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Born
December 13, 1929 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Died
February 5, 2021 · Weston, Connecticut, USA (complications from a fall)

Birth name
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer

QUOTES:

Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don’t think life has very much meaning.

I’m bored with questions about acting.

[on working with Dame Julie Andrews] Working with her is like being hit over the head with a Valentine’s card.

[2011, a revised opinion on The Sound of Music (1965)] People were unnaturally sentimental about the film. So I always gave it a tough time. But a few years ago, I went to an Easter party and had to watch the damn thing with these kids. I was a prisoner! And then I thought, it’s got everything – the lovely songs, the Nazis and the nuns and the kids. It’s timeless and I’m grateful for it.

[on receiving a Screen Actors Guild award for Beginners (2010)] I just can’t tell you what fun I’ve had being a member of the world’s second oldest profession. When they honor you, it’s like being lit by the holy grail.

[on the ability to convey a sense of pathos] Very few people have it naturally – Chaplin, Brando. It’s a gift. But you can learn how to fake it.

Ewan (McGregor) doesn’t act, he inhabits a role. And, of course, he makes you not act and inhabit the role, like it’s a competition. I owe that to him.