Richard Farnsworth earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of Alvin Straight ; the oldest person ever to be nominated for a Best Actor Oscar until Max von Sydow and Christopher Plummer were both nominated ( although Plummer and Von Sydow were nominated in the supporting category, where as Farnsworth was lead ) in 2012 at age 82 ( Plummer also won the award that year, being its oldest recipient ).

Plummer in 1982 was nominated for Best Actress in a Play for A Taste of Honey and Best Featured Actress in a Play for Agnes of God, for which she won.

Plummer has won numerous awards and accolades for his work, including an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a SAG Award, and a BAFTA Award.

For that performance, Plummer won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance.

For his performance, Plummer won the Evening Standard Award for Best Actor.

Plummer has won many honours in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Austria.

Plummer has won two Tony Awards ( from seven nominations ), and two Emmy Awards ( six nominations ) in the United States, and Great Britain's Evening Standard Awards.

The film was nominated for 8 Genie Awards in 1980, of which it won 5, including Best Achievement in Direction ( Bob Clark ), Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role ( Geneviève Bujold ) and Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role ( Christopher Plummer ).

In March 2007, McMillan sued Plummer and his lawyer for $ 40 million, citing an intentional strategy to embarrass and humiliate her during the divorce proceedings ; McMillan eventually won a judgment of intentional infliction of emotional distress, but had withdrawn the suit before the case went to trial ; Plummer was never ordered to pay the intended amount.

Other notable English-speaking Cyranos were Ralph Richardson, DeVeren Bookwalter, Derek Jacobi, Richard Chamberlain, and Christopher Plummer, who played the part in Rostand's original play and won a Tony Award for the 1973 musical adaptation.

In 1973, a musical adaptation by Anthony Burgess, called Cyrano and starring Christopher Plummer ( who won a Tony Award for his performance ), appeared in Boston and then on Broadway.

Amanda Plummer won an Emmy for her appearance in this episode.

However, he once again became involved in a dispute that ended in a gunfight won by Plummer.

* Actors have won Tony Awards for both Best Actor in a Play and Best Actor in a Musical for playing Cyrano de Bergerac: Jose Ferrer in Cyrano de Bergerac and Christopher Plummer in Cyrano.

Plummer received the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play and Page was nominated for Best Actress in a Play.

With his win at the age of 82 in 2012 for Beginners, Plummer is the oldest actor ever to win an Academy Award.

After appearing in another flop, Night of the Auk, Plummer was in another hit, Elia Kazan's production of Archibald MacLeish's Pulitzer Prize-winning play J. B., for which he was nominated for his first Tony Award as Best Actor in Play.

Predictions of an Oscar nomination circulated, but such recognition only came in January 2010 when Plummer received his first Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of author Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station ( 2009 ).

Speaking to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in an interview that aired on March 7, 2010, Plummer appeared slightly irritated that it had taken so long to receive a personal Academy Award nomination, saying, " Well, I said it's about time!

The agency ’ s acting clients include Academy Award winners Christoph Waltz, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Robert Duvall, Al Pacino, William Hurt, Susan Sarandon, and Christopher Walken, as well as Mickey Rourke, Frank Langella, Hailee Steinfeld, David Strathairn, Abigail Breslin, Laura Linney, Samuel L. Jackson, Megan Fox, Michael Cera, Zoe Saldana, Michelle Monaghan, Lesley Manville, Jacki Weaver, Seann William Scott, America Ferrera, Michael Stuhlbarg, Emmy Rossum, and Christina Ricci.

In the Broadway revival by the Roundabout Theatre Company directed by David Jones, which opened on 27 February 1994 at the Criterion Centre Stage Right Theatre, in New York City, with Jason Robards as Hirst, Christopher Plummer ( nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play ) as Spooner, Tom Wood as Foster, and John Seitz as Briggs.

It stars Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford, Roddy McDowall and Ruth Gordon in an Academy Award nominated performance.

The show was not without controversy: Award winner Christopher Plummer used his speech to criticize the distinction made between Canadian and foreign actors.

) His appearances on The Cosby Show, including a memorable episode in which he recited Shakespeare with fellow guest star Christopher Plummer, also drew acclaim as well winning an Emmy Award in 1986 for his guest role as Professor Foster.

The film also features an extensive supporting cast including Amanda Peet, Tim Blake Nelson, Alexander Siddig, Amr Waked and Academy Award winners Christopher Plummer, Chris Cooper, and William Hurt.

In the words of Charles Plummer, one of the best-known editors of the Historia Ecclesiastica, Bede's Latin is " clear and limpid ... it is very seldom that we have to pause to think of the meaning of a sentence ... Alcuin rightly praises Bede for his unpretending style.

The characters he portrayed in the films were usually very similar to the wise-cracking, sly, lecherous Cockney he was famed for playing on television, and in six cases bore the name Sid or Sidney: Sidney Fiddler, Sid Carter, Sid Plummer, Sidney Bliss, Sidney Boggle and Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond.

