After a busy cinematic career that lasted nearly 75 years and included 217 acts on screen between cinema and television drama, Canadian actor Christopher Plummer died at the age of 91.

During this period, he participated in a number of cinematic works that are landmarks in the history of cinema, most notably "The Sound Of Music".

From School Theater to Broadway

When Arthur Christopher Plummer was a fifteen-year-old Canadian teenager, he was fascinated by the theater after seeing the performance of Lawrence Olivier in the movie "Henry V" in 1944, so he went to study acting and learn its basics at the "Montreal Repertory Theater" after he was studying music and playing the piano in particular.

Two years later, he starred in the play "Pride and Prejudice" on the stage of his high school, and through the role of "Mr. Darcy" Plummer caught the attention of many critics and directors, and it marked a real start in his acting career, to perform a year later while he was in Eighteen years old, his first professional role was the character "Oedipus" in the play "Infernal Machine" by the French playwright Jean Cocteau.

The theater was his personal “call” that pulled him away from completing his traditional studies. He left the university for theatrical and then cinematic representation. He presented a number of roles and theatrical performances on the American Broadway theater, in addition to his participation in theatrical tours in several cities inside and outside the American continent, as was The theater is the gateway to Canadian television, which appeared on its screen in a television treatment of the play "Othello" in 1953.

Three years later, he played the role of "Henry V", the role that kidnapped him into the acting world 12 years ago. He continued his theatrical career, performing many classic roles in the plays of Shakespeare, Cocteau and Ibsen. His Canadian upbringing helped him master the French and English languages, which allowed him to perform Theatrical roles in both languages.

Busy life before thirty

Christopher Plummer was active in theater for 12 years from 1946 until 1958, which was an active year for Plummer on the screens when he was 29 years old, as he was credited with his first movie appearance when American director Sidney Lumet chose him as a young writer in the movie "Stage" Struck).

In the same year, Plummer starred in the movie Wind Across the Everglades.

In the same year, he appeared in the TV drama series "The Little Alpine Moon", for which he received his first Emmy Award nomination.

In 1958 he appeared in the television treatment of Henrik Ibsen's play "A Doll's House".

Everything you learn will benefit you

Although he did not finish his university studies, what Christopher Plummer learned in his early years qualified him for a rich professional experience, as he mastered two languages, and learned the basics of music theory and playing the piano while he was in his early teens contributed to the formation of his artistic experience.

His musical background, during which he had been studying piano for nearly 4 years, helped him to become a comprehensive artist, capable of singing, acting, vocal and theatrical movement, which qualified him to take the lead role in the famous classic musical film "The Sound of Music", which achieved a high public success and remained at the top of the box office for many weeks From 1965, in which he played Captain von Trapp, who had been an iconic role that haunted Plummer for many years.

Revolutionary opinions

It seems that Plummer does not acknowledge his success in this role, as he announced more than once that he does not like him, but rather despises him on several occasions, most recently in the "Hollywood Reporter" award ceremony in which he declared his opinion in the film that "terrible" Very tacky and sticky ”and that he was not happy when he introduced it.

Plummer expressed his opinion of the captain who had followed him for years that he was a little bored with the character of Captain von Trapp, "Although we worked hard to make him interesting, it was like the skin of a dead horse, it could not please anyone in the world."

This late opinion indicates the extent of the revolutionary nature of Christopher Plummer in his late years. To appear in front of your audience to express your dislike for their artistic taste and break their artistic icons is something that requires a revolutionary spirit and tactful words that Plummer certainly had when he said that the role did not like him, but he was happy to participate in A movie with massive mass success like it.

The biggest actor to win an Oscar

Despite his long career, Plummer was not nominated for any of the Oscars before 2010, as he was nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of the Russian writer Lev Tolstoy in the film "The Last Station", and two years later he won the Best Supporting Actor category for his role in the movie "The Beginners." (Beginners).

When he rose to receive the award and delivered his speech, the man in the elegant black suit, the 83-year-old, laughed and addressed the golden model of the Oscar, saying, "You are only two years older than me, where have you been throughout this time, my love?", So that Plummer is the oldest actor to receive an Oscar in the history of academy.

Christopher Plummer could have broken his record as the oldest actor to receive an Oscar at the age of 82 if he had received it in his third nomination in 2018, when he was nominated for the award in the Best Supporting Actor category also for his role in the movie "All the Worlds". Money in the World), and he was at the age of eighty-nine, but it was okay, as he remained active, reaping awards and honors, and playing roles until his death yesterday, Saturday 5 February 2021.

He won an honor for his overall work at the 2016 Canadian Screen Awards Festival. His latest film entries this year will be shown in the animated film "Heroes of the Golden Masks", which he is considered one of the owners of the longest artistic career in the world, which lasted 75 years. In general, it varied between theater, television and cinema of all kinds, musical films and even dramatic, documentary and animation films.