At the time, and at age 88, he became the oldest actor to be nominated for an Oscar. One of his final film roles came in the box-office hit “Knives Out,” playing the patriarch around whose murder the 2019 whodunit revolves. “How boring it would be to be just one thing — just a movie actor, or just a stage actor — when you can just keep going from one to the other. Still a relatively unknown film actor, Plummer managed to edge out Sean Connery and Richard Burton for the role of the patriarch of the Trapp Family Singers. (V. Tony Hauser / Stratford Shakespeare Festival)Back on stage, Plummer continued his tour de force performance as actor John Barrymore in William Luce’s 1998 biographical play.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 05, 2021 18:22 UTC