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Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer CC (December 13, 1929 – February 5, 2021) was a Canadian theatre, film and television actor. He made his film debut in 1958's Stage Struck, and notable film performances include The Night of the Generals, The Return of the Pink Panther, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, The Man Who Would Be King, and The Insider. In a career that spans seven decades and includes substantial roles in each of the dramatic arts, Plummer is probably best known to film audiences as the autocratic widower Captain Georg Johannes von Trapp in the hit 1965 musical film The Sound of Music alongside Julie Andrews. Plummer has also ventured into various television projects, including the legendary miniseries The Thorn Birds. In the 21st century, his film roles include The Insider as Mike Wallace, Inside Man with Denzel Washington, the Disney–Pixar 2009 film Up as Charles Muntz, the Shane Acker production 9 as '1', The Last Station as Leo Tolstoy, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus as Doctor Parnassus, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as Henrik Vanger, and Beginners as Hal. Plummer has won numerous awards and accolades for his work, including an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a SAG Award, and a BAFTA Award. With his win at the age of 82 in 2012 for Beginners, Plummer is the oldest actor and person ever to win an Academy Award. On February 5, 2021, Plummer died at his home in Weston, Connecticut, aged 91, after suffering complications from a fall. His family released a statement announcing that Plummer had "died peacefully at his home in Connecticut with his wife Elaine Taylor at his side".
Christopher Plummer
Herbert Van Helsing
for Herbert Van Helsing in The Brides of Dracula
Suggested by adam_1998
The eleventh installment in the Universal Monsters Universe and a sequel to the "Dracula" pick. It's been 34 years since the destruction of Dracula, in such time, the son of Jonathan and Mina has grown up, now Quincey Harker has a family of his own, with a wife and a daughter. One evening, Quincey receives a letter from Countess Mircalla, in which she asks them for the property rights to buy Carfax abbey. Quincey gives the property to her and from then on, the family babysitter, Laura Bloom, has been having nightmares about a woman that visits her on her dreams. During one of those days, Quincey receives a letter from Van Helsing in which his wife describes a similar nightmare from that of Laura, but instead of a woman, is a man. Van Helsing suspects that Dracula might be alive. Together, Quincey and Van Helsing find out that Mircalla was actually a princess called Carmilla, Dracula's lover. She has been able to revive him and now he wants revenge against the Harkers and Van Helsing, by turning Miranda, Johanna and Laura into his new brides. The post credits scene shows Germany 1939, a nazi troop enters into Van Helsing's house and nazi doctor, Heinrich Von Frankenstein steals the diary of Victor Frankenstein
