Donald Sutherland: the legendary actor dies at 88

The legendary Canadian actor Donald Sutherland, star of films such as “People Like One”, “The Hunger Games” and “Animal House”, died this Thursday at the age of 88 after a long illness.

His son, Keifer Sutherland, confirmed the news on social media.

“It is with great sadness that I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away. I personally feel one of the most important actors in the history of cinema. He was never afraid of a role, good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved, and you can never ask for more than that. A life well lived,” the actor’s son wrote in X.

Sutherland, who had a seven-decade career in film, theater and television, starred in films such as “The Dirty Twelve,” “MASH,” “Klute” and “Shadow Menace.”

Born in New Brunswick, Canada, Sutherland began as a radio news reporter before leaving the North American country to travel to London in 1957. There, he studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.

He then took on small roles in British film and television.

Sutherland was one of the protagonists of “The twelve on the scaffold”a World War II action classic released in 1967.

His stellar performance in that film gave him another role in a war film: that of Sergeant Oddball in “Kelly’s Violence” (1970).

In “Klute” (1971) he played a detective searching for a missing person with the help of a luxury prostitute.

Jane Fonda, the co-star in this Alan J. Pakula film, won an Oscar for her role.

Sutherland and Fonda were in a relationship for two years.

In the 1973 thriller “Shadow Menace” (“Don’t Look Now”)starred in such an explicit sex scene with his co-star, Julie Christie, that many viewers thought they had real sex, a rumor Sutherland later dismissed.

In the 1970s he played a member of the IRA in “The Eagle Has Arrived” (1976) and a marijuana-smoking university professor in “American Rampage” (1978).

In the 1980s Sutherland played the role of the father of a suicidal teenager in the Oscar-winning film “Gente como uno” (“Ordinary People”, in Spain).

acted on television in the 2000s in series such as “Sexy Money” and “Madam President” and appeared in the 2010s in the “Hunger Games” saga films.

Sutherland leaves behind four sons and a daughter.

The Canadian actor was never nominated for an Oscar, although he did receive an honorary Academy Award in 2017.

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