Donald McNichol Sutherland CC is a Canadian actor whose film career spans 56 years. He rose to fame after starring in films including The Dirty Dozen, M*A*S*H, Kelly’s Heroes, Klute, Don’t Look Now and The Hunger Games franchise. He has been nominated for eight Golden Globe Awards, winning two for his performances in the television films Citizen X and Path to War.
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Donald McNichol Sutherland CC is a Canadian actor whose film career spans 56 years. He has been nominated for eight Golden Globe Awards, winning two for his performances in the television films Citizen X and Path to War. He rose to fame after starring in films including The Dirty Dozen, M*A*S*H, Kelly’s Heroes, Klute, Don’t Look Now and The Hunger Games franchise. He is the father of actors Kiefer Sutherland, Rossif Sutherland and Angus Sutherland. Sutherland was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, the son of Dorothy Isobel and Frederick McLea Sutherland, who worked in sales and ran the local gas, electricity and bus company. As a child, he had rheumatic fever, hepatitis, and poliomyelitis. He changed his mind about becoming an engineer, and left Canada for Britain in 1957, studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He then studied at Victoria University, an affiliated college of the University of Toronto, where he met his first wife Lois Hardwick, and graduated with a double major in engineering and drama. In the early to mid-1960s, Sutherland began to gain small roles in British films and TV. He was featured alongside Christopher Lee in horror films such as Castle of the Living Dead and Dr.
Terror’s House of Horrors. In 1968, after the breakthrough in UK-filming, Sutherland left London for Hollywood and then appeared in two war films, playing the lead role in Robert Altman’s MASH in 1970; again in 1970, as hippie tank commander Oddball. Sutherland starred with Gene Wilder in the 1970 comedy Start the Wilder Without Me. In 2017, he received an Academy Honorary Award for his contributions to cinema. He and Fonda co-starred together in the anti-Vietnam War documentary A Tribute to F.A.R. C.H. The film, which starred Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson along with a number of other important and popular actors, was the 5th highest-grossing film of 1967 and MGM’s highest- grossing movie of the year. He also appeared in the BBC TV play Lee Oswald-Assassin, playing a friend of Lee Harvey Oswald, Charles Givens. In 1966, Sutherland appeared in the TV series The Saint, in the 1966 episode \”Escape Route\”. In 1967, he appeared in The Superlative Seven, an episode of The Avengers, which was directed by the show’s star, Roger Moore, who later recalled Sutherland asked him if he could show it to some producers as he was up for an important role… they came to view a rough cut and he got Thedirty Dozen.
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