Oscar-winning acting legend Christopher Plummer has died. He was 91.
Plummer died peacefully at his Connecticut home according to his reps, with his wife and best friend for 53 years Elaine Taylor by his side.
To say Plummer left a lasting impact on the screen would be an understatement. The man’s work was prolific, varied and often memorable – starting in film from 1958 and working right up until his passing.
Among his many memorable roles was Captain Von Trapp in “The Sound of Music,” as reporter Mike Wallace in “The Insider,” as the Hamlet-spouting General Chang in “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country,” Rudyard Kipling in “The Man Who Would Be King,” Sherlock Holmes in “Murder by Decree,” Leo Tolstoy in “The Last Station,” Chaplain Gill in “Malcolm X,” Atahualpa in “The Royal Night of the Sun,” Ermin Rommel in “The Night of the Generals,” F. Lee Bailey in “American Tragedy,” and his Oscar-winning turn as Hal Fields in “Beginners”.
He was the kind patriarch of sinister families in both David Fincher’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” and Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out,” he replaced Kevin Spacey as J. Paul Getty in Ridley Scott’s “All the Money in the World,” he was the scheming Arthur Case in Spike Lee’s “Inside Man,” the title role in Terry Gilliam’s “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,” the wise Aristotle in Oliver Stone’s “Alexander,” Emperor Commodus in “The Fall of the Roman Empire,” Archduke Ferdinand in “The Day That Shook the World,” Kaiser Wilhelm in “The Exception”.
The roles just kept coming, with other films including “Wolf,” “12 Monkeys,” “A Beautiful Mind,” “Syriana,” “Dracula 2000,” “Dolores Claiborne,” “Battle of Britain,” “Oedipus the King,” “Triple Cross,” “Nicholas Nickleby,” “The Return of the Pink Panther,” “The Spiral Staircase,” “Somewhere in Time,” “Dreamscape,” “Ordeal by Innocence,” “An American Tail,” “Dragnet,” “Cold Creek Manor,” “9,” “Danny Collins,” “Priest,” “The Last Full Measure” and more.
A famed hard worker with old fashion manners, self-deprecating humor and a remarkable voice, Plummer was a Canadian National Treasure whose efforts will have an impact for generations.
