Actor Christopher Plummer, whose career ranges from 'Smiles and tears' to 'All the money in the world', dies at 91

Christopher Plummer, in 2017 in Los Angeles promoting 'All the Money in the World' Mario Anzuoni / Reuters

Few interpreters have maintained their bearing, gallantry and talent like the Canadian Christopher Plummer, who died on Friday at the age of 91 in his Connecticut home where he lived with his wife, Elaine Taylor, with whom he had been married for 53 years. .

His death has been reported by his representative, who has highlighted his sense of humor and good manners, in addition to his talent, which has reached various generations.

Probably because

-in its original title

Robert Wise's 1965 classic in which he played Captain John Von Trapp, is one of the most famous musicals in film history.

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Plummer's career spans 75 years, in which he worked in nearly 200 films and television series - in addition to being a theater actor who loves Shakespeare's plays - and in which only at the end he achieved recognition from the Academy of Hollywood: his first Oscar nomination was obtained in 2010, when he played Tolstoy in

the statuette won it at 82 years thanks to

and he was still a candidate on a third time, at 88 years old, for

Ridley Scott, in which he played John Paul Getty in a role he had played Kevin Spacey, whom the producer replaced after allegations of sexual harassment Spacey.

Some sequences were re-shot and in others Plummer was inserted digitally.

In 2019, the death of his character articulated the action of

the

by Rian Johnson.

Although born in Toronto in December 1929, Plummer grew up in Montreal, and his career began in theater and radio, in both French and English.

He made his debut in New York in 1954, and thanks to his talent he quickly began to combine works both on Broadway and in London's West End.

He won two Tony's: in 1974 for the musical

and in 1997 for

and was nominated for the theatrical award five other times, the last in 2004 for

He was part of the Royal National Theater under the direction of Laurence Olivier and of the Royal Shakespeare Company under the direction of Peter Hall.

It was the stages that opened his career in film, because it began on television in 1953. His first film was

(1958), by Sidney Lumet, an adaptation of the play in which he had acted in Nueva York.

The following year, thanks to

play directed by Elia Kazan, he won his first nomination for Tony.

And there came

in 1965, adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical about the life of the Von Trapp family, with which he achieved fame.

Plummer, a man of the theater, first turned down the offer and then it hurt to have his voice doubled in songs.

Years later, in

newspaper

confessed that he had accepted "that damn project just for making a musical in the cinema."

It took many years to appease his fury.