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Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer (born December 13, 1929) is a Canadian theatre, film and television actor. After making his film debut in 1958's ''Stage Struck'', Plummer went on to a successful film career that has spanned over five decades. Some of his most notable film performances include roles in films such as ''Battle of Britain'' (1969), ''Waterloo'' (1970), ''The Return of the Pink Panther'' (1975), ''Murder by Decree'' (1979), ''Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country'' (1991), ''A Beautiful Mind'' (2001), ''Nicholas Nickleby'' (2002), ''The New World'' (2005), ''Inside Man'' (2006), ''Up'' (2009), ''The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus'' (2009), and ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'' (2011). He has notably portrayed several historical figures including Rudyard Kipling in ''The Man Who Would Be King'' (1975), Mike Wallace in ''The Insider'' (1999), and Leo Tolstoy in ''The Last Station'' (2009). In a career that includes substantial roles in each of the dramatic arts, Plummer is probably best known to film audiences as the aristocratic widower Captain Georg 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 miniseries ''The Thorn Birds''. 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. ==Early life== Plummer was born on December 13, 1929 in Toronto, Ontario, the only child of Isabella Mary (née Abbott), who was secretary to the Dean of Sciences at McGill University, and John Orme Plummer, who sold stocks and securities.〔http://www.beachmetro.com/2015/05/19/famous-son-forgotten-father/〕 Through his mother, Plummer is a great-grandson of Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Abbott, and a great-great-grandson of Anglican clergyman and McGill acting president John Bethune. Plummer's parents were divorced shortly after his birth, and he was brought up at the Abbott family home in Senneville, Quebec, outside Montreal. He is bilingual, speaking English and French fluently. Plummer is a second cousin of actor Nigel Bruce, the British actor, best known as Doctor Watson to Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes, and of Bruce's brother, Sir Michael Bruce, baronet and journalist.〔 He had studied to be a concert pianist, but developed a love for the theatre at an early age. He began acting while he was living on Pine Avenue in Montreal and attending Montreal High. Plummer took up acting after seeing Laurence Olivier's film ''Henry V'' (1944). In 1946, his performance as Mr. Darcy in the production of ''Pride and Prejudice'' at Montreal High brought Christopher Plummer to the attention of Herbert Whittaker, the theatre critic of the ''Montreal Gazette''. Whittaker, who was also amateur stage director the Montreal Repertory Theatre, cast Plummer, aged 18, as Oedipus in Cocteau's ''La Machine infernale''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christopher Plummer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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