OT: RIP Christopher Plummer
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219 acting credits in IMDB.
Great job portraying Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes in the Insider.
Didn't he step in late for the role of JP Getty in "All the Money in the World" when someone else was bounced out of the role?
Great job portraying Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes in the Insider.
Didn't he step in late for the role of JP Getty in "All the Money in the World" when someone else was bounced out of the role?
I didn't know that last bit!
Great in Man In The Chair, too. Kind of going against type.
If you are referring to "All the Money in the World"; Kevin Spacey played the part originally. After his sex abuse scandal became public, Ridley Scott decided to re-shoot the scenes with Spacey and Plummer was cast. It didn't end there as it became public that Mark Wahlberg was to be paid $2 million for the extra work while Michelle Williams, thinking everyome else was working cheap, had offered to be paid scale ($80 per day). The kicker is they had the same agent. I think Wahlberg ended up donating the money to a Me-Too charity
RIP Captain Von Trapp. SOM One of my favorite movies growing up.
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OTs like this keep it from being DEAD
Christopher Plummer was an immensely talented actor whose death shouldn't go unnoticed by those who remember some of the movies he made outstanding performances in over the course of his career that started in 1958
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It really has. I find it kind of weird that I come to the Rutgers Football page and find death notices for people who have nothing to do with Rutgers football. If it were me I would be posting pics of hot chicks in bikinis all day but then what do I know, I am just another schnook on the internet.
He had a great role in the Daniel Craig movie "Knives Out."
Also if you, like me, are in your late 20's- early 40's, he was the narrator for a couple of the best Winnie the Pooh movies. If you remember the scenes where the book opens and the animated characters are talking to the narrator and hopping around on the letters on the page, Plummer is the narrator they are talking to. As a new parent it has been wonderfully nostalgic to revisit those and hear his voice.
Also if you, like me, are in your late 20's- early 40's, he was the narrator for a couple of the best Winnie the Pooh movies. If you remember the scenes where the book opens and the animated characters are talking to the narrator and hopping around on the letters on the page, Plummer is the narrator they are talking to. As a new parent it has been wonderfully nostalgic to revisit those and hear his voice.
Same here - always watched with my mom growing up and she/we did the same with our son. This may sound a little corny, but when my mom passed away back in April in FL and we couldn't go see her, my wife and son and I watched SOM as part of our own little tribute to her. No dry eyes in the house that night.
Also loved Plummer in many other films, including Waterloo and The Man Who Would Be King, and more recently, Must Love Dogs, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Knives Out. Classic actor.
Interesting man. He was at his happiest performing Shakespeare on stage. He performed in movies to pay the bills. He despised The Sound of Music and his role in it. Thought it was sappy and of little heft. He did cash the residual checks though, as far as I know.
Interesting article. He didn't want to do Sound of Music and didn't like it.