Christopher Plummer, the great Canadian star of stage and screen passed aged 91 last month.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55954950
Born the same week as my dad in 1929.
Will be perhaps the most noted actor to be commemorated at the upcoming Oscars.
What a career - everyone will have seen him in a movie, no matter wht type of film you like, from "The Sound of Music" to comedies like "The Pink Panther", war movies and Star Trek.
And still going strong right to the end: he starred in 23 films in his last ten years, three in 2019 alone:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Plummer_filmography#Film
"He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 82 for Beginners (2010), becoming the oldest person to win an acting award, and he received a nomination at the age of 88 for All the Money in the World, making him the oldest person to be nominated in an acting category."
Described as having "great old-fashioned manners, self-deprecating humor and the music of words."
With such a work ethic, Plummer had been filming his leading role at home during the lockdown for season two of aptly-named TV mini-series "Departure" (he would have relished the humour in the title and his passing away) when he then passed away:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Departure_(TV_series)
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55954950
Born the same week as my dad in 1929.
Will be perhaps the most noted actor to be commemorated at the upcoming Oscars.
What a career - everyone will have seen him in a movie, no matter wht type of film you like, from "The Sound of Music" to comedies like "The Pink Panther", war movies and Star Trek.
And still going strong right to the end: he starred in 23 films in his last ten years, three in 2019 alone:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Plummer_filmography#Film
"He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 82 for Beginners (2010), becoming the oldest person to win an acting award, and he received a nomination at the age of 88 for All the Money in the World, making him the oldest person to be nominated in an acting category."
Described as having "great old-fashioned manners, self-deprecating humor and the music of words."
With such a work ethic, Plummer had been filming his leading role at home during the lockdown for season two of aptly-named TV mini-series "Departure" (he would have relished the humour in the title and his passing away) when he then passed away:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Departure_(TV_series)