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 Music (1965). In 2012, when he was in his eighties, he became the oldest actor to win an Academy Award.