he still considers co-star Creator/JulieAndrews one of his closest friends).

He won Best Supporting Actor two years later for his performance in ''Beginners'', becoming, at 82, the oldest person at the time to ''ever'' win an Oscar.[[note]]The record has since been broken by Creator/MerchantIvory James Ivory]], who won for writing ''Film/CallMeByYourName'' at 89.[[/note]] He also received an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series, for the 1972 miniseries ''The Moneychangers'', and a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance, for his narrations of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Madeline}}'' cartoons.[[note]]He narrated them from 1988-2001, and won the Emmy in 1994. [[/note]] At age 88 he also became the oldest person to even be ''nominated'' for an acting Oscar for ''Film/AllTheMoneyInTheWorld'' (in which he got cast as TheOtherMarty after Creator/KevinSpacey got booted for numerous allegations of sexual abuse).

He won Best Supporting Actor two years later for his performance in ''Beginners'', becoming, at 82, the oldest person at the time to ''ever'' win an Oscar.[[note]]The record has since been broken by Creator/MerchantAndIvory James Ivory, who won for writing ''Film/CallMeByYourName'' at 89.[[/note]] He also received an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series, for the 1972 miniseries ''The Moneychangers'', and a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance, for his narrations of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Madeline}}'' cartoons.[[note]]He narrated them from 1988-2001, and won the Emmy in 1994. [[/note]] At age 88 he also became the oldest person to even be ''nominated'' for an acting Oscar for ''Film/AllTheMoneyInTheWorld'' (in which he got cast as TheOtherMarty after Creator/KevinSpacey got booted for numerous allegations of sexual abuse).

He won Best Supporting Actor two years later for his performance in ''Beginners'', becoming, at 82, the oldest person ''ever'' to win an Oscar. He also received an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series, for the 1972 miniseries ''The Moneychangers'', and a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance, for his narrations of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Madeline}}'' cartoons.[[note]]He narrated them from 1988-2001, and won the Emmy in 1994. [[/note]] At age 88 he also became the oldest person to even be ''nominated'' for an acting Oscar for ''Film/AllTheMoneyInTheWorld'' (in which he got cast as TheOtherMarty after Creator/KevinSpacey got booted for numerous allegations of sexual abuse).

Plummer is [[OneOfUs a life-long]] [[Franchise/StarTrek Trekkie]], and one of the reasons that he [[LargeHam seems to be having so much fun chewing the scenery]] in ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' is because (in his own words), he was "in geek Heaven doing what geeks love doing: being a geek."

* ''Film/Remember'' (2015) -- Zev Guttman

He won Best Supporting Actor two years later for his performance in ''Beginners'', becoming, at 82, the oldest person ''ever'' to win an Oscar. He also received an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series, for the 1972 miniseries ''The Moneychangers'', and a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance, for his narrations of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Madeline}}'' cartoons.[[note]]He narrated them from 1988-2001, and won the Emmy in 1994. [[/note]] At age 88 he also became the oldest person to even be ''nominated'' for an Oscar for ''Film/AllTheMoneyInTheWorld'' (in which he got cast as TheOtherMarty after Creator/KevinSpacey got booted for numerous allegations of sexual abuse).

He is the father of actress Amanda Plummer.

He won Best Supporting Actor two years later for his performance in ''Beginners'', becoming, at 82, the oldest person ''ever'' to win an Oscar. He also received an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series, for the 1972 miniseries ''The Moneychangers'', and a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance, for his narrations of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Madeline}}'' cartoons.[[note]]He narrated them from 1988-2001, and won the Emmy in 1994. [[/note]] At age 88 he also became the oldest person to even be ''nominated'' for an Oscar for ''Film/AllTheMoneyInTheWorld'' (in which he got cast as TheOtherMarty after Creator/KevinSpacey got booted once numerous allegations of sexual abuse surfaced against Spacey).

Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer (born December 13, 1929) is a Canadian film and stage actor best known for his role as Captain Von Trapp in ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'', and for [[CreatorBacklash mocking that film and his performance nearly every chance he gets]].[[note]]Which doesn't stop him from considering co-star Creator/JulieAndrews one of his closest friends, natch.[[/note]]

He won Best Supporting Actor two years later for his performance in ''Beginners'', becoming, at 82, the oldest person ''ever'' to win an Oscar. He also received an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series, for the 1972 miniseries ''The Moneychangers'', and a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance, for his narrations of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Madeline}}'' cartoons.[[note]]He narrated them from 1988-2001, and won the Emmy in 1994. [[/note]] At age 88 he also became the oldest person to even be ''nominated'' for an Oscar for ''Film/AllTheMoneyInTheWorld''.