Christopher Plummer

Canadian actor (1929–2021)

  • Fame69.2
  • Momentum1.7
  • Canada rank#187
Source-basedStable
  • Fame69.2
  • Momentum1.7
  • Canada rank#187
  • Wikipedia167.6K
Lived 1929–2021, aged 92Canada
  • Wikipedia
    97 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Rank in Canada
    #187
    Actors
  • Era
    1929–2021
    Aged 92
  • Known for
    Up
    2009
Summary
Updated 2026-08-31

A stage actor who lived long enough to win an Oscar at 82 — for playing a widower coming out late in life — after spending decades resenting the one role everyone remembered him for.

Biography

About

Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer began in Ottawa theater and reached Broadway in 1954 with The Starcross Story. He won two Tony Awards, first as Cyrano de Bergerac in 1974 and later as John Barrymore in 1997, with nominations spanning five other productions. His film debut came in 1958, but household recognition arrived in 1965 as Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music opposite Julie Andrews. Through the decades he worked steadily — The Man Who Would Be King, Star Trek VI, The Insider, A Beautiful Mind — until late-career Oscar nominations for The Last Station and All the Money in the World br…

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Filmography

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TV credits

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Awards

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  • John Willis Award for Lifetime Achievement
  • Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
  • Governor General's Performing Arts Award
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Score breakdown

The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.

Fame
Stable
69.2
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Momentum1.7
Historical30.0
Source confidence65.0
Completeness75.0
Global rank
Country rank
#187
Category rank
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Sources

  • Wikipedia
    wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
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  • Wikidata
    wikidata · wikidata.org
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  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
    High confidence