Christopher Plummer remembered by ‘Sound of Music’ co-star Julie Andrews: ‘I have lost a cherished friend’

Julie Andrews will at all times bear in mind her beloved “Sound of Music” co-star Christopher Plummer.

The legendary actor, who famously starred within the 1965 musical, passed away peacefully at his residence in Connecticut, his household confirmed on Friday. His spouse, Elaine Taylor, was by his facet.

“The world has lost a consummate actor today and I have lost a cherished friend,” stated Andrews in a assertion despatched to Fox News. “I treasure the memories of our work together and all the humor and fun we shared through the years.”

“My heart and condolences go out to his lovely wife Elaine, and his daughter Amanda,” she added.

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Plummer’s supervisor Lou Pitt additionally confirmed Plummer’s loss of life in a assertion shared with Fox News.

“Chris was an extraordinary man who deeply loved and respected his profession with great old fashion manners, self-deprecating humor and the music of words. He was a National Treasure who deeply relished his Canadian roots,” Pitt stated. “Through his art and humanity, he touched all of our hearts and his legendary life will endure for all generations to come. He will forever be with us.”

Plummer spent over 50 years within the leisure business, each onstage and onscreen. His most acknowledged function was maybe enjoying the dashing Captain Von Trapp in Robert Wise’s “The Sound of Music” reverse Andrews.

The function noticed him as an Austrian captain who should flee the nation together with his folk-singing household to flee service within the Nazi navy, a function he lamented was “humorless and one-dimensional.” Plummer spent the remaining of his life referring to the movie as “The Sound of Mucus” or “S&M.”

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Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer in a promotional portrait for ‘The Sound Of Music’, directed by Robert Wise, 1965.
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“We tried so hard to put humor into it,” he instructed The Associated Press in 2007. “It was almost impossible. It was just agony to try to make that guy not a cardboard figure.”

The function catapulted Plummer to stardom, however he by no means took to main males components, regardless of his silver hair, beauty and ever-so-slight English accent. He most well-liked character components, contemplating them extra meaty.

Plummer had a outstanding movie renaissance late in life, which started together with his acclaimed efficiency as Mike Wallace in Michael Mann’s 1999 movie “The Insider” and continued in movies equivalent to 2001’s “A Beautiful Mind” and 2009′s “The Last Station,” through which he performed a deteriorating Tolstoy and was nominated for an Oscar.

His different roles ranged from “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” to the voice of the villain in 2009′s “Up” and as a canny lawyer in Broadway’s “Inherit the Wind.”

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Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer starred in a reside tv presentation of ‘On Golden Pond.’
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In 2012, Plummer received a supporting actor Oscar for his function in “Beginners” as Hal Fields, a museum director who turns into overtly homosexual after his spouse of 44 years dies. His loving, closing relationship turns into an inspiration for his son, who struggles together with his father’s loss of life and find out how to discover intimacy in a new relationship.

“Too many people in the world are unhappy with their lot. And then they retire and they become vegetables. I think retirement in any profession is death, so I’m determined to keep crackin’,” he instructed AP in 2011.

Plummer in 2017 changed Kevin Spacey as J. Paul Getty in “All the Money in the World” simply six weeks earlier than the movie was set to hit theaters. That selection that was formally validated in the absolute best approach for the movie — a supporting Oscar nomination for Plummer, his third.

He was raised in Montreal. In 1954, he acquired his performing break in New York and went on to star on Broadway and London’s West End. According to Deadline,  Plummer received two Tony awards for “Cyrano” and went on to obtain seven Tony nominations. 

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Actor Christopher Plummer received the very best supporting actor award for ‘Beginners’ in 2012. 
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Plummer additionally had fairly a prolonged profession in tv. His quantity of appearances contact practically 100, the outlet notes, together with “Nuremberg,” “Little Moon of Alban,” “The Thornbirds” and “Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight.” He final starred in  “Departures.”

In addition to numerous performing awards, the Hollywood legend was additionally the recipient of a number of honors. In 2000, he was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame, and 14 years previous to that, he was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame.

In 1968, he acquired an honorary knighthood as a Companion of the Order of Canada by Queen Elizabeth II. He was an honorary physician of high-quality arts at Juilliard and acquired the Governor General’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000.

Fox News’ Melissa Roberto and The Associated Press contributed to this report.