The award-winning actor, who played Captain von Trapp in the 1965 musical, passed away on Friday at age 91. His wife Elaine Taylor was …
The award-winning actor, who played Captain von Trapp in the 1965 musical, passed away on Friday at age 91. His wife Elaine Taylor was by his side. „He was always in character,“ the former child star, who played Marta von Trapp, told Fox News on Friday. „He would give you a look even if you smiled. So we sort of tiptoed around him. We were just cautious because he gave off that air of authority towards us, but that was so we could react on camera towards him like how we were supposed to. That’s why he was always in character.“ Plummer, who enjoyed a decades-long career in Hollywood, played varied roles. At 82, he became the oldest Academy Award acting winner in history. But it was opposite Julie Andrews as von Trapp that made him a star. He depicted an Austrian captain who must flee the country with his folk-singing family to escape service in the Nazi navy. Later in life, Plummer experienced a film renaissance, which began with his performance as Mike Wallace in 1999’s „The Insider.
