Cast Sound: Where are they now?

The sound of music He became one of the most ongoing and beloved musicals of the world following his release in March 1965.

A legendary director Robert WiseAn adaptation of the 1959 popular stage musical – which was itself based on the lives of the Von Trapp family singers – cemented Julie Andrews As an international superstar and lighting light at a moment of hope during a dark period in history. Placed in the period before World War II, The sound of music Following the talented Von Trapp family as they flee from the Nazi War machine trespassing to his native Austria. The sound of music Highly successful with his release in 1965, as he eventually made more than $ 280 million at the Box Office and collected five Academy Award nominations (including the best picture).

Keep scrolling to get a look at what happened next to the cast of The sound of music::

Julie Andrews

Andrews was shown in the praise of awards for her portrayal of a cheerful governor (and eventually the von trapp family matriarch).

After winning the best Oscar actress already in 1964 for Mary poppinsAndrews nominated again the following year for The sound of music. A third best actress goal followed in 1982 for another musical role, as Victoria granted in Victor/Victoria.

In 1997, Andrews was forced to abandon Broadway revival Victor/Victoria For surgery to remove a wound on its vocal cord. Unfortunately, the surgery caused permanent damage to Andrews’ vocal cords and, despite having four other procedures, she failed to regain her four eighth range.

Andrews said Hollywood reporter In 2015 she “denied” after learning her vocal cords would never fully recover.

“It was devastating. Losing myself,” he admitted. “And I finally had to conclude that (my voice) was not only (the thing) I had made of it. That is, I thought my voice was my stock-in-commerce, my talent, my soul.”

The legendary actress went on, “I’m over it, really. I will always regret the operation. I wish I would have been strong enough to say no. But I have to forgive myself for doing (the surgery) because I felt such an obligation had been done.”

Andrews has continued to operate in non-music roles, most especially playing Queen Clarisse Marie Renaldi in the Princess Diaries Lady Whistledown Movies and Netflix’s popular show Bridgerton. Her reunite with the cast of The sound of music in 2022 when they participated in a ceremony of AFI’s life in honor of her.

The actress was married to the director Blake Edwards From 1969 until his death in 2010 and they shared two children, women Amy and Joanna Edwards. She had another girl, Emma Walton Hamiltonof her first marriage to install a designer Tony WaltonShe was married between 1959 and 1968.

Christopher Plummer

The Canadian actor had a wealth of experience by the time he made The sound of musicAs he had made his first appearance in the screen seven years earlier opposite Henry Fonda In 1958’s Platform strikes.

Plummer’s heroic portrait of Captain Georg von Trapp found him as a leading man, and would have gone on to star in 1975’s The man who would be a king1999’s Inside and the winner of Oscar Best Photo 2001 Beautiful mind.

Plummer Oscar won the best supporting actor for the 2010 Romantic Drama BeginnerMaking him the only Canada to receive the triple crown of acting, as he had previously won two Emmy awards and Tony’s two awards for his television and stage work, respectively.

Most plummer maybe A notable career -late role were so industrialist J. Paul Getty In 2017’s All the money in the world. The movie had has already been shot When Spacey’s misconduct accusations came to light (which Spacey denied), so all his scenes were re -drawn with Plummer taking over the role.

Plummer died at the age of 91 In February 2021 at his home in Connecticut, two weeks after suffering a shot to the head.

“Chris was an extraordinary man who loved and respected his profession deeply with great old -fashioned manners, self -valuing humor and word music,” Lou pitthis manager of 46 years, he said in a statement to Weekly US at the time. “It was a national treasure that was very proud of the roots of Canada. Through his art and humanity, he touched all our hearts and his legendary life will suffer for every generation to come. He will be with us forever with us.”

Plummer was married three times, first to Tony’s award -winning actress Tammy Grimesbetween 1956 and 1960, and later to Patricia Lewisbetween 1962 and 1967. His third marriage to Elaine Taylor He continued from 1970 until his death in 2021.

His daughter, actress Amanda plummerFollowed in the footsteps of her parents Christopher and Tammy by winning the Tony Award in 1982 for the Religious Drama God’s ages. Her screen appearances include playing wiring in 2013’s The hunger games: Code and the villain vadic Star Trek: Picard.

