R-I-P the Duke of Wellington

I've never seen The Sound of Music, but I have been fascinated by the Duke of Wellington and that period of history since I was at school. Waterloo is a brilliant film and stays very close to how it really was. Christopher Plummer's interpretation of the Duke of Wellington, is one of the best I have seen.

A sad loss. ‘Waterloo’ was one of my all time favourite films, as was ‘Battle of Britain’ where he played a fighter pilot. We watched him recently in a film called ‘The Exception’, not a great film, but a good cast and a faultless performance from him.

Waterloo film with the great man on Wednesday 17 february on paramount channel 50 at 18:15pm.
Surprised that its one of the few films
that does not have sub-titles.

He played Arthur Wellesley in the film ‘Waterloo’ Witzend, which I imagine is why Infoman used this thread title ?

I must make a point of finding something besides the S of M with him in, to watch.

For me he will probably forever be Captain con Trapp - partly down to dd1 being addicted to it ever since someone gave us a pirate copy of the S of M when she was 3.

We were living in the middle of the Abu Dhabi desert at the time, there was nothing on TV for kids (or non Arabic speaking adults) so anything at all to watch was hard to come by. Dd adored it from the word go. Until then I’d never seen it and was convinced it must be loathsomely corny, so was pleasantly surprised.

For me one of the most erotic moments ever on film, is the scene where they’re dancing together at the ball - the Ländler? - and suddenly, without so much as a whisper of anything remotely graphic, the rush of sexual attraction on her part is obvious. And so she runs away, back to the nice safe abbey....

A lovely man who always had the smile to go with it. I watched Sound of Music on New Years Eve and thought then that he must be getting on in years.
Even as he aged, he retained his good looks. An underrated actor to my mind.

When I was sixteen I saw Christopher Plummer at Stratford playing Richard 111. A schoolfriend and I travelled to Stratford by train and bought tickets to stand at the back of the auditorium, such an adventure, pretending we were students. While walking up the main street she suddenly buckled at the knees and clutched my arm; a rather scruffy insignificant man had strolled past. looking at us in the way actors do, to see if we noticed him; it was Christopher Plummer! We were far too polite to ask for his autograph.
I still have the programme, and uncannily, was looking at it yesterday morning before I learned of his death.