Plummer also appeared in such films as Spike Lee’s Malcolm X (1992), Ron Howard’s A Beautiful Mind (2001), Terrence Malick’s The New World (2005), David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Mike Mills’ Beginners (2011), and Rian Johnson’s Knives Out (2019). Paul Getty in All the Money in the World (2017). Plummer portrayed numerous major historical figures, including Roman emperor Commodus in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in Waterloo (1970), Rudyard Kipling in The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999), Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station (2009), Kaiser Wilhelm II in The Exception (2016), and J. He made his film debut in Sidney Lumet’s Stage Struck (1958), and won great acclaim with audiences for his performance as Captain Georg von Trapp in the musical film The Sound of Music (1965) alongside Julie Andrews. Plummer also performed in stage productions J.B., No Man’s Land, and Inherit the Wind. Plummer made his Broadway debut in 1954, and continued to act in leading roles on stage playing Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano (1974), Iago in Othello, as well as playing the titular roles in Macbeth, King Lear, and Barrymore. He gained recognition for his performances in film, television, and theater. His representative told Rolling Stone, “The news of Biz Markie’s passing is not true, Biz is still under medical care, surrounded by professionals who are working hard to provide the best healthcare possible.” Markie died at a Baltimore hospital fifteen days later, on July 16, at age 57.Īrthur Christopher Orme Plummer CC (Decem– February 5, 2021) was a Canadian actor whose career spanned seven decades. On July 1, 2021, rumors of his death circulated on Twitter. In December 2020, it was reported that Markie was staying in a rehabilitation facility as a result of a stroke he had suffered after going into a diabetic coma. In April 2020, Markie was hospitalized due to severe complications from Type 2 diabetes. Markie has been called the “Clown Prince of Hip Hop”. 100 on VH1’s list of the 100 greatest hip hop songs of all time. Markie was best known for his 1989 single “Just a Friend”, which became a top 40 hit in several countries. Marcel Theo Hall (Ap– July 16, 2021), known professionally as Biz Markie, was an American rapper, singer-songwriter, DJ, and record producer. He had been sent there a day earlier for a medical emergency. Popeil died on July 28, 2021, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center at age 86. His Showtime Rotisserie & BBQ sold over eight million units in the US alone, helping Ronco’s housewares sales exceed $1 billion in profits. Popeil is also well known for his housewares inventions like his Giant Dehydrator and Beef Jerky Machine, his Electric Pasta Maker and his Showtime Rotisserie & BBQ. He made appearances in infomercials for the Showtime Rotisserie and coined the phrase “Set it, and forget it!” as well as popularizing the phrase, “But wait, there’s more!” on television as early as the mid-1950s.Īmong the better known and more successful are the Chop-O-Matic hand food processor (“Ladies and gentlemen, I’m going to show you the greatest kitchen appliance ever made … All your onions chopped to perfection without shedding a single tear.”), the Dial-O-Matic successor to the Veg-O-Matic (“Slice a tomato so thin it only has one side.”), and the Ronco Pocket Fisherman. Ronald Martin Popeil (– July 28, 2021), was an American inventor and marketing personality, and founder of the direct response marketing company Ronco.
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