Donald
Sutherland, the Canadian actor who starred in scores of films from “The Dirty
Dozen”, “MASH” and “Klute” to “Animal House”, “Kelly’s Heroes” and “Ordinary
People” to “Pride & Prejudice” and “The Hunger Games” franchise and won an
Emmy for ‘Citizen X’, died Thursday in Miami after a long illness. He was 88.
Born on July 17, 1935, in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, Sutherland amassed
some 200 film and TV credits spanning more than 60 years, from guesting on
episodes of 1960s series including ‘Suspense’, ‘The Avengers’, ‘Court Martial’
and ‘The Odd Man’ to last year’s Paramount+ drama ‘Bass Reeves’. His big break
in movies came with Robert Aldrich’s star-packed 1967 World War II drama “The
Dirty Dozen”, playing Vernon Pinkley opposite Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine,
Charles Bronson, George Kennedy, Telly Savalas and others. A hit in theaters,
it remains a seminal American war movie. Sutherland is survived by his wife
Francine Racette; sons Roeg, Rossif, Angus, and Kiefer; daughter Rachel; and
four grandchildren. Sutherland appeared in two Euro-westerns: “Cold Mountain”
in 2003 as Reverend Monroe and as Reverend Samuel Clayton in 2014’s “Forsaken”
with his son Kiefer.
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