He was in SPACE COWBOYS as well...
RIP to D. Sutherland...
Posted on 06/20/2024 10:39:09 AM PDT by Coronal
Donald Sutherland, the tall, lean and long-faced Canadian actor who became a countercultural icon with such films as “The Dirty Dozen,” “MASH,” “Klute” and “Don’t Look Now,” and who subsequently enjoyed a prolific and wide-ranging career in films including “Ordinary People,” “Without Limits” and the “Hunger Games” films, died Thursday in Miami after a long illness, CAA confirmed. He was 88.
For over a half century, the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor memorably played villains, antiheroes, romantic leads and mentor figures. His profile increased in the past decade with his supporting role as the evil President Snow in “The Hunger Games” franchise.
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Absolutely amazing actor.
He was in SPACE COWBOYS as well...
RIP to D. Sutherland...
It’s funny….I read this first on Reddit. They were all about him in “Hunger Games.” Very few references to Kelly’s.
I guess that tells you the ages of our commenters.
Sutherland was a wonderful actor.
Great actor... and so is his son Kiefer. RIP, Mr. Sutherland.
Another great actor gone. RIP
Yeah, that’s what I remembered about him. But he’s got a huge fan club on FR.
“What’s your name, soldier?”
“Number two, sir!”
While standing in line to see “Kelley’s Heroes” in 1970 at a Las Vegas Cinedome my wife struck up a conversation with the couple in front of us.They were from Canada and were there to see their son, Donald Sutherland, in his new movie. Small world.
Turner Classic Movies had that on a few weeks ago...
Sutherland plays a Nazi agent...
I never read Ken Follett's novel however...
I always liked him.
Donald Sutherland was an outspoken leftist, climate alarmist.
My favorite. “What’s with the negative vibes Moriarty?”.
Condolences to family and friends of Donald Sutherland.
“RIP Donald. Last series I saw him in was the mini-series “Lawman: Bass Reeves.” He played the character of Judge Parker who hired Bass Reeves as a deputy U.S. Marshall. Dennis Quaid was in the series too”
Yep, myself and the wife enjoyed that mini series very much.
from the imdb trivia page for Kelly’s Heroes 1970:
During filming in Yugoslavia in 1969, Donald Sutherland (Oddball) received word, via co-star Clint Eastwood (Private Kelly), that his then-wife Shirley Douglas was arrested: she had tried to buy—using a personal check—hand grenades from an undercover FBI agent for the Black Panthers. Sutherland recounts this story often, mentioning that when Eastwood got to the part about the personal check, he laughed so hard that he fell to his knees and Sutherland had to help him up. Eastwood then put his arm around Sutherland, walked him down the hill that overlooked the Yugoslavian countryside, and assured his friend of his complete support with his predicament.
After watching Klute, I had always visualized a sequel of some sort... It was the sort of artistic film that could’ve been replicated with different stories based on Sutherland playing the title character. That never did happen.
The movie was a great vehicle for Fonda, after all, she received the Academy Award for her performance, but the plot and cinematic feel of the movie was intriguing and Sutherland’s portrayal of Klute was very good and underrated by many. They could have expanded that character in any number of sequels. A missed opportunity.
The opportunity that wasn’t missed... Sutherland got to have an affair with a married Jane Fonda... She was pretty smoking hot back then too, even if she was a brain-dead anti-war hippy.
It seems after reading all of the post that Kelly’s Heroes seem to be Donald’s most well know film here. I watch it whenever it is on.
Definitely a negative wave day.
Donald was also in 1900.
Enough of those negative waves.
Things I never knew. Thanks.
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