Sutherland was identified for enjoying offbeat characters like Hawkeye Pierce in Robert Altman’s “M.A.S.H.,” and the stoned professor in “Animal Home.”
ADVERTISEMENTDonald Sutherland, the prolific Canadian movie and tv actor whose lengthy profession stretched from “M.A.S.H.” to “The Hunger Games,” has died. He was 88.
Kiefer Sutherland, the actor’s son, confirmed his father’s demise on Thursday.
“With a heavy coronary heart, I let you know that my father, Donald Sutherland, has handed away” Kiefer mentioned on X.
“I personally assume one of the vital necessary actors within the historical past of movie. By no means daunted by a job, good, unhealthy or ugly. He liked what he did and did what he liked, and one can by no means ask for greater than that” he added.
The tall and gaunt Canadian actor with a smile that may very well be candy or diabolical was identified for offbeat characters like Hawkeye Pierce in Robert Altman’s “M.A.S.H.,” the hippie tank commander in “Kelly’s Heroes” and the stoned professor in “Animal Home.”
Earlier than transitioning into an extended profession as a revered character actor, Sutherland epitomised the unpredictable, anti-establishment cinema of the Nineteen Seventies.
Over the a long time, Sutherland confirmed his vary in additional buttoned-down — however nonetheless eccentric — elements in Robert Redford’s “Odd Folks” and Oliver Stone’s “JFK.”
Extra just lately, he starred within the “Hunger Games” movies and the HBO restricted collection “The Undoing.” He by no means retired and labored repeatedly up till his demise.
“I like to work. I passionately like to work,” Sutherland instructed Charlie Rose in 1998. “I like to really feel my hand match into the glove of another character. I really feel an enormous freedom — time stops for me. I’m not as loopy as I was, however I’m nonetheless just a little loopy.”
Sutherland obtained an honorary Oscar in 2017.
