Christopher Plummer, Acting Legend and Qo’noS’ Finest Shakespearean, Has Died

Christopher Plummer , one of the greatest player of all metre , has pass away at the age of 91 . It bechance at his home in Connecticut with his married woman of 53 years , Elaine Taylor , by his side .

The expanse of Plummer ’s acting work is astounding , and that ’s an understatement . Though he ultimately succeed an Oscar in 2012 for the film Beginners , Plummer had been in seemingly every type of film imaginable in the 60 - plus years before that — and he kept influence in the decennary since , too . Most of us know him best from the 1965 classic The Sound of Music ; as Captain Von Trapp , he ’s charming , dynamical , convinced , and stark , all of which became traits Plummer was well known for on screen and off .

Along with The Sound of Music he did scads of recognizable celluloid such as The homo Who Would Be King , International Velvet , Return of the Pink Panther , Somewhere in Time , Dragnet — just a litany of varied , interesting picture show and roles . Sci - fi rooter believably remember him best as General Chang , first go out inStar Trek VI : The Undiscovered Country , a Klingon with more than a touch of Shakespeare in him . He was also in the fad Hellenic 12 Monkeys .

Christopher Plummer on November 12, 2017 in New York City.

Christopher Plummer on 18 April 2025 in New York City.Photo: Dia Dipasupil (Getty Images)

He ’d later become a prolific vox actor too , lending his manifest wit to role in An American Tail , Rock - A - Doodle , 9 , Pixies and , maybe most unforgettably , Pixar ’s Up , as the villainous Charles Muntz .

And Plummer has been as active in recent age . He was just inRian Johnson ’s Knives Out as the patriarch Harlan Thrombey . Ridley Scott splendidly hired Plummer to supercede another worker in All the Money in the World , which go to one of his three Oscar nominating address . Then there ’s also Spike Lee ’s Inside Man , Ron Howard ’s A Beautiful Mind , Michael Mann ’s The Insider , andDisney ’s National Treasure , to name a few .

That last one is also fitting title for Plummer – though he was n’t just a hoarded wealth in his aboriginal Canada , he was a true global gem . And like all great creative person who pass from this animation , his workplace will keep him alive for generations to come .

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