He was born in Toronto and moved to Montreal when he was very young. Christopher Plummer (1921-2021) was an actor in the broad sense of the term, embodying with full conviction characters of various characteristics and levels of complexity, combining his work in theater, film and television and well forged from the roughness of the stage. and in the ever-complex environments of Hollywood and its surroundings. His physical presence helped him to represent certain types of sophisticated and powerful men (some linked to Nazism) both economically and politically, moving between villainy and legitimate control, although he knew how to take risks to expand his acting range, supported by a good diversity of great directors, both in the field of theater, where he remained a benchmark, and cinema, where he became well known. He began orienting himself to music but since he was a child, but little by little his acting vocation began to impose, definitively confirmed with his entry into the Canadian Repertory Company, in which he had a remarkable performance on the tables during the fifties to the point of obtaining some recognition in Paris, just when he began to alternate with his presence in front of the cameras, warming up engines through his participation in various television programsIf you. It was then that Sidney Lumet recruited him to participate in Stage Struck (1958), his film debut in form, while he continued to be active in theater performance, a strong passion that kept him in a constant learning process throughout his life.
After continuing in the theater representing some work by Beckett, among others, and continuing on the live stage, he returned to the cinema to play with absolute ease a frivolous and corrupt Commodity in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1962), directed by Anthony Mann and from there he jumped to world recognition with his role as Captain Von Trapp in the classic musical La novicia rebelde (1965), flexing rules and heart before the new governess of his seven children, embodied with an angelic tone by Julie Andrews, and breaking with the nazi flag which start of a new life. He was constantly active that year as a Hollywood producer in Robert Mulligan’s Intimacies of a Teenager (1965), alongside Natalie Wood and Robert Redford, and in Terence Young’s Triple Betrayal (1965), assuming himself as a secret agent who takes advantage of his experience as Bank thief. During the rest of the sixties, he participated in various films such as Edipo Rey (Saville, 1968), taking the lead and Battle of Britain (Hamilton, 1969), along with a large cast; already in the seventies, with a wider recognition, it appeared in the historical Waterloo (Bondarchuk, 1970) and Attack in Sarajevo – The day that changed the world (Bulajic, 1975); he was awarded the Tony for his work in Cyrano de Bergerac (1974), confirming his solvency in the theater. He became Rudyard Kipling in The Man Who Would Be King (1975), opposite Michael Caine and Sean Connery, all of them masterfully directed by John Huston, and was involved in The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) as Sir Charles, forming part of these characters taken to the cinema by Blake Edwards. After being part of the cast of the persecution of El socio del silencio (Duke, 1978). Of course, and taking advantage of his histrionic charisma, he was also Sherlock Holmes in Murder by decree (Clark, 1979).
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