The Sound of Music

Christopher Plummer - In Spite of Myself - A Memoir

Christopher Plummer - In Spite of Myself - A Memoir

A vibrant, exuberant self-portrait of one of today’s greatest living actors.

 
Christopher Plummer’s magnificent book recounts the wild adventure that is his life, stretching from a privileged childhood in Canada to the glorious, star-studded New York of the fifties to a sensational career in film appearing in some of our most beloved classics. Here are his late nights out with Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, Paddy Chayefsky, and Arthur Miller; his affairs and marriages; his collaborations with famed producers; and his memorable roles alongside fellow young and talented actors, each also destined for stardom: Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Peter O’Toole, Natalie Wood, and countless others. Plummer weaves delicious anecdotes of a life spent on stages and film sets across the world—from Peter Hall’s Royal Shakespeare Theatre to The Sound of Music (affectionately dubbed “S&M”)—into a boisterous narrative filled with humor and irresistible charm.

Christopher Plummer - movies

Christopher Plummer - movies

In a career that spans seven decades and includes substantial roles in each of the dramatic arts, Plummer is probably best known to film audiences as the autocratic widower Captain Georg Ludwig von Trapp in the hit 1965 musical film The Sound of Music alongside Julie Andrews. Plummer has also ventured into various television projects, including the legendary miniseries The Thorn Birds.

His most recent film roles include the The Insider as Mike Wallace, the Disney–Pixar 2009 film Up as Charles Muntz, the Shane Acker production 9 as 1, The Last Station as Leo Tolstoy, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus as Doctor Parnassus,The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as Henrik Vanger, and Beginners as Hal.

Plummer has won numerous awards and accolades for his work, including an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a SAG Award, and a BAFTA Award. With his win at the age of 82 in 2012 for Beginners, Plummer is the oldest actor and person ever to win an Academy Award.

Monte Cristo Awards

Monte Cristo Awards

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 15: Honoree Christopher Plummer attends the 13th annual Monte Cristo Awards at The Edison Ballroom on April 15, 2013 in New York City.

Kevin Spacey and Christopher Plummer attend the 13th annual Monte Cristo Awards at The Edison Ballroom on April 15, 2013 in New York City.

A Beautiful Mind - Film (2001)

A Beautiful Mind (film)

A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American biographical drama film based on the life of John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics. The film was directed by Ron Howard, from a screenplay written by Akiva Goldsman. It was inspired by a bestselling,Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1998 book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar. The film stars Russell Crowe, along with Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany and Christopher Plummer in supporting roles. The story begins in the early years of a young prodigy named John Nash. Early in the film, Nash begins developing paranoid schizophrenia and endures delusional episodes while painfully watching the loss and burden his condition brings on his wife and friends

The Sound of Music - The Laendler

Christopher Plummer Fellowship Award of Excellence

Christopher Plummer Fellowship Award of Excellence

Canadian actor Christopher Plummer will reveal the winner of a $20,000 prize named in his honour next month.

The Oscar-winning actor will personally present the inaugural Christopher Plummer Fellowship Award of Excellence to a fellow homegrown artist at a gala presentation in Toronto on May 23. The $20,000 award will go to an emerging or mid-career Canadian theatre artist deemed to have made a unique and exceptional contribution to the study of Shakespeare and/or the classics in performance.

As determined by a peer jury, the Christopher Plummer Fellowship Award is intended for serious stage performers that have demonstrated unique ability in the classics. The shortlist includes Toronto director Alan Dilworth, Montreal actor-director Paul Hopkins and veteran Stratford actress Yanna McIntosh. The recipient is free to use the money for whatever purpose he or she wishes.

The new award is administered by the Shakespeare Globe Centre of Canada, of which Plummer serves as patron. The SGCC works closely with Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London to support artistic and educational goals associated with furthering the international understanding of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in performance.

Toronto-born Plummer, 83, began his acting career with the Canadian Repertory Theatre in Ottawa before going onto greater fame on the Broadway stage. He earned his first Tony Award in 1974 for starring in the musical Cyrano and another in 1997 for the play Barrymore.

On film, Plummer appeared in the moviesCleopatra, The Man Who Would Be King, The Silent Partner and A Beautiful Mind. His Best Supporting Oscar win last year for the film Beginners made him the oldest person in history to ever receive an Academy Award.