RIP Christopher Plummer .

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RIP #ChristopherPlummer

One of our all-time great stars: he transcended media, genres, roles, heck, time itself. Part of my earliest memories of cinema, it seemed like he was always there, and always would be.

Yes, like the everyone else, I discovered him thanks to the immortal Sound of Music, it was my sister's favourite movie("Sounda" she called it🤩), and we watched it *all* the time. Truth be told, I was intimidated by him, and it would only be years, okay fine, decades later, at the Hollywood Bowl, when he looks at Maria and is about to kiss her, when I heard 10,000 people sigh in unison, that I began to understand everything he brought to that role.

After Sounda, well, when I caught up to him again, he had been touring with Barrymore, written a juicy tell-all, and went off on a startling run that he pretty much continued to the very end: Wolf, Dolores Claiborne, 12 Monkeys, The Insider…

But, he had been working steadily, fantastically, all those intervening years, in film, on TV, and perhaps greatest-ly, on stage(sadly, never got to see him). When he *finally* won that #Oscar, he wasn't really *re*discovered, because he was, and had always been, there, a part of our shared cinematic consciousness.

RIP, but it is difficult to imagine him resting, on laurels, or in the after-life…

PS. I have such a soft spot for Inside Man. And so many other movies to finally get around to: The Silent Partner, Remember, Murder by Decree, Barrymore, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.

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#RIP #Plummer #Oscars #Emmys #Tonys #actor #legend #Hollywood #Canada

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The Sound of Music (1965)
The Insider (1999)
All the Money in the World (2017)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Inside Man (2006)
Beginners (2010)
Knives Out (2019)
The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Barrymore (2011)
Dolores Claiborne (1995)
12 Monkeys (1995)
Up (2009)
Syriana (2005)
The New World (2005)
The Last Station (2009)
The Silent Partner (1978)
Stage Struck (1958)
Murder by Decree (1979)
Somewhere in Time (1980)
An American Tail (1986)
Remember (2015)
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013)
Elsa & Fred (2014)
Malcolm X (1992)
Dragnet (1987)
The Thorn Birds (1983)
Man in the Chair (2007)
The Night of the Generals (1967)
Waterloo (1970)
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
Wolf (1994)
Cold Creek Manor (2003)
National Treasure (2004)
Alexander (2004)
Winchell (1998)
International Velvet (1978)
Must Love Dogs (2005)
Nuremberg (2000)
The Day That Shook the World (1975)
Danny Collins (2015)
The Lake House (2006)
Hamlet at Elsinore (1964)
Triple Cross (1966)
Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
Priest (2011)
The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)

...and so many, many, many more

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