Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages

by | Sep 18, 2020

“Christopher Plummer so embodies his roles that for many he will always be the stoic, reserved and somewhat dreary Captain Von Trapp from The Sound of Music. Others think of him as a brooding, tortured Hamlet, or a calculating Sherlock, or the reptilian incarnation of Iago in Shakespeare’s Othello.
The star of countless Hollywood Box Office hits including The Return of the Pink Panther, The Man Who Would Be King, Murder By Decree, Star Trek VI, The Insider, and most recently, his Oscar award winning performance in The Beginners. The scope and universality of his talent is unquestionable. Plummer has played almost every important character in both classical and contemporary repertoires, but few really know much about the man behind the characters. Where does he come from? What influences shaped him? What are the behind-the-scenes stories from five exceptional decades of performances?
A Man for All Stages explores the many stages, theatrical and personal, of Christopher Plummer’s extraordinary life. This documentary traces the evolution of Plummer from an amateur actor in Montreal to a highly respected international star. It is an intimate sharing of stories between Plummer and the people who have shaped, inspired, and worked with him, and is set on the key stages where he carries out his craft and lives his life: Canada, the U.S., and Europe.

With: Dame Julie Andrews, Tammy Grimes, Ron Howard, Sir Jonathan Millar, Paul Newman, Christopher Plummer, Elaine Taylor Plummer, Amanda Plummer, Dr. Oscar E. Peterson, William Shatner, Joanne Woodward and many others.
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