Christopher Plummer: Oscar-Winning Captain von Trapp Actor Dies at 91

Christopher Plummer was a Canadian actor best known as Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music and for a late-career Oscar win. Born Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer on December 13, 1929, in Toronto, he was a celebrated stage actor who worked for more than seven decades.

Plummer won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Beginners in 2012, becoming the oldest acting winner at that time, at age 82. He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for Cyrano in 1974, and he is the only Canadian to have won an Oscar, a Tony and an Emmy. His most famous role remained Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1965).

Plummer was married three times, to Tammy Grimes, Patricia Lewis and Elaine Taylor, and his daughter Amanda Plummer is also an actress. He never attended university, which he regretted all his life. He was once embarrassed by The Sound of Music but later came to appreciate it. He died at his home in Weston, Connecticut, on February 5, 2021, at age 91, after a fall.

Achievements: Played Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1965), won a Tony Award for Cyrano (1974), won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Beginners (2012), the only Canadian to win an Oscar, a Tony and an Emmy.

Birth: December 13, 1929 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Profession: Actor.

Interesting Facts: He called The Sound of Music "that movie" for years before embracing it. He never attended university.