He must be doing something right. Christopher Plummer, nominated for an Oscar for his work in Beginners, can trace his career back to an apprenticeship in 1948.
Christopher Plummer and Tom Waits in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009). (Courtesy of E1 Entertainment)
Christopher Plummer in The Disappearance (1977).
Christopher Plummer in Atom Egoyan's Ararat (2002).
Christopher Plummer and Susannah York in Battle of Britain (1969).
Christopher Plummer and Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music (1965). (20th Century Fox)
Christopher Plummer as General Chang in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991).
Christopher Plummer as Sir Charles Litton in Return of the Pink Panther (1975).
Christopher Plummer as Harry Reikle, the psychopathic bank robber in The Silent Partner (1978).
Christopher Plummer as Prospero in the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's production of The Tempest (2010). (David Hou)
Christopher Plummer and Ewan McGregor in Beginners (2010). (Focus Features)
Christopher Plummer as John Barrymore in the 1996 Stratford Ontario Festival production of Barrymore by William Luce. (Cylla von Tiedemann/Cylla von Tiedemann)
Christopher Plummer as Tolstoy in The Last Station (2009). (Stephan Rabold, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)
Christopher Plummer and Nikki M. James in the Stratford production of Caesar and Cleopatra (2008). (Stratford Shakespeare Festival)
Christopher Plummer as Cyrano de Bergerac in a 1962 Stratford production. (CBC)
Christopher Plummer as Hamlet, right, in a 1957 Stratford production. The production also featured Frances Hyland as Ophelia. (CBC)
Christopher Plummer, foreground, with Daniel Craig in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011). (Baldur Bragason)
Christopher Plummer and Glenda Jackson in Shakespeare's Macbeth. The production played at Toronto's O'Keefe Centre in March, 1988.
Christopher Plummer as Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999).