Canadian actor Donald Sutherland dies at 88
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Canadian actor Donald Sutherland died this Thursday at 88 years After a long career in film and television, where he has participated in such popular films as ‘American Rampage’ or the saga of ‘The Hunger Games’.
It was the interpreter’s son who announced the death of his father. “Personally, I think he is one of the most important actors in the history of cinema. He was never intimidated by 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,” he expressed on the social network
Donald McNichol Sutherland He was born in 1935 in Saint John, New Brunswick (Canada) and, although he was going to be an engineer, he finally opted for acting and began his career in numerous television series, among which ‘The Saint’ and ‘The Avengers’ stand out.
After debuting on the big screen with ‘Il castello dei morti vivi’ (Warren Kiefer, 1964), an Italian horror production with Christopher Lee, he achieved his first success with ‘The Dirty Dozen’ (1967), the classic Robert Aldrich’s war film in which he shared the performance with Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson and Telly Savalas.
Without changing gender, she later starred ‘MASH’ (Robert Altman, 1970), ‘Kelly’s Heroes’ (Kelly’s Violents, Brian G. Hutton, 1970) and ‘Johnny Got His Gun’ (Johnny took his rifle, Dalton Trumbo, 1971).
Donald Sutherland. Photo: EFE
Sutherland was also part of the cast of ‘JFK’ (Oliver Stone, 1991), in which he played Mister X, the mysterious character who offered confidential information to prosecutor Garrison (Kevin Costner) about the assassination of President Kennedy.
In ‘Space Cowboys’ (2000) He entered the space suit to star in a story of veteran astronauts alongside Tommy Lee Jones, James Garner and the film’s director, Clint Eastwood.
In the same decade he participated in the remake of ‘The Italian Job’ (F. Gary Gray, Velodrome, 2003); in the drama ‘Cold Mountain’ (Anthony Minghella, 2003), which gave the Oscar to Renée Zellweger; and in the new adaptation of ‘Pride & Prejudice’ (Pride and Prejudice, Joe Wright, 2005).
One of Donald Sutherland’s most famous roles in recent times is that of President Snowmain villain of ‘The Hunger Games’, the saga headed by actress Jennifer Lawrence that has seen four installments.
In ‘La migliore offerta’ (The best offer, Giuseppe Tornatore, 2013) he had Geoffrey Rush as a partner and in the western Forsaken (Jon Cassar, 2015) he played the father of Kiefer Sutherland, his son also in real life.
Source: Eitb
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