Actor Donald Sutherland dies at 88 | Culture

Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor with a career spanning more than 60 years, known for his roles in twelve of the gallows, Klute, Casanova, JFK, Novecento and, more recently, for his role as President Snow in the saga of The Hunger Games, died this June 20. This was announced on social media by his son, the also well-known performer Kiefer Sutherland. “It is with a heavy heart that I inform you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away. Personally, I think he is one of the most important actors in the history of cinema. He was never daunted by a role, whether it was good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved, and you can never ask for more than that. A life well lived.” The actor was 88 years old.

Among other decorations throughout his fruitful career, with around 200 titles, Sutherland received an Honorary Oscar in 2018 for his career (although he was never nominated for the highest film award); Also, in 2019, he collected the Donostia award for his entire career at the San Sebastián Film Festival. He won the Golden Globe on two occasions out of the nine in which he was nominated: in 1996 thanks to his role in the miniseries Citizen with which he also won an Emmy Award thanks to his role as the coromel Mikhail Fetisov, and in 2003 for the series Road to war. He was nominated for the Bafta, the Critics Choice and even the Razzie, for Lockedin 1990. He has had a star on the Walk of Fame since 2011.

At the beginning of his career, in his adolescence, Sutherland worked for a local radio station in his native Canada and after studying at the universities of Victoria and Toronto, he began his artistic career, which led him to the prestigious school of Music and Dramatic Arts. From london. This made him achieve small roles in British series of the sixties and become an increasingly common face in the United Kingdom, thanks to his appearances in classic scripts brought to the small screen, to an episode of The Avengers and above all to a small role in a couple of chapters in the then tremendously popular series The Saint. Something that made him take the leap into a bigger role and turned him into a classic face: Vernon Pinkley in twelve of the gallowsthe war film directed by Robert Aldrich in 1967 and where he shared scenes with great names of the moment such as John Cassavetes, Charles Bronson or Lee Marvin.

Throughout his career, Sutherland played leading and supporting characters, in film and television, but also in the theater, where he took his first steps at university (among other roles with Esteban in The Tempest, by Shakespeare) and he always felt very attracted to the stage. “It is a theater, with arms that hug you, console you, push you, applaud you. It gives birth to people who do theater. It nourishes them. He guides them. It frees them and they carry the mantle of that theater for the rest of their lives,” the actor declared about his passion for it, as stated in the HartHouse from the University of Toronto, where he began his career and who decided to create an award in his honor to honor the best performers.

Also from the beginning of his career he was a great

His private life was as eventful as those of the stars of old Hollywood. His first wife was Lois May Hardwick, whom he met when they were university students, and whom he married in 1959 until the mid-60s. The same year he divorced, in 1966, he remarried Shirley Douglas, daughter of a famous Canadian politician. The marriage barely lasted four years, but together they had two children, twins, Rachel and the well-known Kiefer, who from a young age followed in his father’s footsteps. His third wife was the French-Canadian actress Francine Racette, whom he married in 1972, after a two-year affair with Jane Fonda. They had three sons, Rossif, Angus Redford and Roeg.

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