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Oscar-winner Hollywood star Christopher Plummer dies Plummer died Friday morning at his home in Connecticut with his wife, Elaine Taylor, by his side, said Lou Pitt, his longtime friend and manager Share Via Email   |  A+A A- By Associated Press NEW YORK:  Christopher Plummer, the dashing award-winning actor who played Captain von Trapp in the film “The Sound of Music” and at 82 became the oldest Academy Award acting winner in history, has died. He was 91. Plummer died Friday morning at his home in Connecticut with his wife, Elaine Taylor, by his side, said Lou Pitt, his longtime...

Christopher Plummer, oldest Oscar winner in his 80s, dies at 91 FILE - Christopher Plummer poses for a portrait on July 25, 2013, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Plummer, the dashing award-winning actor who played Captain von Trapp in the film “The Sound of Music” and at 82 became the oldest Academy Award winner in history, has died. He was 91. Plummer died Friday morning, Feb. 5, 2021, at his home in Connecticut with his wife, Elaine Taylor, by his side, said Lou Pitt, his longtime friend and manager.. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File) (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) Christopher Plummer...

Christopher Plummer, suave Canadian actor best known as von Trapp in The Sound of Music – obituary A gifted classical actor on stage, he was disdainful of his best-known film role, which he said he was ‘dying to send up’ Plummer: liked playing ‘larger-than-life characters’ Credit: Martin Pope Christopher Plummer, the Oscar-winning Canadian actor, who has died aged 91, achieved fame in the early 1950s in a succession of Shakespearean roles, but was best remembered, to his lasting irritation, for his sentimental portrayal of Captain Georg von Trapp in the film musical The Sound of Mus...

But it was opposite Julie Andrews as von Trapp in 1965 that made him a star. He played an Austrian captain who must flee the country with his folk-singing family to escape service in the Nazi navy, a role he lamented was “humorless and one-dimensional.” Plummer spent the rest of his life referring to the film as “The Sound of Mucus” or “S&M.” “We tried so hard to put humor into it,” he told The Associated Press in 2007. “It was almost impossible. It was just agony to try to make that guy not a cardboard figure.” A GIF of the captain ripping a Nazi flag became a popular me...

Oscar-winner Christopher Plummer dead at 91 Share Updated: 6:45 PM EST Feb 5, 2021 By MARK KENNEDY, AP Entertainment Writer Oscar-winner Christopher Plummer dead at 91 Share Updated: 6:45 PM EST Feb 5, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript Yeah. True Swedish Only two years older than me. Darling, Where have you been all my life? Yeah, yeah, yeah. TRACKING THE COVID-19 VACCINE Share Updated: 6:45 PM EST Feb 5, 2021 By MARK KENNEDY, AP Entertainment Writer Christopher Plummer, the dashing award-winning actor who played Captain von Trapp in t...