As classically trained, Canadian, stage actor, Plummer headlined for Britain's National Theatre and made his film début in 1957's Stage Struck.
Throughout his long career he has been lauded and has won many awards. Probably his best known role was that of Captain Von Trapp in the 1965 musical movie 'The Sound of Music'.
It was not a role Plummer was particularly fond of, and despite him referring to the film as 'The Sound of Mucus' , he ruefully acknowledged that the project made him a hugely bankable star.
More than 40 years after The Sound of Music and Plummer has never been busier, his most recent award was a BAFTA for the 2011 film Beginners.