READ MORE: Christopher Plummer dead: Sound of Music actor dies aged 91However, in 2010, Plummer did relent and joined the 45th-anniversary cast reunion on The Oprah Winfrey Show and a 50th-anniversary screening in Hollywood with Andrews in 2015.
The year before he told The Boston Globe: "I was a bit bored with the character. Although we worked hard enough to make him interesting, it was a bit like flogging a dead horse. "And the subject matter is not mine.
I mean it can't appeal to every person in the world. It's not my cup of tea. ''Nevertheless, playing Captain von Trapp helped him bag his Oscar-nominated role of Leo Tolstoy in 2009's The Last Station.
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