HOLLYWOOD – Oscar-winning Canadian actor Christopher Plummer has died at 91.
Plummer was a star of stage, movie and tv, along with his function as Capt. Georg von Trapp in “The Sound of Music” amongst his most iconic.
The 2-time Tony Award-winning actor died at his residence in Connecticut Friday morning along with his spouse, Elaine Taylor, by his facet, his supervisor mentioned.
“Chris was a unprecedented man who deeply liked and revered his career with nice outdated vogue manners, self-deprecating humour and the music of phrases,” Lou Pitt, his longtime buddy and supervisor of 46 years, informed Selection.
“He was a Nationwide Treasure who deeply relished his Canadian roots. By means of his artwork and humanity, he touched all of our hearts and his legendary life will endure for all generations to come back. He’ll eternally be with us,” Pitt added.
All through his lengthy profession, Plummer acquired a number of accolades for his work, together with an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Golden Globe, amongst different {hardware}.
He is likely one of the few performers to obtain the Triple Crown of Performing (Academy, Tony, and Emmy), and the one Canadian to ever accomplish that. He was additionally nominated for a Grammy Award in 1986 within the Finest Recording for Kids class.
Plummer turned the oldest individual to win an Oscar when he took residence the Academy Award for Finest Supporting Actor on the age of 82 for “Novices” in 2010.
Over greater than 50 years within the business, Plummer loved diversified roles starting from the movie “The Lady With the Dragon Tattoo,” to the voice of the villain in 2009′s “Up” and as a canny lawyer in Broadway’s “Inherit the Wind.”
However it was reverse Julie Andrews as Captain von Trapp in “The Sound of Music” that made him a star. He performed an Austrian captain who should flee the nation along with his folk-singing household to flee service within the Nazi navy, a job he lamented was “humourless and one-dimensional.” Plummer spent the remainder of his life referring to the movie as “The Sound of Mucus” or “S&M.”
