‘Sound of Music’, ‘All the money in the world’ – star – deadline

Christopher Plummer, who starred The sound of music, won an Oscar for Beginners and was nominated for All the money in the world and The Last Station, passed away today peacefully at his home in Connecticut, his family confirmed. Elaine Taylor, his wife and for 53 years true best friend, was by his side.

Lou Pitt, his 46-year-old friend and manager, said; ‘Chris was an extraordinary man who loved and respected his profession with an old-fashioned way of behaving, self-deprecating humor and the music of words. He was a national treasure who deeply enjoyed his Canadian roots. Through his art and humanity, he has touched all our hearts and will continue his legendary life for all generations. He will be with us forever. ”

For the past 75 years, Plummer has been a stalwart of the stage and screen, the latter of which has covered more than 100 films. He is best known for classifying Captain John Von Trapp in 1965 by Robert Wise The sound of music, but he won his Oscar for the film Beginners in 2010, and he was recently nominated for an Oscar for Ridley Scott. All the money in the world. In the film, he replaces Kevin Spacey in the role of J Paul Getty, after Spacey had a #MeToo downfall. Plummer was recently awarded in the ensemble of the direction of Rian Johnson Knives out.

Educated in Montreal, Plummer began his professional career on stage and radio in both French and English. After making his debut in New York (1954), Eva Le Gallienne starred in many celebrated productions on Broadway and the London West End Award on both sides of the Atlantic.

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He won two Tony Awards for the musical Cyrano and for Barrymore plus seven Tony nominations, his latest for his King Lear (2004) and for his Clarence Darrow in Inherit the Wind (2007); also three Drama Desk Awards and the National Arts Club Medal. A former leading member of the Royal National Theater under Sir Laurence Olivier and the Royal Shakespeare Company under Sir Peter Hall, where he won the London Evening Standard Award for Best Actor in Becket; he also led Canada’s Stratford Festival during his formative years under Sir Tyrone Guthrie and Michael Langham.

Since Sidney Lumet introduced him on screen Hit up (1958), includes his series of notable films The Man Who Would Become King, Battle of Britain, Waterloo, Fall of the Roman Empire, Star Trek VI, Twelve Monkeys and the Oscar-winning 1965 The sound of music. More recent movies include The Insider like Mike Wallace; (National Film Critics Award), the award-winning A Beautiful Mind, Man in the Chair, Must Love Dogs, National Treasure, Syriana and Within man. His nearly 100 TV appearances include the Emmy-winning BBC Hamlet in Helsinki playing the title role; the Emmy Award-winning productions The Thorn Birds, Nuremberg, Little Moon of Alban and HBO’s Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight, which earned him seven Emmy nominations and took home two Emmys. He was last seen in the Canadian series, Departure. Apart from honors in the UK, USA, Austria and Canada, he was the first artist to receive the Jason Robards Award in memory of his great friend, the Edwin Booth Award and the Sir John Gielgud Quill Award. In 1968, approved by Elizabeth II, he was appointed a companion of the Order of Canada (an honorary knight). He was an honorary doctor of fine arts at Juilliard and also received the Governor-General’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. In 1986 he was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame and into the 2000 Walk of Fame in Canada. Plummer’s projects include the highly acclaimed animated films Up, 9, as well as the title role in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, directed by Terry Gilliam.

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He played the great novelist Tolstoy opposite Helen Mirren in The Last Station for Sony Classics, where he received his first Oscar nomination in 2010. He followed it up the following year with a new nomination and a victory for best supporting actor in Beginners’ writer / director. Mike Mills and appeared the same year in David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. In July and August 2012, he returned to the Stratford Festival to perform his one-man show entitled A Word or Two, directed by Des McAnuff. In 2013, he starred as Oscar winner Shirley MacLaine in Elsa & Fred directed by Michael Radford, Hector And The Search for Happiness directed by Peter Chelsom, Danny Collins vs. Al Pacino and Annette Benning for writer / director Dan Fogelman and The Forger vs. John Travolta directed by Phillip Martin. In 2015 he starred in Remember, directed by Atom Egoyan and in 2017 The Exception, based on the novel “The Kaiser’s Last Kiss”, starring Lily James, Jai Courtney and Janet McTeer and The Man Who Invented Christmas, starring Dan . Stevens. In the same year, he replaced Kevin Spacey in All the Money in the World, earning him his fourth Golden Globe and third Oscar nomination. Boundaries for Sony Classics, with Vera Farmiga in 2018, and Last Full Measure with Sebastian Stan, Ed Harris and Samuel L. Jackson. He was recently seen in the very successful KNIVES OUT starring Daniel Craig and Chris Evans. His recent, self-written bestselling memoirs, Despite Myself (Alfred A. Knopf Publishers), praised by critics and the public, remain a top seller.