Oscar-winner Christopher Plummer dead at 91 Share Updated: 6:45 PM EST Feb 5, 2021 By MARK KENNEDY, AP Entertainment Writer
Oscar-winner Christopher Plummer dead at 91 Share Updated: 6:45 PM EST Feb 5, 2021
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TRACKING THE COVID-19 VACCINE Share Updated: 6:45 PM EST Feb 5, 2021 By MARK KENNEDY, AP Entertainment Writer 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. He was 91.Plummer died Friday morning at his home in Connecticut with his wife, Elaine Taylor, by his side, said Lou Pitt, his longtime friend and managerOver more than 50 years in the industry, Plummer enjoyed varied roles ranging from the film “The Girl With the Dragon
Christopher Plummer, star of ‘Sound of Music’ and Oscar winner for ‘Beginners,’ dies at age 91
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Christopher Plummer poses for a portrait on July 25, 2013, in Beverly Hills, Calif. 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 winner in history, has died. He was 91. Plummer died Friday morning, Feb. 5, 2021, at his home in Connecticut with his wife, Elaine Taylor, by his side, said Lou Pitt, his longtime friend and manager.. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP
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The Sound of Music star dead at 91 Christopher Plummer, the award-winning actor best known for starring in The Sound of Music, has died after an accident at the age of 91.
Celebrity by Sam Clench Christopher Plummer, the award-winning actor best known for starring in
The Sound of Music, died today at the age of 91. Plummer was at his home in Weston, Connecticut. According to his wife, Elaine Taylor, the cause of death was a blow to the head caused by an accidental fall. Lou Pitt, Plummer s longtime friend and manager, has released a statement hailing his legendary life . Chris was an extraordinary man who deeply loved and respected his profession with great old fashioned manners, self-deprecating humour and the music of words, Pitt said.
But it was opposite Julie Andrews as von Trapp in 1965 that made him a star. He played an Austrian captain who must flee the country with his folk-singing family to escape service in the Nazi navy, a role he lamented was “humorless and one-dimensional.” Plummer spent the rest of his life referring to the film as “The Sound of Mucus” or “S&M.”
“We tried so hard to put humor into it,” he told The Associated Press in 2007. “It was almost impossible. It was just agony to try to make that guy not a cardboard figure.”
A GIF of the captain ripping a Nazi flag became a popular meme in recent years, and gave Plummer a new does of fame.
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NEW YORK (AP) 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. He was 91.
Plummer died Friday morning at his home in Connecticut with his wife, Elaine Taylor, by his side, said Lou Pitt, his longtime friend and manager.
Over more than 50 years in the industry, Plummer enjoyed varied roles ranging from the film “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” to the voice of the villain in 2009′s “Up” and as a canny lawyer in Broadway’s “Inherit the Wind.” In 2019 he starred as murdered mystery novelist in Rian Johnson’s whodunnit “Knives Out” and in the TV suspense drama series “Departure.”