Canadian actor (1935–2024)
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Six decades, no Oscar nomination — yet Sutherland became the actor other actors studied. That angular face and cool, unsettling presence carried him from the anarchic bite of M*A*S*H to the cold cruelty of President Snow, a range so wide the Academy finally issued an honorary statue in 2017 just to close the gap.
Donald McNichol Sutherland was born in Canada on 17 July 1935 and rose through 1960s war films — The Dirty Dozen in 1967, then M*A*S*H and Kelly's Heroes in 1970 — before settling into a rhythm of leading and character work that never quit. He moved through Klute, the eerie Don't Look Now, Fellini's Casanova, Animal House, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Ordinary People, and dozens more across four decades, then found a late commercial apex as the despotic President Snow in The Hunger Games franchise. Television brought him an Emmy for Citizen X in 1995 and a Golden Globe for Path to War in 20…
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I’m really hoping that in some movie I’m doing, I die — but I die, me, Donald — and they’re able to use my funeral and the coffin … That would be absolutely ideal.
We had a housekeeper in Canada, a wonderful woman, whose father raped all of his daughters.
I love to work. I passionately love to work. I love to feel my hand fit into the glove of some other character. I find a huge freedom — time stops for me.
[Asked if he was conscious of being an unusual actor] Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!
I heard a voice saying hello and I looked down. Standing down there was a very small Kate Bush. … She wanted to explain what her video was about. I let her in.
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