The actor appeared in hundreds of films and shows, including M*A*S*H, Klute, Ordinary People and the Hunger Games franchise. He was best known for playing off-kilter authority figures.
Donald Sutherland, who starred in more than 200 movies and TV shows, died Thursday in Miami, Fla., after a long illness. He was 88.
"He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more than that," his son Kiefer Sutherland Sutherland's often cynical, subversive presence had been a mainstay in American cinema for seven decades. During his long career, which kicked off during the Vietnam War, he acted alongside dozens of Oscar winners. But Sutherland himself was never nominated for one, although the Academy presented him with an honorary Oscar in 2017., where he played wisecracking combat surgeon Hawkeye.
Sutherland's political activities did not adversely affect his career. He ascended to leading roles, including as a sullen police officer inSutherland was probably most well known for his portrayal of off-kilter authority figures; over the years, he played doctors, sadistic prison wardens, and paranoid government figures, as in Oliver Stone's filmSutherland's children followed in his footsteps, including his son, actor Kiefer Sutherland.
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