We could use Capt. von Trapp in Congress! (GIF via GIPHY) After an accidental fall, stage and screen legend Christopher Plummer — missing only a Grammy in order to be an EGOT — died Friday at his Weston, Connecticut, home.
He was 91. Along with having starred in one of the most famous, beloved and commercially successful films of all time — 1965's The Sound of Music — he won the Oscar playing a man coming out as gay past age 80 in Beginners.