The evening with Tony Award winner Plummer will focus on his television work, which began with his debut in 1953 in "The Gathering Night," an adaptation of Kipling’s "The Light That Failed," about a painter who loses his eyesight.
The acclaimed actor will be joined by New York Magazine/"CBS Sunday Morning" film critic David Edelstein, who will moderate the seminar.
Attendees can expect to see clips from the following productions:
Studio One: The Gathering Night (1953)
Appointment With Adventure: A Thief There Was (1956)
Hallmark Hall of Fame: Little Moon of Alban (1958)
Hallmark Hall of Fame: Johnny Belinda (1958)
Hallmark Hall of Fame: A Doll’s House (1959)
Hallmark Hall of Fame: Captain Brassbound’s Conversion (1960)
Hallmark Hall of Fame: Time Remembered (1961)
Hallmark Hall of Fame: Cyrano (1962)
Hamlet at Elsinore (1964)
The Tonight Show (w/ Plummer) (1973)
ABC Theatre: The Shadow Box (1980)
Little Gloria…Happy at Last (1982)
ABC Novel for Television: The Thorn Birds, Ep. 2 (1983)
Nabokov on Kafka (1989)
A Marriage: Georgia O’Keeffe & Alfred Stieglitz (1991)
Winchell (1998)
Nuremberg (2000)
On Golden Pond (2001)
Rebecca Paller is the curator of the event.
Tickets are $15 ($10 for Paley Center members). For more information call (212) 621-6600 or go to paleycenter.org. The Paley Center for Media is located at 25 West 52nd Street.