MIAMI.- He Canadian actor Donald Sutherlandfamous for the series M.A.S.H. and the saga The Hunger Games, died in Miami this June 20 at the age of 88, after a long disease which was not revealed.
The information was confirmed by his son Kiefer Sutherland and his agent Missy Davy to CNN.
“It is with a heavy heart that I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away. I personally believe he was one of the most important actors in the history of cinema. Never intimidated by a role, good, bad or ugly. I loved what he did and “He did what he loved, and you can never ask for more than that. A life well lived,” Sutherland wrote on Instagram.
The text accompanies a black and white photograph of the actor when he was young with Kiefer as a child.
Trajectory
Donald Sutherland had a successful career in film, spanning more than five decades.
He rose to fame in 1967, when he played one of the members of The Dirty Dozen; a film that then became a success. And in 1979, she participated in the war film Kelly’s Heroes.
He later made a leap into the genre, to play Dr. Hawkeye Pierce in the film version of M*A*S*H. The performer also starred alongside Jane Fonda (with whom he had a relationship outside of filming) in the crime and mystery film Clute.
Among the 140 titles he added during his career, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Animal House, Don’t Look Now, JFK, Ordinary People, Buffy, la cazavampiros, Backdraft y The Italian Job.
At all times, Sutherland demonstrated his ability to embody characters in various film genres, which earned him various recognitions, including an Emmy for playing a Soviet official in the film Citizen X from HBO, which is based on real events. He also won two Golden Globes.
In the last decade, Donald Sutherland played the evil president of the saga The Hunger Games, as well as oil magnate J. Paul Getty in the series Trust.
In 2017, he received an honorary award from the board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and also obtained the Order of Canada.
In 2020, he participated in the HBO series The Undoingalong with Nicole Kidman, Grace Fraser, Hugh Grant and Edgar Ramrez.
Family
In 1959, the actor met Lois Hardwick, who was his first wife; However, a short time later they separated.
In the sixties, the performer fell in love with Shirley Douglas, whom he met when they were recording Castle of the Living Dead and with whom he had two children, the actor Kiefer Sutherland – with whom he shared the screen three times – and the post-production supervisor Rachel Sutherland.
In 1972, after his second divorce, he married Francine Racette again, with whom he had three children.
Donald Sutherland never retired and remained active in the industry until his death.
In 1998, in an interview he gave to Charlie Rose, he said that he was passionate about his job. “I love to work. I passionately love to work. I love feeling my hand fit into someone else’s glove. I feel a great freedom, time stops for me. I’m not as crazy as I used to be, but I’m still a little crazy.” “.
