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Christopher Plummer: A career in pictures

Christopher Plummer, the award-winning actor who played Captain von Trapp in the film The Sound Of Music, has died aged 91. Over more than 50 years in the industry, Plummer enjoyed varied roles ranging from the film The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, to the voice of the villain in 2009’s Up and as a canny lawyer in Broadway’s Inherit The Wind.

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Christopher Plummer holds his Oscar for best actor in a supporting role for Beginners in the press room at the 84th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, California in February 2012. Photograph: Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images
Christopher Plummer holds his Oscar for best actor in a supporting role for Beginners in the press room at the 84th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, California in February 2012. Photograph: Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images
Plummer accepting his Oscar award on stage in 2012. Photograph: Mark J Terrill/AP
Plummer accepting his Oscar award on stage in 2012. Photograph: Mark J Terrill/AP
Plummer, as Captain Georg von Trapp, playing a guitar in The Sound of Music, directed by Robert Wise, 1965. Photograph: Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images
Plummer, as Captain Georg von Trapp, playing a guitar in The Sound of Music, directed by Robert Wise, 1965. Photograph: Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images
Plummer (right) with the director Ridley Scott on the set of the film All the Money in the World in Rome on November 29th, 2017. Photograph:Tom Jamieson/The New York Times
Plummer (right) with the director Ridley Scott on the set of the film All the Money in the World in Rome on November 29th, 2017. Photograph:Tom Jamieson/The New York Times
Plummer in costume as Sherlock Holmes on the set of Murder by Decree in Clink Street, London on July 29th, 1978. Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images
Plummer in costume as Sherlock Holmes on the set of Murder by Decree in Clink Street, London on July 29th, 1978. Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images
Plummer, one of the stars of the Broadway success, JB, plays the role of Satan on July 30th, 1959. Photograph: AP
Plummer, one of the stars of the Broadway success, JB, plays the role of Satan on July 30th, 1959. Photograph: AP
Plummer poses on May 17th, 2007, in New York. Photograph: Frank Franklin II/AP
Plummer poses on May 17th, 2007, in New York. Photograph: Frank Franklin II/AP
Christopher Plummer in the title role in King Lear at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on Broadway in New York city on February 6th, 2004. Photograph: Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
Christopher Plummer in the title role in King Lear at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on Broadway in New York city on February 6th, 2004. Photograph: Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
From left to right; Christopher Plummer, Peter Sellers, George Murcell and Eric Porter, with a model of a project at a reception at the National Portrait Gallery in December 1970. Photograph: PA/PA Wire
From left to right; Christopher Plummer, Peter Sellers, George Murcell and Eric Porter, with a model of a project at a reception at the National Portrait Gallery in December 1970. Photograph: PA/PA Wire
Christopher Plummer, arrives with Elaine Taylor at the Odeon, St Martin's Lane, for the charity world premiere of The Royal Hunt of the Sun on October 2nd, 1969. Photograph: PA/PA Wire
Christopher Plummer, arrives with Elaine Taylor at the Odeon, St Martin's Lane, for the charity world premiere of The Royal Hunt of the Sun on October 2nd, 1969. Photograph: PA/PA Wire
Plummer (left) as Henry Drummond, with Brian Dennehy as Matthew Harrison Brady in a scene from the play Inherit the Wind at Boradway's Lyceum Theater in New York on March 21st, 2007. Photograph: Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
Plummer (left) as Henry Drummond, with Brian Dennehy as Matthew Harrison Brady in a scene from the play Inherit the Wind at Boradway's Lyceum Theater in New York on March 21st, 2007. Photograph: Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

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