In 2004, post-modern choreographer David Gordon created a dance-theatre version of the play called Dancing Henry Five, which mixed William Walton's music written for the Olivier film, recorded speeches from the film itself and by Christopher Plummer, and commentary written by Gordon.

In 1952, the film was remade under its original title for a TV adaptation for the Broadway Television Theatre starring Sylvia Sidney, Christopher Plummer, and Ian Keith.

Lappenberg and Charles Plummer, for instance, identified Eric with Harald's son Hiring.

* 2005: Minoru S. " Sam " Araki, Francis J. Madden, Edward A. Miller, James W. Plummer and Don H. Schoessler for the design, development, and operation of Corona, the first space-based Earth observation systems.

Plummer found the same IGBT mode of operation in the four layer device ( SCR ) and he first filed a patent application for the device structure in 1978.

On August 1, 1792, William Plummer laid out 36 lots for the town.

After the Civil War, Adam Plummer purchased ten acres of land for $ 1000, south of the plantation and sought out and recovered family members that had been sold during slavery to deep south plantations, thus establishing the settlement.

That changed in 2003 with the election of Democrats Theresa Egan as Town Supervisor and Dan Plummer, along with Independence Party member Tim Gordon, creating a new majority on the town board for the first time in recollection.

In 1946, his performance as Mr. Darcy in the production of Pride and Prejudice at Montreal High brought Christopher Plummer to the attention of Herbert Whittaker, the theatre critic of the Montreal Gazette.

Plummer returned to the stage at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in August 2008 in a critically acclaimed performance as Julius Caesar in George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra directed by Tony winner Des McAnuff ; this production was videotaped and shown in high-definition in Canadian cinemas on January 31, 2009 ( with an encore presentation on February 23, 2009 ) and broadcast on April 4, 2009 on Bravo!

Although Harrison persuaded the producers to reverse the decision, Plummer was satisfied by receiving $ 87, 500 just for signing the contract and didn't even miss a performance of his role in the stage play The Royal Hunt of the Sun during this incident.

However, in August, 1859, his many supporters wrote to the governor to seeking a pardon based on his good character and civic performance ; the governor subsequently granted the pardon, but it was based on his health — Plummer was suffering from tuberculosis.

Five days after her death, " an overflow crowd of colleagues, friends and fans ", including Sissy Spacek, James Earl Jones, Amanda Plummer and husband Rip Torn filled the Neil Simon Theatre to pay tribute.

Plummer took up acting after seeing Laurence Olivier's film Henry V ( 1944 ).

The film also mentions how Shatner was Plummer's understudy for a production of Henry V at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival ; and that after Plummer had fallen ill, Shatner was forced to take the stage, and thus earned his first big break.

George Marsden Plummer ( created by Ernest Semphill ), a crooked Detective Sergeant at Scotland Yard, went after Blake when Blake stood between Plummer and a fortune — but like many others, Plummer ended up in a police cell.

The spell which bound Jadis was broken when Digory Kirke — who had arrived in Charn with Polly Plummer — succumbed to temptation and rang a bell in the royal palace where Jadis slumbered, along with images of her royal ancestors, after reading a verse which hinted that he would be driven mad by curiosity if he did not do so.

Soon after, he is demoted from editor in chief of a publishing house during a takeover by ruthless tycoon Raymond Alden ( Christopher Plummer ), who replaces him with Will's ambitious protégé Stewart Swinton ( James Spader ).

The disease is named after two Americans: the physician Henry Stanley Plummer and the surgeon Porter Paisley Vinson.

Before the 2003 season, after the Broncos signed former Cardinals QB Jake Plummer to be their new starter, Beuerlein considered retiring at age 38, but decided to play one more year after Shanahan personally visited his home and asked him to stay.

Three plays after the ensuing kickoff, Colts lineman Rob Morris recovered a fumble from Plummer on the Broncos 20-yard line, setting up a 20-yard field goal from Vanderjagt.

Then four plays after the ensuing kickoff, Macklin recorded his second interception from Plummer and returned it 32 yards to the Broncos 49-yard line.

Wolfe is assigned to stay at the Plummer residence, in Bethesda, Maryland to search for the secret project called GHOST, hidden somewhere in the house, and to look after the family's five children: Zoe ( Brittany Snow ), Seth ( Max Thieriot ), Lulu ( Morgan York ), Peter ( Logan and Keegan Hoover ), and Baby Tyler ( Bo and Luke Vink ).

Then after forcing a punt, Broncos quarterback Jake Plummer threw a pass that was intercepted by Asante Samuel.

Three plays after the kickoff, Broncos quarterback Jake Plummer lost a fumble while being sacked by Joey Porter and Steelers lineman Casey Hampton recovered it at the Denver 39-yard line.

Then on the first play after the ensuing kickoff, defensive back Ike Taylor intercepted a pass from Plummer on the Broncos 39-yard line.

But after a Steelers punt, defensive end Brett Keisel forced a fumble on fourth down from Plummer and his teammate Travis Kirschke recovered it at the Broncos 17-yard line.