Christopher Plummer Net Worth

Christopher Plummer's Quotes

• [why he prefers playing evil characters] The devil is more interesting than God.
• Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don't think life has very much meaning.
• I'm bored with questions about acting.
• [on working with Dame Julie Andrews] Working with her is like being hit over the head with a Valentine's card.
• [on Franchot Tone, who starred onstage with him in "The Petrified Forest"] His sense of humor, as one might guess, was seemingly self-deprecating, drawn always from this inexplicable inner torment. These vulnerable qualities were to make his Chekovian performances ("Uncle Vanya" and "A Moon for the Misbegotten"), both of whom I later saw, so memorable - a rare combination of lightness and poignancy... I saw in him someone I could perhaps one day aspire to; not the hidden sad, pained man that was part of Franchot but the part he couldn't conceal, no matter how hard he tried, the part that was refined, noble and infinitely kind.

Interesting Facts about Christopher Plummer

1. Became a father for the first time at age 27 when his first [now ex] wife Tammy Grimes gave birth to their daughter Amanda Michael Plummer, aka Amanda Plummer, on March 23, 1957.
2. He was awarded the Edwin Booth Lifetime Achievement Award by The Players (1997).
3. Grew up partly in the village of Senneville, Québec, Canada where he spent the summers in his great-grandfather's palatial estate.
4. Was the great-grandson of former Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Abbott.
5. On April 22, 2002, he was awarded the first Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theatre by the Roundabout Theatre. His The Sound of Music (1965) co-star Julie Andrews was among those in attendance.
6. His first paying role was in "Machina Infernale" (The Infernal Machine) by Jean Cocteau, in which he worked with another young Montreal actor, William Shatner. The two were reunited years later when they both appeared in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country (1991).
7. Received an honorary degree (Doctor of Laws) from the University of Western Ontario on June 8, 2004.
8. Schoolmates with jazz piano master Oscar Peterson.
9. Has won two Tony Awards: in 1974, as Best Actor (Musical), playing the title role in "Cyrano", and in 1997, as Best Actor (Play), playing the title role of John Barrymore in "Barrymore". He has also been nominated for the Tony four other times: as Best Actor (Dramatic), in 1959 for "J.B.", and as Best Actor (Play), in 1982 for Shakespeare's "Othello", in 1994 for "No Man's Land", and in 2004 for Shakespeare's "King Lear".
10. He and his daughter Amanda Plummer both received Emmy Award nominations (2005). She won, he did not.
11. Trained to become a concert pianist before turning his attention to acting.
12. Was actually born on December 13, 1929, although most publications usually state his birthday as December 13, 1927.
13. Was only thirteen years older than Charmian Carr, who played his daughter in The Sound of Music (1965).
14. Was one of 115 people invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in 2007.
15. Had turned down the role of Gandalf in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, and admits to regretting that decision. The role went to Sir Ian McKellen.
16. Had worked with both Obi-Wan Kenobis on film. Alec Guinness played his father in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), while Plummer later played father to Ewan McGregor in Beginners (2010).
17. Had worked with two Spider-Mans. First he worked with Nicholas Hammond in The Sound of Music (1965), and later with Andrew Garfield in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009).
18. He and daughter Amanda Plummer have both appeared in adaptation of Stephen King novels. Amanda appeared in Needful Things (1993), while Christopher appeared in Dolores Claiborne (1995).
19. Had played Christian in a television production of "Cyrano de Bergerac", opposite José Ferrer, and later played Cyrano himself. In the former role, he performed the translation by Brian Hooker. In the latter, he performed the translation by Anthony Burgess, which he personally selected Burgess to write.
20. Was the only actor from The Sound of Music (1965) to meet the real Maria Von Trapp in Vermont as a child.