Donald Sutherland (Denis Makarenko / Shutterstock.com)
MIAMI (CelebrityAccess) — Donald Sutherland, a flexible actor of stage and display screen recognized for numerous roles in movies similar to Klute, Kelly’s Heroes, M*A*S*H, and The Soiled Dozen, died on Thursday in Miami. He was 88.
His passing was introduced by his son, fellow actor Kiefer Sutherland by way of social media: “With a heavy coronary heart, I inform you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has handed away. I personally assume some of the essential actors within the historical past of movie. By no means daunted by a task, good, unhealthy 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 effectively lived.”
Born in New Brunswick in 1935, Sutherland attended Victoria College the place he graduated with a double main in engineering and drama earlier than relocating to the UK to review on the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Artwork.
After departing the varsity, Sutherland spent greater than a yr with the Perth Repertory Theatre in Scotland earlier than he started touchdown small roles in British movies and tv, together with appearances on reveals similar to The Saint, and The Avengers.
Sutherland’s breakout position got here in 1967 when he was forged within the warfare film The Soiled Dozen, alongside actors similar to Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson, prompting Sutherland to go away London for Hollywood.
Briefly order, Sutherland was forged in movies such because the 1970 darkish comedy M*A*S*H, the place he was forged because the nihilistic physician “Hawkeye” Pierce, and the war-heist movie Kelly’s Heroes, the place he performed the madcap tank commander Oddball.
His different main roles included the 1971 detective thriller Klute, Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1976 epic 1900, and the Academy Award-winning household drama Unusual Folks in 1980, amongst quite a few others.
Whereas Sutherland famously by no means gained an Oscar, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on 18 December 1978 and promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada in 2019. Sutherland was inducted into Canada’s Stroll of Fame in 2000.