Oscar Winner and 'The Sound of Music' star Christopher Plummer has died

Actor Christopher Plummer has passed away at 91, his family has confirmed.

Lou Pitt, his longtime friend, and manager of 46 years said; “

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. 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.”

Over the course of a career that spanned over seven decades, Plummer was best known for playing Captain John Von Trapp in 1965 Robert Wise-directed classic The Sound of Music, but he won his Oscar for the 2010 film Beginners, and he was most recently Oscar-nominated for the Ridley Scott-directed All The Money In The World.

Plummer also appeared in such films as Spike Lee's Malcolm X (1992), Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind (2001), Terrence Malick's The New World (2005), David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), and Rian Johnson's Knives Out (2019).

In addition to his hundreds of film and TV work, Plummer was a theatre icon. He was nominated for a Tony seven times and won twice(Cyrano, Barrymore).

Plummer was born on December 13, 1929, in Toronto, Ontario. In 1968, he was invested as Companion of the Order of Canada, at the time among Canada's highest civilian honors.

When asked about his love of theatre, Plummer once said,

“I made my mark in the theater, in the mid-'50s. And I continued to try and keep that standard going for the rest of my life. And I hope I have. Films are another matter. The theater is our medium, and the writers. Screen is the medium of a committee, largely so I'm not responsible for how things ended up.”

Plummer is survived by his wife, Elaine Taylor and daughter Amanda Plummer.