{"id":54065,"date":"2021-02-08T11:37:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T19:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=54065"},"modified":"2021-02-08T11:37:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T19:37:49","slug":"plummer-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2021\/02\/plummer-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"Plummer Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actor <strong>Christopher Plummer<\/strong>, best-know to <em>Star Trek<\/em> fans for playing Klingon General Chang in <em>Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country<\/em>, is dead at the age of ninety-one.<\/p>\n<p>Born Dec 13, 1929 in Toronto, Canada, Plummer made his Broadway debut in 1954 and his film debut (<em>Stage Struck<\/em>) in 1958. Although he appeared in many shows and movies, he was best-known to the public for his role of Captain Von Trapp in 1965&#8217;s <em>The Sound of Music<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>His major awards over the years included an Oscar for <em>Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role<\/em> for <em>Beginners<\/em> (2020), and a Golden Globe for the same movie, and Emmys for his voice-over performance in <em>The New Adventures of Madeline<\/em> (1995), and<em> Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series<\/em> (1976&#8217;s <em>Arthur Hailey&#8217;s the Moneychangers<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Plummer was a fan of <em>Star Trek<\/em> from the beginning, and he enjoyed playing Chang. &#8220;I looked a bit like [Israeli military leader and politician] <strong>Moshe Dayan<\/strong> in heat,&#8221; he told <strong>William Shatner<\/strong> in <em>The Captains<\/em> documentary. &#8220;And I had the most marvelous time playing with you guys.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Married three times, Plummer is survived by wife <strong>Elaine Taylor<\/strong>, and a daughter, <strong>Amanda Plummer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Plummer died &#8220;peacefully at his Connecticut home&#8221; according to<em> ICM Partners<\/em>, with &#8220;his wife and best friend for fifty-three years&#8221; by his side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Christopher Plummer, best-know to Star Trek fans for playing Klingon General Chang in Star&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[4126,4123],"class_list":["post-54065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-chang","tag-plummer"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/PlummerHollywoodRpt020821.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/PlummerHollywoodRpt020821-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/PlummerHollywoodRpt020821.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/PlummerHollywoodRpt020821.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/PlummerHollywoodRpt020821.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/PlummerHollywoodRpt020821.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/PlummerHollywoodRpt020821.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/PlummerHollywoodRpt020821.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/PlummerHollywoodRpt020821.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/PlummerHollywoodRpt020821.jpg",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54067,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54065\/revisions\/54067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}