{"id":991,"date":"2024-06-20T21:59:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T21:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/?p=991"},"modified":"2024-06-20T21:59:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T21:59:24","slug":"donald-sutherland-veteran-actor-and-father-of-kiefer-sutherland-dead-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/?p=991","title":{"rendered":"Donald Sutherland, veteran actor and father of Kiefer Sutherland, dead at 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"5c53f654ecb6b2e2c397431cfdb6dd0a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:99px 0 99px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<!-- Composite Start -->\r\n<div id=\"M926082ScriptRootC1556461\"><\/div>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/jsc.adskeeper.com\/m\/a\/makamuki.com.1556461.js\" async><\/script>\r\n<!-- Composite End -->\n<\/div>\n\n<p>who starred in films including &#8220;Klute,&#8221; &#8220;M*A*SH*,&#8221; &#8220;Ordinary People&#8221; and, more recently, played the evil President Snow in &#8220;The Hunger Games&#8221; franchise, has died at age 88.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sutherland&#8217;s son, actor Kiefer Sutherland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away,&#8221; Sutherland wrote. &#8220;I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film. Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more than that. A life well lived.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born on July 17, 1935, in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, Donald Sutherland got his start in acting as a student and went on to prolific career that included nearly 150 film credits and over 40 television roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His first acting roles were in the early television series &#8220;Man of the World&#8221; and &#8220;Suspense.&#8221; He had more small roles across television in film throughout the 1960s before landing the role of Vernon L. Pinkley in the 1967 World War II classic film, &#8220;The Dirty Dozen.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donald Sutherland then played Army surgeon Hawkeye Pierce in director Robert Altman&#8217;s 1970 film version of &#8220;M*A*S*H,&#8221; which inspired the classic TV series. The role launched a series of film roles and projects for the actor throughout the 1970s, including the drama &#8220;Klute&#8221; in 1971, in which he starred alongside Jane Fonda, who won the Best Actress Oscar for her role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1980, Donald Sutherland starred opposite Mary Tyler Moore in the Robert Redford-directed drama &#8220;Ordinary People,&#8221; which also starred Judd Hirsch and 20-year-old Timothy Hutton, who became the youngest-ever Best Supporting Actor Oscar-winner for his role in the film, one of five Academy Awards it won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The actor returned to Broadway in 1981 after his 1969 debut in \u201cBuck White,\u201d and starred in the Edward Albee-adapted play of Vladimir Nabokov\u2019s novel, \u201cLolita.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following Broadway, Sutherland continued to star in many notable films throughout the 1980s and 1990s, including \u201cA Dry White Season\u201d in 1989 alongside Marlon Brando, and in writer\/director Oliver Stone&#8217;s controversial \u201cJFK\u201d in 1991, with Kevin Costner, Kevin Bacon and Tommy Lee Jones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 2000s, Donald Sutherland\u2019s career in film continued to thrive with roles in the action comedy \u201cSpace Cowboys\u201d in 2000, the Civil War drama \u201cCold Mountain\u201d in 2003, in which he starred in with Nicole Kidman, and the heist film \u201cThe Italian Job\u201d in 2003, with Charlize Theron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sutherland also portrayed Mr. Bennett in the 2005 film adaptation of \u201cPride&nbsp;&amp; Prejudice,\u201d with Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Rosamund Pike and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sutherland reached a new generation of fans when he starred in four films in \u201cThe Hunger Games\u201d action drama franchise, playing Coriolanus Snow, the tyrannical president of the fictional Panem. The franchise&#8217;s star-studded cast included Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Stanley Tucci and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donald Sutherland&#8217;s final on-screen role was as the no-nonsense Judge Isaac Parker in the 2023 Western television miniseries \u201cLawmen: Bass Reeves,&#8221; opposite star David Oyelowo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2017, Sutherland was presented with an Honorary Academy Award for his body of work, and was introduced and lauded onstage by his &#8220;The Hunger Games&#8221; co-star and fellow Oscar winner Lawrence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is very important to me, to my family,\u201d Sutherland&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2uq2TmbJKcA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;at the time. \u201cIt\u2019s like a door is opened and a cool, wonderfully fresh breath of air has come in. I wish I could say thank you to all of the characters that I\u2019ve played. Thank them for using their lives to inform my life,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd of course, thank you to Francine Racette, from whom everything has come &#8212; that\u2019s my family &#8212; from whom everything has come and to whom everything is owed,\u201d he continued, referring to his wife. \u201cI have been a partner to her for over 45 years. And in all that she has supported me with her intelligence, her intuition, her instruction, her ability to make me laugh in the direst of situations. Her extraordinary sense of taste, her residual belief in me. Amongst all of these, her ability to absorb and sustain the extraordinary ups and downs of this crazy movie life we have gone through. She deserves a medal for that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sutherland&#8217;s memoir, titled &#8220;Made Up, but Still True,&#8221; to be published by Penguin Random House, is due in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donald Sutherland is survived by his five children: twins Kiefer and Rachel Sutherland, whom he shares with the late actress Shirley Jean Douglas, as well as Rossif, Roeg and Angus Redford Sutherland, whom he shares with Racette.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>who starred in films including &#8220;Klute,&#8221; &#8220;M*A*SH*,&#8221; &#8220;Ordinary People&#8221; and, more recently, played the evil President Snow in &#8220;The Hunger Games&#8221; franchise, has died at age 88. 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