Paul Muni

He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6435 Hollywood Blvd. Christopher Plummer also performed the voice of Pedestrian voice #40 in the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Academy Awards and Nominations. Plummer is still a sought-after performer in his late 70's, and age has not diminished his workload or his energy. Partial Filmography. In 2002, he starred with Dame Julie Andrews and Charlotte Church in A Royal Christmas, one of the largest holiday extravaganzas ever produced for the stage. He died in Montecito, California. In an article written about his portrayal of King Lear at the Stratford Festival, the New York Times called him "the most accomplished classical actor in North America.".

He was becoming increasingly infirm, however, and by 1959, soon after receiving his final Academy Award nomination for The Last Angry Man (1959) he retired from acting. In 1986, he was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame and into Canada's Walk of Fame in 1997. After several failed projects, Muni was nominated for a Tony Award in 1955 for the role of Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind. He was given an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from New York's Juilliard School and is the recipient of a lifetime achievement award by the Governor-General of Canada. Over the years, he also because increasingly dependent on his wife Bella, who terrified directors by forcing them to redo scenes that did not meet her satisfaction. Plummer was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1968. He would go into a rage whenever anyone wore red, but at the same time he could often be found between sessions relaxing with his violin. From his marriage to Tony Award winning actress Tammy Grimes he has a daughter, Amanda Plummer, who is an actress in her own right.

He was widely recognized as a talented if eccentric individual. He made his Broadway debut in 1954 and has performed numerous roles at the Stratford Festival of Canada and London's West End. In the ensuing years until his retirement in 1959, he spent his time acting on film and stage. Christopher Plummer began his professional career in Canadian theater, radio in the late 1940s, performing in both the English and French languages. He went on to receive a Best Actor nomination for The Life of Emile Zola (1937) and to win the Academy Award for The Story of Louis Pasteur (1939). He went on to train for the theater with the Canadian Repertory Company in Ottawa. Warner Brothers recognized his considerable talent and signed a long-term contract with him. He studied to be a concert pianist but developed a love of the theater at an early age and began acting in High School.

In 1932 Muni returned to Hollywood to star in Scarface and I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, for which he received a second Best Actor nomination. Plummer was born in Toronto, Ontario. The great grandson of former Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Abbott, following his parents' divorce he moved with his mother to live in Senneville, Quebec, near Montreal. He was signed by Fox three years later, in 1929, and received an Oscar nomination for his first film The Valiant, but he was unhappy with the roles and decided to return to Broadway. His international popularity began with his role as Captain von Trapp in the 1965 film The Sound of Music, costarring Julie Andrews. His first role, that of an elderly Jewish man in the play We Americans by Sam Harris, was also the first time that he ever acted in English. He is one of his country's most prominent and respected actors and viewed by most as one of the world's finest stage performers, particularly in roles from the pen of William Shakespeare. Muni was twenty-nine when he began acting on Broadway. Christopher Plummer (full name Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer) (born December 13, 1929¹) is a Canadian theatrical, film and television actor.

It was an appropriate beginning for an actor who loved wearing elaborate costumes and assuming accents in his film career. Stage Struck (1958). In a stage quirk, Muni played an eighty-year-old man as his first role. Wind Across the Everglades (1958). He made his stage debut at the age of twelve, and was quickly recognized by Maurice Schwartz, who signed him up with his Yiddish Art Theater. A Doll's House (1959) (TV). Both of Muni's parents were actors with the Yiddish theater and it was only natural that he would join them on stage. Playdate (1961) TV Series.

Born Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund in Lwow, Galicja, autonomus province of Austria-Hungary (now Lviv, Ukraine), his family emigrated to the United States in 1902. Cyrano de Bergerac (1962) (TV). Paul Muni (September 22, 1895 - August 25, 1967) was a versatile actor from the Golden Age of Hollywood, nominated for five Academy Awards. The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964). 1930 Nominated The Valiant. Hamlet (1964/III) (TV). 1934 Nominated I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. The Sound of Music (1965).

1937 Won The Story of Louis Pasteur. Inside Daisy Clover (1966). 1938 Nominated The Life of Emile Zola. The Night of the Generals (1967). 1960 Nominated The Last Angry Man. La Fantastique histoire vraie d'Eddie Chapman (1967). The Last Angry Man (1959). Oedipus the King (1967).

Counter Attack (1945). Nobody Runs Forever (1968). A Song to Remember (1945). Battle of Britain (1969). Hudson's Bay (1940). The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969). Juarez (1939). Lock Up Your Daughters! (1969).

The Good Earth (1937). Waterloo (1970). The Life of Emile Zola (1937). Don Juan in Hell (1971) (TV). The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936). The Pyx (1973). Socrates (1935). After the Fall (1974) (TV).

Dr. The Happy Prince (1974). I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932). The Spiral Staircase (1975). Scarface (1932). The Return of the Pink Panther (1975). Seven Faces (1929). Conduct Unbecoming (1975).

The Amateur (1981). Happy at Last (1982) (TV). Little Gloria.. The Scarlet and the Black (1983) (TV).