Sutherland was identified for taking part in offbeat characters like Hawkeye Pierce in Robert Altman’s “M.A.S.H.,” and the stoned professor in “Animal Home.”
Donald Sutherland, the prolific Canadian movie and tv actor whose lengthy profession stretched from “M.A.S.H.” to “The Starvation Video 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 necessary actors within the historical past of movie. By no means daunted by a job, 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” he added.
The tall and gaunt Canadian actor with a smile that might 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 — components in Robert Redford’s “Unusual Folks” and Oliver Stone’s “JFK.”
Extra lately, he starred within the “Starvation Video games” movies and the HBO restricted sequence “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 a little bit loopy.”
Sutherland acquired an honorary Oscar in 2017.
