{"id":283690,"date":"2024-06-20T13:44:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T18:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=283690"},"modified":"2024-06-20T13:44:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T18:44:13","slug":"donald-sutherland-thursday-june-20-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=283690","title":{"rendered":"Donald Sutherland – Thursday June 20, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Donald Sutherland, a veteran actor known for roles in \u201cM*A*S*H,\u201d \u201cKlute\u201d and \u201cThe Hunger Games,\u201d<\/a> has died, according to a statement from his agency CAA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was 88.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sutherland died Thursday in Miami after a long illness, according to his agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away,\u201d Kiefer Sutherland, Donald Sutherland\u2019s son, wrote<\/a> in a post on Instagram Thursday. \u201cI personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film. Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kiefer Sutherland continued to write that his father \u201cloved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more than that. A life well lived.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Decorated resume<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tall, distinctive and known for his intensity on screen, Sutherland earned an Emmy for his role as a Soviet official in the fact-based 1995 TV movie \u201cCitizen X,\u201d as well as a pair of Golden Globes. His career spanned more than 60 years and nearly 200 film and TV credits, including recent roles in the limited series \u201cTrust\u201d as oil tycoon J. Paul Getty and HBO\u2019s \u201cThe Undoing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sutherland\u2019s big break came when he was cast as one of \u201cThe Dirty Dozen\u201d in the star-studded 1967 film, which became a major hit. He followed that with another war movie, \u201cKelly\u2019s Heroes,\u201d before playing the wisecracking doctor Hawkeye Pierce in the movie version of \u201cM*A*S*H\u201d and opposite Jane Fonda in her Oscar-winning portrayal of a high-class \u201ccall girl\u201d in the crime mystery \u201cKlute.\u201d (Fonda and Sutherland also had an off-screen relationship around the time that they made the film.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reflecting his ability to play all sorts of roles, Sutherland\u2019s 1970s resume included a chillingly effective remake of the horror film \u201cInvasion of the Body Snatchers\u201d and a memorable turn as a pot-smoking professor in the National Lampoon comedy \u201cAnimal House.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also starred opposite Julie Christie in director Nicolas Roeg\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Look Now,\u201d a 1973 movie that became somewhat notorious for the raciness of its sex scene, which had to be trimmed in order to avoid an X rating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A steady stream of roles followed in a wide variety of genres, from a small but pivotal part in Oliver Stone\u2019s \u201cJFK\u201d to supporting work in \u201cOrdinary People\u201d (which won the Oscar for best picture), \u201cBuffy the Vampire Slayer,\u201d \u201cBackdraft\u201d and \u201cThe Italian Job.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sutherland also starred as the legendary lover for director Federico Fellini in \u201cFellini\u2019s Casanova.\u201d Many younger filmgoers, meanwhile, will likely remember him as the evil president in \u201cThe Hunger Games\u201d movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beginnings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Sutherland endured several bouts of ill health as a child, including polio. He attended the University of Toronto, where he studied engineering before gravitating toward drama and appearing on stage, graduating with degrees in both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 6\u20194\u201d actor met his first wife, Lois Hardwick, in college, and the two married in 1959. He moved to London, where he found some stage work, and eventually to Hollywood in the 1960s, where \u201cDirty Dozen\u201d and \u201cM*A*S*H\u201d put him on the map.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the mid-1960s he divorced, marrying actress Shirley Douglas, whom he met while filming the horror movie \u201cCastle of the Living Dead.\u201d They had two children, actor Kiefer and Rachel, who also works in film as a post-production supervisor. That marriage also ended in divorce, and in 1972 Sutherland wed his third wife, actress Francine Racette, with whom he had three sons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a 2020 conversation with \u201cThe Undoing\u201d costar Hugh Grant for Interview magazine, Sutherland said that he was always so nervous when a movie began shooting that he threw up the night before. He also discussed subtly altering his dialogue, as he put it, to \u201ctry to make the lines that I\u2019ve been given fit my mouth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Family connections<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sutherland appeared in three films with son Kiefer, beginning with the \u201c24\u201d star\u2019s small part in the comedy-drama \u201cMax Dugan Returns\u201d in 1983, followed by the John Grisham adaptation \u201cA Time to Kill.\u201d The two didn\u2019t perform in a scene together, however, until the 2016 western \u201cForsaken.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was a memory and an experience that I will treasure for the rest of my life,\u201d Kiefer Sutherland told \u201cGood Morning America\u201d at the time, saying he spent years looking for something that the two could do together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked what advice he would give young actors, Sutherland told Reuters in 2019, \u201cTry and be as truthful as you possibly can, read, read a lot, learn, memorize things, enjoy your artistry, study dancing, be a circus performer, learn how to juggle, so many things, but mostly you have to observe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sutherland received an honorary award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences board in 2017 and was honored with the Order of Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2022, Sutherland appeared alongside Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson in the space thriller \u201cMoonfall\u201d and in the Roku TV mini series \u201cSwimming with Sharks.\u201d His final credit came in 2023, with the actor starring in the Paramount+ western drama \u201cLawmen: Bass Reeves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donald Sutherland, a veteran actor known for roles in \u201cM*A*S*H,\u201d \u201cKlute\u201d and \u201cThe Hunger Games,\u201d has died, according to a statement from his agency CAA. He was 88. Sutherland died Thursday in Miami after a long illness, according to his agency. \u201cWith a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":283691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283692,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283690\/revisions\/283692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/283691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}