Your favourite Christopher Plummer films and TV series?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Christopher Plummer
Maddyclassicfilms — 10 years ago(January 24, 2016 12:37 PM)
Christopher is one of my favourite actors and is always a treat to watch. Which of his films and TV series are your favourites? For me it's the following.
Man in the Chair
International Velvet
Murder By Decree
The Sound of Music
The Thorn Birds
(TV series)
Counterstrike
(TV series)
The Last Station
Danny Collins
Agent of Influence
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utilitysinger — 10 years ago(March 03, 2016 06:01 PM)Yes, his Hamlet was amazing.
I really liked the live TV performance of On Golden Pond he did in 2001 with Julie Andrews. It is on youtube in several installments. While I think they were far too young and vibrant at the time to be fussing so much about the end of life, they were wonderful. -
JaneThree — 9 years ago(June 27, 2016 02:14 PM)
Liked him in Dolores Claiborne, where he played the Detective who wanted to put Dolores away for killing her employer, since he'd failed at putting her away for killing her husband (She didn't kill her employer). I thought the gloomy, wet Maine atmosphere suited Plummer pretty well. His character was an odd duck - sort of a fanatic, but Plummer didn't make it OTT. And kind of mysterious - Dolores makes a wisecrack about his marriage (he had it coming) and he mentions his wife's bone cancer. And then he tells Dolores' daughter that in his career he'd managed to close every case to his satisfaction - except one.
I think he pretty much invented that character. It could have been played in almost any manner, and I liked what Plummer did with it. Boy did he have to take some shots from Dolores (Kathy Bates was hilarious and fabulous in it - should have won an Academy Award). It could have been a much more stock role, but Plummer was effective and made you curious about the guy.
Of course, liked him in the Sound of Music, where, oddly enough, I thought that as the rigid Captain he was much more natural and "free" than he was in other younger roles. At least with Maria.