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Canadian-born Emmy, BAFTA and Academy Award-winning actor Christopher Plummer has passed away, aged 91.<\/p>\n
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Mr Plummer was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1929, and made his film debut in Sidney Lumet’s 1958 production of Stage Struck<\/em>. A long-time noted stage actor, Plummer had performed in Broadway productions of The Dark Is Light Enough (1955), The Lark<\/em>, and later Elia Kazan’s production of JB<\/em>. As well as appearing in Stage Struck, Plummer also played the lead role in Nicholas Ray’s Wind Across The Everglades<\/em>, and snagged an Emmy Award nomination (the first of many) for his work in Little Moon Of Alban<\/em>, a live television drama, in America.\u00a0 Plummer played the role of Commodus in Anthony Mann’s sprawling 1964 period epic, The Fall of The Roman Empire<\/em>, alongside Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd (who would go on to do similar work in Ben Hur<\/em>), and Alec Guinness.<\/p>\n It would be his next film, 1965’s big-screen adaptation<\/a> of the stage musical The Sound of Music<\/em>, that would propel Plummer’s career to new heights, and haunt him the rest of his days. Directed by Robert Wise, and co-starring rising star Julie Andrews, as well as a gaggle of approachable young children, The Sound Of Music<\/em> would become the<\/em> defining musical film of all time<\/em>, a box-office juggernaut, and a cultural phenomenon that continues to perpetuate to this very day. Plummer played the irascible and stern Austrian Captain von Trapp, who sees Andrews’ novitiate Maria arrive to take a job as governess to the Captain’s seven children, and, despite the actor’s derisive and often dismissive remarks about the film in more recent years, remained his most enduring performance.<\/p>\n Plummer also flirted with Academy Award glory in his later years, being nominated in two Best Supporting roles – 2009’s The Last Station<\/em> and 2018’s All The Money In The World<\/em><\/a>, a film in which he spent a grand total of two weeks work filming scenes in which he replaced the out-of-favour Kevin Spacey for director Ridley Scott – and would win<\/em> one for 2011’s Beginners<\/em>, an an aging widower who comes out as gay to his son.<\/p>\n At the time of his passing, Mr Plummer had an extensive catalogue of film performances, including 1970’s Waterloo<\/em>, playing Rudyard Kipling in The Man Who Would Be King<\/em> (1975), Sherlock Holmes in Bob Clark’s 1979 Murder By Decree<\/em>, and as a reverend in 1987’s Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks comedy film Dragnet<\/em>. Plummer sported a fairly restrained Klingon headpiece in 1991’s Star Trek<\/em> entry The Undiscovered Country<\/em><\/a>, as General Chang. The 90’s saw him appear alongside Denzel Washington in Malcolm X<\/em>, alongside Jack Nicholson in Wolf<\/em>, and alongside Bruce Willis in 12 Monkeys<\/em>, and played 60 Minutes’ Mike Wallace in Michael Mann’s The Insider<\/em> (1999).<\/p>\n Plummer appeared in Best picture winning film A Beautiful Mind<\/em> (2001), as Nic Cage’s grandfather in National Treasure<\/em> (2004), and in Oliver Stone’s period film Alexander<\/em><\/a>, also in 2004. He appeared in David Fincher’s remake of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo<\/em><\/a> (2011), The Man Who Invented Christmas<\/em> (2017) and in Rian Johnson’s Knives Out<\/em><\/a>, in 2019. His final on-screen role was 2019’s The Last Full Measure.<\/p>\n Christopher Plummer passed away on February 5th, aged 91.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Canadian-born Emmy, BAFTA and Academy Award-winning actor Christopher Plummer has passed away, aged 91.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":61366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/634470-all-the-money-in-the-world-plummer-poster.jpg",1003,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/634470-all-the-money-in-the-world-plummer-poster-500x280.jpg",500,280,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/634470-all-the-money-in-the-world-plummer-poster-660x365.jpg",660,365,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/634470-all-the-money-in-the-world-plummer-poster-768x551.jpg",640,459,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/634470-all-the-money-in-the-world-plummer-poster-840x720.jpg",640,549,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/634470-all-the-money-in-the-world-plummer-poster.jpg",1003,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/634470-all-the-money-in-the-world-plummer-poster.jpg",1003,720,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/634470-all-the-money-in-the-world-plummer-poster.jpg",1003,720,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/634470-all-the-money-in-the-world-plummer-poster.jpg",474,340,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/634470-all-the-money-in-the-world-plummer-poster-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/634470-all-the-money-in-the-world-plummer-poster-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/634470-all-the-money-in-the-world-plummer-poster-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/634470-all-the-money-in-the-world-plummer-poster-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/634470-all-the-money-in-the-world-plummer-poster-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/634470-all-the-money-in-the-world-plummer-poster.jpg",254,182,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Ete4TXzWQAIpPUW.jpg\")
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