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Post by spiderwort on Dec 13, 2017 16:39:41 GMT
What a wonderful career, with so many great and memorable performances, including his Oscar winning role in The Beginners, for which he became the oldest competitive Oscar winner in history at the age of 82. A sixty-five year career still going strong! Happy 88th Birthday, Christopher Plummer. Many happy returns.  |
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Post by politicidal on Dec 13, 2017 16:49:04 GMT
He's gonna get an Oscar nod for like a month's work. Noice!
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Post by vegalyra on Dec 13, 2017 17:07:56 GMT
Wonderful actor. His role as Commodus in Fall of the Roman Empire is one of my favorites. While I like Joaquin Phoenix, he couldn't hold a candle to Plummer in that role...  His narration in the The Visual Bible: Gospel of John was great as well. I could listen to him read just about anything and be mesmerized. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 13, 2017 17:21:49 GMT
In the play J.B. he came into the audience to say some of the lines and he stood right next to me for several minutes. I have avidly followed his career ever since. Never disappointing ! Mr. P. |
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Post by teleadm on Dec 13, 2017 18:22:21 GMT
Happy Birthday Christopher!! Thanks for everything so far...  With Julie Andrews during the making of The Sound of Music 1965  With Dan Stevens in The Man Who Invented Christmas 2017  As the evil Ralph Nickleby in Nicholas Nickleby 2002  As Sherlock Holmes in Murder by Decree 1979 (with James Mason as Dr Watson)  Early movie role in Wind Across the Everglades 1958 |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 13, 2017 18:31:23 GMT
teleadmGreat pictures ! He looks so much like daughter Amanda in the Holmes image !
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Dec 13, 2017 18:32:02 GMT
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Dec 13, 2017 18:44:17 GMT
Anyone else think it was a missed opportunity that he was NOT cast as Professor Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series? I think he sort of resembles Richard Harris. No offense to Michael Gambon who did take over the role and made it his own, but I present the following: Harris:  Plummer:  Gambon:  Plummer:  |
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Post by vegalyra on Dec 13, 2017 19:42:17 GMT
I forgot about the Last Station where he played Tolstoy. I meant to see that and it slipped out of my memory.
Tim
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Post by spiderwort on Dec 13, 2017 21:47:44 GMT
In the play J.B. he came into the audience to say some of the lines and he stood right next to me for several minutes. Hey, Bat. Are you talking about the Elia Kazan Broadway version? I would have loved to have seen that! |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 13, 2017 21:56:24 GMT
spiderwortWell, looky what I just found . Yes Elia Kazan directed it. Never knew that ! JB on Broadwayand there was a Columbo the other night with Nan Martin in it and I could NOT recall where I had seen her. Lo and behold she was in JB. Christopher Plummer was VERY tall (when standing and you are a kid sitting) and very impressive ! Some guy named Raymond Massey meant nothing to me at the time. Looking at the cast list, I am astonished ! The things that are lost on the young, eh ?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 13, 2017 22:03:24 GMT
Photo from the Playbill  Plummer with Rathbone in JB  Tryouts in DC  The ANTA in NYC  > |
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Post by spiderwort on Dec 13, 2017 22:58:02 GMT
BATouttaheck OMG, Bat, thank you so much for this treasure trove of memorabilia! I can't believe you got to see any Kazan play, let alone this one, perhaps the most unlikely Kazan effort I could think of. I love the play (having read it only), but I can't imagine the joy it must have brought you when you actually saw it (and that production, in particular). Thank you, for sharing this, and for allowing me the vicarious thrill of feeling that I've now, in some way, seen it, too. Interesting to see Pat Hingle in the cast, but not a surprise, given that Kazan directed him on Broadway the year before in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. What a trip down memory lane this is for me. Even I, the biggest Kazan fan, tend to forget the extent of his theatrical accomplishments. Now I'll have to dig out the play and read it again. (And it also has a music score by my beloved friend, the amazing David Amram, who also wrote the music for Kazan's production of Arthur Miller's After the Fall and Kazan's film, Splendor in the Grass.) Thank you again, so much, for sharing all of this.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 13, 2017 23:12:30 GMT
Interesting thing about looking at the Theater Database and even at my box of Playbills is that I saw people who either "weren't anyone" at the time I saw them OR they were "someone" and I had no idea that I should be impressed by seeing them. One of these winters, I intend to go thru the pile and make a list of at least the "who". That theater link is tricky to use but it's handy ! spiderwort |
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Post by salomonj on Dec 13, 2017 23:23:40 GMT
Happy birthday to Mr. Plummer!
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Post by rudeboy on Dec 14, 2017 0:14:50 GMT
One of my favourites, many happy returns!
Personal favourite performances include his Rudyard Kipling in The Man Who Would Be King and Mike Wallace in The Insider. And his Captain Von Trapp adds some much needed bite to The Sound of Music, too!
And still going strong - not many actors remain so prolific at such an age.
His journey from casting through shooting to awards recognition (he already has a Golden Globe nomination) for All the Money in the World, all within a matter of a few weeks, has to be some kind of bizarre record, right?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 14, 2017 1:34:26 GMT
Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄Plummer would, no doubt, have fit into the Potter role (any role) just fine. Perhaps it was a matter of being available for the series while it was being filmed. That was quite a time commitment filming all of the books. Great that you found pictures of Plummer and Gambon even wearing the same style hat !
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Dec 14, 2017 1:46:45 GMT
Wonderful actor. His role as Commodus in Fall of the Roman Empire is one of my favorites. While I like Joaquin Phoenix, he couldn't hold a candle to Plummer in that role... Glad you mentioned that. Much preferred him in the role and the character had more dimensions too. Other favorites: Triple Cross The Royal Hunt of the Sun (he's dubbed) The Return of the Pink Panther The Man Who Would Be King Star Trek 6 Murder By Decree Starcrash "Imperial Battleship, halt the flow of time!" |
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Post by gunshotwound on Dec 14, 2017 1:51:54 GMT
Happy Birthday Christopher Plummer!!!!!
I do not think I have ever seen a performance of Mr. Plummer's that I did not like. Always an asset to any production. Mr. Plummer looks fabulous in Chanel!!!!!!! |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 14, 2017 2:14:37 GMT
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