Richard Haydn

As a reliable friend of Von Trapp family, Max Detweiler, Haydn came to The sound of music With nearly 30 years in Hollywood. He was started on the radio in the 1940s, playing the role of Edwin Carp Charlie McCarthy Show.

Haydn voiced the caterpillar as a Disney animated classic in 1951 Alice in Wonderland and make a memorable appearance in a chapter of 1960 from The Zon Twilighte. Became a prolific TV actor with distinctive roles Berog and Blind In addition to revenge on his radio role as Edwin Carp on Dick Van Dyke Show In 1964.

He died at the age of 80 of a heart attack in April 1985.

Carr Charmian

Carr made his first on -screen appearance at the age of 23 playing the eldest child von trapp, liesl, in The sound of music. He came to the role with no previous professional acting or singing experience.

She said Coast to Coast with Heather Dawson In 2013 that The sound of musicProduction began with no one cast as a liesl before producers reached out to her mother.

“My mother alone (having told them), ‘Well, Charmian looks young and she sings and dances,'” The actress remembered. “I went on the interview and that was.”

Carr moved away from acting after the 1960s and opened her own interior design company in Encino, California. She was married to Jay Brent Between 1967 and 1991 and shared two women.

The actress died at the age of 73 in September 2016 of complications relating to Frontotemporal dementia.

Nicholas Hammond

Hammond started his career at the age of 13 with a 1963 film version of Lord of insectsBefore winning the role of Friedrich Von Trapp in Musi’s soundc. The success of both projects remained consistent work in the 1970s, including playing Peter Parker in the 1977 television version of The amazing spider.

Was later selected by Director Quentin Tarantino To illustrate a real -life actor and filmmaker Sam Wanamaker In the 2019 Blockbuster who won an Oscar One turn at Hollywood.

Hammond was married to the first woman Laura only between 1980 and 1984, and later moved with Longtime partner Robyn nevin to Australia in the mid -1980s.

Heather Menzies

Casted as Louisa Von Trapp at the age of 15, Menzies had been a child star throughout the 1960s with regular appearances in Sitcoms ABCS The farmer’s daughter and My three sons.

Menzies landed a major role in the 1977 television outcome of the science fiction film Run logging and was a horror genre ‘queen of screaming’ in 1978’s Pirate. He continued to act until the early 1990s.

She was married for four years to John clubetween 1969 and 1973, and later tied the knot with an actor Robert Urich In 1975 after they played a new couple in a TV ad. She founded the Robert Urich Foundation following the death of her husband in 2002 of cancer.

Menzies died at the age of 68 in December 2017 from the final brain cancer. She was survived by her three children.

Duane chase

The actor-14 portrait at the time of Kurt Von Trapp into The sound of music came before Cameo at Disney’s Follow me, boys! In 1966.

Chase left acting after devoting his life to wildlife and forestry. Married to a wife Petra Maria in 1987.

Angela Cartwright

Cartwright spent 7 years later Danny Thomas Show Before she even turned at the age of 10 so she was a comparable pro when it was cast in The sound of music Like Brigitta von Trapp.

Divided in Interview decades later she was not “really nervous” to her The sound of music Screen test because of her wealth of acting experience so young.

“I felt very comfortable in front of a camera,” Cartwright remembered. “But there’s always that rush of energy because you want to do the best work you can!”

Cartwright is carried on after The sound of music By playing space-traveling on the 11 year old adventurer Penny Robinson in the 1960s television series Missing in space. Her inheritance was recognized in the Sci-Fi classic with Chameos in the 1998 movie version of Missing in space And restart streaming 2018 Netflix.

Now a photographer married Cartwright husband Steve Gullion In 1976 and they share two children.

Debbie Turner

Turner continued briefly after playing Marta von Trapp. Following the role of 1979’s Forty -northern DallasTurner moved to Chanhassen, Minnesota in 1985 and worked as a flower designer. The actress and husband Richard Larson Share four girls.

Kym Karath

Karath played the youngest child Von Trapp, Gretl, but moved on to model and study art history in Paris later in life. She shares a son with a first husband Philippe L’Cibec and married Jeff Apple In 2016.