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Christopher Plummer accepts the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2017 Canadian Screen Awards in Toronto on Sunday, March 12, 2017. Oscar-winning Canadian actor Christopher Plummer has died at 91, confirmed his wife Elaine Plummer.
Image Credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Peter Power February 05, 2021 - 10:35 AM Christopher Plummer, the Oscar-winning acting legend whose storied career encompassed stage, television and film, and who was perhaps best-known for portraying Capt. Georg von Trapp in The Sound of Music, has died. Plummer died peacefully at his home in Connecticut after suffering a fall two weeks ago, said his wife, Elaine Plummer. He was 91. The actor went through a particularly fertile creative period in his golden years, receiving his first Academy Award at the age 82 for his heart-warming supporting turn as a widower who embraces his homosexuality in Beginners. The trophy made him the oldest-ever Oscar winner in an act
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FILE - Christopher Plummer arrives at the Oscars on March 4, 2018, in Los Angeles. Plummer, the dashing award-winning actor who played Captain von Trapp in the film âThe Sound of Musicâ and at 82 became the oldest Academy Award winner in history, has died. He was 91. Plummer, the dashing award-winning actor who played Captain von Trapp in the film âThe Sound of Musicâ 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 Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
Christopher Plummer, the dashing award-winning actor who played Captain von Trapp in the film âThe Sound of Musicâ and at 82 became the oldest Academy Award acting winner in history, has died. He was 91.
Plummer died on Friday morning (local time) 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 âThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,â to the voice of the villain in 2009â²s âUpâ and as a canny lawyer in Broadwayâs âInherit the Wind.â In 2019 he starred as murdered mystery novelist in Rian Johnsonâs whodunnit âKnives Out.â
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.