Didn’t know that he died - I’ll miss him, he was a very talented actor. I loved him in National Treasure, even though it was a small role.
Best Klingon ever.
Ingrid Bergman disliked “Casablanca”, and Alec Guinness hated “Star Wars”, but to us they will always be Ilsa Lund and Obi-Wan Kenobe. The audience gets to decide, not the reluctant stars.
One of the most boring actors I have seen. His facial expression seldom changed. And he was fat even in Sound of Music at age 36.
My idea of a great actor is Kirk Douglas. Watch him in Spartacus to observe a real acting dynamo.
Sorry Christopher, your Hollywood roots are showing.
It was and is a great film.
I meant to say the movie VIKINGS.
I don’t care what he thinks. It is a family oriented movie classic.
“Watching ‘The Sound of Music’ is like being beaten to death by a Hallmark card.”
I love that movie with all my heart, and was thrilled to run into it this past Christmas. It totally kept me company during one of my marathon gift wrapping sessions.
But, that quote is hilarious!
RIP Christopher Plummer.
>>>actor Doug McClure, who once cracked: “Watching ‘The Sound of Music’ is like being beaten to death by a Hallmark card.” <<<
Priceless!
I was 16 going on 17 when that movie came out so the song of that title meant something to me...
“Edelweiss” was the last song written by Oscar Hammerstein II before his death.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu-lcwhZcEs
Many native Austrians thought it must have been one of their own folk songs; but of course it was written by our great Americans Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.
Plummer’s best role, IMH, was in SILENT PARTNER as the creepy masochistic fem bank robber.
The best quote from the article:
“At a children’s Easter party a few years ago, his hosts showed the movie. He cringed, but couldn’t sneak away. As he watched the movie, he succumbed to its charms. “I suddenly could see why it brought so much pleasure to so many people,” he wrote. “Here was I, cynical old sod that I am, being totally seduced by the damn thing.”