GODSPEED, CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER....

You were a Shakespearean giant, who could play anything with utmost expertise and damn well did. 

I'm particularly fond of your eponymous performance as Hamlet (at Elsinore), where no doubt you sharpened your dark, maddening edges.

Such cut forth in The Silent Partner, where you created one of cinema's craftiest antagonists, the persistent Harry Reikle.

However, your intensity and fine flair didn't end there. You shined as brightly in Murder by Decree (as Sherlock Holmes); Dracula 2000 (as Van Helsing); Somewhere in Time; 12 Monkeys; Star Trek VI: the Undiscovered Country; Starcrash; Dreamscape; The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus; the Pyx (aka the Hooker Cult Murders); Priest; Possessed; Skeletons; the Clown at Midnight; Shadow Dancing; Wolf; Firehead; the Lake House; the High Commissioner; Oedipus the King; Cyrano de Bergerac '62; The Man Who Would be King; Aces High; The Last Station; The Return of the Pink Panther; Knives Out; Jesus of Nazareth; International Velvet; All the Money in the World; Rock-a-Doodle; The Moneychangers; Remember; the Exception; the Insider; A Beautiful Mind; Beginners; Inside Man; The Man Who Invented Christmas; and though you expressed disdain toward it, The Sound of Music.

You became one of my primo heroes, Mr. Plummer, and that esteemed ranking will never depart my grateful heart.