Christopher Plummer has passed away
Another Hollywood legend passed away today, as the great Christopher Plummer has died at the age of 91. The Oscar winning Canadian actor had a career that spanned decades across film, television and theater, most known for Captain Von Trapp in 1965’s The Sound of Music, but with scores of celebrated performances in movies like The Man Who Would Be King (1975), The Silent Partner (1978), Somewhere in Time (1980), the miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983), 12 Monkeys (1995), and The Insider (1999). He had a sort of career resurgence in the 2000’s with Inside Man (2006), and received the first of his three Oscar nominations in his 80’s with The Last Station (2009), winning for Beginners (2011), and was then nominated for famously replacing Kevin Spacey in Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World (2018). He was seen most recently in Knives Out, and was nominated and won several Tonys and Emmys over the years for various plays (1974’s Cyrano, 1997’s Barrymore) and television shows.
This is “Edelweiss” being performed with Christopher Plummer’s own voice, which was later (needlessly) dubbed by the studio for The Sound of Music:
