Canadian actor Donald Sutherland attends the premiere of ‘The Starvation Video games: Mockingjay – Half 2’ on the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles on November 16, 2015. (File photograph by Chris DELMAS / AFP)
LOS ANGELES, United States — Donald Sutherland, the enigmatic Canadian actor whose prolonged profession encompassed movies together with “The Soiled Dozen” and “The Starvation Video games,” has died, his son mentioned Thursday. He was 88.
“With a heavy coronary heart, I inform you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has handed away,” actor Kiefer Sutherland wrote on X.
The elder Sutherland had a particular look — and piercing eyes — that introduced a depth and thriller to the massive vary of roles he essayed over half a century on the large display.
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He performed dashing main males in addition to antiheroes and villains, most not too long ago making a reputation amongst a brand new era of followers because the evil President Snow in “The Starvation Video games” franchise.
“I personally assume (he was) probably the most necessary actors within the historical past of movie. By no means daunted by a task, good, dangerous or ugly. He beloved what he did and did what he beloved, and one can by no means ask for greater than that. A life nicely lived,” wrote Kiefer Sutherland.
After what he himself termed a “meandering” begin to his appearing profession, Donald Sutherland got here to prominence in Robert Aldrich’s “The Soiled Dozen,” the place 12 convicts are tasked with finishing up what seems to be a suicide mission in occupied France.
Starring alongside luminaries equivalent to Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, and Telly Savalas, Sutherland’s impish charms caught the eye of producers of “MASH.”
The delicate satire on the Vietnam Battle, wherein he was solid reverse Elliott Gould, turned Sutherland right into a family identify in Seventies America and opened the door to a sturdy profession that will see him work with among the largest names in present enterprise.
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