Normally I only commemorate academics on this site, but sadly enough, there have been some distinguished exceptions lately. Today I want to say a few words about one of my very favorite actors, Christopher Plummer, who died yesterday. Plummer was one of the most dignified actors I have ever seen. Thus, he equally at home playing Commodus (in The Fall of the Roman Empire, 1964) or Rudyard Kipling (in The Man Who Would Be King, 1975).
And who could forget General Chang, from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)? Hamlet is better in the original Klingon, after all…
He was also, arguably, the best part of Alexander (2004), an otherwise hideously dreadful film, in which he played Aristotle.
