![]() ![]() "Square son of a bitch that I was, coward that I was! No, Elaine did say, 'If you don't quit this stupid over-drinking I'm outta here.' And thank God. "Yeah, I stopped," he told Britain's Telegraph newspaper in 2010. He said his third wife, British actress Elaine Taylor, forced him after their 1970 marriage to stop the carousing that consumed some of his peers and friends, such as Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole. Plummer confessed to a boozy lifestyle with plenty of affairs through the 1960s. He was the great-grandson of Sir John Abbott, the third prime minister of Canada. 13, 1929, into a privileged railroad family. Plummer re-shot all of Spacey's scenes and received an Oscar nomination for the role. The film had been completed when Spacey was accused of sexual misconduct. Paul Getty in All the Money in the World. In 2017, Plummer replaced Kevin Spacey as oil billionaire J. That was followed by triumphs in director Ron Howard's Academy Award best picture winner A Beautiful Mind (2001), director Spike Lee's Inside Man (2006), Up and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (both 2009) and Barrymore and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (both 2011). ![]() Plummer's late-career renaissance began with director Michael Mann's The Insider (1999), in which he portrayed CBS News interviewer Mike Wallace, acting alongside Al Pacino and Russell Crowe. "Ludicrous though it may seem, I still harbored the old-fashioned stage actor's snobbism toward moviemaking." "And yes, all right, I'll admit it, I was also a pampered, arrogant, young bastard, spoiled by too many great theater roles," he wrote. He said he had never sung before - "not even in the shower" - before taking a role that included crooning the song "Edelweiss." He blamed his own "vulgar streak" for the desire to star in a big, splashy Hollywood extravaganza. 'S&M' would therefore be a perfect workout in preparation for such an event." "I had a secret plan to one day turn Cyrano de Bergerac into a Broadway musical. "Originally I had accepted Robert Wise's offer simply because I wanted to find out what it was like to be in a musical comedy," Plummer wrote in his book. It took him four decades to change his view of the film and embrace it as a "terrific movie" that made him proud. He won two Tony Awards for his Broadway work, two Emmy Awards for TV work and performed for some of the world's top theater companies.īut for many fans, his career was defined by his performance as an stern widower in The Sound Of Music - a role he called "a cardboard figure, humorless and one-dimensional." In his 2008 autobiography In Spite Of Myself, Plummer refers to the movie with the mischievous acronym "S&M." Plummer appeared in more than 100 films and also was nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of Russian author Leo Tolstoy in 2009's The Last Station. He was a lovely man and a legendary talent." One of my favorite memories from Knives Out was playing piano together in the Thrombey house between set-ups. Few careers have such longevity and impact. "This is truly heartbreaking," Knives Out co-star Chris Evans said on Twitter. One of his last major roles was as in the dark comedy Knives Out in 2019. "You're only two years older than me, darling," Plummer, who was born in 1929, purred to his golden statuette at the 2012 Oscars ceremony. At age 82, he became the oldest actor to get a competitive Oscar when he won for his supporting role in Beginners as an elderly man who comes out of the closet as gay. He flourished in a succession of meaty roles after age 70 - a time in life when most actors merely fade away. Plummer, an accomplished Shakespearean actor honored for his varied stage, television and film work in a career that spanned more than six decades, was best known for his role in The Sound Of Music, which at the time eclipsed Gone With the Wind (1939) as the top-earning movie ever. “Chris was an extraordinary man who deeply loved and respected his profession with great old fashion manners, self deprecating humor and the music of words," manager Lou Pitt said in a statement. Plummer passed away peacefully at his home in Connecticut with his wife Elaine Taylor at his side. "I treasure the memories of our work together and all the humor and fun we shared through the years." "The world has lost a consummate actor today and I have lost a cherished friend," Andrews said in a statement. ![]() Christopher Plummer, a patrician Canadian who starred as widower Captain von Trapp opposite Julie Andrews in the blockbuster 1965 musical The Sound Of Music and in 2012 became the oldest actor to win an Oscar, has died at 91, his longtime friend and manager said on Friday. ![]()
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