This morning he passed away at 91 Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor whom we got to see for the last time in Daggers in the back last 2019. “He was an extraordinary man who loved and respected his profession with old-fashioned manners, self-deprecating humor, and big words.”, declared his friend and manager Lou Pitt to media like Variety. “He was a national treasure, and through his art and humanity he touched our hearts. He will always be with us “. Toronto-born Plummer has won all four of the top U.S. awards (Oscars, Emmy, Golden Globe and Tony), and in 2011 he was the oldest performer to win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, thanks to Beginners.
Plummer developed a successful career in the theater circuit in parallel with film and television, obtaining the Tony for his participation in the musical Cyrano and in Barrymore, work dedicated to the famous actor. This happened in 1974 and 1996, when he was already a consolidated interpreter. His first roles took place for Canadian television, moving to New York in the 1950s to make his film debut with Sidney Lumet, with However, the triunfo. That same year, 1958, he also placed himself under the orders of Nicholas Ray in Death in the swamps, managing to participate in other great productions of the time such as The fall of the Roman Empire (1964) and, above all, the successful musical Smiles and tears, of the same year, where he played Captain Von Trapp.
In 1975 he starred in both Return of the pink panther as The man who could reign in company of Sean Connery, who died at the end of 2020. In 1979 he appeared as Sherlock Holmes himself in Murder by decree without ever turning his back on television, starring in the late 1980s Nosferatu, prince of darkness. In ’91 he participated in Star Trek VI. That unknown country and three years later he saw the faces with Jack Nicholson in Lobo. Arrived 1995 he was part of the cast of 12 monkeys from Terry Gilliam and in 1999 he starred The dilemma from Michael Mann.
Come the new millennium Plummer consolidated his status as a supporting actor of great trade, taking part in An amazing mind like in The search, 2001 and 2004. A year later he appeared both in Syriana like in The new World and starred Hidden plan for Spike Lee, in what would be his second collaboration with the director after Malcolm X, back in 1992. In 2009 he voiced Charles Muntz, the aging villain of Up, and the following year he would win the Oscar for Beginners.
The last great roles of his career took place in Millennium: Men Who Didn’t Love Women (2011) and the aforementioned Daggers in the back, without forgetting the sounded case of All the money in the world in 2017, when it replaced Kevin Spacey once the film had supposedly finished its shooting. For this film by Ridley Scott earned his third Oscar nomination: the other two had been motivated by The last station in 2009 and, of course, Beginners.
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