Christopher Plummer, Actor From Shakespeare to ‘The Sound of Music,’ Dies at 91His perfo
Christopher Plummer, Actor From Shakespeare to ‘The Sound of Music,’ Dies at 91His performance as Captain von Trapp in one of the most popular movies of all time propelled a steady half-century parade of television and film roles.Christopher Plummer, the prolific and versatile Canadian-born actor who rose to celebrity as the romantic lead in perhaps the most popular movie musical of all time, was critically lionized as among the pre-eminent Shakespeareans of the past century and won an Oscar, two Tonys and two Emmys, died on Friday at his home in Weston, Conn. He was 91. His wife, Elaine Taylor, said the cause was a blow to the head as a result of a fall. -- source link
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