Christopher Plummer Drive

It can be said that Christopher Plummer started his career at the Stratford Festival. He was in the following plays.

• Henry V - King Henry 1956

• Hamlet - Hamlet 1957

• Twelfth Night - Sir Andrew Aguecheek  1957

• The Winter's Tale - Leontes 1958

• Much Ado about Nothing - Benedick  1958

• King Henry IV - Bardolph 1958

• Romeo and Juliette  -  Mercutio  1960

• King John  - Philip the Bastard  1960

• Macbeth  -  Macbeth  1962

• Cyrano  -  Cyrano  1962

• Antony and Cleopatra  -  Antony  1967

• Barrymore  -  John Barrymore   1996

• King Lear  -  King Lear  2002

• Caesar and Cleopatra  -  Caesar 2008

• The Tempest  -  Prospero  2011

• A Word or Two  -  himself   2012

Christopher Plummer appeared in more than 100 films and on television, including the role of Baron von Trapp in the very popular movie The Sound of Music (1965).

He is a Companion of the Order of Canada, and in 2001, received a Governor General’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts. In March 2017, he was honoured for lifetime achievement with a Canadian Screen Award from the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. He also won a British Academy Award for Beginners (2011), for which he was awarded an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 2012.

His autobiography is called In Spite of Myself (2012).  For more see Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia. He died at age of 91 at his home in Connecticut after suffering a fall.

Personal Note:  I was a maintenance man at the Stratford Festival in 1962. I cleaned out the dressing rooms after every performance. One thing I liked to do while I swept Christopher's dressing room was to wear his Cyrano spare nose. By Paul Wilker