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New York (AP) - Christopher Plummer, who won an Oscar as the oldest actor in Hollywood history, is dead.
According to his management, the native Canadian died "peacefully" on Friday in his home in Connecticut, USA, with Elaine Taylor - "his wife and best friend for 53 years" - at his side.
Plummer was 91 years old.
Long-time manager Lou Pitt wrote that he was an extraordinary man who "loved and respected his profession deeply."
Numerous colleagues, including Helen Mirren, Julie Andrews, Chris Evans and director Ridley Scott paid tribute.
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After success on the theater stage, Plummer celebrated his Hollywood breakthrough in 1965 as Baron von Trapp at the side of Julie Andrews in the film musical "The Sound of Music - My Songs, My Dreams".
In his more than 50-year screen career, he has appeared in films such as “Waterloo”, “The Pink Panther Returns”, “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Land”, “12 Monkeys”, “Insider” and as the novelist Leo Tolstoy in “Ein Russian summer »with.
In 2012, the then 82-year-old won the first Oscar in his long career - for the best supporting role in the drama "Beginners".
In it he plays a man who only confesses to his homosexuality in old age after the death of his wife.
According to the film academy, Plummer was the oldest actor to receive an Oscar.
In 2018, at the age of 88, he was nominated again for “Best Supporting Actor”.
In the kidnapping thriller "Alles Geld der Welt", directed by Ridley Scott, he played the stingy oil billionaire Jean Paul Getty.
Kevin Spacey had already finished the part, but after a scandal over allegations of harassment Scott cut out the scenes and re-filmed them with Plummer.
"What a man.
What a talent.
What a life, ”Scott paid tribute on Friday.
Shooting with Plummer was a wonderful experience for him.
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His last appearances in front of the camera included the crime comedy “Knives Out - Mord ist Familiensache” (2019) with Daniel Craig as a private detective and Plummer as the unloved family patriarch who mysteriously dies.
Craig said he was "incredibly lucky" to work with Plummer.
He was adorable and charming.
Co-stars Ana de Armas and Chris Evans also expressed their grief.
"He was fearless, energetic, courageous, clever and professional," said Oscar winner Helen Mirren, who played his screen wife in "A Russian Summer", the deceased: "A great actor in the truest sense of the word."
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