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Christopher Plummer brought gravitas with a quicksilver kick The actor, who has died at 91, may have been most famous for The Sound of Music, but he underpinned all his films with star power 5 February 2021 • 8:37pm The late Christopher Plummer with Julie Andrews (and Von Trapps) in The Sound of Music Credit: Bettmann Christopher Plummer was the kind of star who seemed to underpin every movie he made. If you tried to imagine one of them without him, it wasn’t clear if the rest of the enterprise would remain standing up. The Canadian actor, who died today aged 91, started out on Broadway and on television, though just before he turned 30, Sidney Lumet gave him his cinematic break in Stage Struck, a 1958 theatreland drama, in which he played a handsome young playwright on the rise. That got him spotted in his early 30s by David O Selznick, the Gone with the Wind producer and one of the great architects of golden-age Hollywood, who could see Plummer’s buttressing potential e

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