I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

Theater, film and television actor                          

Selected Works:

Stage Struck - 1958
Wind Across the Everglades - 1958
A Doll's House - 1959 - TV
Playdate - 1961 TV Series
Cyrano de Bergerac - 1962 - TV
The Fall of the Roman Empire - 1964
Hamlet at Elsinore- 1964 TV film
The Sound Of Music - 1965
Inside Daisy Clover - 1966
Triple Cross, original title: La Fantastique histoire vraie d'Eddie Chapman - 1966
The Night of the Generals - 1967
Oedipus the King - 1967
Nobody Runs Forever - aka The High Commissioner - 1968
Battle of Britain - 1969
The Royal Hunt of the Sun - 1969
Lock Up Your Daughters! - 1969
Waterloo - 1970
Don Juan in Hell - 1971 - TV
The Pyx - 1973
After the Fall - 1974 - TV
The Happy Prince - 1974
The Spiral Staircase - 1975
The Return of the Pink Panther - 1975
Conduct Unbecoming - 1975
The Man Who Would Be King - 1975
Sarajevski atentat - 1975
Aces High - 1976
Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers - 1976 TV mini series
Jesus of Nazareth - 1977
Uppdraget - 1977
The Disappearance - 1977
Silver Blaze - 1977 - TV
The Silent Partner - 1978
International Velvet - 1978
Starcrash - 1979
Murder by Decree - 1979
Riel - 1979 - TV
Hanover Street - 1979
Desperate Voyage - 1980 - TV
The Shadow Box - 1980 - TV
Somewhere in Time - 1980
When the Circus Came to Town - 1981 - TV
Dial M for Murder - TV - 1981
Eyewitness - 1981
The Amateur - 1981
Little Gloria... Happy at Last - 1982 - TV
The Scarlet and the Black - 1983 - TV
The Thorn Birds - 1983 TV mini series
Prototype - 1983 - TV
Dreamscape - 1984
Highpoint - 1984
Terror in the Aisles - 1984
Ordeal by Innocence - 1984
Játszani kell - 1985
The World of David the Gnome - 1985 TV Series
Rumpelstiltskin - 1985 - 1985 Animated TV Movie
The Boy in Blue - 1986
Crossings - 1986 TV mini series
The Boss' Wife - 1986
An American Tail - 1986 - voice
Spearfield's Daughter - 1986 TV mini series
Nosferatu a Venezia - 1986
Dragnet - 1987
A Hazard of Hearts - 1987 - TV
The Man Who Planted Trees - 1987
The Gnomes' Great Adventure - 1987
Gandahar - 1988 - voice
Shadow Dancing - 1988
I Love N.Y. - 1988
Souvenir - 1989
Nabokov on Kafka - 1989 - TV
Mindfield - 1989
Kingsgate - 1989
Where the Heart Is - 1990
A Ghost in Monte Carlo - 1990 - TV
Red Blooded American Girl - 1990
Money - 1990
Madeline - 1990 TV series - voice
Counterstrike - 1990 TV series
Firehead - 1991
Young Catherine - 1991 - TV
A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz - 1991 - TV
Rock-A-Doodle - 1991 - voice
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country - 1991
Berlin Lady - 1991 TV mini series
The First Circle - 1991 - TV
Secrets - 1992I - TV
Impolite - 1992
Malcolm X - 1992
Liar's Edge - 1992 - TV
Sidney Sheldon's A Stranger in the Mirror - 1993 - TV
The Little Crooked Christmas Tree - 1993 - TV - voice
Wolf - 1994
Crackerjack - 1994
Dolores Claiborne - 1995
Harrison Bergeron - 1995 - TV
Twelve Monkeys - 1995
We the Jury - 1996 - TV
Skeletons - 1996
The Conspiracy of Fear - 1996 - TV
The Arrow - 1997 - TV
Babes in Toyland - 1997 - voice
Winchell - 1998 - TV
Hidden Agenda - 1998
The First Christmas - 1998
The Clown at Midnight - 1998
Celebrate the Century - 1999 TV mini series
Madeline: Lost in Paris - 1999 - voice
The Insider - 1999
Nuremberg - 2000 TV mini series
The Dinosaur Hunter - 2000
Possessed - 2000 - TV
American Tragedy - 2000 - TV
Dracula 2000 - 2000
Star Trek: Klingon Academy - 2000 - VG
Leo's Journey - 2001 - TV
On Golden Pond - 2001 - TV
Lucky Break - 2001
Blackheart - 2001
A Beautiful Mind - 2001
Full Disclosure - 2001 - V
Night Flight - 2002 - TV
Ararat - 2002
Agent of Influence - 2002 - TV
Nicholas Nickleby - 2002
Tma - 2002
Blizzard - 2003
Gospel of John - 2003 - voice
Cold Creek Manor - 2003
National Treasure - 2004
Alexander - 2004
Our Fathers - 2005 - TV
Must Love Dogs - 2005
Syriana - 2005
The New World - 2005
Inside Man - 2006
The Lake House - 2006
Man in the Chair - 2007
Closing the Ring - 2007
Emotional Arithmetic - 2007
Already Dead - 2007
9 - 2008
My Dog Tulip - 2008 - post-production
The Summit - 2008 TV mini series
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - 2009.                          

Mother Isabella Mary Abbott
Father John Plummer
First wife Tammy Grimes 1956-1960, one daughter Amanda
Second wife Patricia Lewis 1962-1967
Third wife Elaine Taylor 1970-                          

Partial list of awards:

London Evening Standard Award as Best Actor - 1961, for his portrayal of King Henry II in the stage play, Becket

Genie Award - 1980, for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in Murder by Decree

Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical - 1974, for his lead role in Cyrano

Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play - 1997, for his lead role in Barrymore

Emmy Award - 1976, as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series for Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers

Emmy Award - 1994, for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for his work on the Family Channel's Madeline children's series

Edwin Booth Lifetime Achievement Award - 1997

Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theatre - 2002
                          

Plummers’ maternal great-grandfather was former Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Abbott.