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Feb 5, 2021 · Christopher Plummer, the distinguished Canadian actor best known for his role as Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music, has died at the age of 91. He won an Oscar in 2012 for the film...
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer CC (December 13, 1929 – February 5, 2021) was a Canadian actor. His career spanned seven decades, gaining him recognition for his performances in film, stage, and television.
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Feb 5, 2021 · The actor passed away on Friday morning at his home in Connecticut with his wife Elaine Taylor by his side, his manager said. He was known for his roles in The Sound of Music, Beginners, Knives Out and All the Money in the World.
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Plummer became the oldest actor ever to win an Academy Award for acting when he won Best Supporting Actor for “Beginners” in 2010 at age 82; he then became the oldest actor nominated when, in 2018, he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at age 88 for “All the Money in the World.” Plummer was also a renowned stage actor on Broadway, at the Strat...
Plummer’s film career began in 1958 with his film debut, Sidney Lumet’s “Stage Struck.” He went on to appear in more than 100 films, including “The Return of the Pink Panther” (1975), “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country” (1991), “The Insider” (1999), “A Beautiful Mind” (2001), “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” (2011), and “Knives Out” (2019). H...
Plummer was most frequently associated with “The Sound of Music,” much to his chagrin. He considered his character boring and the movie “so awful and sentimental and gooey,” as he told the Hollywood Reporter in a 2011 interview. He was known to refer to the film as “The Sound of Mucus,” but he did soften on it over the years. Though the film became...
“As cynical as I was about ‘The Sound of Music,’ I do respect that it is a bit of relief from all the gunfire and car chases you see these days. It’s sort of wonderfully, old-fashionedly universal. It’s got the bad guys and the Alps; it’s got Julie and sentiment in bucketloads. Our director, dear old Bob Wise, did keep it from falling over the edge...
Feb 5, 2021 · Plummer died Friday morning at his home in Connecticut — two and a half weeks after suffering a fall — with his wife, Elaine Taylor, by his side, said Lou Pitt, his longtime friend and manager.
Feb 5, 2021 · Christopher Plummer, the dashing award-winning actor who played Captain von Trapp in the film “The Sound of Music” and at 82 became the oldest Academy Award acting winner in history, has died.
Feb 5, 2021 · Plummer, who starred as widower Captain von Trapp opposite Julie Andrews in the blockbuster 1965 musical The Sound Of Music, passed away peacefully at his home in Connecticut with his wife Elaine...
