The Iconic Actor Donald Sutherland Dead At 88

Over the course of his five-decade career, the renowned and prolific actor Donald Sutherland acted in innumerable popular films. He passed away at the age of 88.

Sutherland’s career encompassed a variety of genres, including his evil part in the Hunger Games franchise, Oscar winners Klute and Ordinary People, and early breakthrough roles in The Dirty Dozen and MASH.

After a protracted illness, the Emmy Award winner passed away at home in Miami today, his agency CAA announced to Deadline.

Sutherland moved to Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, after being born in New Brunswick, Canada, on July 17, 1935. He suffered from several major ailments during his childhood, including as spinal meningitis, rheumatic fever, and polio.

He moved to London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art from Canada to further his acting career, and he quickly secured roles in television series and low-budget films.

With the ensemble cast of The Dirty Dozen, a legendary war movie starring Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Ernest Borgnine, and Jim Brown, he achieved his big break in Hollywood. In terms of box office receipts, it ranked fifth in 1967.

Sutherland played the original “Hawkeye” Pierce in the 1970 anti-war comedy-drama MASH, which became one of his most famous roles after he moved from London to Hollywood. MASH is recognised as a classic and was one of the decade’s most popular films.

Sutherland was a Hollywood leading man during the 1970s; he starred in the remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the psychological horror film Don’t Look Now, and the Oscar-winning picture Klute, which he co-starred in with Jane Fonda. He was in the popular comedy Animal House as well.

He starred in Robert Redford’s 1980 film Ordinary People, which took home the Best Picture Oscar. Backdraft, JFK, Six Degrees of Separation, The Italian Job, and Pride and Prejudice are some other notable films.

Sutherland enjoyed success on television as well. For the 1995 movie Citizen X, he received an Emmy Award, and for the television movie Path to War, he received a Golden Globe.

Sutherland first gained recognition from a younger audience in the popular dystopian blockbuster series The Hunger Games, in which he played the evil President Coriolanus Snow.

Unexpectedly, he was never nominated for an Oscar, but in 2017 he was awarded an Academy Honorary Award “for a lifetime of indelible characters, rendered with unwavering truthfulness.” In addition, he was awarded a star on the Canadian Walk of Fame in 2000 and the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011.

Sutherland was married three times. Francine Racette, an actress, was his wife for fifty-two years until her passing. He had affairs with Jane Fonda, his co-star in Klute, and Lois May Hardwick in addition to Shirley Douglas.

Kiefer Sutherland, the actor best known for playing Jack Bauer in the television series 24, is the most well-known of his five children.

”I was too young to go watch my father’s films in the cinema,” Kiefer Sutherland stated in a 2017 interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “By the time I hit 20, VHS was available and a friend of my fathers had a lot of his films. In three days I watched Don’t Look Know, Klute, MAS*H, Kelly’s Heroes, 1900 and Fellini’s Casanova.”

“It was such a wide spectrum of characters, and I remember calling him up and I felt really badly that I grew up not knowing what a profoundly special actor he was, I felt horribly guilty of that. As a young actor, I had never known or seen another actor who’ve done characters so diverse either.”

Peace be with you, legendary actor Donald Sutherland. You will be missed for your talents in so many amazing, classic films. 💔😢

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