Christopher Plummer FAREWELL, MY CAPTAIN

The Sound Of Music star will remain forever in our hearts

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He was one of Hollywood’s most prolific and hardest working actors, who, at 82, became the oldest Academy Award acting winner in history. Yet Christopher Plummer, who passed away at the age of 91, was best known – and most loved by audiences – for playing Captain Von Trapp in The Sound Of Music, a character he famously once described as “humourless and one-dimensional”.

“It was so awful and sentimental and gooey,” the star, who once called the film ‘The Sound Of Mucus’, told the Hollywood Reporter