He’d been a working actor since the early 1950s when he made his Broadway debut in the 1953 production of The Starcross Story. What’s that you say? You’ve never heard of that play? Well, it did close after opening night. A lesser person might assume that Plummer would’ve considered a different career after that night. But Christopher Plummer would not be that lesser person. Over the next decade, he established himself as a regular on Broadway, appearing in hit after hit. He also appeared in London’s West End and several Shakespeare productions at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario.