On February 5, 2021, Hollywood witnessed the death of one of the greatest actors in their history, Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer, popularly known as Christopher Plummer. The legendary actor died at the age of 91.
The actor, who was from Canada had an acting career that spanned for nearly seven decades, winning several awards like an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Till date, he is the only Canadianto have won the "Tripple Crown of Acting" ( the Oscars, Emmy, and Tony Awards.
Plummer also starred in movies that smashed Box Office records. He made his debut in 1954, acting in several Shakespearean plays, like Othello, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Macbeth, King Lear, etc.
Today, we take a look at the top ten greatest performances of Christopher Plummer. Let's see what his best performance was.
(10) MALCOLM X
This 1993 biopic features Denzel Washington as the eponymous character and centers on the key moments of his life. Plummer plays the role of Chaplain, a racialist prison Reverend of Malcolm X's prison.
(9) THE INSIDER
This 1999 Academy Award nominated movie centers on a whist lower determined to expose to the public the truth about the corrupt internal plans of a tobacco company. Plummer plays the role of Michael Wallace, a news presenter.
(8) KNIVES OUT
In this 2019 crime movie, Plummer's role is the patriarch of Thonbey family who died in his room under inexplicable circumstance and its investigation carried out by Daniel Craig's character and his team.
(7) THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING
This 1975 adventure picture shot in technicolor centers on Sean Connery and Michael Caine, two ex soldiers who seeks adventure in 1880s British India but finds themselves in Kafristan where there are finally crowned rulers. Plummer plays the role of eminent writer Rudyard Kipling.
(6) A BEAUTIFUL MIND
This 2001 Academy Award winner for Best Picture tells the biographical story of Nobel Prize physicist and Mathematician John Nash and his descent and recovery from paranoid schizophrenia. Plummer plays the role of Dr Rosen, who aid Russell Crowe's Dr Nash overcome the sickness.
(5) ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD
In this 2017 picture, kidnappers request seventeen million dollars from a complicated billionaire in exchange for his grandson's release. Plummer replaces Kevin Spacey in the role of Billionaire John Paul Getty, a role that made him the oldest Academy Award nominee at the age of eighty-seven.
(4) UP
This 2009 animated picture centers on an old widower who undertakes an adventure to find Paradise Falls, where he and his spouse desires to visit. Plummer voices Charles Muntz, the explorer that motivates Carl to take the adventure.
(3) THE LAST STATION
This 2009 biopic centers on the final moments famed Russian writer Leo Tolstoy's life. Plummer and Helen Mirren play the roles of Leo and Sophia Tolstoy with both actors receiving Academy Award's nominations.
(2) THE BEGINNERS
This 2010 romantic comedy movie tells the story of an aged widower who comes out and spend his life as an homosexual, learning more about himself in the process. Plummer plays the role of Hal, the homosexual widower, winning his first and only Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
(1)THE SOUND OF MUSIC
A cinematic classic, this Best Picture winner centers on Captain Von Trapp, a role played by Plummer, who's the father to seven children and who must relocate his family and new wife Maria, played by Julie Andrews, to safety to Switzerland to flee from the Nazis. The role in this 1965 movie established Plummer as an actor of international reputation.
The Sound of Music is known as Christopher Plummer's greatest movie role. The movie is the highest grossing movie of all time by adjusted inflation.
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