Remembering Christopher Plummer 1929-2021

[razz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRGwBARpPD0&ab_channel=StratfordFestival

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/watch/screech-the-adorable-geek-of-saved-by-the-bell/vp-BB1cNrh7

Those of you follow theatre will perhaps join in the remembering of Christopher Plummer. I saw him on the stage of his last production at Stratford Festival in Stratford ON as well a number of others. He could act Shakespeare with such ease and bring his audience along. He was so comfortable and credible in his roles. I confess that I fell in love with him in The Sound of Music..

[catherine]

Watching the Sound of Music was definitely a momentous occasion in my life. It was the last movie I saw with my father. Interestingly, it was the last movie DH saw with his father. So Christopher Plummer, that formidable father figure, looms large in my heart.

I never saw him perform Shakespeare, but would have loved to.

[Tybee]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFBdSBiP1hA

[catherine]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFBdSBiP1hA

So nice. Thanks for posting.

[razz]

This is fun to watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YrzcCC2B_U&ab_channel=TheJulieAndrewsArchive

[Teacher Terry]

He was such a great actor!

[GeorgeParker]

Christopher Plummer, that formidable father figure, looms large in my heart.That's the role he's most famous for among the general public, which always annoyed him for three reasons:

They dubbed his songs with someone else's voice, even though he was a perfectly acceptable singer.
He thought the script was a too mawkish (sentimental in a feeble or sickly way).
It was such a big perennial hit it tended to overshadow everything else he did in his long successful career.

NPR Interview/obituary: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/05/856951396/christopher-plummer-star-of-stage-screen-sound-of-music-dies-at-91

[oldhat]

Saw him and James Earl Jones in Othello at the American Shakespeare Theater in Stratford, CT (long since defunct) back around 1980 or so. A memorable Iago.