Christopher Plummer, who famously played the iconic character of Captain Georg von Trapp in the beloved 1965 movie The Sound Of Music, may have turned 91 earlier this month, but he has no intention of retiring anytime soon.
“I would rather die right on stage doing my craft,” Plummer told Closer Weekly days after his birthday. He added with a laugh that, “Nobody retires in our profession. We just go on until we drop. And acting — learning all those lines — helps keep [the brain] alive.”
Born in Montreal, Canada in 1929, Plummer became interested in acting after he was cast as Mr. Darcy in a high school production of Pride And Prejudice. This began a lifelong love affair with the theater, something he still loves to this day.
“I was very lucky,” he admitted. “I went to work professionally when I was 18, and I did not look back.”
While most modern audiences know Plummer for his movie roles, he was reluctant to act on the big screen at first.
“I was snobbish about movies,” he recalled. “I thought theater was the bee’s knees.”
Once Plummer did finally start taking movie roles, he was both stunned and uncomfortable to soon be typecast as a sex symbol of sorts.
“There’s nothing more boring than a leading man,” he explained. “I couldn’t wait until I was a character actor in my 40s. The roles immediately got more interesting and more diverse.”
Sure enough, Plummer’s career really did get better with age. He was already 80 years-old when he got his first Oscar nomination, and he was 82 in 2012 when he became the oldest actor to win an Oscar for his work in the movie Beginners. Even during the coronavirus pandemic, Plummer was working up a storm the week of his 91st birthday, narrating an audio version of A Nantucket Christmas Carol for a local Cape Cod radio station, and appearing in the animated movie, Heroes of the Golden Mask.
“I’ve done more interesting stuff in the last five or six years than I’ve done all my life in the theater,” he said. “I don’t feel old. Never retire. Don’t want to. There [are] too many wonderful things to do.”
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