Donald Sutherland

At 88 years old, Donald Sutherland has this physical status:

Career

Sutherland spent a year and a half at Glasgow's Perth Repertory Theatre.

Sutherland began to appear in British films and television (such as a hotel receptionist in the Sentimental Agent episode "A Very Desirable Plot" (1963). He appeared in horror films such as Castle of the Dead (1964) and Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965). He was also a supporting actor in the Hammer Films production Diete!

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Tallulah Bankhead and Stefanie Powers appeared in a 1965 film. In the 1966 episode "The Millionaire's Daughter," he appeared in the Cold War classic The Bedford Incident and in the television series Gideon's Way. Sutherland appeared in the BBC television drama Lee Oswald-Assassin in 1966, playing a friend of Lee Harvey Oswald, Charles Givens (even though Givens himself was an African American). In the 1965 episode "The Happy Suicide," he appeared in the television series The Saint.

He appeared in "The Superlative Seven," an episode of The Avengers, in 1967. He made his second appearance in The Saint for his second and more prominent appearance. "Escape Route," directed by Roger Moore, was a show on Saturday, Sutherland's star, who later told Sutherland, "asked me if he'd be able to show it to some producers because he was up for a critical role" — they came to see a rough cut and then he got The Dirty Dozen." The film, starring Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, and a number of other notable and popular actors, and MGM's highest-grossing film of the year, was released in 1967.

Sutherland left London for Hollywood in 1968, right after the success of the British film The Dirty Dozen. He appeared in two war films before playing "Hawkeye" Pierce in Robert Altman's MASH in 1970 and then as the hippie tank commander "Oddball" in Kelly's Heroes.

Sutherland appeared in Gene Wilder's 1970 film Start the Revolution Without Me. Sutherland had an intimate relationship with co-star Jane Fonda during the filming of Academy Award-winning detective thriller Klute. In the anti-Vietnam War documentary F.T.A., Sutherland and Fonda continued to co-produce and star together. (1972) was the result of a series of sketches created outside army bases in the Pacific Rim, as well as interviews with American troops who were then active service. In Steelyard Blues (1973), a "freewheeling, Age-of-Aquarius, romp-and-roll caper" by writer David S. Ward, a sequel to their teaming up in Klute, Sutherland, and Fonda performed together.

Throughout the 1970s, Sutherland emerged as a leading man in films such as Don't Look Now (1973), Federico Fellini's Casanova (1976), and the epic Eye of the Needle (which was shot on location on the Isle of Mull, West Scotland), and he was named for the British Academy Award for Best Actor, the Venice-based psychological horror film Don't Look Now (1977). In crazy credits, he appeared in the Maximilian Schell-directed German film End of the Game (1976) as the health inspector and health inspector, as well as Brooke Adams and Jeff Goldblum.

With a performance as Montreal doctor Norman Bethune, a researcher and humanitarian, mainly speaking about Bethune's experiences in revolutionary China, he helped introduce the internationally popular television series Witness to Yesterday. In 1978, Sutherland appeared as pot-smoking Professor Dave Jennings in National Lampoon's Animal House, making himself known to younger viewers as a result of the film's fame. He was either $40,000 up front or two percent of the movie's gross earnings when cast. He chose the upfront payment because the movie will no longer be a hit. The film's total budget hit $141.6 million.

He received acclaim for his role in Bernardo Bertolucci's 1976 masterpiece film and as the conflicted father in the Academy Award-winning family drama Ordinary People (1980), alongside Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton. He narrated A War Story, an Anne Wheeler film in 1981. In two biographical films in 1977 and 1990, he appeared as physician-hero Norman Bethune.

Some of Sutherland's finest works in the 1990s and 1990s included Marlon Brando and Susan Sarandone; as a hero in the South African apartheid drama A Dry White Season (1989) with Kurt Russell and Robert De Niro; as a jailed pyromaniac in Lock Up (1990) and Will Smith; as a convicted pyromaniac in the firefighter drama Inferno (1989) with Stockard Channing and as a

He played L. Fletcher Prouty, a mystery Washington intelligence officer who referred to the military-industrial complex in the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy in 1991. In the video for Kate Bush's 1985 single "Cloudbusting," he played psychiatrist and visionary Wilhelm Reich.

Merrick appeared in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a 1992 film starring Kristy Swanson. In 1994, he directed a government agency looking for aliens that take over people's bodies (as in Invasion of the Body Snatchers) in Robert A. Heinlein's 1951 film The Puppet Masters.

In Barry Levinson's drama Disclosure opposite Michael Douglas and Demi Moore in 1994, Sutherland played a software company's scheming CEO, and in 1995, he was cast as Maj. Gen. Donald McClintock in Wolfgang Petersen's Outbreak. In Joel Schumacher's A Time to Kill, he appeared in 1996 (for the second time) with his son Kiefer.

General P.G.T. Sutherland was the leader of the American Civil War P.G.T. Beaumont in the 1999 film The Hunley. Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, and James Garner co-stars in Space Cowboys 2000, he appeared as an explorer. Sutherland was a model for Chris Claremont and John Byrne to create Donald Pierce, the Marvel Comics character whose last name derives from Sutherland's appearance in the 1970 film M*A*S***, Hawkeye Pierce.

Sutherland appeared in the film Version of The Italian Job (2004), starring Keira Knightley and Emil Lane in the Civil War drama Cold Mountain (2003). He also appeared in Mike Binder's Reign Over Me (2007).

Sutherland appeared in ABC's prime time drama series Dirty Sexy Money. In the 2008 film Fool's Gold, he appeared as multi-millionaire Nigel Honeycut. His distinctive voice has also been used in many radio and television commercials, including those for Delta Air Lines, Volvo cars, and Simply Orange orange juice.

During the introduction of the first semifinal of Eurovision Song Contest 2009 and the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Sutherland provided voice-overs and narration, as well as being one of the Olympic flag bearers. In the run-up to the Games, he was also the narrator of CTV's "I Believe" television ads. Sutherland attended several of the games. In a television adaptation of Ken Follett's book The Pillars of the Earth, he appeared alongside an ensemble cast.

In The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), The Hunger Games: Part 1 (2014), and Part 2 (2015). Sutherland portrayed President Snow, the main antagonist of The Hunger Games film franchise beginning in 2012. Fans and commentators alike applauded his contribution.

He appeared on the Opie and Anthony radio show on March 26, 2012, but he declined both positions because he did not want to appear in violent films at the time. Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman's role in Deliverance, and both films enjoyed critical and box office success. "And then I played a fascist in 1900 by Bernardo Bertolucci," he recalled after regressing in these violent roles.

On the US NBC network, the television show Crossing Lines premiered on June 23, 2013. Sutherland, the International Criminal Court's Chief Prosecutor, was one of the only two actors to appear in all episodes over three seasons.

He appeared in the main competition jury of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival in 2016. "For a lifetime of indelible characters rendered with unwavering honesty," Sutherland and three other recipients, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, announced on September 6, 2017. This was Sutherland's first Academy Award in six decades.

In the FX historical drama series Trust, Sutherland portrayed oil tycoon J. Paul Getty in 2018.

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