He’s played a gay man only once before — in the 1980 television film “The Shadow Box,” directed by Paul Newman — but says the assignment didn’t rattle him.

Plummer has played only one other gay man — opposite Joanne Woodward in the TV movie version of Michael Cristofer's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Shadow Box. Since "Beginners," he has done three or ...

Christopher Plummer, who portrayed Capt. Von Trapp in "The Sound of Music" and won an Oscar for "Beginners," died early Friday with his wife at his side.

Watching a filmed version of a theatrical performance can be a strangely airless experience. The beauty of live theater is that it’s never quite the same way twice, and capturing it on film ...