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Every great actor should be fortunate enough to become an internet meme in their 80s. Christopher Plummer, who died Friday at 91, experienced his own late-in-life social-media anointing at least
updated: Feb 07 2021, 11:26 ist Canadian actor Christopher Plummer, who died Friday at 91, made his first appearances on the Broadway stage and in Hollywood movies in the 1950s, when he was still in his 20s. He left behind a wealth of unforgettable work in film, theater and television, including Oscar-, Emmy- and Tony-winning performances. Originally introduced to the public as a dignified leading man in the classical English mold of Laurence Olivier and James Mason, Plummer would go on to play a range of roles — from adventure heroes to villainous creeps — and would find some of his grea...
Every great actor should be fortunate enough to become an internet meme in their 80s. Christopher Plummer, who died Friday at 91, experienced his own late-in-life social-media anointing at least twice over. There was the oft-recurring GIF of Capt. von Trapp in “The Sound of Music,” Plummer’s best-known and most inescapable role, tearing a Third Reich flag in two — an image that has become handy Twitter shorthand for anti-neo-Nazi resistance over the past few years. That quick single shot is a marvelous bit of acting in itself: You can’t help but notice Plummer’s ramrod-straight m...
It’s one of the great Hollywood ironies that Christopher Plummer didn’t like the film that made him a legend. He was an actor’s actor and had cut his teeth doing Shakespeare. “The Sound of Music,” he thought, was sentimental shlock. And he wasn’t alone - reviews at the time were famously terrible. Then, like a personal curse, it would go on to become a universally beloved classic. He’d played Henry V and Hamlet and yet Captain von Trapp, he said in 1982, followed him around “like an albatross.”
Christopher Plummer brought gravitas with a quicksilver kick The actor, who has died at 91, may have been most famous for The Sound of Music, but he underpinned all his films with star power 5 February 2021 • 8:37pm The late Christopher Plummer with Julie Andrews (and Von Trapps) in The Sound of Music Credit: Bettmann Christopher Plummer was the kind of star who seemed to underpin every movie he made. If you tried to imagine one of them without him, it wasn’t clear if the rest of the enterprise would remain standing up. The Canadian actor, who died today aged 91, started out on Broadway a...